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Sri Lanka Freedom Party: D. S. Goonesekera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 May 1963: 25 March 1965: Minister of Labour and Social Services: M. H. Mohamed: United National Party: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: Minister of Labour, Employment and Housing: M. P. de Zoysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 29 May 1970: 23 July 1977: Sirimavo ...
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) is a government agency of Sri Lanka, tasked with overseeing overseas employment of Sri Lankan Citizens and their welfare. It was established in 1985, under the provisions of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment Act. No. 21 of 1985 from which it derives its remit and powers. [1]
Mahaweli Development programme. The Mahaweli Development program ( Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961.
The CWC was formed by Peri Sundaram and G. R. Motha as an Indian Estates Workers Trade Union in 1950. It was an outgrowth of the Ceylon Indian Congress (CIC), formed 15 July 1939. [1] In 1950 the CIC changed its name to the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) and became the largest trade union in the country. Another trade union, the Democratic ...
Labour Tribunal. Labour Tribunals are tribunals in Sri Lanka formed under the Industrial Disputes Act No.62 of 1957, to handle labour disputes and termination of employment. [1] [2] It is also the name of an institution in Hong Kong. In 1997 the court was centralised in Mong Kok, Kowloon.
t. e. Janatha Vimukti Peramuna leadership at May Day Celebration in Colombo in 1999. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna [a] ( JVP / PLF; lit. 'People's Liberation Front') is a Marxist–Leninist communist party in Sri Lanka. [6] The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka ...
Sri Lanka Kaffirs. Burgher people, also known simply as Burghers, are a small Eurasian ethnic group in Sri Lanka descended from Portuguese, Dutch, British [2] [3] and other Europeans who settled in Ceylon. [4] The Portuguese and Dutch had held some of the maritime provinces of the island for centuries before the advent of the British Empire.
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated ISIS -related terrorist suicide bombings. Later that day, two smaller explosions occurred at a housing complex in Dematagoda and a guest house in Dehiwala.