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e. The National People's Power (NPP) or Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) is a socialist and social democratic political alliance in Sri Lanka. It was established in 2019 [2] by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. [3][4][5] It consists of 28 political parties and other organisations. It contests in elections under the ...
The Sinhala kingdom ceased to exist by 1815, following the British takeover.While the Sinhala kingdom is claimed to have existed from 543 BCE to 1815 CE, other political entities claimed to have co-existed in Sri Lanka spanning certain partial periods, including the Jaffna kingdom (which existed 1215–1624 CE), [5] Vanni chieftaincies (which existed from the 12th century to 1803 CE) and the ...
Piyadasa Sirisena was a skilled writer of both prose and verse in Sinhala and used the novel as a tool of educating the masses. [8] His objective was to raise their awareness of the lost glory of the Sinhalese people. His first novel on a happy marriage with Jayatissa and Rosalin as the main characters was a bestseller by any standard in Sri Lanka.
Dominion status followed on 4 February 1948 with military treaties with Britain, as the upper ranks of the armed forces were initially British, and British air and sea bases remained intact. This was later raised to independence itself and Senanayake became the first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. In 1949, with the concurrence of the leaders of ...
— Report by Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (p. 368) The 2002 ceasefire agreement (CFA) which was signed between the Sri Lankan government and LTTE, although brought about a short lived respite to the country, was unstable and eventually unproductive. Conceptual flaws and the untenable dual roles of the Government of Norway, as facilitator of the peace process and the head of ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka. First awarded. 1959; 65 years ago. ( 1959) Website. www .cultural .gov .lk. The State Literary Award is a set of annual literary prizes by the Government of Sri Lanka under several categories. The awards cover fiction, poetry, translations, songs and cover designs. Works from Sinhala, Tamil and English language are reviewed.
Secondly, it created a committee system of government specifically to address the multi-ethnic problems of Sri Lanka. Under this system, no one ethnic community could dominate the political arena. Instead, every government department was overseen by a committee of parliamentarians drawn from all the ethnic communities.
The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Lankā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative ...