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Headquarters. 99/1 Jawatta Road Colombo 05, Sri Lanka. Parent department. Ministry of Disaster Management. Website. www .nbro .gov .lk. The National Building Research Organisation ( NBRO) is a Sri Lankan government research and development institute established in 1984. The organisation is responsible for various programmes to assist a disaster ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 9 June 1959: Minister of Local Government and Housing: 21 November 1959: W. Dahanayake: M. B. W. Mediwake: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: J. R. Jayewardene: United National Party: 23 March 1960: 1960: Dudley Senanayake: Mahanama Samaraweera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 23 July 1960: Sirimavo Bandaranaike: Badi-ud-din Mahmud: 28 ...
Tallest structures. This list ranks the structures in Sri Lanka that stand at least 100 m (330 ft) or 20 floors. Only completed buildings and structures are included. / 6.92694°N 79.85833°E / 6.92694; 79.85833 ( Lotus Tower) / 6.91889°N 79.85444°E / 6.91889; 79.85444 ( Altair)
The Colombo National Museum, also known as the Sri Lanka National Museum, is a museum in Colombo and the largest in Sri Lanka.Founded in 1877 and maintained by the Department of National Museums, it holds collections of significant importance to Sri Lanka, such as the regalia of the Kandyan monarchs, as well as many other exhibits relating the country's cultural and natural heritage.
Sri Lanka, [a] historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest ...
Sri Lanka Police ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා පොලීසිය, romanized: Shrī Lanka Polīsiya; Tamil: இலங்கை காவல், romanized: Ilaṅkai Kāval) is the civilian national police force of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The police force is responsible for enforcing criminal and traffic law ...
The Old Parliament Building, is the building that houses the Presidential Secretariat of Sri Lanka. Situated in the Colombo fort area facing the sea, it is in close proximity to the President's House, Colombo and adjacent to the General Treasury Building. The building housed the island's legislature for 53 years until the new parliamentary ...
Mahaweli Development programme. The Mahaweli Development program ( Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961..