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The name "ikman" comes from the Sinhala term "ඉක්මන්" meaning "fast", or "quick". [1] ikman.lk Launched in June 2013 and is owned by Swedish company Saltside Technologies. ikman.lk became the 6th most visited website in Sri Lanka after three months of operation. [2] The site was initially developed by technical teams based in Sweden ...
Starting from the early 1950s, Sri Lankan politics was mostly dominated by two political parties and their respective coalitions : the centre-left social democratic Sri Lanka Freedom Party. the centre-right liberal conservative United National Party. Recently, however, the influence of the two parties has diminished significantly.
Politics of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers. Legislative power is vested in the ...
Presidential elections will be held in Sri Lanka on 21 September 2024. [ 1][ 2] Voters will elect a president for a 5-year term. Incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe is running for re-election as an independent candidate. [ 3][ 4][ 5] This would make him the first incumbent president to run for re-election since Mahinda Rajapaksa in 2015.
The last local government elections held in Sri Lanka in 2018 saw the newly formed Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning a majority of the seats, winning 40% of the votes. [ 7][ 8][ 9] The SLPP, led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa would later go on to win the presidential and parliamentary elections in ...
georgesteuart .lk. Dilith Susantha Jayaweera (born 18 September 1967) is a Sri Lankan businessman, entrepreneur, media mogul, lawyer and politician. [ 1] In 2011, he was named by the LMD [ 2] as one of the ten ‘Business People of the Year’. [ 3] In 2020, Dilith Jayaweera was among 100 corporate leaders named by the LMD[ 4] on its A-list of ...
The National People's Power ( NPP ), or Jathika Jana Balawegaya ( JJB ), is a political alliance in Sri Lanka. It was established in 2019 [ 2] by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. [ 3][ 4][ 5] It consists of 28 political parties and other organisations. It contests in elections under the compass logo.
The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) (Tamil: இலங்கை தொழிலாளர் காங்கிரஸ், romanized: Ilaṅkai Toḻilāḷar Kāṅkiras; Sinhala: ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසය Lanka Kamkaru Kongrasaya) is a political party in Sri Lanka that has traditionally represented Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin working in the plantation ...