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The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of Sri Lanka's three armed services. Established as the Royal Ceylon Army in 1949, it was renamed when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. The Army of approximately 255,000 regular and reserve personnel including 90,000 National Guardsmen and is responsible for overseeing land-based military and ...
Minister of Home Affairs: Festus Perera: United National Party: 1990: Ranasinghe Premadasa: Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Home Affairs: Amarasiri Dodangoda: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 1994: D. B. Wijetunga: Minister of Home Affairs, Local Government and Co-operatives: Richard Pathirana: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 19 ...
The Prime Minister was also the Minister of Defence and External Affairs, and was supported by a Parliamentary Secretary for Defence and External Affairs who was a member of Parliament. In 1977, J.R Jayawardena 's government adapted two separate ministries, forming the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were formed.
At the top center of the card the word "Sri Lanka" is printed in the Sinhala and Tamil languages. The purple number on the right of the Sri Lankan emblem represents the Province from which the application was made. The numbers range from 1–9. The numbering convention is as follows: 1. Western Province; 2. Central Province; 3. Southern ...
The Old Army Headquarters refers to the former military headquarters complex of the Sri Lanka Army. Situated next to Galle Face Green and Baladaksha Mawatha (Lower Lake Road), the complex bordered the Beira Lake and had its main entrance at the Slave Island end of Baladaksha Mawatha, Colombo 3. The complex also included the Ministry of Defence ...
The impact of the Tsunami on households and vulnerable groups in two districts in Sri Lanka : Galle and Colombo, Swarna Jayaweera, Centre for Women's Research, Colombo, 2005; Patterns of Community Structure in Colombo, Sri Lanka, An investigation of Contemporary Urban Life in South Asia, Neville S. Arachchige-Don, University Press, Maryland, 1994
The army was officially established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, though the army traces its roots back in 1881 when Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers was created; the army was renamed as the 'Sri Lanka Army' when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. In 2024, the Army had approximately 150,000 personnel. [2] [3]
077. 078. Hutch. 079. Unallocated. Mobile numbers in Sri Lanka consist of 10-digits in the xxx zzzzzzz format where: "xxx" represents the mobile operator code when contacting a mobile number. All mobile operator codes begin with 07. "zzzzzzz" represents the main telephone number of seven digits.