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2012 In Sri Lanka
Events from the year 2012 in Sri Lanka. Incumbents * President of Sri Lanka, President – Mahinda Rajapaksa * Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister – D. M. Jayaratne * Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Chief Justice – Shirani Bandaranayake Governors * Central Province, Sri Lanka, Central Province – Tikiri Kobbekaduwa * Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, Eastern Province – Mohan Wijewickrama * North Central Province, Sri Lanka, North Central Province – Karunarathna Divulgane * Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province – G. A. Chandrasiri * North Western Province, Sri Lanka, North Western Province – Tissa Balalla * Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, Sabaragamuwa Province – W. J. M. Lokubandara * Southern Province, Sri Lanka, Southern Province – Kumari Balasuriya * Uva Province, Sri Lanka, Uva Province – Nanda Mathew * Western Province, Sri Lanka, Western Province – Alavi Moulana Chief Ministers * Central Province, Sri Lanka, Central Provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala language, Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population (approximately 17 million). Tamil language, Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has a population of appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumari Balasuriya
Neranjala Pushpa Kumari Balasooriya known as Kumari Balasuriya is the former Governor of the Southern Province of Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian subcontinent, ... since October 2006. She was the first female governor of a Sri Lankan Province.She resigned from the post after fall of the Mahinda Rajapakse's government in 2015. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Balasuriya, Kumari Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Governors of Southern Province, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan politicians Sri Lankan Buddhists Alumni of Musaeus College Sinhalese people Sri Lankan civil servants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sri Lanka UNHRC Vote March 2012
Shri (; , ) is a Sanskrit term denoting resplendence, wealth and prosperity, primarily used as an honorific. The word is widely used in South and Southeast Asian languages such as Assamese, Meitei ( Manipuri), Marathi, Malay (including Indonesian and Malaysian), Javanese, Balinese, Sundanese, Sinhalese, Thai, Tamil, Telugu, Odia, Assamese, Punjabi, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali, Malayalam, Kannada, Sanskrit, Pali, Khmer, and also among Philippine languages. It is usually transliterated as ''Sri'', ''Sree'', ''Shri'', ''Shiri'', ''Shree'', ''Si'', or ''Seri'' based on the local convention for transliteration. In Tamil it evolved to Tiru. The term is used in Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia as a polite form of address equivalent to the English "Mr." in written and spoken language. "Shri" is also used as a title of veneration for deities or as honorific title for individuals. "Shri" is also an epithet for Hindu goddess Lakshmi, while a ''yantra'' or a mystical diagr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prasanna Ranatunga
Prasanna Ranatunga (born 1 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician, former member of parliament, a former Minister of Urban Development and Housing. He was also appointed as the Chief Government Whip on 18 April 2022. He was the 7th Chief Minister of Western Province, Sri Lanka. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna and is part of the Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance. He is the brother of former Sri Lanka cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga. Ranatunga entered parliament in 2015 from Gampaha District as an opposition member. Ranatunga received a vote count of 384,448 in the 2015 parliamentary elections. On 6 June 2022, he was sentenced to two years of rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years, after he was found guilty of threatening a businessman from whom he solicited a bribe of Rs. 64 million to evict unauthorised occupants of a parcel of land. See also *List of political families in Sri Lanka This is a partial listing of prominent political families i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shasheendra Rajapaksa
Shasheendra Kumara Rajapaksa (known as ''Shasheendra Rajapaksa'') is a Sri Lankan politician. He is a Member of Sri Lankan Parliament for Monaragala District and former State Minister of Paddy and Cereals, Organic Food, Vegetables, Fruits, Chilies, Onions and Potatoes, Seed Production and High Tech Agriculture. He was a Provincial Councillor of Uva Province who was Chief Minister of Uva Province in Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2015, and former Basnayake Nilame (Lay Custodian) of the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama devalaya. He is the eldest son of Chamal Rajapaksa and nephew of former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa lost his position as Chief Minister of Uva Province to UNP leader Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shan Wijayalal De Silva
Shan Wijayalal De Silva is a Sri Lankan politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Galle District since 2020. Since 1 January 2024, he has belonged to the Samagi Jana Balawegaya. He formerly belonged to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Freedom People's Alliance. He has previously served three times as the Chief Minister of the Southern Province from 2004 to 2019. Several months after leaving the office, Shan Wijayalal De Silva was sworn in as the new Governor of the Eastern Province on 5 June 2019 before President Maithripala Sirisena Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (; ; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province, S ... at the Presidential Secretariat, Colombo. References 1959 births Living people Alumni of Dharmasoka College Chief ministers of Southern Province, Sri Lanka Members of the 16th P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maheepala Herath
Maheepala Herath is a Sri Lankan politician. The current Governor of the North Central Province, he was the former Chief Minister of Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and part of the United People's Freedom Alliance The United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA; ''Eksath Janathā Nidahas Sandānaya''; ) was a political alliance in Sri Lanka founded by former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga in 2004 and dissolved by former Sri Lankan President Ma .... References Sri Lankan Buddhists Governors of North Central Province, Sri Lanka Chief ministers of Sabaragamuwa Province Members of the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council Living people Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians United People's Freedom Alliance politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{SabaragamuwaLK-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athula Wijesinghe
Athula Wijesinghe was the Chief Minister of North Western Province between 2002 and 2013. He is a lawyer by profession and was educated at Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala and Nalanda College Colombo Nalanda College () is a Buddhist school in Sri Lanka that provides primary and secondary education for boys.Sri Lankan Buddhists Sinhalese people Sri Lankan lawyers Alumni of Nalanda College, Colombo < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berty Premalal Dissanayake
Berty Premalal Dissanayake (15 July 1954 – 27 September 2013) was the chief Minister of the North Central Province of Sri Lanka from June 1999 to 2012. He was of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and part of the United People's Freedom Alliance. He died on 27 September 2013. Early life Berty Premalal Dissanayake was a Sri Lankan politician who was active in the political scene in the late 20th century. Born in Anuradhapura in 1954, he received his education in both Anuradhapura and Colombo before entering into active politics in 1977 under the guidance of Kekirawa SLFP councilor A.M. Jinadasa. Political career During a difficult political period, Dissanayake played a key role in reviving the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and was eventually appointed as the co-organizer of Kalawewa Constituency by SLFP Leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike. He was instrumental in several political victories, including the 1988 provincial council election and the 1989 general election, where three MPs from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan
Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan (Tamil language, Tamil: சிவனேசதுரை சந்திரகாந்தன்; commonly known as Pillayan; born 18 August 1975) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, Sri Lanka, Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. He is also the leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP), a political party in Sri Lanka. A former armed fighter of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam organization, Chandrakanthan broke away from the Tamil Tigers along with Karuna Amman in April 2004, and became the deputy leader of the breakaway faction, renamed as the TMVP. An internal rift in the TMVP led to Chandrakanthan replacing Karuna as the party leader in April 2007. Under his guidance, the TMVP contested in 2008 Sri Lanka Eastern Provincial Council elections, elections to elect members to Sri Lanka's Eastern Provincial Council, as part of a wider coalition which went on to win the elections. Chandrakantha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarath Ekanayake
Sarath Ekanayake is the former Chief Minister of the Central Province of Sri Lanka. He previously served as the 2nd, 4th and 7th Chief Minister of Central Province between April and June 1999, November 2000 and April 2002 and 2004 till 2015. He was also the Governor of the North central Province. He belongs to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and is part of the United People's Freedom Alliance. He is also the president of the Sri Lanka Basketball Federation The Sri Lanka Basketball Federation is the governing body of basketball in Sri Lanka. It is associated with FIBA and FIBA Asia, as well as the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka. References Basketball in Sri Lanka National member .... References Sri Lankan Buddhists Chief ministers of Central Province, Sri Lanka Members of the Central Provincial Council Living people Sri Lanka Freedom Party politicians United People's Freedom Alliance politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{CentralLK-p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alavi Moulana
Seyed Ahmed Seyed Alavi Moulana (1 January 1932 – 15 June 2016) was a Sri Lankan politician, who entered politics in 1948 as a trade unionist. He was the 5th Governor of Western Province, having assumed office on 1 February 2002. He was a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, Cabinet Minister of Labour, and a councillor in the Colombo Municipal Council. He was the Senior Vice-President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and was also a social and religious worker. He also served as acting Governor for Sabaragamuwa in 2009. Political career Alavi Moulana entered politics in 1948 as a Trade Unionist. In 1956 he joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and in 1960, under the leadership of Sirimavo Bandaranayake, he became the leader of the Trade Union Movement of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. Moulana was appointed as one of the Vice-Presidents of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the Senior Vice-President of the Sri Lanka Nidahas Sevaka Sangamaya. He was a councillor in the Colombo Municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
