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Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has put pressure on several state institutions against sponsoring the Sirasa Superstars programme. Therefore, co-sponsors of the programme, Sri Lanka Telecom and Sri Lanka Insurance have said they cannot sponsor the event.
By Maheshi Perera It’s a question to most people whether social media is a fad or not. This was the same question that has prompted Sirasa News First to introduce an innovative digital and mobile platform yesterday. Capital Maharaja Organisation said as a leading news provider, Sirasa
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“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you”. Orwell (Proposed Preface to ‘Animal Farm’) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Long before the election is held, the first result is out. Two anti-government websites were raided and their staffers arrested (including ...
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricketer Murali Is On A Sticky Wicket – On Tamil Nadu Turf (Category: Breaking News)
- A Year in Cloud Cuckoo Land (Category: Breaking News)
A Governance Analysis of Frequency Allocation & TV Rights in Present Sri Lanka Frequency Allocation- A Grand Corruption? Understanding the state capture by Kleptocrats does not require a dedicated study; it is easily recognizable. For the benefit of keen students of governance, let me begin this article with the definition of Kleptocracy: “A form of political and government ...
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- Watch “20-20” On CSN (Category: Breaking News)
- “Maximizing NFL Betting Success: Your Strategic Game Plan for Crushing the Vegas NFL Odds” (Category: Breaking News)
- With die-hard Dodgers fans like this, who needs the NFL? (Category: USA, California)
“Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanised humanity…” Brecht (The Exception and the Rule) By Tisaranee Gunasekara That the ancient-city of Dambulla is not sundered by religious violence is thanks to the sense and sensibility of its ordinary inhabitants (of all faiths) and the security personnel on duty. Had the people of Dambulla been as virulent ...
- Dambulla Mosque Cannot Be Relocated – SLMC (Category: Breaking News)
- Religious Extremism: The Post- War Reality in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Talks Tomorrow Over Dambulla Issue (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Muslims denounce attack on mosque in Dambulla (Category: Breaking News)
By Dinouk Colombage Following the United Nations Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva, Sri Lankan state media and members of the government have been on the offensive against human rights activists and independent media groups calling them ‘traitors’. Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, acting Minister of Mass Media, in an interview with The Sunday Leader says he ...
- Mervyns’ statement should be condemned: GL (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister Mervyn Silva threatens journalists (Category: Breaking News)
- Lukewarm response to ITN (Category: Breaking News)
- Mervyns’ statement should be condemned : Minister G.L .Peries (Category: Breaking News)
A dramatic global theatre jam By Nirasha Piyawadani Pinnawala Adramatist who has rendered yeoman service to the promotion of local stage drama, M. Shafeer, has a cherished wish and that is to be able to hold an international drama festival in Sri Lanka. Our protagonist M. Safeer, strove to make this dream a reality and thanks to his untiring efforts the first ever international drama festival in...
- Japanese Kyogen dramas at Kelaniya University (Category: Breaking News)
- National drama festival opens today (Category: Breaking News)
- Eugenio Barba’s Living Archive & Floating Islands – II (Category: Breaking News)
- Day 2: Folklore extravaganza in the North (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Former chief justice Sarath N. Silva says any suspected war criminal could be taken before The Hague despite not being a signatory to the Rome convention. He has refuted opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s claim that no Sri Lankan could be hauled before the International Criminal Court as he had not signed the convention as the then prime minister. Speaking to...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - The Black January protest is to be held at the Lipton Circus at 3.00 pm today (Jan. 25), reports say. The demonstration was earlier scheduled to be held at 2.00 pm at the Fort Railway Station compound. Speaking to 'Srilankamirror' on behalf of the Sri Lanka's Alliance of Media Organizations, convener of the FMM, Sunil Jayasekara confirmed the report. He...
- Court ruling on Black January protest tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- FMM shoulders ‘Black January’ organizing responsibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Black January protest next week (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Black January’ poster campaign launched (Category: Breaking News)
Srilankamirror - Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne today decided that the ruling of the petition against the Black January protest will be handed tomorrow (Jan. 25). The Black January protest is scheduled to be held in front of Colombo Fort Railway Station tomorrow. Organised by Sri Lanka's Alliance of Media Organizations, the Black January demonstration is a mark of protest against t...
- 'Black January' shifted to Lipton Circus (Category: Breaking News)
- FMM shoulders ‘Black January’ organizing responsibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Black January protest next week (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Black January’ poster campaign launched (Category: Breaking News)
Methods to kill a Lion Newton Method: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Let, the lion catch you. This implies that you caught the lion. Einstein Method: Run in the direction opposite to that of the lion. Due to higher relative velocity, the lion will also run faster and will get tired soon. Now you can trap ...
- Jaffna DIG orders immediate arrest of killer (Category: Breaking News)
- CP Governor chides police and Matale MC for failing to resolve land dispute between them (Category: Breaking News)
- JKH hoping to see recovery across all segments aided by pickup in economy (Category: Breaking News)
- Victim kicked out of fast-moving train (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe says the mobs who hurled stones at him at Sirikotha on December 19 missed their target and hit the Buddha statue in front of the party headquarters building. At a media briefing at his office yesterday (Dec. 20), he displayed one of the rocks, which he said was aimed at him, and said it was thrown by Keli Rajamahendran. As a Christm...
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
Sarath Fonseka was found guilty on the first charge in an indictment filed in the High Court of Colombo, consequent to an article carried in The Sunday Leader on December 13 2009 - front page under the caption “Gota Ordered Them To Be Shot - Gen. Sarath Fonseka.” The case was heard at a Trial-at-Bar before ...
- Jansz did not correct her mistake due to threats - Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sunday Leader decided to support Fonseka - Witness (Category: Breaking News)
- SF Attends Trial-at-bar (Category: Breaking News)
- Surrendees never ordered to be shot - Maj Gen (Category: Breaking News)
“There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.” – Brutus, in Julius Caesar, Act 4 Winning ...
- One law for the Rajapakses another for the rest of us (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: An arrogant fourth estate and a populace indoctrinated by myth (Category: Breaking News)
- Duminda Silva: Rs 18 – 39 Million And Counting (Category: Breaking News)
- Wave of crime and its relation to politicos…a dangerous sign of decay (Category: Breaking News)
OCTOBER 17, 2011: Status: Not Free Legal Environment: 23 Political Environment: 30 Economic Environment: 18 Total Score: 71 Despite the end of the government’s long-running war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel group in May 2009, media freedom remained restricted in Sri Lanka, with journalists subject to myriad forms of legal harassment and physical intimidation. Altho...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan media gagged says RSF (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka’s government implement the LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
The Media Organizations Collective says it unreservedly condemns the arrest of Sirasa TV journalist Indika Sri Aravinda, who was taken to Moratuwa Police Station, where his recorded video footage was deleted. It says in a statement that the journalist faced the incident yesterday (Oct. 05
- Khuram Shaikh murder suspects remanded further (Category: Breaking News)
- Bodhi Pooja to invoke blessings on Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP leadership raises Sajith group’s absence at protest (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ screening from Jan. 21 (Category: Breaking News)
Six Media organisations today condemned the action of the Police for forcing a TV journalist to delete pictures he had taken in relation to a news item he had covered in the Moratuwa area. The organizations said that a Sirasa TV journalist Indika Shri Aravinda had videoed the family members weeping
- Don’t talk to media-IGP (Category: Breaking News)
- National Museum robbery: Another suspect arrested from Maligawatta (Category: Breaking News)
- New media spokesman for Sri Lanka police (Category: Breaking News)
- 60,000 Police Officers on election duty (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News -16.Aug.2011, 11.50P.M.) At the last General election ,Kili Raja Mahendran of the Maharaja Organization requested two slots in the National list of MPs at the general elections to which I did not agree . Therefore , his Sirasa media has turned hostile...
Sarath Kongahage, Chairman Rupavahini Corporation, lawyer, political activist, media personality and now ambassador-designate to Germany, spoke to Faraz Shauketaly on his impending appointment and work at Rupavahini Corporation. He dispelled rumours that he was being replaced at SLRC due to consistent internal dissent. Excerpts: Q: On what merits were you appointed as Chairman, Rupavahini Corpor...
- The new DGI to assume duties on Friday (Category: Breaking News)
- Athugala appointed Director General of Govt. Info. Dept. (Category: Breaking News)
- A Mass Media Maestro becomes the DGI (Category: Breaking News)
- Ariyaratne Athugala takes over (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara "….too many people desire to suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that comfort makes the enemy feel better for a...
- The Darusman (UN) Report was inevitable due to colossal failure by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Why did the the Rajapaksas lie to the people of Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Under Siege in Sri Lanka: Why Accountability for War Crimes Matters (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Chief Should Establish International Inquiry - HRW (Category: Breaking News)
by Harim Peiris Last week Sri Lanka commemorated her 63rd anniversary of freedom from colonial rule and Sri Lankans rightly celebrated the achievement of our political independence and democratic rights as a free and sovereign nation. That freedom and sovereignty...
- Attack on journalists at BIA, State sanctioned attempt at suppressing media freedom - Free media... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka FM hits back over crackdown criticism (Category: Breaking News)
- SL hits back at accusations of press harassment (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan government denies blame made by the US (Category: Breaking News)
By Harsha De Silva I am generally not the street-protesting type. I try to articulate my arguments with facts and figures, be it writing, speaking or engaging in debate. But the other day, I was in a demonstration and this...
- More than 2,700 arrested across Russia as protests swell for jailed opposition leader Navalny (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- More than 2,700 arrested across Russia as protests swell for jailed opposition leader Navalny (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- More than 2,700 arrested across Russia as protests swell for jailed opposition leader Navalny (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- More than 2,700 arrested across Russia as protests swell for jailed opposition leader Navalny (Category: USA, New Mexico)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “People want their freedom. People want their bread. People want to stop their lousy dictators from looting their countries”. — A Jordanian Dissident (New York Times – 30.1.2011) Tunisia and Egypt, in revolt, are at the end...
- JVP for Tunisia style option (Category: Breaking News)
- Tyrants and Their Families: Gaddafis and Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Telephone call from Gaddafi tp Rajapaksa shows Mahinda is on the wrong side of history (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa project of establishing familial control over the State Army and the SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
By Karu Jayasuriya (The following is the statement issued by UNP deputy Leader and Gampaha district Parliamentarian Karu Jayasuriya on the arson attack against the Lanka e-news media organization) A new chapter has been added to the threat to the...
- “Boothaya” arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka e news besieged by threats again: international phone lines forcibly cut (Category: Breaking News)
- Advance cash payment up to Rs. 4,000 for Government employees (Category: Breaking News)
- The IGP must explain the circumstances of Prageeth Ekanaliyagoda's disappearance -AHRC (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News, 17,Jan.2011, 11.05PM) It is over two years since Sunday Leader newspaper Editor Lasantha Wickremetunge was...
Lasantha’s Killers Still Walk Free By Frederica Jansz A year ago, a high profile investigation into the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge and the attacks on Editors Upali Tennekoon, Keith Noyahr and Namal Perera got underway as senior sleuths attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) sifted through a smattering ...
- CID sleuths dispatched in search of Katuwana murderers (Category: Breaking News)
- Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Aut... (Category: Breaking News)
- Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Aut... (Category: Breaking News)
- Witch-Hunt Against CID Sleuths: Lasantha’s Daughter Seeks Intervention Of Witness Protection Aut... (Category: Breaking News)
Vogue Jewellers and Sirasa TV join hands to make wedding dreams a reality! Colombo. Tuesday 04 January 2011. “Mangala Sihinaya”, Sri Lanka’s first-ever wedding reality show hits local television screens this month as Vogue Jewellers and Sri Lanka’s premier television channel Sirasa TV, join hands
- Sri Lanka's defense reality TV show grand finale today (Category: Breaking News)
- ABC’s Hiru TV to launch on 23 May (Category: Business)
- The reality roadshow (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Stardom reigns at the 16th Sumathi Awards Night (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr.Vickramahu Karunaratne I came back from England on November 7, Tuesday. I was warned by friends that I could get arrested by the Mahinda regime. But the ruler had a better arrangement set for me. I was not disturbed...
The Free Media Movement (FMM) unequivocally condemns Tuesday’s (7th December) attack on journalists at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and views it as yet another serious blow to media freedom, ethical and democratic right to impartial reporting. Lanka E News...
- Punish Goons That Attacked ‘Sirasa’ And Prove Your Innocence (Category: Breaking News)
- Freedom of media is vital -UN (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan journalists take to the streets against attack on website office (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Ire (Category: Business)
(Lanka-e-News 07.Dec.2010 10.30PM) Lanka e news Journalist Shantha Wijesuriya and Sirasa Katunayake Airport reporter Premalal were attacked by hiring vehicle drivers and Airport employees when they were at the Katunayake Airport to cover the arrival of Left Front leader...
- Development work of Batticaloa airport commence today (Category: Breaking News)
- Security threat sparks brief evacuation at MSP airport (Category: USA, Minnesota)
- Security threat sparks brief evacuation at MSP airport (Category: USA, Minnesota)
- Security threat sparks brief evacuation at MSP airport (Category: USA, Minnesota)
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