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Daily News (Sri Lanka) Daily News. (Sri Lanka) The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is now published by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The newspaper commenced publishing on 3 January 1918. [1]
Sri Lanka is officially a Buddhist country, while Sri Lankans practice a variety of religions. As of the 2012 census, 70.2% of Sri Lankans were Buddhists, 12.6% were Hindus, 9.7% were Muslims (mainly Sunni ), 7.4% were Christians (mostly Catholics ). [2] [3] Buddhism is declared as the State religion of Sri Lanka and has been given special ...
Tanzania Standard (Newspapers) Limited. Founded. 1930s. Headquarters. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Website. Newspaper Website. The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Tanzania, the second-largest economy in the East African Community .
Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa, RWP, RSP ( Sinhala: නන්දසේන ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ; Tamil: நந்தசேன கோட்டாபய ராஜபக்ஷ; born 20 June 1949) is a former Sri Lankan politician and military officer, who served as the eighth President of Sri Lanka from 18 November 2019 until his ...
Walayah – devotion to Allah, Muhammad, his family, and his descendants – is the central of the seven pillars of the Dawoodi Bohra faith.. The other six pillars are tahaarat (purity in body and thought), salaat (daily ritual prayers), zakaat (offering a portion of one's income in the cause of Allah), sawm (fasting, particularly in the month of Ramadan), hajj (a ritual pilgrimage to Mecca ...
t. e. Freedom of religion in Tanzania refers to the extent to which people in Tanzania are freely able to practice their religious beliefs, taking into account both government policies and societal attitudes toward religious groups. The government of Tanzania and the semiautonomous government of Zanzibar both recognize religious freedom as a ...
March 5, 2021 (aged 60) Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, Galle. Nationality. Sri Lankan. Education. Trinity College, Kandy. Occupation (s) journalist, broadcaster, newspaper editor, diplomat. Bandula Jayasekara also known as Bandula Jayasekera ( Sinhala: බන්දුල ජයසේකර; 1960/1 – 5 March 2021) was a Sri Lankan journalist ...
Tanzania is a multilingual country. There are many languages spoken in the country, none of which is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population. Swahili and English, the latter of which was inherited from colonial rule ( see Tanganyika Territory ), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They serve as working languages in ...