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Lankadeepa (Sinhala: ලංකාදීප) is a daily Sri Lankan Sinhala language newspaper which is owned by Wijeya Newspapers. They were established in 1991. The chairman of the organisation is Ranjith Wijewardene, the son of D. R. Wijewardena. The newspaper's coverage includes politics, sports, entertainment and military.
Wijesinghe Pathirage Harindra Madhava Wijesinghe (born 18 June 1988, Sinhala: මාධව විජේසිංහ) [Sinhala]), popularly as Madhava Wijesinghe, is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theater and television as well as a television presenter.
The Sunday Leader was an English-language Sri Lankan weekly newspaper published by Leader Publications (Private) Limited. It was founded in 1994 and is published from Colombo. Its sister newspapers are the Iruresa ( Irudina) and the defunct The Morning Leader. Founded by brothers Lasantha Wickrematunge and Lal Wickrematunge, the newspaper is ...
Chandraratne Dios Sooriyarachchi Mohotti, (19 June 1913 – 4 September 1964 as Sinhala: චන්ද්රරත්න මානවසිංහ) popularly known as Chandraratne Manawasinghe, was a Sinhala scholar, poet, philosopher and writer. [1] [2] Considered one of the iconic poets in Sinhala poetry, Manawasinghe made several popular ...
Saman Chandranath Weerasinghe (5 July 1947 – 15 February 2022: සමන් චන්ද්රනාත් වීරසිංහ), was an award-winning Sri Lankan journalist, lyricist, poet, and novelist. [1] Considered one of the most iconic and prolific lyricists ever produced in the country, he contributed to more than 2,000 songs in a ...
Kokila Pawan Jayasuriya (born 1 November 1994) (Sinhala: කෝකිල පවන් ජයසූරිය), is an actor in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre and television.He is very popular as a child artist for the role "Sirimal" in the film Siri Raja Siri and role "Manamaalan" in the television serial Nadgamkarayo.
He returned to journalism to found the Lankadeepa, the Sinhala daily which exists to this day as the Sinhala language daily with the largest circulation. Lankadeepa was unique at the time because it was original journalism in Sinhala. At that time the Dinamina which was the only other Sinhala daily was a translation of the Ceylon Daily News.
Lankadeepa. Lankadeepa was a Sinhala language daily newspaper in Ceylon published by Times of Ceylon Limited (TOCL). [1] [2] It was founded on 29 October 1947 and was published from Colombo. [1] [2] [3] Initially an evening paper, it became a morning daily on 1 May 1949. [3] In 1966 it had an average net sales of 56,241. [4]