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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]
20 February − The total number of COVID-19 deaths in Sri Lanka surpasses 16,000 with 30 more deaths. [53] 22 February − Vice chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Jeewan Kumaranatunga steps down from all positions he held in the party and expects to join the New Lanka Freedom Party under the leadership of Kumara Welgama. [54]
The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka Hanaa Singer and the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung condemned the shooting in Rambukkana and urged to maintain peace, law and order. [ 403 ] [ 404 ] The ambassador of Germany to Sri Lanka Holger Seubert praised the protests for being conducted in a peaceful manner.
The USB flash drive replaces the floppy disk as the preferred form of low-capacity mobile data storage. In February 2003, Dell announced floppy drives would no longer be pre-installed on Dell Dimension home computers, although they were still available as a selectable option and purchasable as an aftermarket OEM add-on. [ 185 ]
On 4 March 2022, Sri Lanka played their 300th Test match in Mohali against India. [49] Sri Lanka lost the match by an innings and 222 runs. [50] Amid political turmoil back home, Sri Lanka won the 2022 Asia Cup, defeating Pakistan in the final on 11 September 2022. [51] On 28 April 2023, Sri Lanka won their 100th Test match against Ireland at ...
Sri Lanka, [b] historically known as Ceylon, [c] 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 .
Services accounted for 58.2% of Sri Lanka's economy in 2019 up from 54.6% in 2010, industry 27.4% up from 26.4% a decade earlier and agriculture 7.4%. [41] Though there is a competitive export agricultural sector, technological advances have been slow to enter the protected domestic sector. [42]
In March 2021, the ICRA Lanka Limited reaffirmed the credit rating of Sri Lanka Savings Bank to BBB− with immediate effect. [ 4 ] Sri Lanka Savings Bank generated a Profit After Tax amounting to Rs. 445 million for the financial year ending 31 December 2022 and the bank recorded a significant increase in Profit After Tax by 74 percent from ...