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Sri Lanka Freedom Party [18] D. S. Goonesekera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 May 1963: 25 March 1965: Minister of Labour and Social Services [18] M. H. Mohamed: United National Party: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: Minister of Labour, Employment and Housing [19] [20] M. P. de Zoysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 29 May 1970: 23 July ...
Dinesh Chandra Rupasinghe Gunawardena (Sinhala: දිනේෂ් චන්ද්ර රූපසිංහ ගුණවර්ධන, Tamil: தினேஷ் சந்திர ரூபசிங்க குணவர்தன; born 2 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician, served as the 15th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka from 22 July 2022 ...
List of prime ministers of Sri Lanka. Top left: D. S. Senanayake became the first prime minister of Ceylon in 1947. Top right: Sirimavo Bandaranaike was the first female prime minister of Ceylon and also its longest-serving prime minister, holding the office for over 17 years on three separate occasions. Bottom left: Ranasinghe Premadasa was ...
The National People's Power (NPP) or Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) is a socialist political alliance in Sri Lanka. It was established in 2019 [8] by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna who was later elected president in the 2024 presidential election with 42.31% of the preferential votes. [9][10][11]
A four-year, $2.9 billion IMF bailout, secured in March 2023, has helped Sri Lanka boost reserves, stem a fall in its currency and tame runaway inflation. It also set the groundwork for debt ...
Yasantha Rajakarunanayake. Yasantha Rajakarunanayake is a Sri Lanka-born American mathematician, technologist, researcher, professor and data scientist. He is best known for befriending future Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, a classmate at Princeton University. He received social media fame and attention for having assisted Bezos on a homework ...
The governor of Ceylon was the representative in Ceylon of the British Crown from 1795 to 1948. In this capacity, the governor was president of the Executive Council and Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in Ceylon. The governor was the head of the British colonial administration in Ceylon, reporting to the Colonial Office.
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike. Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike[alt 1] (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his ...