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Only males are recruited for this service. Trainee PHIs will undergo training for 2 years at the school of Public Health Inspectors (PHI) at National Institute of Health Sciences – Kalutara and 5 Regional Health Training Centres in Kadugannawa, Kurunegala, Galle, Batticaloa, and Jaffna. The medium of instruction is English.
U.S. presidential election: George W. Bush accepts the Republican nomination for a second term in office as the party's National Convention concludes, signaling the beginning of all-out campaigning by Bush and Senator John Kerry. Two security guards at MI5's headquarters in London are attacked by a man carrying a machete.
2004 19 November 2005 Ministry of Highways: Sri Lanka Freedom Party : Kumaratunga: 13th [11] 2004: 1 year, 7 months and 13 days: Appointed as prime minister of the cabinet that was formed after the elections following the dismissal of Wickremesinghe's government by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
Following the insurrection, the JVP was relaunched and participated in electoral politics. At the parliamentary elections held on 2 April 2004, the party was part of the United People's Freedom Alliance that won 45.6% of the popular vote and 105 out of 225 seats. As the second partner in this alliance it once again became part of the government.
The Jathika Hela Urumaya (National Sinhala Heritage) party contested its first parliamentary election in 2004. All of its candidates were Buddhist monks. All of its candidates were Buddhist monks. At the election, the party won 5.97% of the popular vote (a total of 552,724 votes) and 9 out of 225 seats.
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden angers some Swedes by his praise of Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Negara of Brunai Hassanal Bolkiah.; Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf admits that he had suspected for at least three years that Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, was sharing nuclear technology with other countries, blaming the United States for not giving him convincing proof of the ...
Provinces (Sinhala: පළාත, romanized: Paḷāta; Tamil: மாகாணம், romanized: Mākāṇam) are the first level administrative divisions of Sri Lanka. Currently, Sri Lanka is divided into 9 provinces. Each province is further divided into districts, which are further divided into divisional secretariats.
Sinhala had its numerals (Sinhala illakkam), which were used from prior to the fall of Kandyan Kingdom in 1815. They can be seen primarily in Royal documents and artefacts. Sinhala Illakkam did not have a zero, but did have signs for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 1000. This system has been replaced by the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.