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Friday, December 18, 2015

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Friday, December 4, 2015

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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

List of World Leaders by Country

List of World Presidents by Country : World leaders, presidents and prime ministers of the world's countries.
  • Afghanistan: 
    • President - Ashraf Ghani  
  • Australia:
    • Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II
    • Prime Minister - Tony Abbott
  • Bangaladesh: 
    • President - Abdul Hamid
  • Bhutan: 
    • King - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
    • Prime Minister - Tshering Tobgay
  • Brazil:
    • President -  Dilma Rousseff - First Female President of the Brazil
  • Canada: 
    • Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II
    • Prime Minister - Stephen Harper
  • China: 
    • President - Xi Jinping 
  • Chile: 
    • President - Michelle Bachelet
  • Colombia:  
    • President - Juan Manuel Santos
  • England (Great Britain) : 
    • Monarch - Queen Elizabeth II
    • Prime Minister - David Cameron 
  • Fiji: 
    • President - Epeli Nailatikau 
  • France:  
    • President - François Hollande
  • Germany: 
    • President - Joachim Gauck
  • Greece: 
    •  President - Karolos Papoulias 
  • Haiti: 
    • President - Michel Martelly
  • India:  
    • President - Pranab Mukherjee
    • Residence - Rashtrapati Bhavan
    • Prime Minister : Narendra Modi
  • Indonesia:
    • President - Joko Widodo 
  • Iran: 
    • President - Hassan Rouhani
  • Iraq: 
    •  President -Fuad Masum
  • Ireland:
    • President - Michael D. Higgins  
  • Israel: 
    • President - Reuven Rivlin  
  • Italy:
    • President - Giorgio Pietro Grasso
    • Prime minister : Matteo Renzi
  • Japan:
    • Prime Minister - Shinzō Abe
    • Residence - Kantei 
  • Maldives: 
    • President - Abdulla Yameen 
  • Mexico: 
    • President -Enrique Peña Nieto 
    Mongolia: 
    • President - Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj 
  • Nepal:
    • President - Dr. Ram Baran Yadav 
  • North Korea:
    • President - Kim Jong-un
  • Pakistan: 
    • President - Mamnoon Hussain
    • Prime minister :  Nawaz Sharif
  • Philippines:
    • President -Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III
  • Portugal: 
    • President - Aníbal António Cavaco Silva 
  • Russia: 
    • President - Vladimir Putin
    • Prime Minister - Dmitry Medvedev 
  • Saudi Arabia:
    • King - Salman of Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore:
    • President - Tony Tan 
  •  South Africa:
    • President - Jacob Zuma
  • South Korea:
    • President - Park Geun-hye
  • Vietnam:
    • President -Trương Tấn Sang 
  •  Ukraine: 
    • President - Petro Poroshenko 
  • United States America :
    • President - Barack Obama
    • Residence - White House
  •  Uruguay:
    • President - José Mujica 
  • Zimbabwe: 
    •  President - Robert Mugabe 

Poya days in Sri Lanka - General Knowledge

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Poya lunar month is known for 4 days, we called. 
  • Day 08 in the Pura Poya eighth lunar day.
  • The 15th day of Poya or two halves of a lunar month.
  • In the 23 years eighth lunar dayPoya Day.
  • In New Moon Poya Day 30. 
The name commemorates the month each month Buddhist Sinhalese ලිතේ පසළොස්වකපෝය Day. Each Buddha's life and reflects on a Poya Day events. 
Thaipusam Moon Poya 
Buddha went to the graveyard graveyard katubuluwa කාශ්යාප Nadie Kashyap, a hymn Kashyap three Jatila can control the Sri Lankan Mahiyanganaya went to the Buddha for the first time on a new Enlightenment, Sumana Saman hair relic of Lord grant the request, the annual procession at the beginning of the Kelaniya Temple between pilgrims pilgrims often go Kelani Viharaya.
Full Moon Poya Navam 
To ensure the Buddha relics Mugalan chief disciples, holding the first Buddha monks together Sangha Council, the Maoists ප්රාතිමෝක්ෂය preaching monks, the Buddha was an important phase to give up on life Navam Poya editor.
Through the Full Moon Poya 
Enlightenment, the Buddha was the first place to start walking through Poya their relatives to come කිඹුල්වතට. 
Buck Moon Poya 
Buddha in Sri Lanka in the second Nagadeepa too much Bak Poya Day. Choolodara Nagadveepa war debacle gem kings shower chair towards the reconciliation that day.
Vesak Full Moon Poya 
All the worlds most glorious Buddhist Vesak Day date. Buddha's birth, enlightenment, පිරිනිවන්පෑම Gautama was the Poya day. In addition to the important events of the Vesak Day, crocodiles and other relatives were in front of the king සුදොවුන් summit Yamama Dreams pose to come to the island to Kelaniya the third time in the eighth Enlightenment, the Buddha, Sumana Saman God's invitation to the foot of the mountain resort predominant species, Vijaya Seven hundred and Sri Lanka were landing, Ruwanweli Seya auspicious start construction work, etc. are. Last season's Peak engage පෝයත් Wesak Day. Kelaniya and driven to Anuradhapura during the event. 

Poson Poya 
Vesak Poya day, as well as Sri Lankan important to us Poya Day. Thera and the second group පෑතිස් King came here from Mihintale led mission team, "Chula හත්ථි පදෝපම" formula established by the Buddha Dhamma uttered resemblance Poson Poya day. Prince භණ්ඩුක පවිදිවීම and ordination was done to this day. The majority of Anuradhapura and Mihintale Poson Poya day of worship will be.
Esala Full Moon Poya 
Enlightenment conception, his mother's womb, මහාභිනිෂ්ක්රමණය the first Dharma "Dharma pageants," points out the importance of preaching for the fifth hermits Esala Poya Day. In addition, the birth place of Prince Rahula, තීර්ථකයන්ගේ dimension to break ගණ්ධබ්බ tree roots in the flow of Claims for the King Kirti Sri Siam country Upali Thera and others have been brought in to revive Poya day after ordination in Sri Lanka. AGR whether due to the disease before the monks working in our temples. It is very important to us, such as the Tooth cultural festival procession, Kataragama, Ratnapura, alright, Devinuwara, New Kandy Esala Perahera procession will start in the month.
Maternal Anguttaranikaya groupings mistakes metaphysical God of Heaven deep chanted major, is the reconstruction of the office on Poya decided පරිණිර්වාරනයෙන් the Great Buddha Kashyap Giri is to be Liberal.
Full Moon Poya Nikini 
Ven far from becoming worse, holding the first Liberal Party's contribution Rajagaha in the meaning of ethics, the Buddha relic of the frontal seruwila wedding Guard began construction of monks were to be avoided before and after the events සමාදන්වීම Nikini Poya days. Nikini Poya on a pilgrimage to the seruwila will.
Binara Dublin 
Nuns lineage began Poya Day Binara Poya Day says. Buddha's mother and did not agree to a request times ordained JudeoChristian storey Princess Maha Since named as a monk with a shaved head, wearing wives of 500 Noble prince කසාවතින් Supreme Vasco Siti කූඨාගාර ශාලාවවෙත came. They said their demand was the chief ministerial Ven Ananda Thera went to Lord Buddha, inaction මහාප්රජාපතී starred her husband earned a hundred queens come to exist near the gate of the Lord is in crying ordained that women do not suffer. Lord ordained women begged mouth that is suspended the Anagarka healed. Since the call again turned in the Prajapathi tough times refused to open the door for women in full-time chief. The former statute titled morals of the preliminary ශ්රාවිකාවන් මොවුන්ටද respect to the arm. ධූතාංග the peace of Seruvila annual Remembering available, Binara Poya මහියංගණයටයි pilgrims going to pay homage in particular.
Vap Full Moon Poya 
I do whatever I went to the chapel offers සංකස්ස dies India on Buddha, the completion of the Sri Maha Bodhi section for the group Aritta Prince Asoka India on the outside, Aritta Arahath Thuparamaya the rheology Policies such matters Vap Full Moon Poya Day occurred. Many of our boys at the end of the closet in order to offer the Poya day of temples begins.
Il Full Moon Poya 
Behoved benefit provided to the first name of ethics arahath sixty departure for mission work, the chief disciple Sariputta was the passing Il Poya undoing. The boys in the closet can offer end-Il පෝයත් the time.
Full Moon Poya Unduwap 
Sangamitta far from the nuns Nkulunkulu take the right branch of Sri Maha Bodhi, the resemblance was Poya Nuns lineage beginning උදුවප්. Unduwap ​​Poya more pilgrims going අනුරාධපුරයටයි. ශ්රිපාදය pilgrims seeking Laundry season took Unduwap ​​Moon Poya දිනයෙනි.

Information Technology General Knowledge


  • What is Unicode? : Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language.
  • IMEI number ? International Mobile Equipment Identity - the International Mobile Equipment Identity is a number, usually unique, to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones. The IMEI number is used by the GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing the network in that country
  • The First Email Message - Ray Tamilson implemented an email system in 1971 on the ARPANET.
  • The First registered domain name - On 15 March 1985, the first commercial Internet domain name (.com) was registered under the name Symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • The first smartphone - The first smartphone was the Nokia 9000 Communicator in 1996 which incorporated PDA functionality to the basic mobile phone at the time.
  • The first website - Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN (1990).
  • The first Search Engine - Archie
  • The first blog - Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, Links.net. 1994
  • First items sold on eBay - It was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.
  • The first Wikipedia edit - December 2008, Jimmy wales stated that he made Wikipedia's first edit, a test edit with the text "Hello, World!".The oldest article still preserved is the article UuU, created on 16 January 2001, at 21:08 UTC.
  • The first YouTube video - The first YouTube video was entitled Me at the zoo, and shows founder Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005, and can still be viewed on the site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw&feature=player_embedded
  • The first tweet - Jack Dorsey is the creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter, Inc. He sent out the first tweet, “Inviting co-workers.” March 2006.

Running -General Knowledge

  World's Oldest Sport

Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing a human or an animal to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground. This is in contrast to walking, where one foot is always in contact with the ground, the legs are kept mostly straight and the center of gravity vaults over the legs in an inverted pendulum fashion. A characteristic feature of a running body from the viewpoint of spring-mass mechanics, is that changes in kinetic and potential energy within a stride occur simultaneously, with energy storage accomplished by springy tendons and passive muscle elasticity.The term running can refer to any of a variety of speeds ranging from jogging to sprinting.
The ancestors of mankind developed the ability to run about four and a half million years ago, probably in order to hunt animals. Competitive running grew out of religious festivals in various areas. Records of competitive racing date back to the Tailteann Games in Ireland in 1829 BCE, while the first recorded Olympic Games took place in 776 BCE.

Commonwealth Games General Knowledge


  1. The first Commonwealth Games (then known as the British Empire Games) were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bobby Robinson, a major influence within Athletics in Canada at the time, finally implemented what had been talked about amongst Commonwealth nations for over 30 years. 
  2.  Eleven nations with a total of 400 athletes participated in the first Commonwealth Games. 
  3. The Games have been conducted every four years except for 1942 and 1946, due to World War II. 
  4.  The Commonwealth is a unique family of developed and developing nations, a voluntary association of independent sovereign states spread over every continent and ocean. From Africa to Asia, from pacific shores to the Caribbean, the Commonwealths 1.7 billion people make up almost one third of the worlds population. 
  5.  From 1930 to 1950 the Games were known as the British EmpireGames, then the British Empire and Commonwealth Games until 1962. From 1966 to 1974 they took on the title of British Commonwealth Games and from 1978 onwards they have been known as simply the Commonwealth Games. 
  6. The Commonwealth Games is open to eligible competitors of the Commonwealth Games Association of all Commonwealth nations, colonies and dependent or associated territories of a Commonwealth nation. 
  7. At the Commonwealth Games Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey all compete in the Games as separate nations. 
  8. The Queen is the Head of the Commonwealth and patron of the Commonwealth Games Federation; the Queen's Baton Relay is one of the great traditions of the Commonwealth Games. It signifies a call to the Commonwealth athletes to come together to celebrate the Games. It also carries the Queen's message to be read at the opening of the Games. 
  9. Commonwealth nations include some of the largest populations on earth – such as India, with a population of 1.01 billion – and some of the world's smallest populations such as St Helena, a 308 sq km Island in the Atlantic, with a population of 7000.  
  10. Australia is the 12th most populated Commonwealth nation. India (1.01 billion), Pakistan (146 million), Bangladesh (137 million), Nigeria (114 million) and England (49 million) are the five largest nations.
  11. Australia leads the total medal tally with 1683 medals, from England on 1582 and Canada on 1228. When it comes to gold medals, Australia has collected 646, England 542 and Canada 387. 
  12.  At the first Games in Hamilton, Canada, England won 61 medals compared to Australia's eight. The last time the Games were held in Australia, in Brisbane in 1982, England won more medals, 108 to 107, but Australia won more gold, 39 to 38. 
  13.  At the Commonwealth and Olympic Games, Aquatics is classed as the sport and Diving, Swimming and Synchronised Swimming are all disciplines. The same applies to Cycling, with disciplines of Track, Road and Mountain Bike. Gymnastics Artistic and Rhythmic, and Shooting Clay Target, Full Bore, Small Bore and Pistol also have disciplines within their sports. 
  14. The mission statement for the Games was to be merrier and less stern than the Olympic Games. This was evidenced in 1930 in the early rounds of the men's 100m where New Zealands Allan Elliott false started twice and was disqualified. The crowd reacted with such noise that the starter was unable to re-start the race until Elliott was allowed back in. Twenty years later in 1950 in Auckland the New Zealanders returned the favor, allowing Canadian sprinter Donald Petrie, who also false started twice, back into the competition. 
  15. In 1938 athletes from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland took four months to travel to the Empire Games in Sydney three months of which were spent on a boat. Twice a week they would stop at a port to allow training. 
  16. Dave Prowse, a Bristol weightlifter, represented England in Perth in 1962. He later became Darth Vader in Star Wars and subsequent sequels. 
  17. One of the smallest nations captured one of the most prized medals in Manchester when Kim Collins sprinted to victory in the 100m. St Kitts and Nevis (population 39,000) joined the Commonwealth in 1983 and has attended four Commonwealth Games since the 1990 Games held in Auckland, New Zealand.
  18. Susie O Neill and Ian Thorpe share the record for winning the most gold medals. Susie won six in Kuala Lumpur. Ian matched the feat in Manchester in 2002.
  19.  Australia's oldest gold medallist is Dorothy Roache, who was 61 years and 10 months when she won a gold medal in the Women's Four Lawn Bowls in Auckland in 1990. The youngest is Jenny Turrell, who was 13 years and eight months when she won the 400m freestyle in Christchurch in 1974. 
  20. Participating nations: 
  • Africa :Botswana, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, The Gambia, Uganda, Zambia 
  • Americas :Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Falkland Islands, Guyana, St Helena 
  • Asia:Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka 
  • Caribbean:Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands. 
  • Europe :England, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, Malta, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales. 
  • Oceania :Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

The Ashes - General Knowledge

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. It is one of international cricket's most celebrated rivalries and dates back to 1882. It is currently played biennially, alternately in the United Kingdom and Australia. Cricket being a summer sport, and the venues being in opposite hemispheres, the break between series alternates between 18 and 30 months. A series of "The Ashes" comprises five Test matches, two innings per match, under the regular rules for Test match cricket. If a series is drawn then the country already holding the Ashes retains them.
The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia. The English media dubbed the next English tour to Australia (1882–83) as the quest to regain The Ashes.
During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to England captain Ivo Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of an item of cricket equipment, possibly a bail, ball or stump. The Dowager Countess of Darnley claimed recently that her mother-in-law, Bligh's wife Florence Morphy, said that they were the remains of a lady's veil.
The urn is erroneously believed by some to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it has never been formally adopted as such and Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift. Replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series, but the actual urn has never been presented or displayed as a trophy in this way. Whichever side holds the Ashes, the urn normally remains in the Marylebone Cricket Club Museum at Lord's since being presented to the MCC by Bligh's widow upon his death.
Since the 1998–99 Ashes series, a Waterford Crystal representation of the Ashes urn has been presented to the winners of an Ashes series as the official trophy of that series.
England currently holds The Ashes, after defeating Australia 2–1 to regain them in the 2009 Ashes series which took place in England and, for the first time, Wales.
Most successful : Australia (31 titles)
Most runs : Donald Bradman (5,028)
Most wickets : Shane Warne (195)

Friday, January 23, 2015

Sri Lanka - General Knowledge

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
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The National Flag of Sri Lanka

The National Flag of Sri Lanka has been designed with great care and purpose. It not only represents the country and her heritage, but is a rallying device that integrates the minority races with the majority race.
The present day National Flag is an improvisation of the civil standard of the last king of Sri Lanka, Sri Wickrama Rajasingha. The civil standard had a passant royal lion with a sword in it's right fore paw at the center, and a bo-leaf on each of the four corners on a plain border.
The lion flag lost it's significance after the British conquered Sri Lanka in 1815. It was the Union Jack which was hoisted in its place.
When Sri Lanka gained her independence from Great Britain on February 04, 1948, it was the lion flag (the same as the standard of the last king of Sri Lanka) which was hoisted once again.
The first Prime Minister of independent Sri Lanka, D.S.Senanayake, appointed a committee to advice the government on the design of a new national flag. The design approved by the committee in February 1950 retained the symbol of the lion with the sword and the bo-leaves from the civil standard of the last king of Sri Lanka, with the inclusion of two verticle stripes green and orange in color. the significance of each symbol of the national flag is as follows:
  • The lion in the flag represents the Sinhala race.
  • The sword of the lion represents the sovereignty of the country.
  • The noble eight fold path of Buddhism is signified by the lion's tail.
  • Curly hair on the lion's head indicates religious observance, wisdom and meditation.
  • The beard denotes purity of words.
  • The handle of the sword highlights the elements of water, fire, air and earth.
  • The nose indicates intelligence.
  • The two front paws purport to purity in handling wealth.
  • The verticle stripe of orange represent the minority Tamil race and the green verticle stripe the minority Muslim race.
  • The four virtues of kindness: KINDNESS, FRIENDLINESS, HAPPINESS, EQUANIMITY are also represented in the flag.
  • The border round the flag, which is yellow in color, represents other minor races.
  • The bo-leaves at the four corners of the flag represent Buddhism and it's influence on the nation. They also stand for the four virtues - Kindness, Friendliness, Happiness and Equanimity.
  • The maroon colored portion of the flag manifests the other minor religions.
The national flag was hoisted for the first time on March 3, 1950.
Coat of arms

 
.Capital:    Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte - 6°54′N 79°54′E
  • Largest city:    Colombo
  • National Tree:  Na Tree (Ironwood) "Mesua Nagassarium”
The Ironwood (Na Tree), botanically known as ”Mesua Nagassarium” was declared the National Tree on 26th February 1986. It was chosen as the National Tree for several reasons
·         It is a tree which originated in Sri Lanka
·         Its utility
·         Historic and cultural importance
·         Exterior posture
·         Wide distribution
·         Colour and nature
·         Ability to draw and sketch it easily
This rain forest tree grows to about 30 m high and indigenous to the lower wet Zone of Sri Lanka. Remarkable Features of NA is beautiful bright Red Leaves and finally matured in to a deep green. Timber has a very hardness and durability and used to make bridges in the early times. Now it is not allowed to use for timber due to its religious value. The flower of NA is also used in herbal medicine and preparation of perfumes, cosmetics and soaps.
It is believed that the first visit of Buddha was to grove of a NA Tree at Miyanganaya and also the next Buddha (Mithriya) will attain enlightenment under a NA tree.
  • National Flower:  Nil Mahanel flower “Nymphaea nouchali”
  • National Bird: Jungle Fowl
  • National Anthem: "Sri Lanka Matha" composed by late Mr. Ananda Samarakoon.
  • Ethnic groups (2001):
o    ≈73.9% Sinhalese
o    ≈12.6% Tamil
o    ≈7.4% Moors
o    ≈5.2% Indian Tamil
o    ≈0.5% Others
  • Demonym: Sri Lankan
·         Government: Democratic Socialist Republic
o    President  Mahinda Rajapaksa
o    Prime Minister    D. M. Jayaratne
  • Independence:  from the United Kingdom
    • Dominion (Self rule) February 4, 1948
    • Republic May 22, 1972
  • Area:
o    Total:  65,610 km2 (122nd)
25,332 sq mi
Water (%):  4.4           
  • Population:
    • 2009 estimate 20,238,000[4] (53rd)
    • July 2008 census 21,324,791
    • Density 308.4/km2 (35th)
798.9/sq mi

  • Currency: Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR)
  • Time zone: Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone (UTC+5:30)
  • Internet top-level domain (TLD): .lk
  • Calling code: 0094


First Sri Lanka President:
Name: William Gopallawa
Political partyNone
Birth Date:17 September 1897
Death Date:31 January 1981
Birth Place:Matale
Took President Office: 22 May 1972
Left President Office: February 1978
* 1st President of Sri Lanka
Second Sri Lanka President:
Name: Junius Richard Jayewardene
Political partyUnited National Party
Birth Date:September 17, 1906
Death Date:November 1, 1996
Birth Place:Colombo
Took President Office: February 4, 1978
Left President Office: January 2, 1989
* Jayewardene introduced the Executive Presidency in 1978, and assumed the position of President of Sri Lanka
Third Sri Lanka President:
Name: Ranasinghe Premadasa
Political partyUnited National Party
Birth Date:June 23, 1924
Death Date:May 1, 1993
Birth Place:Colombo
Took President Office: January 2, 1989
Left President Office: May 1, 1993
* He was assassinated in Colombo in a suicide bombing, by the LTTE
Forth Sri Lanka President:

  
Name: Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Political partyUnited National Party
Birth Date:February 15, 1916
Death Date:September 21, 2008
Birth Place:Udunuwara
Took President Office: May 1, 1993
Left President Office: November 12, 1994
Fifth Sri Lanka President:
Name: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Political partyPeople's Alliance
Birth Date:29 June 1945
Birth Place:Colombo
Took President Office: November 12, 1994
Left President Office: November 19, 2005
* She is the first women president of Sri Lanka
Sixth Sri Lanka President:
Name: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Political partyUnited People's Freedom Alliance
Birth Date:18 November 1945
Birth Place:Weerakatiya
Took President Office: 19 November 2005
Left President Office: 08 January 2015
* Mahinda Rajapaksha ended 25 year long civil war and LTTE terrorism in the country
Seventh Sri Lanka President:
Name: Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena
Political partycommon opposition candidate
Birth Date:September 3, 1951 (
Birth Place:Yagoda, Gampaha District,
Took President Office: January 9, 2015

Longest Sri Lanaka

  • Upper Kotmale Tunnel: 13 Km long tunnel of the Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project. It takes water to the hydro power plant at Niyamgamdora from Talawakele, was incidentally the longest tunnel ever excavated in the country.
  • Longest Railway Tunnel in Sri Lanka: Singimale Tunnel   559.75 m. In between Hatton and Kotagala at Colombo - Badulla railway Tunnel No: 14.
  • Longest Highway Tunnel in Sri Lanka: Ramboda Tunnel 225 m. at Ramboda – Nuwara Eliya road.
  • Longest River in Sri Lanka: Mahaweli River. Length 335 km (208 mi) Source-Adam's Peak, Destination-Trincomalee (Bay of Bengal).
  • Longest Bridge in Sri Lanka (Now 2nd Longest): Kinniya Bridge. It links Horoi-Adi and Kinniya in Trincomalee.
  • New Longest Bridge in Sri Lanka: Southern Expressway across the Benthara river. The bridge 695 m in length, 17 m in width is located at the 128 km of Southern expressway from Kottawa to Matara in the Aviththawa area of the Galle district.