Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 24 Sep 2024, 07:42 am Print
Harini Amarasuriya Harini Amarasuriya appointed as Sri Lanka's new PM. Photo Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons/ ShareAlike 4.0 International
National People's Power (NPP) MP Dr. Harini Amarasuriya on Tuesday took oath as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake was sworn-in as the executive president of the Island country on Monday after he clinched a major victory in the polls.
Harini Amarasuriya was also sworn in as the Minister of Justice, Education, Labour, Industries, Science & Technology, Health, and Investments.
Harini Amarasuriya succeeded Dinesh Gunawardena who resigned as the PM of the South Asian country, which witnessed political and economic instability in recent years, after the unsuccessful re-election bid of Ranil Wickremesinghe in the presidential elections.
Harini Amarasuriya is now the third woman to become Sri Lanka's PM.
Amarasuriya has been a National List Member of Parliament for National People's Power since 2020. She was previously a senior lecturer at the Department of Social Studies of the Open University of Sri Lanka.
Amarasuriya holds a PhD degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh.
Before Amarasuriya, Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Chandrika Kumaratunga had served as Sri Lankan PM.
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025: Trio honoured for pioneering new molecular architecture
- Qatar Airways passenger dies choking after being told to ‘eat around’ meat instead of a vegetarian meal
- Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, an AI model that can navigate websites like humans
- OpenAI teams up with AMD to deploy 6 gigawatts of high-performance GPUs
- U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis win Nobel Prize in Physics
