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Eighty Years of Broadcasting in Sri Lanka; Reference to Bob Harvie commentating in the Bradby Shield match of 1970 – The Nation newspaper, Sri Lanka; Bob Harvie no More, Daily Mirror – Sri Lanka; In fond and loving memory of the late Bob Harvie – Sunday Times, Sri Lanka; Obituary on Bob Harvie – Daily News, Sri Lanka; Obituary on Bob ...
On 23 July 1983, the LTTE ambushed an army patrol and killed 13 Sri Lankan soldiers in Thirunelveli, Sri Lanka. As a response to this were one of the worst government sponsored anti-Tamil riots held (the event known as Black July ) resulting in the destruction of Tamil houses and shops and deaths of hundreds of Tamils and making over 150,000 ...
Gamini Dissanayake. Navin, Mayantha, Varuni. Dissanayake Mudiyanse Ralahamilage Lionel Gamini Dissanayake, PC (known as Gamini Dissanayake; Sinhala: ලයනල් ගාමිණි දිසානායක, Tamil: காமினி திஸாநாயக்க; 20 March 1942 – 24 October 1994) was a prominent Sri Lankan politician, a ...
S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, the fourth Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka ), was assassinated by the Buddhist priest Talduwe Somarama Thero on September 25, 1959, while meeting the public at his private residence, Tintagel, at Rosemead Place in Colombo. Shot in the chest, abdomen, and hand, Bandaranaike died the following day at Merchant's ...
Website. nation .lk. 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.
Early life and family. Dissanayake was born in 1943. [1] [a] She was the daughter of Piyasena Lenaduwa from Galle in southern Ceylon. [2] She was educated at Ladies' College, Colombo. [2] After school Dissanayake joined Ceylon Law College where she met her future husband Gamini Dissanayake. [2] [3] They had two sons, Navin and Mayantha, both of ...
Sanath Nishantha Perera [2] ( Sinhala: සනත් නිශාන්ත, Tamil: சனத் நிசாந்த; 3 May 1975 – 25 January 2024), more commonly known as Sanath Nishantha, was a Sri Lankan politician who was a member of parliament and a Minister of State. He was elected from the Puttalam District in 2015 and 2020, and served ...
Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka. Yvonne Jonsson (died July 1, 2005) was a 19-year-old Swedish woman living in Sri Lanka at the time of her murder. She was beaten and fatally strangled by Jude Shramantha Anthony Jayamaha in the stairwell of the Royal Park Condominium complex in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka. Despite sustaining major blunt force cranial trauma ...