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The first Times newspaper, Ceylon Times was established in 1846. The Times of Ceylon Ltd, which existed for 131 years, was taken over by the Sri Lankan government in 1977. Ranjith Wijewardena, the son of D. R. Wijewardena, and the chairman of Wijeya Newspapers Ltd, purchased the company which was under liquidation, in 1986.
Updated on October 2023. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Tharushi Dilsara Karunaratne (born 18 November 2004) is a Sri Lankan middle-distance runner who competes mainly in the 800 metres. She won a gold medal at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships held in Bangkok in the 400m women's event and also the broke the 25 year old Asian record in the event.
Ajantha Wijesinghe Perera ( Sinhala: අජන්තා පෙරේරා) is a Sri Lankan academic, scientist, university lecturer, environmental activist and politician. [1] She is known for her efforts to end the garbage crisis in Sri Lanka and is nicknamed as Garbage Queen. [2] She founded the National Programme on Recycling of Solid Waste ...
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. For those newspapers that are also published online, the website is given.
Philip Nehri Mullegama. Philip Nehri Mullegama is a Sri Lankan entrepreneur, corporate trainer, personality development coach, motivational speaker, business consultant and a former drug addict. [1] He currently works as the CEO of Chandanaleepa which is one of the largest local Ayurvedic cosmetics manufacturers in Sri Lanka. [2]
Sunday Observer. Sunday Observer is a weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka, published on Sundays. The Sunday Observer and its sister newspapers the Daily News, Dinamina, Silumina and Thinakaran are published by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The paper, which was established in the ...
Wijeya Newspapers Limited (WNL) is a Sri Lankan media company which publishes a number of national newspapers and magazines. Formerly known as Wijeya Publications Limited, WNL was founded in 1979 by Ranjith Wijewardene, son of media mogul D. R. Wijewardena. [ 1][ 2] Ranjith Wijewardene had been chairman of Associated Newspapers of Ceylon ...
[1] [2] [3] She is the only woman cricketer to take 100 wickets in WODIs for Sri Lanka, [4] and the only female Sri Lankan to combine this with 1,000+ runs. She is also the all-time leading wicket taker for Sri Lanka in WT20I with 77 scalps. She played for Sri Lanka internationally in a career spanning 17 years, from 2003 to 2020. [5] [6]