{"id":507962,"date":"2022-07-22T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T05:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=507962"},"modified":"2022-07-22T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:39:29","slug":"power-outage-stops-ranils-swearing-in-event-cid-to-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/power-outage-stops-ranils-swearing-in-event-cid-to-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage stops Ranil&#8217;s swearing-in event, CID to probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A power outage in the Sri Lankan Parliament complex stopped the live broadcast of President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony, forcing authorities to launch an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Department into the incident, a media report said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn in as Sri Lanka&#8217;s eighth president and will face the tough task of leading the country out of its unprecedented economic crisis and restoring order after months of mass anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe, 73, was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka at the Parliament complex before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A power outage in the Sri Lankan Parliament complex stopped the live broadcast of President Ranil Wickremesinghe&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony, forcing authorities to launch an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Department into the incident, a media report said on Thursday. Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was on Thursday sworn in as Sri Lanka&#8217;s eighth president and will face the tough task of leading the country out of its unprecedented economic crisis and restoring order after months of mass anti-government protests. Wickremesinghe, 73, was sworn in as the 8th Executive President of Sri Lanka at the Parliament complex before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}