The 2025 People’s Excellency Awards took place last night (29) at the Waters Edge premises in Battaramulla, where Hiru Media ...

As Radio Ceylon turns 100, trace how war, music, and commercial radio shaped Asia’s most beloved broadcaster. A story of ...

In around 1954, Radio Ceylon, in its Sinhala broadcast, serialised Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. I was a nine-year-old at the time. The reading of a translation of Dostoyevsky’s classic, partly ...

While DD newsreaders Shammi Narang and Rini Simon Khanna set the standard in Delhi Metro, voice artists in other cities are ...

Hirunews.lk, Hirutv.lk, Hirufm.lk and Hiru Gossip - Excellence in Most Influential Media Platform of the Year award ...

Radio Ceylon, once a cultural powerhouse, captivated Indian listeners by defying a 1950s AIR ban on film songs. Its popular Hindi service and iconic shows like 'Binaca Geet Mala' forced AIR to compete ...

Long before playlists and charts, a radio signal from across the sea brought India to a standstill each week. Binaca Geetmala ...

Jhumri Telaiya, known for its rich history entwined with Radio Ceylon, gained fame for its frequent song requests on the station. The town's history, deeply rooted in the mica industry, saw a surge in ...

Radio Ceylon mostly managed to sidestep the treacherous political fault lines in the subcontinent and win listeners across ...

PO Box 574, Colombo' the SLBC's unique address was set up due to the sheer volume of the fan mail and several hundreds of ...

Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works.

The Foreign Office (FO) received permission from India to use its airspace for humanitarian aid flights to Sri Lanka to provide flood relief, diplomatic sources confirmed to Dawn on Monday. The Sri ...