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Rajapaksa resigns as Sri Lanka's PM, Wickremesinghe to be reinstatedPro-Rajapaksa lawmaker, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, had told reporters that Rajapaksa decided in a meeting on Friday with President Sirisena...- Sri Lanka President Sirisena to appoint new PM by Monday: ReportHis remarks came after Sri Lanka's Supreme Court Thursday unanimously ruled that the dissolution of Parliament by Sirisena was "illegal".
- Mahinda Rajapaksa hits back at Chandrika Kumaratunga's remarks in Indian mediaFormer Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa has hit back at predecessor Kumaratunga for carrying out a personal attack on him through Indian medi...
- Sri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA gets Opposition status in ParliamentSri Lanka's party TNA was declared the main Opposition with its leader becoming the first lawmaker from the minority community to lead it i...
- Lanka's main Tamil party TNA presses for Opposition status in ParliamentSri Lanka's main Tamil party TNA has staked claim for the status of main Opposition in the parliament, following an arrangement between the...
- Mahinda Rajapaksa's allies to form new Lanka opposition alliance"We are looking to form a new political front. We are having talks with different groups," Tissa Vitharana of the Trotskyist Lanka Samasama...
- Sri Lanka government should retain friendship with China: State mediaRajapaksa, 69, was defeated politically for the second time by an alliance led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe .
- Mangala Samaraweera returns as Sri Lanka FMMangala Samaraweera was today sworn in as Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister for the third time in a simple ceremony by President Maithripala Sir...
- Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena opts for national unity governmentThis would enable the UNP's broader front - the United National Front for Good Governance - to form a government with a working majority.
- Sri Lanka goes to polls; Mahinda Rajapaksa eyes political comebackSri Lankans will vote in general election tomorrow after a tense poll campaign with former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa eyeing a political c...
- Sri Lanka goes to polls with tight security in placeThe duo's rivalry is limited to party positions they hold as Wickremesinghe's support helped Sirisena become president in January.
- Maithripala Sirisena should respect public mandate: Mahinda RajapaksaRajapaksa said Sirisena should respect public mandate, a day after the SLFP chief vowed not to make him PM even if his coalition wins the p...
- Will not appoint Rajapaksa PM even if party wins: Sri Lankan President Maithripala SirisenaMaithripala Sirisena said he allowed Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest parliamentary polls for the fear of a split in party but vowed not to mak...
- Mahinda Rajapaksa will be defeated again: Sri Lankan President Maithripala SirisenaSirisena said he never supported Rajapaksa's nomination for the August elections and that his predecessor will lose again.
- Mahinda Rajapaksa plans to return to politics as PM: Top aideSri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa plans to return to mainstream politics as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the main opposi...
- Sri Lankan ruling party refuses to make Rajapaksa PM candidateRajapaksa will not be given party ticket from either the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) or its broader United People's Freedom Alliance (UP...
- Mahinda Rajapaksa agrees to step down as party bossAfter winning the election, Sirisena claimed the party leadership even as Rajapaksa's loyalists initially refused to back him, threatening ...
- Sri Lanka ruling coalition forms government in Uva provinceSwitching of allegiance of 5 UPFA council members is another blow to Rajapaksa, who lost his presidency to Prez Maithripala Sirisena in Jan...
- Mahinda Rajapaksa - Hero of LTTE war retires hurt after two inningsRajapaksa's tenure saw economy growing with many infra projects rolled out but charges of corruption & presence of his brothers in cabinet ...
- Snap presidential polls in Sri Lanka on January 8, 2015Under the constitution, the president may call elections four years into a term. The Supreme Court upheld this law earlier this month, pavi...
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