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Jul 21, 2022 · Colombo, Sri Lanka – Ranil Wickremesinghe has been elected Sri Lanka’s new president, less than a week after his predecessor Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to flee the country amid mass ...
Jul 21, 2022 · Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the new president of Sri Lanka by the Chief Justice in parliament Sri Lanka's Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as president, amid hopes that he will pull ...
Jul 13, 2022 · July 13, 2022. Ranil Wickremesinghe was named acting president of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled with his wife to the Maldives overnight. But protesters have been ...
Family Ranil Wickremesinghe was born on 24th March 1949 and in 1995 married Maithree Wickramasinghe, the Chair Professor of English and the founding director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Kelaniya. An internationally recognised writer/speaker on gender and women’s studies, her work interfaces research, teaching ...
Jul 20, 2022 · First published on Wed 20 Jul 2022 03.19 EDT. Sri Lanka’s prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been elected as president to replace the ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a result that is likely to ...
Involved in Student Politics and President of the Law Students' Union while at the University of Colombo; Member of Parliament representing the United National Party from 1978 to date for a continuous period of 28 years; Leader of the House in Parliament; 1991-2001 President of the Lanka Jathika Estate Workers Union; Chairman of Asia-Pacific ...
Jul 9, 2022 · July 9, 2022. One of the political casualties in Sri Lanka on Saturday was Ranil Wickremesinghe, a prime minister six times over whose leadership has been equated with Sri Lanka’s economic ...
