Tag: Maithripala Sirisena

April 22, 2019

A day after 290 people were killed and over 500 got injured in a series of suicide bomb blasts in ...

Asia

Sri Lanka banks on RBI swaps to boost its reserves: PM

January 10, 2019

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said that the SAARC swap arrangement with the Reserve Bank of India ...

Lanka Prez Sirisena meets party organisers, hints 2019 may be election year

December 25, 2018

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has held a meeting with his party's electoral organisers, fuelling speculation that the SLPF Chairman, ...

Asia

Sri Lankan President appoints Cabinet after political crisis; keeps police under him

December 20, 2018

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday named a 30-member Cabinet while rejecting some of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's nominees ...

Rajapaksa now becomes Lanka’s main opposition leader

December 18, 2018

Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday became Sri Lanka's main opposition leader in Parliament, days after he resigned as prime minister after ...

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Dissolution of Parliament by President ‘unconstitutional’, rules Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court

December 13, 2018

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the dissolution of Parliament by Maithripala Sirisena was "unconstitutional", in a major ...

Wickremesinghe’s party says Sirisena should also be investigated in graft cases

November 26, 2018

Ousted Sri Lankan premier Ranil Wickremesinghe's party on Monday welcomed President Maithripala Sirisena's decision to set up a commission to ...

Sri Lanka president vows never to reappoint ousted premier

November 25, 2018

President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday reignited the political crisis that has crippled Sri Lanka's government for more than a month, ...

Sri Lanka parties file court challenge against parliament sacking