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Sri Lanka closed schools on Monday as heavy rain triggered floods and mudslides in many parts of the island nation, leaving at least 10 people dead and six others missing, officials said. The ...
More than 8,800 candidates from 49 political parties and 284 independent groups are contesting the election but only about a thousand have actively campaigned, the BBC reported quoting Rohana ...
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The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country .
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3 February – 2023 Sri Lankan national honours: Former Speaker of the Parliament Karu Jayasuriya is conferred with the honorary Sri Lankabhimanya award, the highest national honour of Sri Lanka, by President Ranil Wickremesinghe. [16] 4 February – 75th anniversary of Sri Lankan independence from the British Empire.
This is a list of presidential international trips made by Ranil Wickremesinghe, who served as the 9th President of Sri Lanka from 21 July 2022 to 23 September 2024. Wickremesinghe, then Prime Minister, meets with Narendra Modi in New Delhi, October 2018.
Harini Nireka Amarasuriya [j] (born 6 March 1970) is a Sri Lankan sociologist, academic, activist, and politician serving as Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since 2024.. Having spent a decade as an academic at the Open University of Sri Lanka, where she was engaged with the Federation of University Teachers' Association in trade union action; Amarasuriya was nominated by the National People's ...