A look at Thursday’s developments from crisis-hit Sri Lanka:
- United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister, PTI reported. His predecessor, Mahinda Rajapaksa, had resigned as the prime minister on Monday amid protests due to an unprecedented economic crisis in the island country. Wickremesinghe was appointed as the prime minister by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Wickremesinghe has served as the country’s prime minister for four times. In October 2018, he was fired as the prime minister by then President Maithripala Sirisena. However, he was reinstated by Sirisena after two months.
- A Sri Lankan court banned former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and 16 others from travelling overseas in view of investigations into the violence in the island country, PTI reported. Thirteen legislators, including Rajapaksa, and the senior deputy inspector general of the country’s Western province are on the list of…
