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The newspaper was founded May 19, 1890, under the name The Arizona Republican. [3]On April 28, 1909, a notification on the front page of the paper announced that local businessmen S. W. Higley and Sims Ely purchased the newspaper from George W. Vickers, and would run the paper as president and general manager, respectively.
Corruption is prevalent in Sri Lanka. Cited as "one of the most corrupt nations in the world" by Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe of the Lanka Standard, [15] there have been instances in which law enforcers take bribes from offenders who wish to have their offences waived. The government has made an effort to curb corruption in the country and ...
4 March – Rail services resume on the Northern Line between Kilinochchi and Pallai after an interruption of 23 years due to the civil war. [72] [73]7 March – Customs officials in Colombo seize 36 kilograms (79 lb) of heroin, worth about Rs.360 million, at the Rank Container Terminal in Orugodawatte.
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 ...
Ceylon Today is an English language Sri Lankan daily newspaper published by Ceylon Newspapers (Private) Limited. It was founded in 2011 and is published from Colombo. Its sister newspaper is the Mawbima. Ceylon Newspapers (Private) Limited is owned by politician Tiran Alles. [1] The first edition of the newspaper was published on 18 November ...
Thanthi was a Tamil language daily evening newspaper in Ceylon published by Independent Newspapers Limited, part of M. D. Gunasena & Company. [1] It was founded on 1967 and was published from Colombo. [1]
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
The English version of this newspaper was called Lakbima News. "Lakbima Irida Sangrahaya" was a weekend newspaper published on Sunday. It is established in 1994. [1] [2] The newspaper includes local, foreign, sports and entertainment news. Lakbima News Papers is the main sponsor of the annual Sumathi Teledrama Award Ceremony.