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Sinhala: Weekly: Express Newspapers: 2017 [14] Special interest newspapers/magazines. Newspaper Language Frequency Publisher/Parent Company Established Circulation
This triggered an indirect presidential election via Parliament a week later, to elect a successor according to the Article 40 of the Constitution. [14] Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had been appointed as Prime Minister by Rajapaksa just two months earlier, received the most votes and was sworn in as the 9th President of Sri Lanka on 21 July 2022 ...
Gotabaya forms a temporary 4-member cabinet on 3 April 2022. The Samagi Jana Balawegaya, led by its party leader Sajith Premadasa, has called for a no-confidence motion against the government. PM Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned from his position on 9 May 2022. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed Ranil Wickremesinghe as the new PM on 12 May 2022.
Silumina (Sinhala: සිළුමිණ) is a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is published by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The newspaper commenced publishing in March 30 1930, D. R. Wijewardena being its founder. [1] It currently has a circulation of 265,000. [2]
The Sri Lankan government under President Gotabaya transferred the administration of non-protected forests, known as "other state forests" (OSF), to regional authorities, in a controversial circular, [117] [118] with a view to releasing them for agriculture and development. The move was claimed to be a part of government efforts to boost ...
The Sri Lankan economic crisis [8] is a in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities. [10]
On 17 April 2022, the protests continued for the ninth consecutive day. Protesters sang the national anthem of Sri Lanka in both Sinhala and Tamil, to show solidarity and unity among the various people of the multicultural society of Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [14] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis, which culminated into widespread protests ...