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The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), formerly Radio Ceylon, is the oldest radio station in Asia, and was founded as Colombo Radio in 1925. Edward Harper who was then the Chief Engineer at the Telegraph Department in 1921, was the first person who initiated experimental broadcasts in Ceylon. The first-ever broadcast on an experimental ...
Richard de Zoysa. Richard Manik de Zoysa (Sinhala: රිචඩ් ද සොයිසා; Tamil: இரிச்சர்ட் டி சோய்சா; 18 March 1958 – 18 February 1990) was a well-known Sri Lankan journalist, author, human rights activist and actor, who was abducted and murdered on 18 February 1990. His murder caused ...
Nihal Samarasinghe. Nihal Samarasinghe, ( Sinhala: නිහල් සමරසිංහ; 1937 – 11 July 2017), popularly known as Sam The Man was a famous Sri Lankan saxophonist and singer, who was considered an icon of the Sri Lanka English music scene. [1] He played the Saxophone for Leonard Franke’s band “The Manhattans" (Sri Lankan ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[ a ] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician currently serving as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 23 September 2024. He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National ...
Clarence Wijewardena was born on 3 August 1943, in Haputale, Sri Lanka, to an estate medical practitioner. [5] His family moved to Batugedara, Ratnapura, and Clarence abandoned a budding career as a planter to pursue music full-time. He completed education from Weeraparakrama College, Yatawatta and Hatton Highland College.
Japan, India and China are key parties to Sri Lanka's $12.5 billion debt rework. Dissanayake has expressed his intention to continue working with them and foster economic ties to boost growth.
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna[ a ] (JVP; lit.'People's Liberation Front', PLF) is a leftist political party in Sri Lanka. [ 14 ] The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 (SLFP), and another in 1987–89 (UNP). The motive for both uprisings was to ...
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is an investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4 on 14 June 2011. [1] Described as one of the most graphic documentaries in British TV history, the documentary featured amateur video from the conflict zone filmed by civilians and Sri Lankan ...