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Kuttam Pokuna (twin ponds or pools) are well preserved old bathing tanks or ponds in Sri Lanka. This pair of ponds was built by the Sinhalese in the ancient Anuradhapura Kingdom. They form part of the Abhayagiri vihāra complex and are an example of the works in the field of hydrological engineering, architecture and art of the ancient Sinhalese.
Sri Lanka is primarily a source, destination, and, to a lesser extent, a transit country for women and children subjected to sex trafficking. Some Sri Lankan women are subjected to forced prostitution in Cyprus, Maldives, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and elsewhere. Within the country, women and children are subjected to sex trafficking in ...
This is a list of Indians in Sri Lanka. The list includes notable people from multiple different ethnicities, as well as people native to India who are living in or notable in Sri Lanka . There is also large number of Sinhalese identifying Sri Lankans of Indian descent, such as the Karava caste and Demalagattara [ 1 ]
Women in Sri Lanka make up to 52.09% of the population according to the 2012 census of Sri Lanka. [7] Sri Lankan women have contributed greatly to the country's development, in many areas. Historically, a masculine bias has dominated Sri Lankan culture , although woman have been allowed to vote in elections since 1931 . [ 8 ]
Seethadevi Girls' College (Sinhala: සීතාදේවි බාලිකා විද්යාලය) is a girls' school in Kandy, Sri Lanka. M. D. Kamalawathi was the first principal of the girls' college. [1] It is a provincial school funded by the central government providing primary and secondary education. [2] [3]
Two tourists have died from suspected pesticide poisoning after their hostel in Sri Lanka was fumigated for bedbugs, Britain’s PA Media news agency has reported.. Ebony McIntosh, a 24-year-old ...
Indian Moors were brought to Sri Lanka for the same reasons as the Indian Tamils, as labourers to the plantations. In 1971 Indian Moors numbered 29,416 declining from 55,400 in 1963. Their decline was partly due to returning to India and some declaring themselves and being enumerated as Sri Lankan Moors. Indian Moors were mostly found in the ...
Uniforms of the Sri Lanka Army This page was last edited on 8 March 2024, at 21:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...