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Sri Lankan recent election results Dates of elections Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Samagi Jana Balawegaya National People's Power Tamil National Alliance United National Party Others Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % 2019 presidential election: 6,924,255 52.25% － － 418,553 3.16% － － 5,564,239 41.99% [i] 345,452 2.35%
Environmental issues in Sri Lanka include large-scale logging of forests and degradation of mangroves, coral reefs and soil. Air pollution and water pollution are challenges for Sri Lanka since both cause negative health impacts. Overfishing and insufficient waste management, especially in rural areas, leads to environmental pollution.
Press freedom is a major concern in Sri Lanka. Both sides in the war make efforts to silence inconvenient reporters. Around 15 reporters received death threats from one faction or the other in 2004 [2] The assassinated reporter Aiyathurai Nadesan, correspondent in Batticaloa for several Tamil media stated just prior to his assassination in 2005:
Sri Lanka Guardian is Sri Lankan news website known for its independent news coverage. It has been banned in Sri Lanka along with other websites for this criticism of the Sri Lankan government and officials and its investigative journalism. It released a video showing Sri Lankan army female recruits being abused and tortured; the Sri Lankan ...
Rahula National School, Godagama. Known for. Environmental activism. Bhagya Abeyratne, also known as Bhagya Abeyrathna ( Sinhala: භාග්යා අබේරත්න) is a Sri Lankan environmental activist. In March 2021, she received wide media attention for exposing the deforestation of the UNESCO world heritage site of the Sinharaja ...
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it.
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's telecommunications regulator has issued a licence to Elon Musk's Starlink, the satellite unit of SpaceX, to provide the country with satellite broadband services ...
One of the requirements of the accord was that the Sri Lankan government should devolve powers to the provinces. [1] Accordingly on 14 November 1987 the Sri Lankan Parliament passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka and the Provincial Councils Act No 42 of 1987. [2] [3] On 3 February 1988 nine provincial councils were created ...