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The State Intelligence Service (SIS) is an intelligence agency of the Sri Lankan government. [1] [2] It is the primary civilian intelligence agency of Sri Lanka and is responsible for both internal and external intelligence-gathering. It comes under the purview of the Ministry of Defence. The agency was originally named National Intelligence ...
The World Trade Center (also known as WTC Colombo or WTCC) ( Sinhala: ලෝක වෙළෙඳ මධ්යස්ථානය, romanized: Lōka Veḷen̆da Madhyasthānaya; Tamil: உலக வர்த்தக மையம், romanized: Ulaka Varttaka Maiyam) is a 152-metre-tall (499 ft) twin building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 39-storey ...
Retrieved 28 January 2024. ^ "Sri Lankan High Commissioner-designate Vadivel Krishnamoorthy presents credentials to Kenyan President – Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Sri Lanka". Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Sri Lanka. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
The Government of Sri Lanka ( GoSL) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Lankā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo and the administrative ...
The Special Forces Regiment (SF) ( Sinhala: විශේෂ බලකාය Visēsha Balakāya ;) is a special forces unit of the Sri Lanka Army. Founded in 1986 as a combat tracker team , it was established as a regiment in 1988, and later expanded into a brigade. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, direct ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka: Founded: 1896; 128 years ago () (as Share Brokers Association) 1985; 39 years ago () (as Colombo Stock Exchange) Key people: Dumith Fernando Rajiva Bandaranaike : Currency: LKR: No. of listings: 296 companies representing 19 business sectors (as at 31 October 2021) Market cap: Rs 5,489 billion (2021) Indices
Ceylon Civil Service. The Ceylon Civil Service, popularly known by its acronym CCS, was the premier civil service of the Government of Ceylon under British colonial rule and in the immediate post-independence period. Established in 1833, it functioned as part of the executive administration of the country to various degrees until Ceylon gained ...
Provinces are first level administrative divisions in Sri Lanka. They were first established by the British rulers of Ceylon in 1833. Over the next century most of the administrative functions were transferred to the districts, the second level administrative division. By the middle of the 20th century the provinces had become merely ceremonial.