By Indika Sri Aravinda Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) is to take MTV to Court over the broadcasting rights of the London Olympic Games. This is after MTV publicly announced last week that the private channel will be telecasting the 2012 Games which begins in July. SLRC Chairman Mohan

Vesak is a time to revisit and refocus on the core of Buddhism. It is also the time to see how Buddhist principles of truth, peace, honesty and kindness can be promoted in the country. At the start of the week, just a cursory glance at the newspapers reveals many things that could do with ...

Parliament will hold a day-long debate on the latest report of the Committee On Public Enterprise (COPE) on Tuesday, its Chairman, Senior Minister D.E.W. Gunasekera said. The debate has been initiated by the Opposition for a detailed discussion on the 176-page report which examined the accounts of 229 institutions, and was presented to the House in December 2011. The accounts of State institutions...

  The World Press Freedom Day was marked in Sri Lanka today with a panel discussion organised by the Sri Lanka Press Institute today. The panel discussion was held under the  theme, ‘Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies’ which is also the theme of the global media freedom day celebrations. The Discussion took place under the participation of a panel of veteran journalists and ...

The bulk of the independent media was prevented from covering the arrival of the six Sri Lankan fishermen who arrived at the Bandaranayake International Airport (BIA) earlier today, 10 days after they were rescued by Spanish marines from the captivity of Somali pirates. The free media was informed by a fisheries ministry official at the BIA that there were orders to prevent them from the coverage...

By Indika Sri Aravinda The security of the National Museum is to be handed over to Rakna Lanka which operates under the Defence Ministry. The Minister of National Heritage Dr. Jagath Balasuriya told The Sunday Leader that the Ministry security which is now in place at the museum will be removed. The security of universities ...

  Report by The Sunday Leader seals decision By Indika Sri Aravinda The Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has decided not to transfer the telecast rights of the upcoming Olympic Games in London to the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), SLRC Chairman Mohan Samaranayake

  The sports minister in Sri Lanka says that exclusive broadcasting rights of 2012 Olympics obtained by state-owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) will not be sold to private channel as reported by media. The Sunday Leader newspaper said the Carlton Sports Network (CSN), reportedly

By Indika Sri Aravinda The Carlton Sports Network (CSN), owned by the Mahinda Rajapaksa family, has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 2012 London Olympics. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has already paid for and obtained the exclusive rights for the broadcast and stands

By D.C. Ranatunga “We bear a very heavy responsibility to build up this service with great care, vigilance and intellectual integrity so that the people of this country belonging to different ethnic groups, believing in four different faiths, of diverse economic groups, living in varying environments, urban and rural, with different levels of literacy and ...

Acting Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena has underscored that all Sri Lankans, whatever views they possess within Sri Lanka, should act in unity in responding to the world.The Acting Minister said that the resolution has alleged that Sri Lanka had violated Human Rights Law, contravened international conventions in its treatment of terrorists, and breached its ...

There were those who did not wish to see the end of the ruthless war. They criticized the security forces, government as they could not tolerate the defeat of the LTTE. They humiliated the heroic soldiers. The UNP could not tolerate the war victory in Sri Lanka. The foreign countries including the US could not ...

United National Party Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe has said that no outsiders were involved in causing damage to the Party Head Office. Addressing a special meeting held at Katuwana in Hambantota, he said that the perpetrators would be punished. Mr. Wickremasinghe said he was very much concerned that their head office was not attacked by any ...

The Colombo Magistrate’s court has granted permission to the Police to secure video footage concerning the Magazine Prison ordeal. They have also been permitted to interrogate prisoners.The Police are conducting comprehensive investigations with regard to the recent clash at the Magazine Prison. The Police told the Courts that they need to secure video footage on ...

The programme on A/Level results that was telecast on state owned Rupavahini on the 14th evening had reportedly been managed by Ministers S.B. Dissanayake and Bandula Gunawradena from the Rupavahini studio.

Last week there were more stories making the rounds on contemplated decisions made outside the cabinet meeting than decisions made inside. Of course, the usual briefing on cabinet decisions were spelled out, Thursday afternoon. For a regime that still wants to boast it has popular support, comparing itself to an opposition fractured and quarrelling red and green, it is ...

Last week Mervyn Silva was on the run. The foul-mouthed thug switched off his phones having purportedly declared that he would not speak to the media. No small wonder there. Given that Silva was under fire from men not only within his own constituency but from those very persons he had handpicked to perform local ...

Sri Lanka’s most popular children’s television programme ‘Muthuhara’ broadcasted by Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) selected Cinnamon Grand’s Nuga Gama (the Village in the City) for its first  live broadcast  on 1 January. This is the first time

(Srilankamirror) - The 2010 Rupavahini awards ceremony has been postponed indefinitely. The festival was due to take place tomorrow (Dec. 30) at the Lotus POND PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE in Colombo. At the last minute, the booking given for the festival has been cancelled

The State Rupavahini Awards Ceremony organized by the Cultural Affairs Ministry with the aim of encouraging television artists and technicians scheduled for tomorrow (30) has been indefinitely postponed following objections raised by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

By Dinali Goonewardene Prathilaba was telecast on Rupavahini on Sundays at 10 a.m. The TV documentary, a studio discussion on investing in the stock market was commissioned by the Securities and Exchange Commission and panellists from the stock market industry participated. These included stock

The Supreme Court today ordered an inquiry into the alleged political victimization and interdiction of eight media personnel of state run Rupavahini by its chairman and others. The court appointed...

The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has ordered the authorities of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) to establish an independent panel to investigate charges against sacked media workers.

The new Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupavahini Training Institute(SLRTI )appointed by the Ministry of Mass Media has begun selling valuable assets belonging to the institute. Chairman’s office has been arranged after demolishing the conservatory built to high standards so that rare films

The right to telecast the cricket matches between Sri Lanka and South Africa has been given to the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) belonging to the President’s son, a senior official from the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) said.

Yet another Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) report has been tabled in Parliament and media reports indicate that as much as Rs. 19 billion has been mismanaged by the 229 organisations monitored in 16 months, leading one to question: what steps will the Government take to minimise these excesses? If previous COPE reports are any ...

Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) Minister D.E.W.Gunasekera who submitted its report to Parliament today called for more teeth for the oversight committee including powers to summon former heads of state run institutions as well as bring under its preview private limited companies incorporated under the Companies Act. He also called for more scrutiny of the eligibility of pers...

Broadcasting units of the state owned Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) and Independent Television Network (ITN) have discreetly been taken over by the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) owned by President’s son, Naval Officer Yoshitha Rajapaksa

The occasion was the annual Budget Speech in Parliament. Unlike in the Westminster- system days, and in terms of age-old traditions of parliamentary practices, the Finance Minister, in this instance His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka (as he could not trust to give this vital portfolio away to any other member of his sixty one-strong ...