This picture taken on May 19 shows monk Pallegama Hemarathana, the chief custodian of the ancient bodhi tree, offering prayers at Sri Maha Bodhi temple in Anuradhapura. When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka's holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo's cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops. — AFP
ANURADHAPURA: When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka's holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo's cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe dispatched a high-powered team of experts to the 2,300-year-old Sri Maha Bodhi tree in the sacred city of Anuradhapura, an ancient capital of the South Asian nation.
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