Mass media of Sri Lanka consist of several different types of communications media:television,radio,newspapers,magazines,and Web sites. State and private media operators provide services in the main languages Sinhala,Tamil and English. The government owns two major TV stations,radio networks operated by the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC),and newspaper titles in Sinhala,Tamil,and English.
Sri Lanka Law College is a law college,and the only legal institution where one can enroll as a attorney-at-law in Sri Lanka. It is situated on Hulftsdorp Street in Colombo,Sri Lanka,established in 1874 under the then-one-year-old Council of Legal Education in order to impart a formal legal education to those who wished to become advocates and proctors in Ceylon. The main building of the college was constructed in 1911.
Lieutenant Colonel Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa RWP,RSP,psc,GR is a Sri Lankan politician and former military officer currently serving as the 8th President of Sri Lanka since 2019. He has previously served as Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development from 2005 to 2015 under the administration of his elder brother former President Mahinda Rajapaksa,leading the Sri Lankan Armed Forces to the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers,which ended the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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 known for its outspoken and controversial news coverage. The newspaper and its staff have been attacked and threatened several times and its founding editor Lasantha Wickrematunge was assassinated.
Iruresa is a Sinhala language Sri Lankan weekly newspaper published by Lithira Publications (Private) Limited,part of Leader Publications (Private) Limited. It was founded in 1994 and is published from Colombo. Its sister newspapers are The Sunday Leader and the defunct The Morning Leader. Founded by brothers Lasantha Wickrematunge and Lal Wickrematunge,the newspaper is known for its outspoken and controversial news coverage.
The Morning Leader is a Sri Lankan English-language newspaper. It is published by Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd. Its sister publications are The Sunday Leader and Iruresa. The Morning Leader was refounded by Lasantha Wickramatunge who was assassinated in January 2009. It is known for its independent news coverage and it has faced arson attacks from men with complicity from the Sri Lankan authorities.
Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge was a Sri Lankan journalist,politician and human rights activist who was assassinated in January 2009.
Gampaha electoral district is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Gampaha in the Western province. The district currently elects 18 of the 225 members of the Sri Lankan Parliament and had 1,474,464 registered electors in 2010.
Lal Wickrematunge is a Sri Lankan business man,media mogul and chairman of Leader Publications which he co-founded with brother Lasantha Wickrematunge. Wickrematunge is the son of Harris Wickrematunge former deputy mayor of Colombo.
Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Sumanaweera Banda Dissanayake,MP is a Sri Lankan politician. He is the former Cabinet Minister of Higher Education in President Mahinda Rajapakse's Government.He was former general secretary of Sri Lanka Freedom Party and former National Organizer of the United National Party Dissanayake lost his cabinet position after Rajapaksha was defeated at the 2015 presidential election in Sri Lanka.
Frederica Jansz is a Sri Lankan journalist and former editor of The Sunday Leader.
Freedom of the press in Sri Lanka is guaranteed by Article 14(1)(a) of the Constitution of Sri Lanka which gives every citizen "the freedom of speech and expression including publication". Despite this there is widespread suppression of the media,particularly those critical of the government. Sri Lanka is ranked 165 out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders's Press Freedom Index for 2014. Freedom House has judged the Sri Lankan press to be not free. During the civil war Sri Lanka was one of the most dangerous places to be a journalist. The civil war ended in May 2009 but,according to Reporters Without Borders,murders,physical attacks,kidnappings,threats and censorship continues and that senior government officials,including the defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa,are directly implicated.
Lasantha is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
George Edmund de Silva was a Ceylonese lawyer and politician. He was the first Cabinet Minister of Industries,Industrial Research and Fisheries in independent Sri Lanka (1947–1948),a Member of Parliament and State Council.
Jayantha Wickramarathne was the 31st Sri Lankan Inspector-General of Police.
Dr. Mahinda Balasuriya was the 32nd Inspector General of the Sri Lanka Police (IGP) (2009–2011).
His Excellency Sirisena Amarasekara is a Sri Lankan public servant and diplomat. He is the current Sri Lankan High Commissioner to South Africa,Mozambique,Namibia, Zambia,Zimbabwe,Lesotho,Angola,Botswana,and Eswatin. He had functioned as the secretary to the Prime Minister on two occasions,and as the secretary to the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. Having completed more than 50 years of public service,Amarasekara is one of the most senior Sri Lankan public servants.
Al-Hajj Mohamed Jabir Abdul Cader was a Sri Lankan politician. He was a former State Minister,member of parliament for Colombo Central and Mayor of Colombo.
Colombo Telegraph is a Sri Lankan website run by exiled journalists.It was founded in 2011. It has been blocked in Sri Lanka repeatedly.Uvindu Kurukulasuriya is the editor he went into exile to UK in 2009 after the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge and after he was threatened publicly via national radio by the president's media advisor.
