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Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited is a public limited liability company incorporated in Sri Lanka in 1926 by its founder D. R. Wijewardena. 75% of its shares were Nationalized under the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Special Provisions) Law No. 28 of 1973 and this stake is held by the Public Trustee of Sri Lanka on behalf of the ...
In the late 1980s, the country was under a tense situation with two insurgencies ravaging northern and southern parts of Sri Lanka. [2] The first insurgency was initiated by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and several Tamil militant groups in 1983, seeking to create an independent Tamil state in the northern and eastern parts of the country. [3]
The 2022 Sri Lankan political crisis was a political crisis in Sri Lanka due to the power struggle between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the people of Sri Lanka. It was fueled by the anti-government protests and demonstrations by the public due to the economic crisis in the country.
In the past four years, the share of people living below the poverty line in Sri Lanka has risen to 25.9 per cent. The World Bank forecasts the economy to grow by just 2.2 per cent in 2024.
Victim Position Date Location District Province Method Perpetrators Refs Premawathie Manamperi: Beauty queen: 1971: Kataragama: Moneragala: Uva: Shot: Army [1] [2]Father George Jeyarajasingham
I Witnessed Genocide: Inside Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is a 2011 investigative documentary film by Ms. Priyamvatha of the Indian news channel Headlines Today.Ms. Priyamvatha went undercover to the Vanni to report on the survivors of the Sri Lankan
20 February − The total number of COVID-19 deaths in Sri Lanka surpasses 16,000 with 30 more deaths. [53] 22 February − Vice chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Jeewan Kumaranatunga steps down from all positions he held in the party and expects to join the New Lanka Freedom Party under the leadership of Kumara Welgama. [54]
On the night of 28 April 2005 Taraki Sivaram, an editor for the TamilNet news website, was abducted by four men in a white van in front of a restaurant metres from Bambalapitiya police station, Colombo. [51] [52] He was found dead the next morning in Himbulala inside a High Security Zone near the Parliament – he had been shot and beaten.