President Ranil Wickremesinghe joined the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held last evening (09) at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
The swearing-in ceremony, presided over by the President of India Draupadi Murmu, took place at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Aside from President Wickremesinghe, others in the Sri Lankan delegation are Presidential Secretary Saman Ekanayake and Foreign Secretary Aruni Wijewardene.
The Sri Lankan delegation left for India yesterday on an Air India flight to attend the ceremony early in the evening. Following the ceremony, the leaders, including Mr. Wickremesinghe, attended a banquet hosted by Indian President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The Sri Lankan delegation is due to return to Colombo today.
Besides Mr Wickremesinghe, leaders from Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives, Seychelles and Mauritius have also attended the ceremony. Pakistan’s and Myanmar’s leaders, however, were not invited.
The Government is finalising a list of names to be posted as heads of Sri Lanka’s missions abroad with ex-Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya assuming the position of Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.
Kandiah (Ken) Balendra, a veteran corporate leader and the first Sri Lankan chairman of John Keells Holdings (JKH) has passed away at the age of 85.
The CID has arrested Susantha de Silva, former Managing Director of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) for allegedly misappropriating 6.1 million rupees in 2014.
Chief Justice Murdu Fernando has forwarded the names of four senior High Court judges to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to fill four existing vacancies in the Court of Appeal.
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