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Sri Lankan Standard Time (SLST) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකාවේ සම්මත වේලාව, romanized: Shri Lankavay Sammatha Velava, Tamil: இலங்கை நியம நேரம், romanized: Ilaṅkai niyama nēram) is the time zone for Sri Lanka. It is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of GMT / UTC ( UTC+05:30) as ...
Sri Lanka, [ a ] historically known as Ceylon, [ b ] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the ...
Yes. Yes. Long formats: English: mmmm d, yyyy. DMY dates are also used occasionally, primarily by, but not limited to, government institutions such as on the data page of passports, and immigration and customs forms. Filipino: ika- d ng mmmm (,) yyyy [ 135] or a- d ng mmmm (,) yyyy.
Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [ 1][ 2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate. [ 3][ 4][ 5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
The Sri Lankan economic crisis[ 8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [ 9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [ 9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities ...
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [42] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [43]
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 ...
The date August 20, 1200 is the earliest known fixed date in Sri Lankan history, which was for the coronation of Sahassa Malla. Another thing to be noted is that several monarchs had usurped the throne of Lanka including Sinhalese monarchs such as Anikanga, Chodaganga, Sri Vallabha of Polonnaruwa and Mahinda VI. [26]