Sri Lanka, April 17 -- Thisuri Dinelka Sanjeewani and Ravindu Madhushan were crowned as the Avurudu Kumariya and Avurudu Kumaraya respectively at the 'Ru Kirula - 2024' New Year competition organised by the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) with the media sponsorship of 'Tharuni' newspaper at the studio No.3 of the SLRC.

Out of 14,000 female and 3,700 male applicants for the competition, a total of 2,000 female and 1,000 male applicants had been shortlisted and called to the SLRC premises on February 24 and 25. Of them 12 female and 12 male applicants had been short listed to the final round of the competition and they had participated in several training and workshop programmes for 50 days before the grand finale.

In addition to ...