State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene was sworn in as non-cabinet Minister of Mass Media before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat a last evening. He would continue to hold the post of State Minister of Defence as well, informed sources said.
The Government official news portal is maintains by the New Media Unit of the Department of Government Information and it was titled "news.lk" and commenced in mid1996 and release to Internet from March 01st, 1997.
News.lk publishes in three languages – Sinhala, Tamil and English.
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