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Ranil Wickremesinghe (born 24 March 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the ninth and current President of Sri Lanka. He also holds several ministerial roles, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Defence, Minister of Technology and Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the United National ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 8 Dudley III: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: United National Party: 9 Sirimavo II: 29 May 1970: 23 July 1977: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 10 Jayewardene I: 23 July 1977: 7 September 1978: William Gopallawa (1972–1978) J. R. Jayewardene: United National Party: 11 Jayewardene II 7 ...
D. S. Senanayake. Don Stephen Senanayake (Sinhala: දොන් ස්ටෙෆන් සේනානායක; Tamil: டி. எஸ். சேனநாயக்கா; 20 October 1884 – 22 March 1952) was a Ceylonese statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon having emerged as the leader of the Sri Lankan independence movement ...
Mahaweli Development programme. The Mahaweli Development program (Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961.
The Tennessee River begins at mile post 652, where the French Broad River meets the Holston River, but historically there were several different definitions of its starting point. In the late 18th century, the mouth of the Little Tennessee River (at Lenoir City) was considered to be the beginning of the Tennessee River.
Government of Sri Lanka. 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 ...
In 2018, Sirisena appointed the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa (his former rival) as the prime minister, wrote a letter firing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (with whose major support he became the president in 2015) and prorogued Parliament, all in apparent contradiction to the Constitution of Sri Lanka, instigating a constitutional ...
US 441. 35°57′24″N 83°55′05″W / 35.95657°N 83.91808°W / 35.95657; -83.91808. Gay Street Bridge. Gay Street. 35°57′30″N 83°54′52″W / 35.95839°N 83.91447°W / 35.95839; -83.91447. James White Bridge (South Knoxville Bridge) SR 71. 35°57′43″N 83°53′51″W / 35.96189°N 83.89750°W ...