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  2. Television in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka's second state-owned TV station - Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) - was established by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Act No. 6 of 1982. SLRC started broadcasting on 15 February 1982. The Act required the SLRC maintain taste and decency and not to incite crime and disorder or cause religious or public offence.

  3. Dish TV (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia

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    Dish TV (Sri Lanka) Star TV Lanka, Satnet was a pay TV satellite provider based in Sri Lanka. A fully owned subsidiary of DishTV India, Dish TV Sri Lanka was launched in 2015. [1] However, the company ceased its operations in Sri Lanka due to heavy losses in 2019. Few channels were aired as Free To Air after disputes raised by its users for the ...

  4. The Standard (Kenya) - Wikipedia

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    The paper changed its name to The Standard in 1977 but the name East African Standard was revived later. It was sold to Kenyan investors in 1995. In 2004 the name was changed back to The Standard. It is the main rival to Kenya's largest newspaper, the Daily Nation. In 1989, at a time when Kenya was going into multi-party era, the Standard Group ...

  5. Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited - Wikipedia

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    It publishes three daily, three weekend, five weekly, two monthly and three annual publications in Sinhala, English and Tamil. [2] Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited is a public limited liability company incorporated in Sri Lanka in 1926 by its founder D. R. Wijewardena. 75% of its shares were Nationalized under the Associated Newspapers ...

  6. Sri Lanka Railways M6 - Wikipedia

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    792 also was in ICE livery in the 1990s, now standard livery. Sri Lanka Railways M6 is a class of 16 Diesel-electric locomotives imported to Sri Lanka in 1979. Manufactured by Thyssen-Henschel in Kassel, West Germany, under licence from Electro-Motive Division of the United States. As an EMD G22M, it has a V12 EMD 645 engine rated at 1,650 hp ...

  7. Lakbima - Wikipedia

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    Lakbima. Lakbima was a Sri Lankan private Sinhala language newspaper which was owned by the Sumathi News Papers Limited. Chairmen of the organization is Mileena Sumathipala, wife of the late D.W. Sumathipala. The English version of this newspaper was called Lakbima News. "Lakbima Irida Sangrahaya" was a weekend newspaper published on Sunday.

  8. Express & Echo - Wikipedia

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    The Express & Echo was established in 1904 as the result of a merger between the Western Echo and the Devon Evening Express, which was founded in 1864. [3] In 1909 it contained a column titled "Womanland" which dealt with various topics including suffrage protests. It was written by Exeter's first woman councillor (in time) Edith Splatt.

  9. Internet Censorship in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    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.