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Mahinda Rajapaksa sworn in as Sri Lanka PM
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 21 (ANI): Sri Lanka's newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's brother Mahinda Rajapaksa was on Thursday sworn in as the new prime minister of the island nation.
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Sri Lanka: Mahinda Rajapaksa to be sworn in as PM today
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 21 (ANI): Sri Lanka's newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's brother Mahinda Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the new prime minister of the island nation on Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka President Gotabaya names brother Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Mini
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 20 (ANI): Sri Lanka's newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday named his elder brother and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister after Ranil Wickremesinghe announced his resignation, the state media reported.
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Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign today
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 20 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will tender his resignation from office on Wednesday, paving the way for newly-elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint a new Cabinet, Daily Mirror reported.
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Jaishankar meets ex-Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, discusses boosting
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 20 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa here on Tuesday and discussed ways of giving a thrust to the bilateral relations between the two countries.
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Sri Lanka's newly elected President accepts PM Modi's invitation to visit
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 19 (ANI): Sri Lanka's newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's invitation to visit India on November 29, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday.
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US says it is ready to work with Sri Lanka's new President Gotabaya Rajapa
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Nov 19 (ANI): The US on Monday (local time) said it was ready to work with Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the new President of Sri Lanka and called on him to uphold Sri Lanka's commitments to security sector reform, accountability, respect for human rights, and non-recurrence
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa takes oath, Mahinda likely to charge as PM
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 18 (ANI): Sri Lanka's wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday took the oath of the country's 7th President at Ruwanweliseya, a Buddhist pagoda, in Anuradhapura.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be sworn-in as Sri Lanka's 7th President today
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 18 (ANI): Sri Lanka's former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the seventh President of the country today.
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Sri Lanka: Maithripala Sirisena congratulates Gotabaya on 'historic' victo
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 18 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday congratulated Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his "historic" victory in the presidential elections.
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PM Modi congratulates Gotabaya Rajapaksa, says bilateral ties will strengt
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 17 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Gotabaya Rajapaksa on his victory in the recently concluded Sri Lankan Presidential elections and expressed confidence that the fraternal, cultural, historical and civilisational ties between India and S
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Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins presidential elections
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 17 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Elections Chief Mahinda Deshapriya on Sunday afternoon confirmed that opposition candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa had won the presidential elections.
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