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The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country. The anti-government sentiment across various parts of Sri ...
Language. English. Headquarters. No. 8, Hunupitiya Cross Road, Colombo 2, Sri Lanka. Website. dailymirror.lk. Daily Mirror is a daily English-language newspaper published in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by Wijeya Newspapers. Its Sunday counterpart is the Sunday Times. [1] Its sister newspaper on financial issues is the Daily FT.
Summary of international trips. During his term in office, Ranil Wickremesinghe made 16 foreign trips to 17 countries. Wickremesinghe never visited South America. No. of visits. Country. 3. United Kingdom. 2. Japan, Singapore.
Student union leader. Signature. Website. www.akd.lk. Anura Kumara Dissanayake[b] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan Marxist politician [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] who is the current president of Sri Lanka. Dissanayake was the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting ...
The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election was the 8th presidential election, held on 16 November 2019. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [ 3 ] and was endorsed by the Sri Lanka ...
16th Parliament of Sri Lanka. The 16th Parliament of Sri Lanka was the meeting of the Parliament of Sri Lanka with its membership determined by the results of the 2020 parliamentary election held on 5 August 2020. The parliament met for the first time on 20 August 2020 and was dissolved on 24 September 2024. [1][2]
Harini Nireka Amarasuriya [a] (born 6 March 1970) is a Sri Lankan sociologist, academic, activist, and politician serving as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 2024.. Having spent a decade as an academic at the Open University of Sri Lanka, where she was engaged with the Federation of University Teachers' Association in trade union action; Amarasuriya was nominated by the National People's ...
The Rajapaksa family (Sinhala: රාජපක්ෂ, romanized: Rājapakṣa) is a Sri Lankan family that is prominent in politics. It was one of Sri Lanka's most powerful families during Mahinda Rajapaksa 's presidency, [1] when many members of the family occupied senior positions in the Sri Lankan state. [2][3] They have been particularly ...