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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 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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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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Wickremesinghe urges citizens to continue fight for democracy
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Nov 9 (ANI): Ousted Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday urged the citizens of the country to not give up fight for democracy and freedom.
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Sri Lanka: Previous Parliamentary status enforced until Rajapaksa proves m
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 5 (ANI): Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament Karu Jayasuriya on Monday said that he was "compelled to accept status that existed previously" in the legislative body until a clear majority was proved by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lankan Parliament to reconvene on Nov 14: Sirisena
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 5 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has announced that the country's Parliament will be reconvened on November 14, amid rising demands by legislators of the state to end the mounting political crisis in the island nation.
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Lanka: Tamil National Alliance to support no-trust motion against Rajapaks
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 4 (ANI): The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), a political alliance in Sri Lanka that represents the country's Tamil minority, has decided to back the no-confidence motion brought by the United National Party against newly sworn-in Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lanka Parliament to be reconvened on Nov 5: Rajapaksa
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 1 (ANI): The newly-elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that the country's Parliament will be reconvened on November 5.
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Massive protest in Sri Lanka over Wickremesinghe's sacking
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct 30 (ANI): Hundreds of people on Tuesday took to the streets of Colombo to protest against President Maithripala Sirisena's decision of sacking Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and demanded the reconvening of the parliament to end the constitutional crisis in the i
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Moody's expresses concern on Sri Lanka crisis
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 29 (ANI): Credit rating agency Moody's on Monday asserted that the ongoing political crisis in Sri Lanka is credit negative for the sovereign and the sudden appointment of the new Prime minister had heightened the policy uncertainty.
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1 dead in Sri Lanka CPC shooting
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct 28 (ANI): An individual, identified as MRPA Rajapaksa, succumbed to his injuries following a shooting incident at the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) premises on Sunday.
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