New Cabinet appointed
A three-member Cabinet has been appointed by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake today, the President's Media Division (PMD) said.
A three-member Cabinet has been appointed by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake today, the President's Media Division (PMD) said.
Days after getting a new President, Sri Lanka on Tuesday got Harini Amarasuriya as its new Prime Minister who became the first woman leader to hold the post since Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 2000.
The SLPP won’t be a party to the UNP-led alliance proposed to be formed to contest the general election, said its leader Mahinda Rajapaksa today (24).
Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa says that he was unanimously chosen as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the ‘Samagi Jana Sandhanaya’ for the upcoming General Election.
NPP MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as the new prime minister, before president Anura Kumara Dissanayake this afternoon (24).
Ranil Wickremesinghe had told his close associates that he did not receive votes from the SLPP as much as he had expected at the presidential polls.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake paid a visit to the Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday (23), where he received the archbishop’s blessings.
A meeting chaired by former President Ranil Wickremesinghe with senior members of the United National Party (UNP) was held this evening, The Morning learns.
It is reported that the new Cabinet of Ministers to be formed under President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will likely be sworn in today (24).
Chinese president Xi Jinping yesterday (23) sent a congratulatory message to Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his inauguration as President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.