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Namal Rajapaksa, heir of powerful Rajapaksa family, enters Sri Lankan presidential race | Who is he?
World | August 08, 2024 10:34 ISTNamal, 38, will compete against President Ranil Wickremesinghe, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and the Marxist JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake on September 21. The son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Namal is currently an MP from the Hambantota district.
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'No greater loss..': Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif condoles demise of PM Modi's mother Heeraben
World | December 30, 2022 15:45 ISTPM Modi's mother Heeraben (100) breathed her last at around 3:30 am at U N Mehta Hospital in Ahmedabad.
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Sri Lanka's Supreme Court bars ex-PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, brother from travelling abroad
World | July 15, 2022 20:08 ISTSri Lanka crisis: The order was passed by the apex court during the hearing of a petition filed by global civil society organisation Transparency International on the economic crisis in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka: Former PM Mahinda Rajapaksa, 16 others barred from travelling overseas
World | May 12, 2022 15:13 ISTThe Fort Magistrate’s Court barred them from traveling overseas due to the investigations taking place on the attacks on the GotaGoGama and MynaGoGama peaceful protest sites on Monday, News 1st website reported.
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Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to appoint new PM, Cabinet amid violent clashes in country
World | May 11, 2022 23:26 ISTSri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday announced that he will appoint a new Prime Minister and a Cabinet this week.
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Sri Lanka crisis: Central Bank chief threatens to resign amid political unrest
World | May 11, 2022 21:42 ISTGovernor of the bank Nandalal Weerasinghe told reporters that the political unrest derailed the bank's recovery plans, and the resignation of Mahinda Rajapaksa as the prime minister on Monday and the lack of a replacement were complicating matters.
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Sri Lankan army chief denies shoot-at-sight orders; assures of 'no disgraceful acts' by armed forces
World | May 11, 2022 10:56 ISTAccording to local media reports, the Sri Lankan tri forces were ordered to shoot all those who plunder public property or cause personal harm, as large-scale protests continued across the island nation.
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Sri Lanka economic crisis: President Gotabaya agrees to remove brother as PM
World | April 29, 2022 18:31 ISTPresident Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed that a national council will be appointed to name a new prime minister and Cabinet comprised of all parties in Parliament, lawmaker Maithripala Sirisena said after meeting with the president.
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Sri Lanka crisis: PM Mahinda Rajapaksa offers to hold talks with protesting youths
World | April 13, 2022 13:06 ISTAccording to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office, Rajapaksa is willing to hold discussions with the protesting youths who are camping at Galle Face esplanade located near President Gotabaya's secretariat.
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Should China be blamed for trapping Sri Lanka in debt, chaos?
World | April 11, 2022 13:28 ISTSri Lanka has taken loans from China, at lending rates in the range of 3-6 per cent against the 1-3 per cent offered by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Sri Lankan PM Rajapaksa offers prayers at UP's Sarnath Buddhist Temple
News | February 09, 2020 20:55 ISTSri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa offered prayers at Sarnath Buddhist Temple in UP's Varanasi on Feb 09.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa calls for snap Parliamentary elections
World | November 19, 2019 11:06 ISTGotabaya Rajapaksa, who served as Defence Minister when Mahinda Rajapaksa was Defence Minister and saw the end of the nearly three-decade-long civil war in 2009, was elected the island nation's seventh President after winning the November 16 election
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Sri Lankan President unveils new Cabinet
World | December 20, 2018 16:16 ISTThe 29 Ministers chosen by Wickremesinghe, who is also the leader of the United National Party (UNP), were sworn in before Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat here after which the new Cabinet held its first meeting, according to a statement by the Presidential Press Department.
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Sri Lanka political crisis: Mahinda Rajapaksa resigns, Wickremesinghe to take oath as PM today
World | December 16, 2018 0:05 ISTRajapaksa was appointed as the prime minister on October 26 by President Sirisena in a controversial move after sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe, which plunged the country into an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
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Sri Lanka PM Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign today to end political crisis, says his son
World | December 15, 2018 0:00 ISTEarlier in the day, the apex court refused to stay a court order restraining Rajapaksa, 73, from holding the office of Prime Minister until it fully heard the case next month.
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Dissolution of Parliament by President 'unconstitutional', rules Sri Lanka's Supreme Court
World | December 13, 2018 20:33 ISTTaking a strong exception to the dissolution of Parliament by Srisena, a seven-member apex court bench said that the President cannot dissolve Parliament till it completes a 4 1/2 year term.
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Sri Lanka court postpones hearing on petition against Rajapkas'a authority
World | December 12, 2018 17:54 ISTSri Lanka is going through a major political crisis since October 26 when President Maithripala Sirisena, in a controversial move, removed Wickremesinghe and installed ex-strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place.
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Sri Lanka political crisis: Setback for Sirisena as Mahinda Rajapaksa barred from acting as Prime Minister
World | December 03, 2018 16:39 ISTThe island nation is witnessing a political crisis since October 26 when President Sirisena sacked Wickeremesinghe and replaced him with Rajapaksa.
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Sri Lanka political crisis: Mahinda Rajapaksa calls for snap polls
World | December 02, 2018 22:51 ISTIn a statement, Rajapaksa cites occasions in the history when Parliament had been dissolved to call parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka to avoid crisis and bring in political stability.
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Sri Lankan Parliament passes no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa
World | November 14, 2018 20:00 ISTSpeaker Karu Jayasuriya announced that a majority of the 225-member Parliament supported the no-confidence motion against Rajapaksa, the 72-year-old former strongman, who ruled the country for a decade from 2005.
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