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It prints certain statutory notices from the government. Modeled after the Oxford Gazette, the Sri Lanka Gazette is the oldest surviving newspaper in Sri Lanka, having been published continuously since 1802. Unlike other newspapers, it does not cover general news or have a large circulation. It is printed by the Department of Government Printing.
The 1982 Sri Lankan national referendum took place on December 22, 1982, giving the people of Sri Lanka the option to extend the life of parliament by 6 years. It was the first and so far only national referendum to be held in Sri Lanka. [1] The referendum was called for by President J. R. Jayawardene, who had been elected to a fresh six-year ...
Gazette 2096/70 issued Friday, 9 November 2018 dissolving the parliament of Sri Lanka. President Sirisena issues a gazette notification bringing the Sri Lanka Police under the purview of the Ministry of Defence, which was earlier under the Ministry of Law and Order.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa SLPP. Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 November 2019. [1] [2] Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [3] and was endorsed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. [4]
Sri Lanka Police ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පොලීසිය, romanized: Shrī Lanka Polīsiya; Tamil: இலங்கை காவல், romanized: Ilaṅkai Kāval) is the civilian national police force of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The police force is responsible for enforcing criminal and traffic law ...
900 to 2,000. Great Rebellion of 1817–1818 ( Sinhala: ඌව වෙල්ලස්ස මහා කැරැල්ල ), also known as the 1818 Uva–Wellassa Rebellion (after the two places it had started), was the third Kandyan War in the Uva and Wellassa provinces of the former Kingdom of Kandy, which is today the Uva province of Sri Lanka ...
Ceylon [1] [3] was an independent country in the Commonwealth of Nations from 1948 to 1972, that shared a monarch with other dominions of the Commonwealth. In 1948, the British Colony of Ceylon was granted independence as Ceylon. In 1972, the country became a republic within the Commonwealth, and its name was changed to Sri Lanka .
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 November 2005: Mahinda Rajapaksa: Karu Jayasuriya: United National Party: 28 January 2007: 9 December 2008: Sarath Amunugama: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 1 January 2009: John Seneviratne: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 April 2010: M. Joseph Michael Perera: United National Party: 12 January 2015: 22 March 2015