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Sri Lanka Navy with Sri Lanka Police and other intelligence services in international waters south of Sri Lanka seized a foreign fishing vessel carrying over 336 kg of heroin worth over Rs. 3100 million gross street value. [213] Total number of COVID-19 deaths in Sri Lanka exceeds 10,000 with 189 more deaths. [214]
Parliamentary elections have been held in Sri Lanka since the first in 1947, under three different constitutions: the Soulbury Constitution, the 1972 Constitution, and the currently enforced 1978 Constitution. Sixteen parliamentary elections have been held up to and including the 2020 election. The seventeenth is scheduled for 14 November 2024. [1]
The main parties and alliances contesting in the election included the alliance of Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapakse, the ruling Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), the main opposition United National Party (UNP) of Ranil Wickremasinghe, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) of Sajith Premadasa, former opposition TNA of R. Sampanthan and ...
He disappeared from Sri Lanka after that and lived in Tamil Nadu for more than a decade. He returned to Sri Lanka in 2009. His mansion was stormed by Special Task Force soldiers in September 2010. He was arrested and subsequently killed by the soldiers, when he tried to grab the weapon of an officer. [25] Kamal Dammalarachchi alias Dematagoda Kamal
The 2021 Lanka Premier League Final was played on 23 December 2021 at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Hambantota, Sri Lanka. [1] [2] [3] It was a day/night twenty20 match between Galle Gladiators and Jaffna Kings, [4] [5] which decided the winner of 2021 season of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), an annual franchise cricket tournament in Sri Lanka.
The president of Sri Lanka was elected by the Parliament of Sri Lanka in a secret ballot to decide who would complete the remainder of Premadasa's term. Incumbent prime minister and acting president Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was the only contester for the presidency and was unanimously elected, without a vote, as the fourth president of Sri Lanka.
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. "1952 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. "Table 32 Parliament Election (1952)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011
Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. "Parliamentary General Election 2001 – All Island Result". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. "Parliamentary General Election 2001 – Final District Results". Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original ...