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2009. (82nd) The Road from Elephant Pass. අලිමංකඩ. Sinhala, Tamil. Chandran Rutnam. Not nominated. Sri Lanka's initial Oscar submission, Mansion by the Lake, is a Sinhala language drama, loosely based on Anton Chekhov 's play The Cherry Orchard. The plot revolves around a Sri Lankan noble family, now penniless, who return to their ...
In the second quarter of 2020, Sri Lanka's GDP was estimated to have contracted by 16% the biggest quarterly fall on record and expanded by 2% in the third quarter. In the first nine months of the year, GDP was estimated to have contracted 5%. [119] After growing 5.0% in 2015, growth fell to 4% in 2016, 4% in 2017, 3% in 2018 and 2% in 2019. [120]
The Sri Lankan economic crisis[ 8] is an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka that started in 2019. [ 9] It is the country's worst economic crisis since its independence in 1948. [ 9] It has led to unprecedented levels of inflation, near-depletion of foreign exchange reserves, shortages of medical supplies, and an increase in prices of basic commodities ...
The government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers agree to a ceasefire, temporarily ending the Sri Lankan Civil War. [61] It would last until the resumption of hostilities in 2008. [62] February 27 – A mob attacks a train near Godhra, India, killing approximately 59 people. [63]
[86] [87] To improve the service quality in densely populated areas, Starlink introduced a monthly 1 TB data cap for all non-business users which became enforced in 2023. [86] [88] In August 2022, SpaceX lowered monthly service costs for users in select countries. [89] For example, users in Brazil and Chile saw monthly fee decreases of about 50 ...
Sri Lanka competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. [1] [2] Sri Lanka's team consisted of 9 athletes (8 men and 1 woman) competing in four sports. [3] Dinesh Priyantha Herath clinched an historic gold medal in the men's javelin throw F46 category with a new world record of 67.79 m.
As of January 2024, YouTube has more than 2.7 billion monthly users, who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos every day. [7] As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, [8] [9] and as of 2021, there were approximately 14 billion videos in total. [9]
Sri Lanka emerges as first runners-up in the 2020 Online School Debate Championship, losing to Canada 8–1 in the finals. [63] It was the first instance where Sri Lanka made it to the finals in the history of World Schools Debating Championships. Sri Lanka was also awarded the top-performing ESL team for secondary English-speaking countries. [64]