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Sri Lanka polls: Anura Kumara Dissanayake leads in first round of counting
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
After Elections Commission Chairman RLAM Ratnayake announced a second preference count for Sri Lankan presidential elections, National People's Power (NPP) candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, topped the first round of counting with 5,634,915 votes (42.31 per cent), according to a report by t
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Sri Lankan presidential polls: Elections Commission orders 2nd round of co
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
This decision came after early trends showed Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the National People's Power, leading the presidential polls, the Daily Mirror reported
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Anura Dissanayake to be Sri Lanka's new president, early trends show
Updated : 1 year, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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, 6 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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Virat Kohli's abysmal show against spin in Asia continues during Test agai
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
India's stalwart Virat Kohli's struggle against spinners in Asia since 2021 continued after another dry outing with the bat in the opening Test against Sri Lanka in Chennai.
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"We arrive in a different zone": Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu ahe
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Sri Lanka captain Chamari Athapaththu feels that her team will arrive in the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup in a "different zone" as they have beaten top sides en route to the marquee event in Abu Dhabi.
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Mithali Raj feels UAE conditions will give India advantage during Women's
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
The upcoming ICC Women's T20 World Cup will start from October 3 onwards in UAE. India will kickstart their campaign against New Zealand on October 4, with the arch-rivals Pakistan clash set for October 6. The Women in Blue, who reached the semi-finals in the previous edition, is placed in G
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Sri Lanka to hold Presidential election on Saturday
Updated : 1 year, 6 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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Tom Latham overtakes Martin Crowe to become NZ's fifth-highhest Test run-g
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Latham accomplished this during the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle.
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NZ' Glenn Phillips completes 3,000 international cricket runs
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Phillips accomplished this milestone during the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle.
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