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By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigning on Wednesday, 48 hours before the election, pledging to fix the island country's ailing ...
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 ...
About 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million people are eligible to vote in the first election since protests against the economic hardships in 2022 forced then president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee ...
The Colombo Post is a Sri Lankan English-language weekly newspaper, published every Tuesday. External links. The Colombo Post Website This page was last edited on ...
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is located adjacent to the urban area of Sri Lanka's de facto economic, executive, and judicial capital, Colombo. The Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Municipal Council area is bounded in: the West by the Colombo Municipal Council area, which is the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
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 ...
The Department of Posts, functioning under the brand name Sri Lanka Post (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා තැපැල් Shri Lanka Tæpæl), is a government operated postal system in Sri Lanka. The postal headquarters is the General Post Office which is located in Colombo. The department itself comes under the purview of the Ministry ...