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EXCLUSIVE – Gotabaya says “ready to work for people”
November 17 (newsin.asia): Sri Lanka's president-elect Gotabaya Rajapaksa told newsin.asia a short while ago while leaving the elections commission in Colombo that he was extremely happy for winning the presidential poll on Saturday. "I will now begin to work for my people, all the citizens of Sri Lanka, and I thank all of them". He said that he will work...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa Claims Victory In Sri Lanka’s Presidential Elections
November 17 (newsin.asia) - The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) on Sunday claimed that presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa has won the presidential election by winning 53% of the total votes. In a statement, MP Dullas Alahapperuma said although the final official results were yet to be released they had sufficient information that Gotabaya Rajapaksa had won the polls. Dullas urged...
Foreign election observers deployed in Sri Lanka ahead of Presidential Elections
COLOMBO, Oct. 22 (newsin.asia) - Thirty foreign election monitors from the European Union Election Observation Mission were deployed in all nine provinces of Sri Lanka on Tuesday to begin monitoring the election process, just weeks ahead of the island's Presidential polls. The team, which arrived in Sri Lanka on Oct 11, left the for the provinces on Tuesday morning after...
No outsider will interfere in Sri Lanka polls this time: Basil
October 16 (Daily Mirror) - No international actor will try to interfere in Sri Lanka’s approaching presidential election said Basil Rajapaksa, chief strategist of his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidential bid. “Ethically, that is how it should be,” he told The Hindu in an interview, alluding to a shift in the international community’s “role” in Sri Lanka’s national politics. His comments,...
Hotels Association hails Dawoodi Bohra Chief for holding annual congregation in SL
September 16 (Daily FT) - The Hotels Association of Sri Lanka (THASL) yesterday hailed the Head of the Dawoodi Bohra community Dr. Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin for his support extended to Sri Lanka by hosting their annual congregation in the country recently. In a statement, THASL President Sanath Ukwatte noted the multi-faceted significance of Dr. Saifuddin’s visit to Sri Lanka at...
Abolition of Executive Presidency a condition for Ranil’s support to Sajith
Though agreeing to abolition of Executive Presidency is hard for Sajith it will ensure UNP unity which is needed to win the election
“We are not the terrorists”: Interview with Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero
"We are currently fighting to quell Wahhabi extremism," Ven.Gnanasara Thero said.
Maldives overcomes Islamic opposition and appoints two women as Supreme Court judges
Islamic clerics said that women cannot be judges, especially in criminal cases.
Rahul Gandhi on Kashmir crisis: “A nation is made of people and not plots of land”
New Delhi, August 6 (The Quint): The Indian Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday opposed the Centre’s resolution to revoke Article 370 by tweeting that “a nation is made by people and not plots of land.” In yet another tweet, he said that jailing mainstream Kashmir leaders is “unconstitutional and undemocratic” and that they must be released immediately. Pakistan PM...
Maj.Dr.Kelash Garvada becomes the first Hindu army officer to be posted in Pakistan’s Defense Ministry
Islamabad, August 2 (www.defence.pk): Major (Dr) Kelash Garvada is the first-ever Hindu (Meghwar) officer to serve in Pakistan's Ministry Of Defence. From Tharparkar in the province of Sindh, Maj.Dr. Kelash Garvada did his MBBS from LUHMS at Jamshoro, Hyderabad (Sindh) and later got a commission in the Pakistan army. He was Army medical corps Captain and is now promoted as...
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