Tag: Ranil Wickremesinghe

The Election Commission of Sri Lanka has declared Anura Kumara Dissanayake as winner of the presidential election. The commission made the announcement after a second vote count, the first in ...

Voting has ended in Sri Lanka’s presidential election and officials are currently counting the ballots. Sri Lankans went to the polls on Saturday, September 21, 2024, to elect the nation’s ...

On Friday, July 21, 2023, a number of agreements in the fields of energy, development and trade were signed between Sri Lanka and India, indicating a strengthening of economic connections between ...

Sri Lanka's Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as President, amid hopes that he will pull the country out of its economic suffering. The 73-year-old took his oath at the ...

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been sworn in as the acting President as the country reels from an economic crisis and unrest. He replaced Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled ...

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country needs at least $5bn (£4bn) over the next six months to pay for essential goods as it faces its worst ...

Sri Lanka's President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has swore in a new Prime Minister on Thursday, May 12, 2022, to replace his resignee-brother, after protesters launched violent attacks against the nation's “unaffordable” ...