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The newspaper had earlier claimed about a meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is due Friday to submit for presidential approval the makeup of a provisional cabinet which will run Turkey until new elections in November.

A fresh general election in Turkey will be held on November 1, almost five months after an inconclusive election saw no party win an overall majority.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered new elections on Monday after weeks of talks on forming a coalition government failed.

In Berlin, the government said it expected Athens to press ahead with its reform agenda and the finance ministry said aid disbursements would be delayed should the elections cause any delay in an examination of the programme.

“Congratulations & best wishes to Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe on being sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister”. The win solidifies power for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, with his party winning 106 of parliament’s 225.

India views the outcome of Sri Lankan Parliamentary Elections as a huge blow to the “string of pearls” strategy of China, which had built the Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka as part of its Maritime Silk Road initiative.

The victory of the coalition of parties with the ungainly name of United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Monday’s General Election will ensure that the changes brought about at the Presidential Election of January...

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that Sri Lanka’s voters endorsed his government as parliamentary election results showed his party locked in a tight battle for power with allies of former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa.

“I offer my grateful thanks to all parties and individuals who worked untiringly during the election period to ensure victory for the people“, Wickremesinghe said in a statement.

Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn-in as Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister today, returning to the office for a fourth term after his party won the closely contested general election.

He further extended his thanks to all the activists and people’s representatives who worked in the election campaign on behalf of the UPFA.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe urged Sri Lanka’s parties on Wednesday to work together as he began forming a new government backed by minority Tamils after a surge in support for his reform-driven agenda in parliamentary elections.

“I am conceding. We have lost a good fight”, said former Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

However, with only one of 22 districts having declared, the shape of the next parliament remains unclear and Rajapaksa’s comments to Reuters stopped short of an outright concession.