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6 March – 2024 Ottawa stabbing: A family of Sri Lankan Canadians are fatally stabbed in their residence in Barrhaven, a suburb of Ottawa, Canada. Six are killed, including four children, the mother, and a family friend, while the father is injured. [28] The culprit is 19-year old Febrio De-Zoysa, a Sri Lankan Algonquin College student.
The Government of Sri Lanka ( GoSL) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Lankā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative ...
The last direct presidential elections held in Sri Lanka were in 2019, where SLPP candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa won the election in a landslide victory, defeating his main opponent Sajith Premadasa. [5] [6] Rajapaksa would eventually resign on 14 July 2022 amidst the 2022 Sri Lankan protests. [7] This triggered an indirect presidential election via Parliament a week later, to elect a successor ...
The Sri Lankan Advanced Level ( A-level) formerly called Higher School Certificate (HSC), is a General Certificate of Education (GCE) qualification exam in Sri Lanka, similar to the British Advanced Level, conducted annually by the Department of Examinations of the Ministry of Education. It is usually taken by students during the final two years of collegiate level (grade 12 and 13 (usual age ...
Post-independent Sri Lankan governments attempted to reduce the increased presence of the Tamil minority in government jobs ... The new government of Sri Lanka ...
A Government Agent (GA) or a District Secretary is a Sri Lankan civil servant of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service appointed by the central government to govern a certain district of the country. [1] The GA is the administrative head of public services in the District. As Sri Lanka has 25 districts, [2] there are 25 governments agents at any given time.
The Ministry of Telecommunication, Digital Infrastructure and Foreign Employment is the central government ministry of Sri Lanka responsible for telecommunication and digital infrastructure. The ministry is responsible for formulating and implementing national policy on telecommunication and digital infrastructure and other subjects which come under its purview. [1] The current Minister of ...
The Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පරිපාලන සේවය; śrī laṁkā paripālana sēvaya) is the key administrative service of the Government of Sri Lanka, with civil servants working for both in the Central Government as well as in the provincial councils.