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[…]The post The Despot President Was Replaced By A Tyrant In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Preventing Crooks From Entering The Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Immediate Governmental Actions Needed (Category: Breaking News)
- Changing Pillows To Cure Headaches: Politicians—Constitutional Amendment Mess (Category: Breaking News)
- Anarchy & Abuse Of Power By Politicians (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Two Toronto-Based Writers Short-Listed For Top Literary Award In Sri Lanka appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Premanishansa – Love – Become It (Category: Breaking News)
- Cinematographer Donald Karunaratne, Who Passed Away In LA, Planned Ahas Gawwa Sequel (Category: Breaking News)
- Soma Munasinghe – Versatilist-Journalist, Passionate Writer & Prolific Translator (Category: Breaking News)
- “Lamā Adhyāpanaya Sandahā Kathandara” (Stories To Be Used For Educating Children) (Category: Breaking News)
Wednesday 10th August, 2022 The JVP has refused to join the proposed all-party government, calling it a ruse to perpetuate the Rajapaksa rule, in all but name, with President Ranil Wickremesinghe being at the beck and call of the SLPP leadership. What the country needs is an interim government pending an early general election because […]
- People don’t vote rationally at general election held after presidential polls (Category: Breaking News)
- Basil favours earlier parliamentary election and RW as presidential candidate (Category: Breaking News)
- JVP lashes SLPP’s VAT “dupliciy” (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential poll: Chief Govt. Whip steps up pressure on SLPP on behalf of Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Mahinda Should Have Retired After Two Terms: Chamal Rajapaksa – Gota Should Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Rajapaksa Dilemmas: Push Back On Basil Or Risk Leaving Like Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Is Bowing Out! What About Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
- Whose Saviour Is Ranil? And Who Is Being Clever – Ranil Or Gota? (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): The Broadcasters Guild of Sri Lanka has highlighted the problems faced by the teledrama industry amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The shooting of teledramas that are continuously telecasted is being hampered due to health restrictions, the guild said in a letter to the mass media minister. It expressed disappointment over these obstacles, citing that […] Teledrama industry a...
- Mobile phone case: Two women given suspended sentence . (Category: Breaking News)
- Anton Jude passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Mobile phone case: Two women given suspended sentence (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to amend laws on public performances (Category: Breaking News)
The Government has earned a tax revenue of Rs 790 million from the foreign teledramas telecast by local TV stations from 2006 up to April last year, it as revealed in Parliament on Wednesday. Chief Government Whip Minister Dinesh Gunawardenasaid a tax of Rs 90,000 is levied for the first 30 minutes of each Indian teledrama telecast by local channels. An additional tax of Rs 15,000 is levied for e...
- Sri Lankan government earns millions in tax revenue from foreign teledramas (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka re-imposes rice levy to support local farmers (Category: Breaking News)
- Tax levied on rice imports re-imposed (Category: Breaking News)
- People should contribute to northern rehabilitation (Category: Breaking News)
The Colombo Fort Magistrate yesterday ordered teledrama actress Anushka Sonali Sayakkara to pay Rs.1,000 as state costs in a case involving an attempt to extort a sum of Rs.100,000 from...
The Independent Television again glitters at the Raigam Tele Awards Festival grabbing the highest number of Awards. In addition to clinching the most number of Awards at Raigam Tele’es, ITN also became the best TV Channel of the Year. The Raigam Tele’es 2011 was staged at Water’s Edge last evening. The Awards night was graced ...
- ITN honoured with several Tele awards (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN glitters at Sumathi Tele Awards Festival (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN receives award for best tele -drama (Category: Breaking News)
- President: Raigam Tele Awards left out ‘best soap opera’ (Category: Breaking News)
The latest children’s tele-drama of ITN ‘Muthu Pihatu’ will be telecast from next week. ITN which has revolutionized the tele-drama scene is introducing a new time belt to telecast ‘Muthu Pihatu’. It is based on a special theme suitable for the entire family. ITN will telecast the tele-drama from 6.30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays. ...
- ITN honoured with several Tele awards (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN receives award for best tele -drama (Category: Breaking News)
- President: Raigam Tele Awards left out ‘best soap opera’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN glitters at Sumathi Tele Awards Festival (Category: Breaking News)
Popular Sinhala movie and teledrama actor Anton Jude passed away this morning at the Ragama hospital. Jude acted in the movie Mago Digo Dai and also Super Six and also took part in the Swarnavahini reality program Dancing Stars.
- Popular actor Anton Jude dies (Category: Breaking News)
- Anton Jude passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Actor Anton Jude passes away (Category: Breaking News)
- Popular actor Anton Jude passes away (Category: Breaking News)
Popular cinema, teledrama and stage actor Anton Jude has passed away, Ragama Hospital sources told Ada Derana.
(Srilankamirror) - Daughter of slain parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra - Hirunika Premachandra has recently turned down a teledrama role, reports say.
- Hirunika Premachandra to enter politics from SLMP (Category: Breaking News)
- Mother opposes Hirunika’s political entry (Category: Breaking News)
- Hirunika returns home (Category: Breaking News)
- Police ordered to probe Bharatha family death threats (Category: Breaking News)
A fashion model and teledrama actress, and another woman were fined Rs.250 each and imposed a three-..
(Srilankamirror) - Two teledrama actresses have been ordered to pay a fine and handed a suspended prison term after being found guilty of prostitution. Mt. Lavinia magistrate Ruchira Weliwatte yesterday (Feb. 17) ordered a Rs. 250 fine each and a three month jail term, suspended for five years. Police informed the court that the two women had operated from a three wheeler in front of Libe...
- Import levy on several food commodities upped (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Kusa Paba’ breaks income records (Category: Breaking News)
- Rs. 1,020 m profit by LECO (Category: Breaking News)
- State institutions owe Rs. 4,770 million to CPC (Category: Breaking News)
A fashion model and teledrama actress, and another woman were fined Rs.250 each and imposed a three-month sentence suspended for five years when they were produced in a Mount Lavinia...
(Srilankamirror) - The current head of Swarnavahini and his second mate is secretly plotting to introduce a lengthy teledrama named ‘Piyavi’, ‘Srilankamirror’ learns. Though assisting teledrama productions is nothing extraordinary, the secrecy of it all has piqued the curiosity of the workers, reports say. The fact that the producer is none other than the owner of Vi...
- New drama at Swarnavahini (Category: Breaking News)
- Nehara – Menaka in US (Category: Breaking News)
- Deputy minister boycotts Negombo mayor swearing-in (Category: Breaking News)
- Dalada Maligawa Diyawadana Nilame says cleared of charges (Category: Breaking News)
Independent Television Network which has been feted with many Awards is again crowned as the Peoples channel. It has again won the highest number of Awards at the People’s Awards Festival. The Peoples Awards Night was held at Water’s Edge in Battaramulla last night under the patronage of Minister Patalie Champika Ranawaka. This unique event ...
- ANCHOR the Peoples Choice (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN is the ‘Peoples TV Channel of the Year’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN honoured with many awards (Category: Breaking News)
- SLIM-Nielsen Peoples Awards gives voice to the people (Category: Breaking News)
ITN has won 18 awards for excellence at the Television State Awards ceremony. The 2010 Television State Awards Ceremony was held at the BMICH last night under the patronage of Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne. Minister T.B. Ekanayake and several other Ministers and Parliamentarians participated in the occasion. The highest number of awards was won by ...
- ITN is the ‘Peoples TV Channel of the Year’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN glitters at Signis Awards Nite (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN is the most popular channel (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN receives award for best tele -drama (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - Popular artistes Nehara Peiris and Menaka Rajapakse are in Boston, reports say. They are there for shooting of ‘Aadaraneeya Niagara,’ which is the first ever Sri Lankan teledrama in the United States. The 36-episode ‘Adaraneeya Niagara’ revolves around two Sri Lankan immigrant families living separately in a vast society and are unexpectedly broug...
- 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)
ITN has won 18 awards for excellence at the Television State Awards ceremony. The 2010 Television State Awards Ceremony was held at the BMICH last night under the patronage of Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne. Minister T.B. Ekanayake and several other Ministers and Parliamentarians participated in the occasion. The highest number of awards was won by ...
- ITN is the ‘Peoples TV Channel of the Year’ (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN glitters at Signis Awards Nite (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN is the most popular channel (Category: Breaking News)
- ITN receives award for best tele -drama (Category: Breaking News)
(Srilankamirror) - The programme production unit of the Swarnavahini TV channel has become a tangled mess at the present, ‘Srilankamirror’ learns. According to buzz, the source of this chaos is none other than the head of the programme production unit. Among the many acts of disarray is an attempt to close the unit’s doors to Buddhika Kulasekara, who is currently a Progra...
- AIDS and VD prevention programme for newly resettled civilians in Thalaiady (Category: Breaking News)
- Movement for Peoples' Struggle awareness programme disrupted (Category: Breaking News)
- Why did Harendra leave Swarnavahini? (Category: Breaking News)
- Couple hacked to death in Vavuniya (Category: Breaking News)
Popular teledrama actress Upeksha Swarnamali will contest the upcoming general election on the UNP ticket from the Gampaha District, sources told Ada Derana.
Nov 20, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is to bring new laws that may allow restrictions on teledrama and musical videos.
Popular film and teledrama producer and businessman Upul Jayasinghe has been questioned by two unidentified men whether his upcoming film ‘Ethumai Methumai’ is based on the Kolonnawa incident
The police say they had arrested a young teledrama actress last week after she was nabbed while engaging in prostitution. According to the police Women and Children’s Bureau, the 20 year old actress of the Sinhalese television drama ‘Gehenu Lamai’ was arrested in Athurugiriya. She was arrested based on information received by the police. She ...
- Two related crime scenes in Bloomington apartment complex: 1 man dead, 2 injured (Category: USA, Minnesota)
- Two related crime scenes in Bloomington apartment complex: 1 man dead, 2 injured (Category: USA, Minnesota)
- Two related crime scenes in Bloomington apartment complex: 1 man dead, 2 injured (Category: USA, Minnesota)
- Two related crime scenes in Bloomington apartment complex: 1 man dead, 2 injured (Category: USA, Minnesota)
A teledrama actrcess involved in a prostitution racket has been arrested by the Mirihana police. Police said that the actress in her early 20's had claimed that she was involved in prostitution as she wanted to raise money for her father's medical expenses. Police said that she had acted in several teledrams as well as in some of productions done by an Indian company.
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
- 14-year-old boy fatally shot in Belmont Central (Category: USA, Illinois)
A teledrama actor who posed off as a military person and demanded ransom from businessmen has been arrested by the Police today. The man identified as Ranjan Ariyaratna was arrested in Colombo after he abducted a businessman from Balangoda and held back two of his vehicles demanding a ransom of Rs. 1.6 million. However after he paid the ransom the man had refused to release his vehicles promptin...
- Complaint lodge against politician who threaten a businessmen of Kollpitty area (Category: Breaking News)
- Kidnap leader freed from jail (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Risky Voyage (Category: Business)
- State-owned phone used to demand ransom in Sri Lanka, police investigation reveals (Category: Breaking News)
A tele-drama actress who demanded ransom money from her father was today granted bail after she speared before the Colombo Fort Magistrate. The actress Anushka Sonali Sayakkara on an earlier occasion failed to appear before Courts and an arrest warrant was issued on her. Accordingly when she appeared in Courts today she was released on Rs. 1,500 bail by Magistrate Lanka Jayaratna. Her father had ...
The Colombo Fort Magistrate today issued a warrant for the arrest of teledrama actress Anushka Sonali Sayakkara for not appearing in court in a case involving an alleged attempt to...
Colombo (Sri Lanka Mirror) - The teledrama ‘Bharyawo’ (Wives), to be produced by Sudharma Nettikumara, is on a concept by Shashi Weerawansa, the wife of NFF leader and minister Wimal Weerawansa. The Muhurath festival for the teledrama took place at Hotel Intercontinental in Colombo yesterday (Oct. 23). According to the producer, the teledrama aims to transform society’s a...
- Hirunika says no to Upul (Category: Breaking News)
- Piyavi - Swarnavahini’s latest muddle (Category: Breaking News)
- Lost Shashi Weerawansa found (Category: Breaking News)
- New drama at Swarnavahini (Category: Breaking News)
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