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This is a list of salaries of heads of state and government per year, ... Philippines: 95,554 USD [134] ... Sri Lanka: 7,380 USD 5,600 ...
On October 13, 2023, the national government released through Proclamation No. 368, series of 2023 dated October 11, 2023 declaring the regular, national, special, and additional special days. The EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary is dropped from the list of special non-working holidays.
National People's Power: President: Sri Lanka: 23 September 2024 [a] [4] [2] Minister of Defence: 24 September 2024 [a] Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development: 24 September 2024 [a] Minister of Digital Economy: 18 November 2024: Harini Amarasuriya: National People's Power: Prime Minister: Colombo: 24 September 2024 [a]
The Sri Lanka women's cricket team is selected for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup after winning the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier final against Scotland. [ 61 ] 10 May – Mujibur Rahman is reappointed to parliament as a National List MP , replacing the unseated Diana Gamage.
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
National People's Power (NPP) emerged as the largest party, winning 15 out of 30 seats and securing 47.64% of the vote share. [1] On 8 November 2024, the Election Commission of Sri Lanka confirmed the appointments of NPP's Kolamba Thanthreege Nishantha Perera as chairman and Wagoda Pathirage Sumith Chandana as vice chairman of the Pradeshiya Sabha.
To commemorate positive bilateral relations, Sri Lanka gave an elephant named Mali to the Philippines, which is now being cared for by the City Government of Manila through the Manila Zoological and Botanical Gardens. [8] The Philippines maintains an honorary consulate in Sri Lanka. [7]
As no candidate achieved a majority, a second round of vote counting was held for the first time in Sri Lanka's history under its limited ranked voting system. At the conclusion of this preferential vote count, Dissanayake was declared the winner, securing 55.89% of the vote. He was inaugurated on 23 September 2024. [3]