{"id":11959,"date":"2022-07-06T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2022-07-06T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:58:24","slug":"nimal-siripala-temporarily-steps-down-over-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/nimal-siripala-temporarily-steps-down-over-corruption-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimal Siripala temporarily steps down over corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Services Nimal Siripala de Silva has temporarily stepped down from his post over a corruption probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His Ministry was accused of corruption by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called for an independent investigation into the allegations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has informed the President that he will temporarily step down from his post until investigations are over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President has also requested the Minister to step down until the investigations are completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Services Nimal Siripala de Silva has temporarily stepped&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11961,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions\/11961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}