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LankaeNews.com is a Sri Lankan online News website that provides news and feature articles on current affairs in Sri Lanka. It is known and has been targeted for its independent reporting. It is known and has been targeted for its independent reporting.
Parliament of Sri Lanka. "Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe resigned from CoPE". Lanka E News. Article of Lanka E News. "Rajapakshe new BASL Chief". Daily Mirror. Daily Mirror. "Double Doctor, Doublethink and the Culture of opportunists". Sri Lanka Guardian. Sri Lanka Guardian. "Moon report breached UN Charter - Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe MP". Sunday Observer.
The Rajapaksa family (Sinhala: රාජපක්ෂ, romanized: Rājapakṣa) is a Sri Lankan family that is prominent in politics.It was one of Sri Lanka's most powerful families during Mahinda Rajapaksa's presidency, when many members of the family occupied senior positions in the Sri Lankan state.
Sri Lanka will dispatch a high-level delegation to Russia to investigate the fate of hundreds of nationals reportedly fighting in the war in Ukraine, a top official said on Thursday. Social media ...
Press freedom is a major concern in Sri Lanka. Both sides in the war make efforts to silence inconvenient reporters. Around 15 reporters received death threats from one faction or the other in 2004 The assassinated reporter Aiyathurai Nadesan, correspondent in Batticaloa for several Tamil media stated just prior to his assassination in 2005:
On 9 July, Rajapaksa announces his intention to resign as President of Sri Lanka on 13 July 2022. Rajapaksa flees the country on 13 July, fails to resign as pledged, and designates Wickremesinghe Acting President in his absence. Gotabaya Rajapaksa arrives in Singapore and resigns as President via e-mail on 14 July.
On 19 March 2020, Sri Lanka reported an increase in cases from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the government went ahead with nominations for the election until 18 March 2020. On 19 March, soon after the nominations ended, the Elections Commission with its powers postponed the elections. [68]
An indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Sri Lanka on 20 July 2022 following the resignation of former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 14 July. The president of Sri Lanka was elected by the Parliament of Sri Lanka in a secret ballot to decide who would complete the remainder of Gotabaya Rajapaksa's term.