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February 2025 in Sri Lanka (1 P) This page was last edited on 10 February 2025, at 13:01 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
1 January – The "Clean Sri Lanka" national initiative commences under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. [1]16 January – The government announces an agreement with Chinese state oil company Sinopec valued at $3.7 billion to construct a "state-of-the-art oil refinery" with a capacity of 200,000 barrels in Hambantota.
In 2019, Fortune magazine ranked Deloitte as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For [86] and Bloomberg Business has named Deloitte as the best place to launch a career. [ 87 ] In 2019, 2020, and 2021, Gartner stated that Deloitte was the No. 1 consulting service provider worldwide by revenue.
5–21 August – 2 athletes from Sri Lanka compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 12 August – President of the Galle Cricket Association, Halambage Premasiri is murdered around Friday night by two individuals who were arrived in a white motor car near the residence of him at Manimulla area in Ambalangoda. Premasiri ...
[14] [15] On 22 October 2016 five police personnel, a sub-inspector, a sergeant, two constables and a driver, were arrested and remanded until 4 November 2016. [5] [16] [17] Expressing grief over the deaths, President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena ordered an impartial inquiry and compensation for the students' parents.
18 March – Two Sri Lankan greats, Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara retired from One international cricket following the team's defeat against South Africa. Jayawardene ended 18 year old career as the fifth highest ODI run scorer of all time. Sangakkara ended 15 year career as second highest ODI scorer of all time. [4]
Information technology in Sri Lanka refers to business process outsourcing, knowledge process outsourcing, software development, IT Services, and IT education in Sri Lanka. [1] Sri Lanka is always ranked among the top 50 outsourcing destinations by AT Kearney , and Colombo and ranked among "Top 20 Emerging Cities" by Global Services Magazine. [ 2 ]
Sri Lanka won the match by 4 wickets by successfully chasing a total of 388, which was the highest successful chase by Sri Lanka in Tests and also as the highest successful run-chase in Asia. [35] Gunaratne played the whole five-days with an injury, however his match winning innings gave him his maiden Test man of the match award.