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The Island. (Sri Lanka) The Island is a daily English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is published by Upali Newspapers. A sister newspaper of Divaina, The Island was established in 1981. Its Sunday edition, Sunday Island, commenced publishing in 1991. [1] The daily newspaper currently has a circulation of 70,000 and its Sunday edition ...
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 Lanka, [ a ] historically known as Ceylon, [ b ] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the ...
England fast bowler Mark Wood will not be involved on Day 4 of the first test against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford after sustaining an injury to his right thigh. Wood pulled up during his run-up late ...
Kamindu Mendis hit the third century of his four-match test career to help steer Sri Lanka to a lead of 169 over England by lunch on Day 4, and into a winning position at Old Trafford. The Sri ...
Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva hit 74 to help his team fight back from a perilous position and reach tea at 178-8 on Day 1 of the first test against England. With the tourists struggling on ...
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:
Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone ( UTC+5:30) Kachchatheevu location in Jaffna Peninsula, extreme bottom left or southwest of the map. Katchatheevu ( Tamil: கச்சத்தீவு, Tamil pronunciation: [kəttʃət̪t̪iːʋʉ]) [ a] is an uninhabited island in Sri Lanka. The island was governed by British Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from 1921. [ 3]