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Rajapaksa resigns, Wickremesinghe to take oath tomorrow
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 15 (ANI): Former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena on October 26 after ousting Ranil Wickremesinghe has resigned from his post.
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Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa to step down as PM to 'ensure stability'
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 14 (ANI): Mahinda Rajapaksa will on Saturday step down as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka "to ensure stability of the nation", his son Namal confirmed on Friday.
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Sri Lanka: SC overturns Sirisena's decision to dissolve Parliament
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 13(ANI): The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka here on Thursday said that the decision of President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve the country's Parliament was unconstitutional and illegal.
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Sri Lanka: President Sirisena fails to meet deadline to end political cris
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 11(ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirirsena's deadline to find a solution to the ongoing political crisis in the island nation has ended on Tuesday.
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Rajapaksa bribed parliamentarians to prove majority: President Sirisena
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 9(ANI): President Maithripala Sirisena here on Saturday said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had tried to bribe politicians in order to show majority in the country's Parliament.
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Injunction order extended against dissolution of Sri Lankan Parliament
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka] Dec 08 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has extended the injunction order against the dissolution of Sri Lankan Parliament while suspending the Gazette notification by President Maithripala Sirisena until the judgment is delivered
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Sri Lanka: Sirisena vows not to appoint Wickremesinghe as PM again
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 26(ANI): President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday asserted that he will not appoint Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister again.
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Wickremesinghe's supporters win control of key Lankan Parliament committee
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 23 (ANI): Lawmakers supporting sacked Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have taken control of Sri Lanka Parliament's main committee on Friday, in a major setback for President Maithripala Sirisena and his prime ministerial appointee Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Amid Sri Lankan political turmoil, UNP to 'fast until death'
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka] Nov 21 (ANI): United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Akila Viraj Kariyawasam informed that the party will be holding a series of protests and fasts until death in order to express their disapproval against what it called an "unconstitutional instate of a new govern
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Need electronic voting in Parliament: Prez Sirisena
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Nov 19 (ANI): President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday said that the Parliament should go for a division by name or ectronic voting to resolve the ongoing political crisis in the island nation.
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Sri Lanka: All-party meeting ends with no solution for political crisis
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 19 (ANI): The all-party meeting called by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday ended with no solution for the ongoing political crisis in the island nation.
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All you need to know about Sri Lanka's escalating political turmoil
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 17 (ANI): Sri Lanka has been reeling from a turbulent political crisis for almost a month, when President Maithripala Sirisena on October 26 abruptly sacked then-Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and installed the now-ousted Mahinda Rajapaksa, the country's form
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