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The minister said the govt is obligated to protect the rights of the people as much as it must ensure media freedom.
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“In China, there is no social media. We’re not like that."
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"I will not hesitate to take legal action against any media organisation that attempts to disturb the peace."
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Seventeen of the 37 leaders are making the list for the first time.
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“It’s really rich coming from a government that routinely uses fake news to for its own projects,” said Dr Amara...
The BASL is apprehensive of the executive including the police being allowed to decide on what is or is not fake news
"Sri Lankan law has no reference to fake news"
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Online falsehoods can also encourage people to violate COVID-19 quarantine regulations, police said.
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Police found "various fake news" posts pertaining to deforestation, a statement said.
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The Free Media Movement (FMM) is calling on the Media Community to take concerted action to prevent the enactment of law...
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Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers has approved a proposal to draft legislation to combat false and misleading statement...
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Some 15 to 17 percent of Sri Lanka’s social media activist accounts are fake, Justice Minister Ali Sabry said, reitera...
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Sri Lankan fiction writer Shakthika Sakthumara, who was in pre-trial detention for months over a controversial short sto...
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The Free Media Movement (FMM) is calling for the abolishing of the Press Council and has vehemently opposed the governme...
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A Sri Lankan web journalist who had allegedly been abducted in a black van and then released with assault injuries was t...
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If the government and opposition leaderships are united in their resolve to address the grievances of the ethnic and rel...
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| US Dollar | 200.0000 | 200.0063 |
| UK Pound | 275.8000 | 276.7787 |
| Euro | 235.2700 | 236.3574 |
| Aus Dollar | 145.7600 | 146.5546 |
| Yen | 1.8202 | 1.8301 |
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| Indian Rupee | 2.7197 | 2.7215 |
| Korea Won | 0.1699 | 0.1710 |
| Oman Rial | 519.4940 | 519.5104 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.3177 | 53.3286 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.4492 | 54.4509 |
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| S&P SL20 | 3,309.99 | 0.67% |
| CSE All Share | 8,848.04 | -0.93% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 2,191,558,044.10 | 3,956,871 |
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| 3-m bill | 5.85 | 5.77 |
| 6-m bill | 5.90 | 5.82 |
| 12-m bill | 5.97 | 5.89 |
| 5-yr bond | 8.69 | 8.47 |
| 8-yr bond | 9.18 | 9.05 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 5.11 | 5.11 |
| Gilt Repo | 5.14 | 5.14 |
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Sri Lanka’s Free Media Movement (FMM) is strongly condemning the military coup in Myanmar calling it an “outrageous ...
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The Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya holds a rally in Colombo to protect the right to freedom of speech
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“Many will regard this as an ominous sign of an on-coming authoritarian regime,” the United National Party observed ...
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Opposition lawyers say Ramanayake who was sentenced for contempt of court should be able to continue as an MP
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Director, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law, Dr Asanga Welikala tells EconomyNext that imprisonment over contempt ...
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SJB Parliamentarian asks for protection after he says President Rajapaksa said he could be “killed like a dog.”
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University Grants Commission Chairman Snr Prof Sampath Amarathunge says the monument was not suitable for the Sri Lanka ...
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Authorities destroy memorial for war dead in University under cover of darkness, police ask protestors to disperse
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The proposed regulatory mechanism may or may not become a reality, and the fears expressed about it may well be exaggera...
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With some government Parliamentarians finding the courage to oppose the 20th Amendment to the Constitution alongside opp...
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