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1143 matching reports found. Showing 741 - 760 [TamilNet, Monday, 21 November 2005, 07:09 GMT] Mr.Ratnasiri Wickremanayake was sworn in as the fourteenth Prime Minister of Sri Lanka before SL President Mahinda Rajapakse Monday. At a ceremony held at the Temple Trees, Mr. Rajapakse sworn in him as the Prime Minister of his would-be appointed cabinet this morning. Ratnasiri Wickremanayake held the post of Deputy Minister of Defense and Minister of Buddhist Affairs till the election of Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse as the 5th executive president of Sri Lanka.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 19 November 2005, 17:33 GMT]New Cabinet of Ministers will be sworn in on Tuesday and all constituent political parties of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) will be represented in the new Cabinet, Minister and Cabinet spokesman Mr.Nimal Sripala de Silva said at a press briefing held at the Presidential Secretarial Saturday evening. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 18 November 2005, 07:56 GMT] Sri Lanka’s hardline Prime Minister has been elected as country’s fifth President. Results released Friday by the election commission indicated Premier Mahinda Rajapakse had received almost 50.3% of the vote, with his main rival, opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, taking 48.4% in a hard fought race that has long been described as too close to call. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 12:55 GMT] Reports from Jaffna reveal intimidating and underhand activities of the Eelam People Democratic Party (EPDP) cadres in organising vote-rigging in Sri Lanka Presidential election. Groups of armed EPDP cadres were seen visiting house to house forcibly collecting the 'ballot-tokens' from residents in islets off Jaffna peninsula, TamilNet learns. With armed protection from the State armed forces, Douglas Devananda's EPDP is holding unannounced short-meetings at market places and actively campaigning for Mahinda Rajapakse, the candidate of the ruling party. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 18:07 GMT]An election rally in support of Prime Minister Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse,
presidential candidate of the UPFA, was held in Uppukulam in Mannar district
Tuesday afternoon in contravention of the Election Law. Laws stipulate that electioneering
should close on Monday midnight. General
Secretary of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has filed a complaint with the Inspector
General of Police (IGP), Mannar sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Sunday, 13 November 2005, 12:42 GMT] "We have made elaborate arrangements to ensure that voters residing in Liberation Tigers' controlled areas of Vadamaradchy east and Kilinochchi district can exercise their franchise with complete freedom without any requirement to produce identity cards," said Jaffna Government Agent and Jaffna District Election Returning Officer, K Ganesh, during a press meet held at the Jaffna Secretariat offices Sunday afternoon. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 November 2005, 13:04 GMT] Finance Minister of the United Peoples Alliance (UPFA) government, Dr Sarath Amunugama, submitted Tuesday afternoon the second and the last budget under the Presidency of Chandrika
Bandaranaike Kumaratunge in Sri Lanka Parliament, parliamentary sources said. Opposition United National Party (UNP), Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC), Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) boycotted the event. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 November 2005, 00:18 GMT] Sri Lanka’s opposition United National Party this week claimed credit for engineering a split within the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) through the peace process whilst at the same time keeping the movement locked in via an international security net. The UNP also claimed credit for the sinking of LTTE vessels during the peace talks. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 November 2005, 08:30 GMT]Venerable Uduwae Dhammaloka Thera, dissident parliamentarian of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) said he will begin his election campaign in support of Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe, presidential candidate of the United National Party (UNP), Tuesday from Navagamuwa Raja Maha Vihare. About 200 Buddhist monks and 1000 youths will participate in his campaign in the districts of the south of Sri Lanka, Venerable Uduwae Dhammaloka Thera said in a press briefing. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 26 October 2005, 17:18 GMT]Prime Minister Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse, presidential candidate of the United
Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Wednesday addressed election rallies in the
towns of Trincomalee, Kinniya and Kantalai in the district. Mr.Wimal
Weeravanse, parliamentary group leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
accompanied him, sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 21 October 2005, 11:39 GMT]Mr Mahinda Rajapakse has brought the Sinhala approach to resolving the Tamil National question a full circle by rejecting the concepts of Tamil home land, right to self determination, federal
solution, and the P-TOMS, and re-affirming Tamils belief that the Sinhala south is incapable of shedding the chauvinist mindset, said the editorial of the popular Jaffna Tamil daily 'Uthayan' in its Thursday edition. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 10:52 GMT] Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse, presidential candidate of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) released his manifesto at an event held in the BMICH at an event held Tuesday morning in the Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference Hall (BMICH). The manifesto said that an ultimate solution to the ethnic crisis could only be reached through negotiations and not through war and that a settlement based on a unitary state is the basis to the ethnic crisis. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 18 October 2005, 07:12 GMT]Sri Lanka's parliament Tuesday evening adopted a motion to extend the State of Emergency for another month by a majority of sixty-one votes. Eighty parliamentarians of the ruling party and the main opposition UNP voted for the motion. Nineteen MPs voted against. This is the second extension of the State of Emergency which was reintroduced August 13 following the killing of Mr.Lakshman Kadirgamar on August 12 night, parliamentary sources said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 16:30 GMT]Parliamentarians Mr.Muthu Sivalingam and Mr.M.S.Sellasamy of the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) Monday evening handed over their resignation letters to Mr.W.J.S.Karunaretna, Secretary to the President from the ministry posts. Mr.Muthu Sivalingam was holding the post of Minister of Community Development and Estate Sector Infrastructure and Mr.Sellasamy the post of Deputy Minister. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 10:45 GMT]Mr.Sivalingam Vilvarajah alias Senthil (35), member of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP), a constituent of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government, was found dead with gunshot injuries Tuesday morning at Aathimoddai junction located about 10 km off north of the Trincomalee town along Trincomalee-Kuchchaveli main road, Uppuveli Police said.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 07 October 2005, 03:50 GMT] Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse, Prime Minister and Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe, UNP leader and eleven others from other parties handed in their nominations to contest the forthcoming presidential election, which is fixed for November 17. Election Commissioner Mr.Dayananda Dissanayake issued a statement in this regard around 11.30 a. m. following the closure of nominations and after the expiry of the time for objections, election department sources said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 October 2005, 05:13 GMT]Mr.Armugam Thondaman, CWC leader said at a media briefing Wednesday morning that the party's two ministers would tender their resignations from the UPFA government. He said the CWC has decided to support UNP leader Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe in the forthcoming presidential election. The CWC further announced the 19 proposals that should be included in the agenda by the new Government. One of the proposals has urged the new government to resolve the ethnic problem through extensive power-sharing
mechanism. Mr.Thondaman said that the UNP has accepted the 19 demands of the CWC in this regard. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 October 2005, 04:29 GMT]Sri Lanka's Finance Minister Dr.Sarath Amunugama Tuesday tabled the Appropriations Bill for the next year budget of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which has made provision for the allocation of 69 billion Rupees for defence expenditure. This is an increase of 13 billion rupees (23.2 percent) compared to defence allocation for 2005. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 05 October 2005, 04:16 GMT]The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC), leading political party in the hill country representing upcountry Tamils is to officially announce its position in the forthcoming presidential election Wednesday morning at a media briefing held at Trans Asia Hotel, Colombo. The CWC is a constituent of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 27 September 2005, 10:53 GMT] Mr.Ranil Wickremasinghe, United National Party (UNP) presidential candidate and the Opposition Leader Tuesday morning officially released his forty-page manifesto for the forthcoming presidential poll at an event held at the UNP headquarters Sri Kotha with the participation of party senior leaders including Mr.Karu Jayasuriya, and Mr.Malik Samarawickrema, sources said. Full story >>
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