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It is published by Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd. Its sister publications are The Sunday Leader and Iruresa. The Morning Leader was refounded by Lasantha Wickramatunge who was assassinated in January 2009. It is known for its independent news coverage and it has faced arson attacks from men with complicity from the Sri Lankan authorities. [1 ...
Sarath Fonseka, the former commander of the Sri Lanka Army, and candidate of the 2010 presidential election who was quoted in the article, initially denied the story, but The Sunday Leader subsequently refuted the denial. [33] The story resulted in Fonseka being charged with ""propagating a false rumour", a violation of emergency regulations. [34]
Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra (Sinhala: භාරත ලක්ෂ්මන් ප්රේමචන්ද්ර) (26 January 1956 – 8 October 2011) also known as "Lucky Aiya", was a Sri Lankan politician, a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, and Adviser (Trade Unions) to President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
More than 1,000 mourners attended a memorial service at St. Sebastian church in the coastal city of Negombo, just north of the capital, Colombo, where more than 100 parishioners were killed as ...
Leader Publications is a Sri Lankan newspaper publisher. Its publications are The Sunday Leader , Morning Leader and Iruresa It was founded by Lal Wickrematunge and Lasantha Wickrematunge . It is known for its independent news coverage and it has faced arson attacks from men with complicity from the Sri Lankan authorities.
Sri Lanka's embattled president has left the Maldives after fleeing his own country amid an economic collapse and protests demanding that he resign. Sri Lankan leader flees onward to Singapore as ...
We are going to kill your children.'" [2] In 2002, Wickrematunge's then-wife left Sri Lanka due to the constant threats against their family, taking their three children to Australia. [2] On September 5, 2000, Lasantha Wickrematunge was found guilty of criminally defaming Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga in a 1995 article in The ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will enter into an agreement with the World Bank for $500 million in budgetary support after the cabinet approved it on Tuesday, the biggest funding tranche for the ...