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An Act to establish the Online Safety Commission; to provide safety from prohibited statements made online; to prevent the use of online accounts and inauthentic online accounts for prohibited purposes; to make provisions to identify and declare online locations used for prohibited purposes in Sri Lanka; to suppress the financing and other support of communication of prohibited statements and ...
Internet censorship in Sri Lanka is conducted under a variety of laws, judicial processes, regulations and more. In Sri Lanka, internet censorship is mostly executed by blocking access to specific sites as well as the use of laws which criminalize publication or possession of certain types of material, including regulations against terrorism and pornography.
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 ...
Sri Lanka also managed to keep lowest death rate in South Asia. Sri Lanka's fatality rate is 0.7%. [75] [76] In May 2020, Sri Lanka was ranked the 9th best country in the world for its successful response in tackling the virus; however, Sri Lanka was also ranked the 16th most vulnerable country to COVID-19. [77]
Russian athlete Tatyana Tomashova is banned for 10 years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and is stripped of her London 2012 1500m silver medal for doping. Runner in 2012 'dirtiest race' gets ...
However, due to the complexity of the word and the difficulty most non-native Sri Lankans would have with pronouncing this word, it was named after mythical King Raavana (Sinhala: රාවණ රජතුමා Ravana Rajathuma), who is said to have ruled Sri Lanka at the time the Dadhu Monara was built. King Raavana is a notable King in Sri ...
The 2019 cyberattacks on Sri Lanka were a series of powerful cyberattacks on at least 10 Sri Lankan domestic websites with the public domains of .lk and .com. [1] The cyberattack is speculated to have been conducted on 18 and 19 May 2019, the day following the Vesak festival and amid the persistent temporary social media ban in the country. [2]
The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna-ruled (SLPP) government began losing the support of its key allies: 9 SLPP MPs decided to defect from the government and to work as independent MPs, while the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) and the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) left the government and moved into opposition.