NPP National List MP Harini Amarasuriya was sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister a short while ago.
She took oaths before President Anura Kumara Disaanayake .
She’s the country’s third woman prime minister after Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike ( the world’s first & four times in all) and Chandrika Kumaratunga who held the post briefly before becoming the country’s first woman president in 1994.
She has also been sworn in as Minister of Justice, Education, Labour, Industries, Science and Technology, Health and Investment.
Customs have detected 228 mobile phones and tabs valued at over Rs 30 million left behind in the duty free shopping complex at the Banaranaike International Airport today, Customs officials said.
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