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Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. "1956 General Election Results". LankaNewspapers.com. Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. "Table 33 Parliament Election (1956)". Sri Lanka Statistics. 10 February 2009. Archived from the original on 9 October 2011; Rajasingham, K. T. (24 November 2001). "Chapter 16: 'Honorable ...
The 3rd Parliament of Ceylon was a meeting of the Parliament of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1956 parliamentary election between 5 and 10 April 1956. The parliament met for the first time on 19 April 1956 and was dissolved on 5 December 1959.
The current Parliament of Sri Lanka has 225 members elected for a five-year term. 196 members are elected from 22 multi-seat constituencies through an open list proportional representation with a 5% electoral threshold; voters can rank up to three candidates on the party list they vote for. The other 29 seats are elected from a national list ...
"The Last Question" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and in the anthologies in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), The Best Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete ...
During the British colonial era, English was the official language in Ceylon (known as Sri Lanka since 1972). Until the passage of the Free Education Bill in 1944, education in the English language was the preserve of the Sri Lankan elite and the ordinary people had little knowledge of it.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport and Works [3] [4] [5] W. P. G. Ariyadasa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Posts, Broadcasting and Information [5] C. R. Beligammana: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Local Government and Cultural ...
In the 1956 parliamentary election the ITAK overtook the ACTC as the most popular party amongst Ceylon Tamils. [57] [58] On 5 June 1956 a group of Tamil activists and parliamentarians, led by Chelvanayakam, staged a satyagraha (a form of non-violent resistance) against the Sinhala Only Act on Galle Face Green opposite the Parliament. [59]
The Gazette is published in Sinhalese, Tamil, and English which are the three official languages of Sri Lanka. It publishes promulgated bills, presidential decrees, governmental ordinances, major legal acts as well as vacancies, government exams, requests for tender, changes of names, company registrations and deregistrations, land restitution notices, liquor licence applications, transport ...