{"id":227126,"date":"2022-07-18T11:15:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=227126"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:15:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T05:45:48","slug":"ranil-wickremesinghe-orders-emergency-in-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/ranil-wickremesinghe-orders-emergency-in-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Wickremesinghe orders emergency in Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe gazetted orders late on Sunday for a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an effort to head off unrest ahead of a vote in parliament later this week to elect a new president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sri Lanka&#8217;s beleaguered leaders have imposed a state of emergency several times since April, when public protests took hold against the government&#8217;s handling of a deepening economic crisis and a persistent shortage of essentials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is expedient, so to do, in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community,&#8221; the notification stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe gazetted orders late on Sunday for a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation. This is an effort to head off unrest ahead of a vote in parliament later this week to elect a new president. Sri Lanka&#8217;s beleaguered leaders have imposed a state of emergency several times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[109025,109026],"class_list":["post-227126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-ranil-wickremesinghe","tag-srilanka-emergency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/ranil.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}