# Srilanka Senior politician and staunch rajapaksha loyalist Dinesh Gunawardana on Friday became the third prime minister to lead Srilanka in the last three months. Earlier Ranil wickramasinghe was elected the president of Srilanka. The cabinet of the previous government will continue untill an all party government is formed. # National film awards Tamil movie […]

# 15th president of India Former Jharkhand governor and National democratic Alliance candidate Draupadi Murmu has been elected the 15th President of India. She is the first tribal woman to be elected for this position and the youngest as well. After four rounds of counting, Draupadi murmu received 2824 votes of 6,76,803 value while Yashwant […]

# Srilanka Six time prime minister and acting president Ranil Wickramasinghe on Wednesday was elected president of Srilanka amid island nation’s painful economic crisis. Ranil Wickramasinghe won 134 votes in the 225 member Parliament in a three way contest. Dullas Alahaperumma, a formerly Rajapaksha aligned now independent MP, won 82 votes. # Cheetah India came […]

# Srilanka Srilanka will witness a three cornered race for presidency on Wednesday. Acting president Ranil Wickramasinghe, the formerly Rajapaksha’s aligned and now independent Dullas Alahaperumma and the leftist Anura kumara Dissanayake were on Tuesday nominated by parties in Parliament, a day ahead of the poll through the secret ballot. The Rajapaksha’s Srilanka podujana peramuna […]

# Presidential election The election of the new president of India will be held on Monday. The contest is between the ruling NDA candidate, Draupadi Murmu and opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha. There are 4809 eligible voters for the electoral college. The elected members of both the houses of the parliament and the assemblies of the […]

# Vice president Bhartiya janta party president JP Nadda on Saturday evening declared that West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar would be national democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate for the post of Vice President. The announcement was made at a press conference after a meeting of the BJP’s parliamentary board, the party’s highest decision making authority, which […]

# Srilanka Gotabaya Rajapaksha has officially resigned as Srilanka’s president, the parliamentary speaker announced on Friday. Prime minister Ranil Wickramasinghe was sworn in as acting president according to the Constitution. Members of parliament are preparing to elect a new president from among themselves through a secret ballot. Meanwhile, Srilanka’s Supreme Court on Friday barred former […]

# Srilanka Srilanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksha on Thursday sent his resignation letter by email from Singapore, the parliamentary speaker’s office said. The development came a day after Mr. Gotabaya fled the country and sought refuge in Maldives and then in Singapore. Singapore’s foreign ministry said that Gotabaya Rajapaksha was allowed to enter Singapore on a […]

# Srilanka Srilankan president Gotabaya rajapaksha who fled Srilanka and took refuge in the Maldives early on Wednesday, ahead of his promised resignation, appointed prime minister Ranil wickramasinghe as acting president. Late on Wednesday, a Gazette notification was issued by the president appointing Mr. Wickramasinghe to “exercise, perform and discharge the powers, duties and functions […]

# Srilanka The US rejected Srilankan president Gotabaya rajapaksha’s recent request for a visa. Gotabaya rajapaksha’s formerly a dual citizen of US and Srilanka, gave up his American citizenship ahead of his presidential election of 2019, as law barred him from running for the post of president of Srilanka. However, gotabaya has now fleed to […]