Lankapuvath - Sri Lankan Newspapers

Lankapuvath
LANKAPUVATH LTD.

Lankapuvath is Sri Lanka’s National News Agency and is the only News Agency in the country. Created to publish and distribute news, it is a company of five partners, national dailies and main national electronic media institutions.

The share holders of Lankapuvath are Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC), Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), the Independent Television Network (ITN), and the Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) well known as the “Lake House”. It is managed by a Board of Directors comprising of the Chairmen of above institutions.

Lankapuvath was established in 1978 as a result of an idea generated at the UNESCO. Lankapuvath has provided comprehensive coverage of Sri Lankan and foreign news for over 25 years, drawing on its network of over 30 countries worldwide, via an active link with the National News Agencies of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA Pool).

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The main objective of Lankapuvath is to receive foreign news and dispatch them to local media and to update the world with important news from Sri Lanka. Lankapuvath has the proven ability to give quick exposure to current news and information from Sri Lanka and the world.

Lankapuvath distributes comprehensive news and images via the Internet, TV, SMS and mobile phones, thus satisfying the latest market demands in terms of format and technology.
This output is supplemented by additional services aimed at catering to news requests from a demanding public.

Lankapuvath holds true to its long-lasting reputation for reliable, comprehensive and independent news coverage, ensuring it continues to be the top choice of over 4 million clients including local and international community as well as the leading figures on the international news scene.

GENERAL NEWS SERVICE:

Lankapuvath’s general news service boasts of up-to-the-minute coverage runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, tackling Politics, Business and Finance, Current Affairs, Sports and Entertainment, Environmental Issues and Development News.

This service is an invaluable resource providing a continuous flow of news that is supplemented with several additional services, thus ensuring that Lankapuvath provides a comprehensive overview of key events. Lankapuvath’s additional daily services include today’s and tomorrow’s agenda, a press review, the headlines and four editions of the day’s main event.

REGIONAL NEWS

Lankapuvath’s extensive national network of over 100 correspondents ensure that events are reported as they unfold. It produces detailed news coverage of day’s main events in each region, tackling Politics, Finance, Cultural, Sports and Entertainment. The regional service also provides news bulletins on specific sectors, including the local environment, health, public services, tourism and agriculture. In addition, the service also features news, developments in the regional areas, national and international events that are specific to the region.

LANKAPUVATH POLITICAL NEWS is a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute daily news service that covers the latest issues on politics. It features exclusive interviews, analysis, commentary, documentations and overviews with particular focus on sector politics, legislation and finance. It also offers a useful daily agenda.

LANKAPUVATH ENVIRONMENT is a complete daily update aimed at businesses, public authorities and professionals. It looks at key environmental issues, such as waste, water, energy and pollution as well as the development of sector-related regional and national legislation.

LANKAPUVATH SPORT offers invaluable news for in depth sports news. Each day it provides information and news on three main sport events nationally and internationally.

LANKAPUVATH TRAVEL & ENTERTAINMENT Lankapuvath Travel & Entertainment is a new video news system that broadcasts all the latest Travel & Entertainment news as it happens. The news items alternate with content specifically tailored to the clients needs with high quality images of places of interests and all inclusive entertainment news and images.

Its team of journalists, producers and technicians provide a broad schedule that is continuously updated.

LANKAPUVATH LIVE

Lankapuvath offers video news everyday. News items are updated every hour with video contributions from across the world to ensure a wide range of international exposure.
“Lankapuvath Live” can be viewed over mobile phones via GPRS.

LANKAPUVATH LIVE HEADLINES

This provides video clips updated 24 times each day and divided in to the following sections: world news, Sri Lankan news, sports, economy, business, financial, entertainment and weather. Lankapuvath live headlines cover world events as they happen.

LANKAPUVATH BY MOBILE PHONE

Lankapuvath’s top Sri Lankan and international news, as well as the latest events in politics, the economy finance, sports, culture and entertainment are available via SMS, MMS and mobile portals in photo text and video formats.

The service is available through all Sri Lanka’s top mobile phone operators. The cost and the options depend on the on the individual mobile phone operator.

lankapuvath.lk

The lankapuvath.lk website has been among the top news portals with millions of pages viewed and more than three million readers every month. It plays a crucial role in the news sector both in Sri Lanka and abroad.

It boasts of continuously updated news every day. In depth features, video news, a photo gallery and special news sections are just some of the services offered on the site 365 days a year. It is a highly effective and growing multi platform news system and is supplemented by services designed to meet sophisticated market demands.

This service mainly targets over 2 million Sri Lankans living overseas.
LANKAPUVATH WEB NEWS AND LANKAPUVATH WEB NEWS PLUS

This is a complete up-to-the-minute news services 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Published on the website it covers the main national and international developments in current affairs, economics, politics, sports, culture, entertainment, science and cinema.

Lankapuvath web news is a vital resource for the media, public administration and businesses providing a stream of made-to-measure content that can be added to individual portals. This is a high quality service that makes a key contribution to any major news web site.