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The newspaper's coverage includes politics, sports, entertainment and military. The weekend newspaper, named Irida Lankadeepa , is published on Sundays. Irida Lankadeepa won the SLIM-Nielsen People's Awards in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010 as Sri Lanka's most popular weekend newspaper.
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.
Sri Lankadeepa was a Sinhala language weekly newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL). [ 1][ 2] It was founded in 1951 and was published from Colombo. [ 1][ 2] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 118,561. [ 2] It had an average circulation of 133,093 in 1970, 85,654 in 1973 and 55,000 in 1976. [ 3][ 4][ 5]
Lankadeepa was a Sinhala language daily newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was founded on 29 October 1947 and was published from Colombo . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Initially an evening paper, it became a morning daily on 1 May 1949. [ 3 ]
Chandraratne Dios Sooriyarachchi Mohotti, (19 June 1913 – 4 September 1964 as Sinhala: චන්ද්රරත්න මානවසිංහ) popularly known as Chandraratne Manawasinghe, was a Sinhala scholar, poet, philosopher and writer. [ 1][ 2] Considered one of the iconic poets in Sinhala poetry, Manawasinghe made several popular ...
He returned to journalism to found the Lankadeepa, the Sinhala daily which exists to this day as the Sinhala language daily with the largest circulation. Lankadeepa was unique at the time because it was original journalism in Sinhala. At that time the Dinamina which was the only other Sinhala daily was a translation of the Ceylon Daily News.
Bandula Padmakumara. Godewatta Arachchige Bandula Padmakumara ( Sinhala: බන්දුල පද්මකුමාර; 2 June 1950 – 24 February 2022), popularly as Bandula Padmakumara, was a Sri Lankan journalist and television presenter. [1] [2] He was an iconic figure of Sri Lankan media and journalism most notable for the popular ...
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 .