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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)
While The Sunday Leader is encouraged to see WikiLeaks picking up where the Western media fell off, we wonder where the leakers are in our own island. America, the country exposed by the latest leaks, is already one of the most transparent in the world. What of Sri Lanka, where so much goes on behind ...
- Weerawansa: US Led Intl Operation Against SL (Category: Breaking News)
- WikiLeaks to leak Lankan memos (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘BJP’s cronyism has crossed Palk Strait’: Rahul Gandhi slams Modi Government over Sri Lanka powe... (Category: Breaking News)
- GA Threatens To Sue US Ambassador (Category: Breaking News)
is all set to unspool on Sirasa TV from November 27 at 8 pm – every Saturday and Sunday thereafter. ...
- Ganga Addara in a new frame (Category: Entertainment)
- Video: Ginda Addara - Kanishka Wedamulla (Category: Video)
- Video: Nethu Addara - Sanjeewa Nalin (Category: Video)
- Video: Sparsha | Centigradz | Veedi Kone Mawatha Addara (Category: Entertainment)
Mega Star Or Mega Joke? For many years, I have been a loyal fan of Swarnavahini. For the past one year, I have been a keen viewer of their reality show Mega Star, which finally turned out to be a ‘Mega Joke’. Practically, every right thinking citizen of Sri Lanka and any person who has ...
- Now, Military Mega Star (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranaviru Real Star: Mission 2 SMS revenue donated for Armed Forces welfare (Category: Business)
- Live: The Voice final four (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Ranaviru Real Star Mission 2 commences (Category: Business)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara The welfare of the people in particular, has always been the alibi of tyrants…” — Camus (Resistance, Rebellion And Death) After a lull, the onslaught on the media has resumed. “We need to maintain emergency laws...
- Ruling family's determination to have a "Rajapaksa security state" is costing Sri Lanka dear (Category: Breaking News)
- Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith speaks truth to power on justice, reconcilation and peace (Category: Breaking News)
- Why are we not outraged about child rape in Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Power grab and dictatorial ambitions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa exposed (Category: Breaking News)
Jun 04, Colombo: A Sri Lankan court further remanded former News Director of the Sirasa channel under the MTV/MBC media networks and defeated United National Party Colombo District candidate, Susil Kumara Kindelpitiya until June 17.
Colombo Fort Magistrate Miss Lanka Jayaratne ordered police to arrest all those who are in the video of the incident when the main office of ‘Sirasa’ network was attacked and produce them before Court.
(Lanka-e-News, April 2, 2010, 4.55PM) United National Front (UNF) Colombo District candidate and former News Director of the Sirasa Media, Susil Kindelpitiya was taken into...
Inspector General of Police Mahinda Balasuriya yesterday said he had given strict instructions to conduct a full-scale inquiry into the attack on the Sirasa Television office. The IGP had directed Colombo DIG H.M.D. Herath to deploy a special Police team to investigate the attack and submit
- Mainers remember Pearl Harbor Day (Category: USA, Maine)
- Mainers remember Pearl Harbor Day (Category: USA, Maine)
- Expert shares tips to protect yourself from hackers (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Twin suicide bombings rock central Baghdad, at least 28 dead (Category: USA, Maryland)
(Lanka-e-News, March 26, 2010, 7.30PM) The Slave island police today (26) made a request to the Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne to order the Sirasa media Institution to release the video coverage they had made...
Mar 26, Colombo: The Colombo Fort Magistrate has today (26) ordered the MTV network to hand over the video footage of the attack on MTV/MBC office premises to the police.
(Lanka-e-News 25.March.2010 11.30PM) National security media center Director General Lakshman Hulugalle at a Press conference on 24th said ,the National Sangha Sabha...
Mar 25, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Buddhist nationalist party Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) and its affiliate, the today (25) denied any involvement in the attack on Sirasa media network.
The Government has refused visa for American singer Akon who had denigrated the Buddha Dhamma and the Buddhist culture. The Sri Lankan Government decided not to grant visa to the pop singer who was the issue to the clash opposite the Sirasa head office at Braybrooke Place in Colombo
Monitoring election violence in Sri Lanka Parliamentary Election 2010: Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) Media Communiqué 3 23 March 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka: CMEV continues to receive reports regarding the misuse of public resources for electioneering. CMEV has recorded...
- 20% voter turnout, major law violations - CMEV (Category: Breaking News)
- Video overview of polling day violence: Parliamentary Election 2010 (Category: Breaking News)
- Violence within UPFA before and after elections comparably very high (Category: Breaking News)
- Because of the indifference and negligence of the election officials, a fair election cannot be ex (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News 23.March.2010 1.30AM) Sirasa Media chain which has its news unit at the Maharaja Organization Building at Braybrooke place came under attack last afternoon...
In an unprecedented move to launch the new Signal formula with Active Micro Calcium, Unilever Sri Lanka created a ‘roadblock’ on Sirasa TV dedicating 13 whole hours of the day to Signal commercials, ensuring that no...
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