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Maithripala Sirisena. Casualties and losses. None. In 2015 a coup d'état was allegedly attempted in Sri Lanka by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa in order to remain in power after he had been voted out in the 2015 Sri Lankan presidential election. Rajapaksa, who was expected to easily win a third term in office lost to Maithripala Sirisena ...
Champika Liyanaarachchi. Champika Liyanaarachchi is a journalist, an academic and the first woman to be the editor of a daily newspaper in Sri Lanka. Liyanaarachchi was the Editor of Sri Lanka's largest selling independent English daily, the Daily Mirror from January 2007 to January 2015. She stepped down from editor post in January 2015 on ...
English. 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 .
The bill is widely criticised by human rights groups, journalists and opposition politicians as a means of stifling freedom of speech in Sri Lanka. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] 25 January – Sri Lankan women's cricketer Chamari Athapaththu wins the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year award at the ICC Awards .
July 5, 1992 a SLAF Shaanxi Y-8 crashed in Iyakatchitchy en route to Palay kill all 20 on board, LTTE claimed to have shot it down. [8] On July 14, 1992 a SLAF SIAI-Marchetti SF.260TP was shot down by LTTE; the pilot was killed. [8] On October 13, 1992 a SLAF FMA IA 58 Pucará crashed near Jaffna.
Parliamentary elections were held in Sri Lanka on 17 August 2015, ten months ahead of schedule, to elect 225 members to Sri Lanka's 15th Parliament. [1] [2] [3] [4]The United National Party (UNP) led United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) won 106 seats, an increase of 46 since the 2010 election, but failed to secure a majority in Parliament. [5]
The Daily News is an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka. It is now published by the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (Lake House), a government-owned corporation . The newspaper commenced publishing on 3 January 1918. [ 1 ]
University of Kentucky. Occupation. Entrepreneur. Known for. kapruka.com, Java Lounge, Grasshoppers [ 1][ 2] Dulith Herath is a Sri Lankan entrepreneur. [ 3] He is the founder and chairman of the Sri Lankan e-commerce platform Kapruka.com, [ 4] Java Lounge [ 5][ 6] and the co-founder of Grasshoppers Pvt. Ltd. which provides logistics to small ...