{"id":82518,"date":"2018-10-29T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82518"},"modified":"2018-10-29T08:06:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:06:04","slug":"new-cabinet-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/29\/new-cabinet-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cabinet sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"news-author\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adaderana.lk\/authors\/14\/charunya-rajakaruna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"news-content\">\n<p>The new Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, short while ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Cabinet:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahinda Rajapaksa: Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Nimal Siripala de Silva: Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sarath Amunugama: Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Mahinda Samarasinghe: Minister of Ports and Shipping<\/p>\n<p>Mahinda Amaraweera: Minister of Agriculture<\/p>\n<p>Ranjith Siyambalapitiya: Minister of Power and Renewable Energy<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe: Minister of Education and Higher Education<\/p>\n<p>Wijith Wijayamuni Zoysa: Minister of Fisheries &amp; Aquatic Resources Development and Rural Economic Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Faiszer Musthapha: Minister of Provincial Councils, Local Government, and Sports<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Devananda: Minister of Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Northern Development, &amp; Hindu Religious Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Arumugam Thondaman: Minister of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development<\/p>\n<p>Vasantha Senanayake: Minister of Tourism and Wildlife<\/p>\n<p><strong>State Ministers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Suresh Vadivel: State Minister of Plantation Industries<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deputy Ministers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ananda Aluthgamage: Deputy Minister of Tourism and Wildlife<\/p>\n<p><em>Await more..<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Charunya Rajakaruna\u00a0Courtesy Adaderana The new Cabinet of Ministers was sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, short while ago. New Cabinet:\u00a0 Mahinda Rajapaksa: Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Nimal Siripala de Silva: Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Dr. Sarath Amunugama: Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahinda Samarasinghe: Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82518","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=82518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}