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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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Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa cast votes in crucial Sri Lankan election
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and presidential candidate Namal Rajapaksa participated in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election today, urging citizens to make their voices heard. This election is pivotal as the nation recovers from the 2022 economic crisis. A total of 38 candidates are v
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"Every vote matters for Sri Lanka's future": Presidential candidate Namal
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Namal Rajapaksa, the presidential candidate and son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, cast his vote in the 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election. He also encouraged citizens to do the same, emphasising that every single vote counts for the future of Sri Lanka.
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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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Sri Lanka to hold Presidential election on Saturday
Updated : 1 year, 5 months ago IST
Sri Lankans head to the polls this Saturday to choose the country's 10th president, marking the nation's first presidential election since the devastating economic crisis of 2022
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Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa's party doesn't back Wickremesinghe, to name their ow
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
SLPP General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam told reporters on Monday, that the SLPP decided, by majority, to nominate its own candidate at the election in September.
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe announces candidacy for presiden
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election set to be held on September 21.
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Sri Lanka: Sarath Fonseka declares presidential candidacy, vows to combat
Updated : 1 year, 7 months ago IST
Fonseka, who led the military campaign against the LTTE's separatist ambitions, faced defeat in the 2010 presidential election against Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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"Thank PM Modi, EAM Jaishankar": President Wickremesinghe on India's conti
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Recalling his meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during his recent visit to the island nation, Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he is thankful to him as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi for their continued support to Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe conveys gratitude to India for help du
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Ranil Wickremesinghe said, "Having now survived two difficult years, I must acknowledge that this was possible because India gave us a loan of $3.5 billion."
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EAM Jaishankar to visit UAE today, to discuss wide-ranging partnership iss
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will pay an official visit to UAE on Sunday and will meet his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan the two leaders are expected to discuss on wide-ranging issues of the partnership.
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Jaishankar's Sri Lanka visit key to India's neighbourhood-first, SAGAR pol
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
On External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's recent visit to Sri Lanka, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that his visit underscores India's primacy that we accord to Sri Lanka in a neighbourhood-first policy as also as (Security and Growth for All in the Region
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