{"id":145887,"date":"2024-11-18T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145887"},"modified":"2024-11-18T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T23:06:53","slug":"new-cabinet-of-ministers-sworn-in-president-will-retain-ministerial-portfolios-of-defence-finance-economic-development-and-digital-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/11\/18\/new-cabinet-of-ministers-sworn-in-president-will-retain-ministerial-portfolios-of-defence-finance-economic-development-and-digital-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cabinet of Ministers sworn in; President will retain ministerial portfolios of Defence, Finance, Economic Development and Digital Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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The new Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (18).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will retain the ministerial portfolios of Defence, Finance, Economic Development and Digital Economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya \u2013 Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vijitha Herath \u2013 Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Chandana Abeyrathna \u2013 Minister of State Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harshana Nanayakkara \u2013 Minister of Justice and National Integration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saroja Savithri Paulraj <\/strong>\u2013 Minister of Women and Child Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

K.D. Lalkantha \u2013 Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Land and Irrigation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anura Karunathilake \u2013 Minister of Urban Development, Construction and Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramalingam Chandrasekar \u2013 Minister of Fisheries<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upali Pannilage \u2013 Minister of Rural Development, Social Security and Community Empowerment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunil Hadunnetti \u2013 Minister of Industries and Entrepreneurship Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ananda Wijepala \u2013 Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bimal Rathnayake \u2013 Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiniduma Sunil Senevi \u2013 Minister of Buddha Sasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa \u2013 Minister of Health and Mass Media<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samantha Vidyarathna \u2013 Minister of Plantation and Community Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunil Kumara Gamage \u2013 Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wasantha Samarasinghe \u2013 Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Chrishantha Abeysena \u2013 Minister of Science and Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Anil Jayantha Fernando \u2013 Minister of Labour<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kumara Jayakody \u2013 Minister of Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Dammika Patabendi \u2013 Minister of Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy The Island The new Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (18). President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will retain the ministerial portfolios of Defence, Finance, Economic Development and Digital Economy Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya \u2013 Minister of Education, Higher Education and Vocational Education Vijitha Herath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}