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Sri Lankan President appoints Harini Amarasuriya as PM, third woman to hol
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
She becomes Sri Lanka's third woman Prime Minister after Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.
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Rahul Gandhi congratulates Sri lanka Prez-designate Anura Kumara Dissanaya
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Congress MP and Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi congratulated Sri Lanka President-designate Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday following his win in the presidential elections.
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US stresses strengthening bilateral ties with Sri Lanka, congratulates Anu
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The US extended wishes to Sri Lanka President-designate Anura Kumara Dissanayake following his win in the presidential elections.
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Malikarjun Kharge congratulates Anura Kumara Dissanayake for winning Sri L
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Taking to social platform X, Kharge in a post wrote "On the behalf of the Indian National Congress, I extend my heartiest congratulations to Anura Kumara Dissanayake on being elected the Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka President-designate Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanks PM Modi, hig
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Sri Lanka President-designate Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for his wishes on winning Sri Lankan Presidential elections.
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PM Modi congratulates Anura Kumara Dissanayake for winning Sri Lankan Pres
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended his regards to the Sri Lankan President-designate Anura Kumara Dissanayake and congratulated him following his win in the Sri Lankan Presidential election on Sunday.
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Anura Kumara Dissanayake wins 2024 Sri Lanka Presidential Election
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, the 55-year-old leader of the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna party, has been declared the winner of the election, according to the Election Commission of Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka polls: Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads in first round of counting
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
After Elections Commission Chairman RLAM Ratnayake announced a second preference count for Sri Lankan presidential elections, National People's Power (NPP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, topped the first round of counting with 5,634,915 votes (42.31 per cent), according to a report by t
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Sri Lankan presidential polls: Elections Commission orders 2nd round of co
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
This decision came after early trends showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People's Power, leading the presidential polls, the Daily Mirror reported
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Anura Dissanayake to be Sri Lanka's new president, early trends show
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
As per the last trends, Dissanayake has got 49.8 per cent votes while Sajith Premadasa, leader of Samagi Jana Balawegaya, got 25.8% of the votes, followed by the incumbent president and leader of the United National Party, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who mustered 16.4% of the votes.
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Economy on centre stage, as Sri Lanka set to vote today in first polls sin
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
The crisis, which led to widespread food and fuel shortages, prompted Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022. The economic policy of Rajapaksa, followed by the onset of the Covid pandemic, is believed to have led to the worst economic crisis in the island nat
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Nagapattinam-Kankesanthurai ferry services will "resume this year," says S
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Showing optimism to increasing connectivity between India and Sri Lanka, the Minister Counsellor (Commercial) of Sri Lanka's High Commision, Geshan Dissanayake said Wednesday that the ferry services between India's Nagapattinan and Sri Lanka's Kankesanthurai will be resumed this year.
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