Srilankamirror  - Administrative director of Sirikotha D.B. Medagedara today (20) launched a complaint against the Sirasa TV station. The complaint stated that the TV station evoked the public into attacking Sirikotha, leading to the threatening of the UNP leader with death. In a special statement in Parliament today, the UNP leader Rail Wickremesinghe said that there was a threat t...

  Mano Wickramanayake, Group Director of Capital Maharaja Organization passed away yesterday. He also served as Group Director of Sirasa and MTV Channels. Funeral arrangements will be notified later.{jcomments on}

(Srilankamirror) - A group director of Capital Maharaja, Mano Wikramanayake, passed away this afternoon (Dec. 03). Mr. Wikramanayake suddenly fell and was being taken to hospital, when he breathed his last. He had been director in charge of Sirasa and MTV media channels, owned by Capital Maharaja. Mr. Wikramanayake was one-time deputy president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Associati...

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 ...

“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 ...

Colombo (Srilankamirror) - S.M. Marikkar has been appointed head of Shakthi FM channel, in addition to his position as head of Sirasa FM, according to reports reaching Srilankamirror. The additional responsibility for him comes after his achievements with Sirasa FM. The channel has been recognized as the no: one radio channel among the people and its financial position has been further str...

Colombo (Srilankamirror) - Surendra Perera, winner in the season two of Sirasa Super Star, has been hospitalized after being beaten by one of his best friends. The alleged attacker, who is employed in Italy, had returned home and carried out the attack, reports said. It is over a dealing between his girlfriend and Surendra. Attempts by ‘Srilankamirror’ to contact the Super S...

Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara has said that there could have been a conspiracy involved in the killing of presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. The minister gave a statement to a team of CID detectives at his ministry this morning (Oct. 19), Sirasa reported. He said that neither the CID nor he made references to a conspiracy in the killing. Detectives asked him to give th...

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...

Former Army commander Sarath Fonseka today (Oct. 07) asked a Sirasa journalist why only a part of the statement made by him yesterday was broadcast by the media channel. He further questioned whether the statement was edited as Sirasa was wary of Minister Mervyn Silva. The question was raised while the former Army commander was leaving the Colombo High Court after appearing for the 'Wh...

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) after he had videoed the mourning relatives of a dead man, who was one of the suspects in the killing of...

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 over the death of a suspect who died in Police custody when the Police had taken him to the Moratuwa...

Sirasa Superstar Generation Four steps out of the blues By Ranee Mohamed It was a Friday night, a night when Colombo was ablaze with talent. There were songs from everywhere, singers in five star hotels set hearts and minds aflame and this language of love was listened, learnt and spoken. Elsewhere in the city were ...

(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...

The Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday ordered the news director of the Sirasa media network and the ..

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today order the private hospital which is treating former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka and media channel Sirasa TV to hand over video footage taken at the...

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...

JVP politburo member and DNA parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake today (24) charged that the government has used emergency regulations suppress the people’s rights and to silence dissent. Dissanayake speaking during the debate on the extension of emergency regulations in parliament has called on the government to relax the emergency regulations. He has also spoke of ...

Some members of the gang that attacked Sirasa TV last year are contesting the March 17 local government election in the Kelaniya area, DNA MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake charged in...

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...

Two Criminal Investigation Department Officers who recorded statements of Derana and Sirasa News Editors yesterday testified before the Trial-at-Bar consisting of three High Court Judges hearing Sarath Fonseka’s white flag issue. The two CID officers Inspector Asela Indrajith and Sub Inspector H M Janananda examined by Senior State Counsel Dilan Ratnayake said that they record...

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...