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Sri Lanka: Yes: Yes: Rarely (yyyy-mm-dd) for Sinhala and (d-m-yyyy) for Tamil. English-language media and commercial publications use Month-day-year in long format, but only Day-month-year format (both long and short numeric) are used in governmental and other English documents of official contexts. Sudan: No: Yes: No South Sudan: No: Yes: No ...
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Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon, [b] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .
Indian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2008 India: Sri Lanka: Dates: 18 July – 29 August 2008: Captains: Anil Kumble (Tests) MS Dhoni (ODIs) Mahela Jayawardene: Test series; Result: Sri Lanka won the 3-match series 2–1: Most runs: Virender Sehwag (344) Mahela Jayawardene (279) Most wickets: Harbhajan Singh (16) Ajantha Mendis (26) Player of ...
The 2008–2009 SLA Northern offensive was an armed conflict in the northern Province of Sri Lanka between the military of Sri Lanka and the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The battle began with a Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive attempting to break through the LTTE defence lines in the north of the island, aiming to conclude ...
[133] [134] The United National Party, Sri Lanka's main opposition party, staged a demonstration in parliament on 9 January to protest his assassination and Mangala Samaraweera called Wickrematunge's murder an "insoluble bloodstain in our national history" and apologized to Sri Lanka for "bringing this dark regime into power," [135] [136] [137 ...