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Sri Lanka Presidential election: Gunmen open fire on bus carrying voters i
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 16 (ANI): Gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses carrying voters in Mannar in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, as the island country began voting for a presidential election.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sajith Premadasa frontrunners in race to be President
Updated : 6 years, 3 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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Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Frontrunner in Sri Lanka's Presidential Elections
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE] Nov 13(ANI/BusinessWire India): Sri Lanka's executive presidency is the most lucrative in the constitutional context in the island nation simply because of its formulation, a fact that is widely attributed to its creator, the late JR Jayawardene.
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President Sirisena to not contest Sri Lanka polls next month
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Oct 7 (ANI): Sri Lanka's incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena has decided not to contest the country's presidential elections scheduled to be held on November 16.
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Sri Lanka to hold presidential election on November 16
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Sept 19 (ANI): Presidential elections in Sri Lanka will be held on November 16 and the acceptance of the nominations will be on October 7, the country's Election Commission announced on Wednesday night.
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Month after deadly Easter attacks, Sirisena calls for collective action ag
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Over a month after the deadly Easter Sunday attacks claimed more than 250 lives in Sri Lanka, President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday called upon all countries across the world to come together to fight and defeat the menace of terrorism.
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S. Lankan President denies he was informed about Easter Sunday attacks
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 31 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday evening denied reports that he had prior knowledge of the Easter Sunday bombings, which targeted several high-end hotels and three churches, killing over 250 people across the country on April 21.
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Sri Lanka: President Sirisena fails to meet deadline to end political cris
Updated : 7 years, 3 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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Sri Lanka to hold general elections on Jan 5
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Nov 10 (ANI): Amid the ongoing political crisis in the country, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved the Parliament with effect from Friday midnight and announced that the general elections in the country would be held on January 5, 2019.
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Wickremesinghe, Sirisena had drifted away, change not sudden: Lankan exper
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 26 (ANI): While the unannounced swearing-in of Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on Friday evening took everyone by surprise, the mood for change was building up for the last few days.
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Lankan President talks to PM Modi over 'mischievous' assassination reports
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday had a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi wherein he categorically rejected the media reports about him alluding to the involvement of India in any manner whatsoever in an alleged
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Representatives of Sri Lanka President Visit Karunanidhi
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 30 (ANI): Representatives of Sri Lankan President, Maithripala Sirisena on Monday visited the Kauvery hospital to meet the former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi.
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