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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Sri Lanka. [1] Although no executions have been carried out since 23 June 1976, death sentences continue to be handed down by the High and Supreme Courts for murder and drug trafficking convictions. [2] The government decided to reinstate capital punishment in 2004 for cases of rape, drug trafficking and ...
Mankulam, Sri Lanka. Died. 13 May 2015. (2015-05-13) (aged 18) Pungudutivu, Sri Lanka. Known for. Murder victim. Sivaloganathan Vithiya (25 November 1996 – 13 May 2015) was an 18 year old Sri Lankan Tamil schoolgirl who was gang raped and murdered on the island of Pungudutivu in northern Sri Lanka in May 2015.
Sunday Observer is a weekly English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka, published on Sundays. The Sunday Observer and its sister newspapers the Daily News, Dinamina, Silumina and Thinakaran are published by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation. The paper, which was established in the present-day ...
Sajith Premadasa (Sinhala: සජිත් ප්රේමදාස, Tamil: சஜித் பிரேமதாச; born 12 January 1967) is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the current Leader of the Opposition of Sri Lanka and Member of Parliament for Colombo District. He is the current leader of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya.
Headquarters. No. 8, Hunupitiya Cross Road, Colombo 2, Sri Lanka. Website. dailymirror .lk. Daily Mirror is a daily English-language newspaper published in Colombo, Sri Lanka, by Wijeya Newspapers. Its Sunday counterpart is the Sunday Times. [1] Its sister newspaper on financial issues is the Daily FT .
Sudar Oli ( Tamil: சுடர் ஒளி Cuṭar Oḷi) is a Tamil language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by Mass Media Syndicate (Private) Limited, part of the Uthayan Group of Newspapers. It was founded in 2000 and is published from Colombo. Its sister newspaper is the Jaffna based Uthayan. The newspaper has been attacked several ...
Known for. Sri Lankan Archaeology, Prehistory of Sri Lanka. Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1 March 1942 – 5 October 2021) was a Sri Lankan archaeologist and historian, who served as the Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001. [1] He also served as the President of the Sri Lanka Council of ...
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 ...