by Kalani Kumarasinghe in Daily Mirror on line, Apr 27, 2023When former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country, both India and the United States requested him to remove Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, MP Wimal Weerawansa said. The leader of the National Freedom Front made these comments at the launch of his book titled “Nine; The Hidden Story”, which he claimed is an extensive investigative study on the inside story of the Galle Face revolution which…
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by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 24, 2023It’s been nearly two weeks since the Kathmandu Metropolitan City stopped collecting garbage from Singha Durbar and other VIP addresses such as the Office of the President at Sheetal Niwas and prime minister’s residence at Baluwatar. On April 9, Mayor Balendra Shah had announced his decision on social media, saying the move was made “not on a whim” but was rather a result of the “neglect,…
report in Daily FT, Apr 22, 2023The Chief Prelates of all three Buddhist sects have written to President Ranil Wickremesinghe on the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill and have urged him to remove certain concerning provisions from it before passing it in Parliament. The Prelates noted that a strong opposition has arisen in the society against provisions that will violate the right to expression and peaceful dissent which are key components of a country’s democracy. They also…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, Apr 21, 2023 at 02:18 pmArchbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today called for a fresh and transparent probe into Easter Sunday attacks and said justice cannot be expected from the incumbent President or the government. “We need a fresh and transparent probe which is directed towards finding out as to why the repeated prior warnings on the Easter Sunday attacks were not taken seriously, to…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, Apr 16, 2023 at 11:21 pmPresident Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to make a fresh call for a national government on April 25 when Parliament takes up the debate on the IMF extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement. Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Mano Ganesan told Daily Mirror that President had informed him and MP Rauff Hakeem that he would make a fresh call on that day to all opposition…
report in Prothom Alo, 13 Apr 2023Prime Minister and ruling Awami League president Sheikh Hasina speaks as leaders and activists of district units of AL from across the country met the prime minister at her official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka on 12 April 2023BSS Prime Minister and ruling Awami League (AL) president Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday alerted her party men against local and foreign conspiracies and asked them to strengthen the party further ahead of…
by Sahan Tennekoon in The Morning, Apr 7, 2023The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Government Party has not made a decision yet as to whether they would support the incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe to run for a second Presidential term, The Daily Morning learned. When contacted by The Daily Morning, SLPP General Secretary and Parliamentarian Attorney Sagara Kariyawasam said that such a decision has not been made yet and that the Party will make…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 10, 2023 Ram Chandra Paudel is stepping into Sheetal Niwas hot on the heels of Bidya Devi Bhandari, who got into a number of controversies for being overly supportive of prime minister KP Sharma Oli while blocking some crucial laws forwarded during the premiership of Sher Bahadur Deuba. Political leaders and analysts say Bhandari did not heed public concern, for instance when she was criticised for blocking…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 19, 2023As the presidential election nears, the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party has been in negotiations with other political parties, projecting the party’s chair Mahantha Thakur as the next president. The discourse of a consensus president is making headlines of late. Thakur is rightly one such candidate, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party leaders say. Party’s executive committee member Keshav Jha said that they have been holding informal talks with the Congress,…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 1, 2023At a time when the ongoing debate over a consensus candidate for President is heating up, leaders of the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) are worried by the dominance of the CPN-UML, the biggest party in the current ruling coalition, in the Constitutional Council. The council is responsible for crucial appointments including those of the chief justice, auditor general and 60 office bearers of 12 different…
report in the Morning, Jan 16, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that the Government is considering the full implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution within the next few years. “We are looking at full implementation of the 13th amendment within the next few years,” he said, while attending the State Thai Pongal Festival held at the Jaffna Durga Hall yesterday (15), the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. He added that the Social Justice Commission…