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A Sinhala teledrama actress who was arrested for threatening her father for money has been granted bail after being produced before the Colombo Magistrate courts yesterday.

A teledrama actress who was arrested for threatening her father for money has been granted bail after being produced before the Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne. Anushka Sonali Sayakkara has been arrested by the Slave Island Police after they received a complaint from her father

East West Marketing Ltd., which markets a range of premium quality food products under the brand name Turkey, has added a new refreshing extension to the Turkey brand, under the sub-brand Dimbula Kahata, recently. Dimbula Kahata is a specially blended premium quality black tea, blended from a range of high grown teas from the salubrious ...

for the best teledrama in 2008. Sudath Rohana won the ...

Twenty years ago – On August 1, 1980 to be precise, new hope dawned in the country with the release of the much hyped movie ‘Ganga Addara’ directed by Ms. Sumitra Peries and produced by Ms. Milina Sumathipala. And today the much talked-about teledrama version of Ganga Addara

Independent Television Network has been honoured with many Awards at the 15th Sumathi Tele Awards Festival. The Tele Awards Nite was organized on a grand scale at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium last night.Organised under the patronage of the First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the event was graced by many Parliamentarians, scholars and artistes. “Arungal” telecast b ...

A suspect, who had been raising funds summoning amateur artistes for a teledrama for ITN, has been remanded. He had been duping them by claiming that the teledrama would be telecast on ITN. He had also been using ITN’s logo and engaged in various programmes. He had invited amateurs to play roles

Gampaha District UNP Parliamentarian Upeksha Swarnamali has also pledged her support to the 18th Constitutional Amendment. She met President Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this afternoon and intimated to the President of her decision to support the Constitutional Amendment. Expressing views, she said the country’s future will lie on the far sighted programmed of the President. ...

Veteran Dramatist, Playwright, Translator and Author , R.R. Samarakoon is no more. He was 71 He passed away after a brief illness. His first drama was “Ledak Nethi Ledek” producd in 1965. He has won nine state awards for the drama rendition call “Ahasin Wetunu Minussu.” He was the producer of one of the popular ...

Camera shy? So it was time again to talk of the state that is Emergency. The Green Team when allocating speech time in parliament gave some to that sweet faced em pee who is also a teledrama actress. You know who we speak of, no? However at the last minute the poor girl was stricken with ...

Sanjaya Gunawardena’s muhurath ceremony of his latest teledrama, Hiruta Pipena Sooriyakantha recently was held at the Punchi theatre. The maker of popular productions like Amaya, Labai Apple, Vasanthaya Arang Evith and Gajamutu had based his newest project on an incident which takes

Maya Roo is horror at its chilling best. It is a series that contains 45 tele films, each 24 minutes of running time that will be telecast weekly. When one thinks of horror, one immediately thinks of Western horror genres that have captivated and petrified audiences. Some of these master pieces of horror include ‘The Exorcist’, ‘Poltergeist’, ‘The Amytiville Horror&rs...

The first ever complete television set was invented in 1925 by an American, Vladimir Svorikan. It was the British Broadcasting Corporation which telecast the first ever television program in 1936 and the year 1981 marks the introduction of television to Sri Lanka. Television in Sri Lanka, at the beginning, had to depend on the wide screen productions to attract and retain the newly won television ...