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Sri Lanka MPs spray chili powder, hurl chairs inside Parliament
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Nov 16 (ANI): Sri Lankan Parliament continued to remain disrupted for the second day on Friday, with legislators supporting the disputed prime minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, hurling chairs at police officers and throwing chilli powder at the leaders of opposing parties.
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Sri Lanka: UNP holds protest against political crisis
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 15 (ANI): Members and supporters of United National Party (UNP) on Thursday took to streets in protest as the political and constitutional turmoil grew in Sri Lanka.
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Ruckus in Sri Lanka Parliament over Rajapaksa's ouster
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 15 (ANI): In an unsual turn of events, Sri Lankan Parliament on Thursday witnessed a huge ruckus as members got into fistfights, hurled objects at each and even tried to attack Speaker Karu Jayasuriya following the ouster of newly-sworn in Prime Minister Mahinda R
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SL: Letter to Sirsena to seal Rajapaksa's ousting
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Nov 14 (ANI): After the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka interfered with the government on Tuesday by issuing an interim order staying the proclamation issued by President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve the country's Parliament, Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament Karu Jaya
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Sri Lanka: No-confidence motion against PM Rajapaksa passed
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 14 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Parliament on Wednesday passed a no-confidence motion against the government of the newly-sworn Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lanka SC stays Sirisena's proclamation to dissolve Parliament
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Nov 13 (ANI): The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Tuesday issued an interim order staying the proclamation issued by President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve the country's Parliament.
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Sri Lanka: SC to decide snap poll legality today
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 13 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on the legality of the January 5, 2019 snap polls announced by President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday, after 13 fundamental rights petitions were filed against the dissolution of the Parliament.
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Colombo shooting: Ranatunga's security guard's remand extended
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 13 (ANI): The Ministerial Security Division (MSD) officer of former Sri Lankan Minister of Petroleum Resources Development Arjuna Ranatunga, has been further remanded on orders of the Colombo Chief Magistrate on Monday after he was identified by two witnesses as the
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Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa leaves Sirisena's party, joins SLPP
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 11 (ANI): As the political crisis intensifies in Sri Lanka, wartime strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa has exited from President Maithripala Sirisena's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and joined the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on Sunday.
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Spice Jet flight takes off after 9-hour delay
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India] Nov 10 (ANI): Passengers of Colombo-bound Spice Jet flight were stranded for nine hours on Saturday wee hours at Madurai airport after the plane was delayed due to operational reasons.
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Sri Lanka to hold general elections on Jan 5
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing political crisis in the country, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved the Parliament with effect from Friday midnight and announced that the general elections in the country would be held on January 5, 2019.
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Sirisena dissolves Sri Lankan Parliament, UNP cries foul
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 9 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved the Parliament on Friday night after days of political unrest in the Asian island-nation according to Sri Lanka's national broadcaster.
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