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Arson attacks in Vavuniya: 1 June 1983: Vavuniya: crops, huts, buildings and vehicles destroyed and burned in Gandhiyam farm at Kovilkulam; market, shops and vehicles burned and civilians assaulted; property damage over Rs. 3 million: Sri Lanka Armed Forces [36] Attack on Tamil passengers on the Jaffna-Colombo train: 5 June 1983: Vavuniya ...
Vavuniya District's population was 171,511 in 2012. [2] The population of the district is mostly Sri Lankan Tamil. The population of the district, like the rest of the north and east of Sri Lanka, has been heavily affected by the civil war. The war killed an estimated 100,000 people. [10]
Vavuniya (Tamil: வவுனியா, Romanized: Vavuniya, Sinhala: වවුනියාව, Romanized: Vavuniyāva) is a city in Vavuniya District in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The municipality is administered by an Municipal Council .
TV 1 is a Sri Lankan general entertainment television channel that provides content in both English and Sinhalese, aimed at the youth market. It was founded in 1992 as MTV Newsvision, making it one of Sri Lanka's first privately owned television channels. [1] Its sister channel, MTV, was renamed Sirasa TV in June 1998, and MTV Newsvision was ...
All government buildings for the Vavuniya district are located there. [citation needed] This is one of the place in Vavuniya, where Rich and educated people lives. Most of them are originally from Jaffna, came after massive displacement in 1996. Prices of the Land is so High and Living in Vairavarpuliyankulam is matter of Pride.
Vasantham TV broadcasts to the Western Province of Sri Lanka on VHF channel 10. The channel extended its coverage to the North and East of Sri Lanka on 6 January 2010, transmitting via UHF channel 25 and Vasantham TV expand its coverage island wide soon. [citation needed] Furthermore, viewers can stream the channel live, online via the ITN website.
Programming for ETV was by down linking AsiaSat1 programs by a 50-foot (15 m) diameter concrete dish built by Nahil (for which he owned a patent) at an east–west property in Peliyagoda, Sri Lanka. The AsiaSat 1 signal was very weak (approx -19 db to -23db) and the 50-foot (15 m) dish enabled ETV to provide 'broadcast quality' programs.
Sri Lanka's second state-owned TV station - Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) - was established by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Act No. 6 of 1982. [3] SLRC started broadcasting on 15 February 1982. [2] The Act required the SLRC to maintain taste and decency and not to incite crime and disorder or cause religious or public offence.