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The Nation is a weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is published on every Sunday, by Rivira Media Corporation (Pvt) Ltd. A sister newspaper of Rivira, The Nation was established in 2006. It has a circulation of 132,000 per issue and an estimated readership of 662,000 by 2012. [1][2] The newspaper comes with a range of supplements ...
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 ...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is among the 38 candidates contesting Sri Lanka's presidential election on Saturday, a poll that is key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation battling its ...
Just over two years since Sri Lanka's 'Aragalaya' uprising that deposed the nation's president, the movement that sparked the mass struggle is rallying behind Anura Kumara Dissanayake to lead the ...
An annulet or passing under the crest and vase surrounding the stalks of rice; a bordure azure surrounding the entire arms. The National Emblem of Sri Lanka[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is used by the State of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan government in connection with the administration and government of the country. The current emblem has been in use since ...
The Sri Lanka Opinion Tracker Survey by Institute for Health Policy (IHP) shows Premadasa coming in second in voting preferences at 32%, trailing Dissanayake at 36%, followed by Wickremesinghe who ...
The national anthem of Sri Lanka "Sri Lanka Matha" is believed to have been written by Rabindranath Tagore [5] and later composed by Ananda Samarakoon in 1940 before the island nation's independence from the British. In 1951, it became the national anthem of Sri Lanka.
The history of Sri Lanka is unique because its relevance and richness extend beyond the areas of South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. The early human remains which were found on the island of Sri Lanka date back to about 38,000 years ago (Balangoda Man). The historical period roughly begins in the 3rd century BCE, based on Pali ...