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Sri Guru Ravidas Airport
Sri Guru Ravidas Airport, formerly Adampur Airport (AIP/VIAX), is a civil enclave at Adampur, Jalandhar, Punjab, using the Air Force Station airstrip; renamed by PM Modi on 1 February 2026, serving the Doaba region under UDAN.
Sri Indravarman
Sri Indravarman was a maharaja of Srivijaya, based at Palembang in Sumatra, who reigned from about 702 to 728 and sent embassies to China and the Umayyad caliphate.
SRI International
SRI International, formerly the Stanford Research Institute, is an independent nonprofit research institute in Menlo Park, California, founded in 1946, known for the computer mouse and Siri.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ)
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ), or Kotte, is Sri Lanka's administrative capital, declared 29 January 1985, seat of the Parliament relocated from Colombo in April 1982, and site of the medieval Kingdom of Kotte.
Sri Kalahastiswara Satakamu
Kalahastiswara Satakamu (శ్రీకాళహస్తీశ్వర శతకము) is a Telugu devotional sataka of over a hundred verses addressed to the Shiva of Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh, attributed to the 16th-century poet Dhurjati of Krishnadevaraya's court.
Sri Krishna Kirtan
Sri Krishna Kirtan is a medieval Bengali Vaishnava poem on the love of Radha and Krishna, attributed to Baru Chandidas, and the earliest surviving early medieval Bengali literary work.
Sri Krishna Leela Tarangini
Sri Krishna Leela Tarangini is a Sanskrit musical opera on Krishna's life by Narayana Theerthar, in twelve sections called tarangams, from Krishna's birth to his marriage with Rukmini.
Sri Krishna Rayabaram
Sri Krishna Rayabaram (శ్రీ కృష్ణ రాయబారం) is a Telugu mythological verse drama by the poet duo Tirupati Venkata Kavulu about Krishna's embassy to avert the Kurukshetra war.
Sri Lanka (ශ්රී ලංකාව)
Sri Lanka (ශ්රී ලංකාව), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean off southeastern India, known as Ceylon until 1972.
Sri Lanka Air Force (ශ්රී ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාව)
Sri Lanka Air Force (ශ්රී ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාව, SLAF), Sri Lanka's aerial warfare branch led by 20th Commander Air Marshal Bandu Edirisinghe; operates upgraded IAI Kfir C12 fighters, US-donated TH-57 helicopters, and about 26,000 personnel.
Sri Lanka Army
Sri Lanka Army, the land force raised under the Army Act No. 17 of 1949 as the Ceylon Army, renamed in 1972; roots in the 1861 Volunteer Corps and 1881 Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers; 26th commander appointed 2026.
Sri Lanka at the 2026 Asian Games
Sri Lanka at the 2026 Asian Games: 156 athletes in 25 sports at Aichi-Nagoya (19 Sep–4 Oct 2026), winning three medals (javelin gold, cricket silver and bronze), 28th of 40 medal-winning nations.
Sri Lanka at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup
Sri Lanka at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup covers the cricket team's campaigns, reaching four straight semi-finals from 2009 to 2014 and winning the 2014 title.
Sri Lanka Dry Zone
Sri Lanka Dry Zone: the lowland climatic region covering about 65% of the island, home to the ancient tank (wewa) cascade irrigation civilization, over 10,000 reservoirs, dry evergreen forests, and over 70% of national paddy production.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය)
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, SLFP), founded 2 September 1951 by S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, is a left-of-center Sinhala nationalist party that dominated Sri Lankan politics with the UNP but declined to one parliamentary seat after the SLPP's rise and the 2024 NPP sweep.
Sri Lanka Matha (ශ්රී ලංකා මාතා)
Sri Lanka Matha (ශ්රී ලංකා මාතා; Tamil Sri Lanka Thaaye) is Sri Lanka's national anthem, written by Ananda Samarakoon, adopted November 22, 1951, constitutionally named in Article 7, and sung in Sinhala and Tamil versions.
Sri Lanka national cricket team
Sri Lanka national men's cricket team (Ceylon until 1972), SLC-administered; eighth Test nation (1981), 1996 World Cup and 2014 T20 World Cup winner, 2002 joint Champions Trophy; Muralitharan's 800 Test wickets; ICC suspension 2023, revival 2024.
Sri Lanka national football team
Sri Lanka national football team: men's team of the Football Federation of Sri Lanka, FIFA-ranked 187th (July 2026), one SAFF title, never at a World Cup or Asian Cup, suspended by FIFA in 2023.
Sri Lanka Wet Zone
Sri Lanka Wet Zone: southwestern high-rainfall region (over 2,500 mm annually) and FEOW freshwater ecoregion 718 (Kelani to Nilwala Ganga, upper Mahaweli). Holds rainforests, most endemic freshwater fishes, and nearly 60% of the population.
Sri Lankan Civil War
The Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009) pitted the government against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who fought for a Tamil state in the north and east; over 100,000 died, ending with the LTTE's defeat in May 2009.
Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2026
The Sri Lankan cricket team in England in 2026 was a white-ball tour from 15 to 27 September, in which England won all three T20Is against Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan cricket team in India in 2014–15
Sri Lanka tour of India 2014-15 (Micromax Cup): five ODIs, 2-16 Nov 2014, arranged after West Indies withdrew. India, led by stand-in captain Virat Kohli, won 5-0; Rohit Sharma hit a record 264.
Sri Lankan cuisine
Sri Lankan cuisine is the rice-and-curry food tradition of Sri Lanka, built on coconut, spices, and native Ceylon cinnamon, shaped by Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, and Burgher communities plus Portuguese, Dutch, and British influences.
Sri Lankan economic crisis
The Sri Lankan economic crisis was a 2022 sovereign debt collapse in which Sri Lanka defaulted for the first time since independence, triggering protests and a US$3 billion IMF program.
Sri Lankan Moors
Sri Lankan Moors, or Sri Lanka Moors, are a Tamil-speaking Sunni Muslim ethnic group, 10.47 percent of the 2024 census population, of Arab-Persian merchant descent, distinct from Tamils and Sinhalese.
Sri Lankan pop
Sri Lankan pop is the popular music of Sri Lanka, sung mainly in Sinhala and English, from baila roots through the 1960s band era to today.
Sri Lankan rupee
The Sri Lankan rupee, also known as the Ceylon rupee, is the currency of Sri Lanka, issued by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka since 1951.
Sri Lankan sporting disappearances
Sri Lankan sporting disappearances: athletes and officials vanishing during international events abroad, most famously the 23-member fake 2004 handball team in Germany and ten missing athletes from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, usually to escape civil war or economic crisis.
Sri Lankan Tamil literature
Sri Lankan Tamil literature, also called Eelam Tamil literature (ஈழத்துத் தமிழ் இலக்கியம்), is Tamil-language writing by Sri Lankan Tamils and their diaspora, spanning classical verse, colonial prose, and war-era and diasporic work.
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamils, also called Ceylon or Jaffna Tamils, are an ethnic group about 11.2% of Sri Lanka's population, descended from ancient migrants from southern India, concentrated in the north and east, mostly Hindu Tamil-speaking, and distinct from Hill Country Tamils.