Special Desk Ranil Wickremesinghe, who had been Prime Minister of Sri Lanka six times has now been elected the 8th President of the crisis-hit country on Wednesday. Wickremesinghe faces the herculean task of leading the country out of its economic collapse and restoring order after months of mass protests. Wickremesinghe …
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Sri Lanka’s political crisis and national emergency
Special Desk Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his wife and bodyguards fled the country on an Air Force plane to Male, the capital of the Maldives. The president informed Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena that he will resign in a few hours, something that becomes irrelevant after the …
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