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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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 ...

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 to both reward and entertain hundreds of thousands of television viewers across the country. Billed...

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...

(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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 a comprehensive report to Court. "I had no political pressure to stop investigating the Sirasa attack,&...

(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. It was the Maharajah Group of Companies [...]

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...

(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...