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Left-leaning politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been elected as Sri Lanka’s next president after he won the debt-ridden country’s first election since its economy collapsed in 2022.
There are 38 candidates in the fray. Sri Lanka's system allows voters to cast three preferential votes for their chosen candidates, with the candidate securing 50% of the votes or more declared ...
September 20, 2024 at 1:19 AM. By Sudipto Ganguly. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake NPP. The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election and was held on 21 September 2024. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015. [ 5 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus. The first case of the virus in Sri Lanka was confirmed on 27 January 2020, after a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Hubei, China, was admitted to the ...
News 1st Digital launched its website, newsfirst.lk [16] in 2007. newsfirst.lk is Sri Lanka's first trilingual website and provides the latest news updates and breaking news in English, Sinhala and Tamil for local, business, political, lifestyle, entertainment and sports news. In August 2013, the newsfirst.lk English website was awarded a ...
Gavin Butler - BBC News. September 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM. Sri Lanka's former president fled the country in 2022 after months-long protests [Getty Images] Sri Lankans will elect a new president in ...
21 May–2 June – 2024 Sri Lanka floods: At least 16 people are killed in flooding and mudslides caused by monsoon rains across the country. [67] 25 May – Sprinter Yupun Abeykoon wins the gold medal in the Men’s 100m event at the 2024 Anhalt Athletic Championship in Germany with a timing of 10.16 seconds (wind+0.3).