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Fresh opportunity for India, Sri Lanka to enhance bilateral engagement, sa
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 9 (ANI): Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay on Saturday called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to congratulate him on the emphatic victory of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in the parliamentary election.
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Rajapaksa brothers sweep Sri Lanka polls, secure 145 seats
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], August 7 (ANI): Rajapaksa brothers' Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party secured a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary elections by winning 145 seats.
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PM Modi congratulates Mahinda Rajapaksa as ruling SLPP heads for victory i
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday spoke to his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa and congratulated him as early results of recently held parliamentary elections indicate an impressive electoral performance by Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP)
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa to be sworn-in as Sri Lanka's 7th President today
Updated : 6 years, 6 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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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sajith Premadasa frontrunners in race to be President
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka] Nov 16 (ANI): Months after a deadly terror attack shattered the calm that Sri Lanka had and left over 250 people dead, the country heads to polls on November 16 to elect a new President.
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Sri Lanka: Special court postpones hearing in misappropriation of public f
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct 15: A special court on Tuesday postponed the hearing of a case against SLPP candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and six others in connection with alleged misappropriation of public funds to next year.
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Sri Lanka: SLFP extends conditional support to Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct 9 (ANI): The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) on Wednesday announced that they'll extend conditional support to Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) presidential candidate Gotabhaya Rajapaksa's election campaign.
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Sirisena's support to Rajapaksa family will help China's designs in Sri La
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Sept 18 (ANI): Amid growing tussle for power between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the upcoming presidential elections in Sri Lanka may lead to an alliance between SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) and SLFP (Sri Lanka Freedo
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa named SLPP's presidential candidate
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 11 (ANI): Former Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Sunday was named the presidential candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party for the election scheduled for later this year.
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Sri Lanka: SC to decide snap poll legality today
Updated : 7 years, 6 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, 6 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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