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Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka at the Parliament complex before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.
The live broadcast of Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe's swearing-in ceremony was disrupted due to power outage in the Parliament complex. The matter will be probed by the Criminal Investigations Department.
Anti-government protesters entered the building of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation on July 14, harassing journalists in the office and forcing its broadcast off-air. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Sri Lankan affiliates, the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Federation of Media Employees Trade Unions (FMETU), condemn the attack and call for an end to harassment against media workers in Sri Lanka.
“It was my husband’s dream to build a hospital for cancer patients in Negombo. We lived in Colombo, as I still do, but spent much time in Negombo. What Jayam noted was the absence of such a hospital or even OPD services between Maharagama and Puttalam, a distance of more than 150 km. Hence his […]
By Anura Gunasekera I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused- Graham Greene in the Quiet American.Surveying the wreckage of the nation in the moment of the departure of its President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the above simple sentence is seen as a fitting epitaph for the most disastrous custodianship […]