Colombo: United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed five-time Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe back to the post on Thursday evening in a ceremony that was not open to the media, the latest development in #LKA political and economic turmoil. Wickremesinghe took oaths at the President’s official House and then proceeded to the Walukarama Temple to seek blessings