Pakistani multimedia journalist Beena Sarwar, who is in Sri Lanka to screen the Sinhala version of her international documentary 'Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka - Beyond the Headlines', and senior journalist Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, who is the consultant and the producer of the Sinhala Version met the Minister of Mass Media and Health, Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, at the Government Information Department on July 29.
Senior journalist Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, Harsha Bandara,Government Information Director General, Prasanna Perera, Media Director General to the President, Gihan de Silva Chairman,Rupavahini Corporation, and Priyantha Wedamulla Chairman,Independent Television Network were also present at this event. The Sinhala version was also screened to the Minister of Mass Media and Health.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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