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NewsFirst or News 1st is a Sri Lankan news organization owned by the Capital Maharaja Organization Ltd. [1] News 1st primarily broadcasts news, live on three TV channels (Sirasa TV, Shakthi TV, TV 1, five radio channels (Sirasa FM, Yes FM, Shakthi FM, Y FM and Legends FM), three websites in Sinhala, English & Tamil languages, and social media platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter).
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it.
Press freedom is a major concern in Sri Lanka. Both sides in the war make efforts to silence inconvenient reporters. Around 15 reporters received death threats from one faction or the other in 2004 [2] The assassinated reporter Aiyathurai Nadesan, correspondent in Batticaloa for several Tamil media stated just prior to his assassination in 2005:
Presidential elections were held in Sri Lanka on 16 November 2019. [1] [2] Incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena did not run for a second term.Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, was the candidate of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [3] and was endorsed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. [4]
Lankapuvath (Sinhala: ලංකාපුවත්) is Sri Lanka’s national and only news agency and is based in Colombo [1] [2] and consists of five partners, national dailies and main national electronic media institutions.
Preliminary work was underway in the first half of the 1970s. [1]Businessmen Anil Wijewardena and Shan Wickremasinghe established the country's first TV station Independent Television Network which started broadcasting on 15 April 1979. [2]
Assumed office 24 September 2024: President: Himself: Prime Minister: Harini Amarasuriya: Preceded by: Ranil Wickremesinghe: Minister of Agriculture, Land, Livestock ...
Rulach toured Australia along with the National School Cricket Association team in 1964. [2] In January 1966, he was appointed the captain of the National School Cricket Association team against a bunch of London Schoolboy cricketers.