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The 2024 Sri Lankan presidential election was the ninth presidential election in the country’s history and was held on 21 September 2024. [ 3 ][ 4 ] Incumbent President Ranil Wickremesinghe ran for re-election as an independent candidate, making him the first sitting president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015. [ 5 ][ 6 ...
21 May–2 June – 2024 Sri Lanka floods: At least 16 people are killed in flooding and mudslides caused by monsoon rains across the country. [67] 25 May – Sprinter Yupun Abeykoon wins the gold medal in the Men’s 100m event at the 2024 Anhalt Athletic Championship in Germany with a timing of 10.16 seconds (wind+0.3).
The Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (SLPFA), led by Mahinda Rajapaksa, won a large majority in the 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election on 5 August 2020. [9] During their tenure, the government under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa faced multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic crisis, widespread protests, and the 2022 Sri Lankan ...
New Zealand in Sri Lanka 2024. November 5, 2024 at 2:19 AM. [Getty Images] September. 18-23 *1st Test, Galle. Sri Lanka won by 63 runs. Scorecard. 26-30 2nd Test, Galle. Sri Lanka won by an ...
November 9, 2024 at 5:30 AM. A general view of a cricket ball (Getty Images) Follow live coverage of Sri Lanka vs New Zealand from the New Zealand in Sri Lanka November 2024 today. The ICC Test ...
Sri Lanka at the2024 Summer Olympics. Sri Lanka competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from 26 July to 11 August 2024. This marked Sri Lanka's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Seven of the nation's previous Olympic appearances were under the name Ceylon.
Parliamentary elections have been held in Sri Lanka since the first in 1947, under three different constitutions: the Soulbury Constitution, the 1972 Constitution, and the currently enforced 1978 Constitution. Sixteen parliamentary elections have been held up to and including the 2020 election. The seventeenth is scheduled for 14 November 2024.
New Zealand last toured Sri Lanka in 2019. On 23 August 2024, SLC announced that, the first Test will be played across six days, with a rest day set for 21 September, due to the Presidential Election. [7] Sri Lanka's first-innings total of 602 for 5 in the second Test was their first 500-plus total against New Zealand in the format.