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Sri Lanka competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 1] It was the nation's eighteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, with the exception of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
5 August − The 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary elections were held. The incumbent Sri Lanka People's Freedom Alliance (led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) won a landslide victory, claiming 145 seats and winning a two-thirds majority in the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
28 July – The Sri Lanka women's cricket team becomes the Asia Cup champions for the first time after beating India in the final. [ 90 ] 29 July – Colombo Port is ranked as the world’s fastest-growing port in the first quarter of 2024 with a 23.6% growth rate according to Alphaliner, a research publication in the shipping industry.
Esala Perahera (A-suh-luh peh-ruh-ha-ruh) is a grand festival in the month of Esala held in Sri Lanka. [ 1] Happening in July or August in Kandy, it has become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consisting of dances and richly decorated elephants. There are fire-dances, whip-dances, Kandyan dances and various other cultural ...
August 2020 events in Sri Lanka (1 P) This page was last edited on 2 June 2024, at 22:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2) virus. The first case of the virus in Sri Lanka was confirmed on 27 January 2020, after a 44-year-old Chinese woman from Hubei, China, was admitted to the ...
The Indian cricket team toured Sri Lanka in July and August 2024 to play the Sri Lanka cricket team. [1] [2] The tour consisted of three Twenty20 International (T20I) and three One Day International (ODI) matches. [3] [4] In November 2023, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced its international calendar for 2024 and confirmed the bilateral series. [5]
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country. The anti-government sentiment across various parts of Sri ...