Colombo : Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has prorogued the parliament for one month and fixed January 3, 2020, for the commencement of the next session. The parliament should have met on Tuesday, according to the schedule. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa issued a special gazette notification effective at midnight Monday noticing that parliament would be reconvened […]

Colombo : Sri Lanka’s controversial wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was on Monday sworn in as the country’s President at the Ruwanweli Seya precincts in the ancient north central town of Anuradhapura. The newly-elected president worshipped at the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, a sacred fig tree in the Mahamewna Gardens and Ruwanweli Seya, a stupa […]