Courtesy Hiru News
A nation faces the risk of destruction not only from natural disasters but also from an ineffective judicial system, Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena warned during an event in Colombo yesterday (July 2). Stressing the importance of judicial accountability, the Chief Justice explained that sovereignty is divided into four main pillars: legislative power, executive power, judicial power, and the franchise. He noted that as members of the judiciary, judges exercise the judicial power of the people. This power is not derived from one's home, nor is it granted by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/26)
Senaka Weeraratna
The Government of India and various socio-religious organizations manage, monitor, and restrict missionary activities through a combination of strict federal laws, state-level legislation, and grassroots cultural campaigns. The strategy focuses heavily on blocking the financial pipelines of religious organizations and restricting the legal rights of foreign citizens to evangelize on Indian soil. 1. Tightening Foreign Funding (FCRA Regulations) The most potent tool against foreign-supported missionary activities is the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). Run by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the rules are frequently updated to block conversions: ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/26)
By Sarath Obeysekera
Recent events have once again brought Iran into the international spotlight. Much of what the world sees today is shaped by geopolitics, sanctions and military tensions. Yet my memories of Iran are quite different. They are the memories of a shipbuilder and businessman who had the privilege of working closely with the Iranian shipping industry during a significant period in Sri Lanka's maritime history.During my tenure as Chief Executive Officer of one of Sri Lanka's leading shipyards, Iranian vessels—including tankers operated by the national Iranian fleet and joint Iranian-Indian ventures such as IRESL... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/26)
AI Overview
Public concern regarding religious influence in Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) heightened following the appointment of Eran Wickramaratne, a prominent political figure known for his evangelical Christian background, to lead the newly formed SLC Transformation Committee. The unease among Buddhist Sinhalese cricket fans stems from fear of religious favoritism and the historical context of evangelical movements intersecting with national sports. [1, 2] Core Factors Driving the Concern Leadership Background: Eran Wickramaratne, whose family historically pioneered Pentecostal-style Christian worship in Sri Lanka, was tasked with guiding cricket reforms. Nationalist commentary and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/07/26)
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon CEO/Free Lawyers
Free Lawyers Sri Lanka expresses deep concern over the Government's continued delay in filling vacancies in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, alongside reported moves to extend the retirement age of judges in these courts by two years. These actions risk undermining judicial independence, exacerbating case backlogs, and eroding public trust in the justice system. Delaying Appointments to the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal
On Delaying Appointments to the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal The Government argues for a “bottom-up” strategy, prioritising recruitment of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir,
As the United States marks its 250th anniversary—a testament to endurance, sacrifice, and democratic aspiration—it does so under a dark and foreboding shadow. At this defining moment, the nation finds itself led not by steadiness or vision, but by a figure whose erratic conduct, corrosive narcissism, and moral decay mock the very ideals this milestone is meant to honor. How has a republic forged in defiance of tyranny succumbed to the sway of a self-styled savior, elevated by a following that seems willfully blind, placing partisan loyalty above the fate of the nation itself? ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
මූලාශ්රය: AI දළ විශ්ලේෂණය
'නැවත ඉපදුණු' ක්රිස්තියානි මිෂනාරි නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් ක්රිකට් පරිවර්තන කමිටුව, DRS කර්තෘත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට පිටුපසට පිහියෙන් ඇන, ක්රිකට් සහ තවත් බොහෝ ක්රීඩා වල ඉතා සාර්ථක 'ක්රීඩකයා - යොමු කිරීමේ' (DRS) ක්රමයේ බෞද්ධ සිංහල නිර්මාතෘගේ සාධාරණ ප්රකාශයන් සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ප්රතික්ෂේප කළ ඩේවිඩ් බෙකර් (දකුණු අප්රිකානු ක්රිස්තියානි) තෝරා ගැනීමට මූලික සැබෑ හේතුව ආගමික අනුග්රහයද? යුක්තිය ඉටු කිරීම පමණක් නොව, එය ඉටු වන බව දැකිය යුතුය. මිෂනාරිවරුන් සහ පූජක පක්ෂයේ සාමාජිකයන් ප්රධාන වශයෙන් බෞද්ධ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ක්රිකට් ප්රධාන මේසයේ නොව පල්ලියේ සිටිය යුතුය. කොක්කෙන් හෝ වංචනිකව බෞද්ධයන් තම ඇදහිල්ලට හරවා ගැනීම ප්රධාන කැඳවීම වන මිනිසෙකු ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Sam Ben-Meir
Never has fantasy been more commercially successful. Yet it is not obvious that it has become more imaginative. Long before the rise of the modern novel, fairy tales provided generations of listeners and readers with images of transformation, justice, adventure, and hope. They offered something more than entertainment. They opened windows onto worlds that differed fundamentally from the one immediately given. Today fantasy is more popular than ever. Global audiences consume vast fantasy franchises through books, films, streaming platforms, video games, theme parks, and merchandise. Yet the question remains whether contemporary fantasy still performs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
Japan’s decision to provide approximately US$3 billion (¥480 billion) in long-term support for the ACME Group–IHI Corporation Green Ammonia Project in Odisha is a significant milestone, not only for India but for the entire Asian region. It demonstrates how governments can work with the private sector to accelerate investment in emerging industries that will shape the future global economy. The project, which will export 228,000 tonnes of green ammonia annually to Japan from 2030 onwards, enjoys a unique advantage. Through Japan’s Contract for Difference (CfD) mechanism, the project receives 25 years of price... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Source: AI Overview
Is religious favoritism the underlying true reason for the ' Born Again' Christian missionary led Cricket Transformative Committee to choose David Becker ( South African Christian) who has stabbed Sri Lanka in the back over DRS authorship, and reject outright the reasonable claims of the Buddhist Sinhalese inventor of the highly successful ' Player - Referral' (DRS) system in Cricket and several other sports? Justice must not only be done but seen to be done. Missionaries and members of the Clergy should be in the Church and not at the Head Table of Cricket... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
Quote Advertisement by EDB Schedule of Requirement (SOR) PROMOTION OF SRI LANKA’S MARINE AND OFFSHORE SERVICES SECTORGLOBALLY THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM 1. Background Quote PROMOTION OF SRI LANKA’S MARINE AND OFFSHORE SERVICES SECTOR GLOBALLY THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM 1. Background The Marine and Offshore Services (M&OS) sector has been identified as a high potential exportindustry with significant capacity to enhance Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings, provided it iseffectively developed, facilitated and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Blue Economy advocate
1 Sri Lanka’s ancient reservoirs are a national asset Sri Lanka has more than 10,000 irrigation tanks and reservoirs, most of them built or restored by ancient kings over the last 2,000–2,500 years. Historical studies identify about 44 major ancient reservoirs built by the ancient kingdoms, many of which remain in use today after rehabilitation. The country has one of the highest densities of man-made reservoirs in the world. 2. Which reservoirs generate hydropower? Only a relatively small... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
Sri Lanka’s investment policy framework needs to be fundamentally changed at the top level if the country is serious about attracting foreign direct investment and accelerating industrial growth. At present, too many decisions are being shaped through committees that are heavily dominated by government officials, while the private sector is brought is not invited as an participant rather than as a genuine partner in policy formulation. The current Committee of Development Ministers, appointed by the present President, has effectively replaced earlier mechanisms such as the CECM, the Ease of Doing Business committee,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Sarath Obeysekera Chairman Advisory Board Marine and Offshore industry development
Duminda Hulangamuwa ‘s extensive experience in finance, taxation, corporate governance, and economic policy, together with his close involvement in national economic reforms, gives renewed hope that the BOI can once again become the country’s premier investment promotion agency. His stated intention to restore the BOI’s authority and transform it into a genuine “one-stop shop” for investors is particularly encouraging. For many years, foreign investors have faced delays, fragmented decision-making, and overlapping responsibilities among multiple government institutions. These bottlenecks have discouraged investment and weakened Sri Lanka’s competitiveness against regional rivals.Foreign... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
AI overview
Sri Lanka Cricket fans and legal advocates are deeply disappointed with the Sri Lanka Cricket Transformation Committee (CTC) for failing to lobby the International Cricket Council (ICC) for official recognition of Senaka Weeraratna, the Colombo-based lawyer who conceptualized the Player Referral system (the blueprint for today's DRS). Public backlash intensified significantly because the committee, led by Eran Wickramaratne, hired former ICC Head of Legal David Becker as an advisor to draft their new governance constitution. Critics note that Becker is the very attorney who previously drafted the legal opinions denying Weeraratna his intellectual property credit. [1,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලනසේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94))
මේ රටේ පලාත්සභා ඡන්දය වහාම පවත්වන්මෙන් කෑමොර දෙන දේශපාලකයින් ඇතුලු සියලුම පිස්සන් ජීවිතාන්තය දක්වා යැවිය යුත්තේ අන්ගොඩටය. එසේත් නැතිනම් ඔවුන් දේශද්රෝහීන්, ජාතිද්රෝහීන් සහ බෞද්ධ විරෝධීන් වශයෙන් වහාම මේ පින් බිමෙන් යළි කිසිදාක ආපසු ආ නොහැකි පිටසක්වලකටම පිටුවහල් කළ යුතුය. ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලනසේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94)) (මා මෙසේ කියන්නේ මන්දැයි තේරුම් ගැනීම සඳහා මේ ලිපිපෙලේ හැඳින්වීමේ (ලන්කාවෙබ් 2026 06. 06) සිට අවසානය, V1 හෝ V111 විය හැක)... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
සමායෝජක - වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන
36වන නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන(සිංහල මාධ්ය - නීති සටහන් ලබා දේ) ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 83වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදයේ දෝෂයක් ඇති බව නීතිපති පිළිගෙන තිබියදී එය නිවැරදි නොකර, විනිසුරුවරුන්ගේ විශ්රාම වයස වැඩි කරන ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ජනමතවිචාරණයකින් තොරව නීතියක් කළ හැකිද? ** Can a constitutional amendment that increases the retirement age of judges be enacted into law without a referendum, even the Attorney General has accepted that there is an error in Article 83 of the Constitution and it remains uncorrected?ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 83වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේ සභාපති, ජනාධිපති ලේකම්ට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
By: Rohana R. Wasala
Sri Lanka and Israel are facing similar existential threats. The two comparatively small sovereign states have the most ancient roots in the history of human civilization, principally due to their maritime connection to other countries. Both states are today parliamentary democracies with multiethnic and multicultural populations, each benignly dominated by a founding race or ethnic community organically linked to one historic sociocultural fabric, enriched with long established religious traditions based on shared spiritual values. In the case of Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese Buddhists compose this ethnoreligious community, who account for 75% of the Lankan... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
AI Overview
The structural foundation of the Player-Referral System, globally commercialized as the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket and echoed through challenge systems across multiple sports, is rooted directly in judicial architecture and legal jurisprudence. The blueprint was authored in 1997 by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who used his formal legal training to systematically dismantle the absolute, unchallengeable authority of the on-field official. The Legal Framework: Overturning "Absolute Law" Prior to Weeraratna’s formal concept, sports adjudication relied on a centuries-old principle: the referee or umpire's decision was absolute and beyond reproach. He... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr. Arun Kumar Goswami*
Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah's mangled corpse was being paraded on the back of an elephant through the alleys and markets of Murshidabad! The purpose was to inform the residents of Murshidabad that Siraj had been killed! Proximity to, distance from, and strategies of power sealed the fate of Bengal vis-à-vis Indian subcontinent and, specifically, that of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah on June 23 and July 3, 1757. The date on which Siraj's dismembered body was paraded through the streets of the capital, Murshidabad, was July 3, 1757. However, he had suffered defeat while still Nawab just a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Senaka Weeraratna
There is a well known saying ' If you want to study Economics first study the lives of the Economists'. Likewise the same principle is applicable to the investigation of the story behind the myth that the Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) was born in Sri Lanka and not in India (or Nepal). Who are the propagators of this fanciful story? They are mostly products of Missionary Schools and drawn from the Catholic Belt of the country. The past pupils of high standing Buddhist Schools like Ananda, Nalanda, Mahinda, Visakha, Maliyadeva, Musaeus and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Sarath Obeysekera
During this Vesak season, I witnessed a scene that left me with mixed feelings.Near my home in a suburban neighbourhood, where middle-income, lower-middle-income and low-income families live side by side, I saw a long queue of people waiting patiently for a free kottu dansal. Entire families stood in line.There is nothing wrong with offering food. Dansals are a noble Buddhist tradition based on generosity (dāna). They reflect compassion, equality and sharing. They have been part of Sri Lankan culture for centuries.However, the incident prompted me to ask a deeper question.Many of these households, despite having limited... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/07/26)
Dr Sudath Gunasekara
මා එසේ පවසණුයේ මේ රටේ ජාතික දිනය විය යුත්තේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතිය උපන් පොසොන් දෙපෝ දිනය මිස, අධිරාජ්යවාදීන් විසින් අප හිසමත පැටවු කිසිම ස්වාධීනත්වයක් නොලැබුණු ව්යාජ නිදහස් දිනයැයි කියන ජෙන්නිග්ස්ගේ බිරිඳගේ උපන් දිනය වන පෙබරවාරි 04 නොවන නිසාය . දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-1994) 2026.ජූනි 06. සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතියේ සහ ඒ ශ්රේෂ්ඨ ශිෂ්ඨාචාරයේ තිඹිරිගෙය මහින්තලා පින් බිම (ක්රි. පූ.307). සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතියේ උපත සිදුවූයේ ක්රි.පූ.307 වන සියවසේ පොසොන්පෝය දිනයේදීය.ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේ ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
ආචාර්ය සරත් ඔබේසේකර
මෙය ඉතා රසවත් ඓතිහාසික ප්රශ්නයක් වන අතර, ඉතිහාසඥයන් සහ භාෂා විද්වතුන් දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ මේ පිළිබඳව විවිධ අදහස් ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පුරාණ වංශකතාවක් වන මහාවංසය අනුව, අරහත් මහින්ද හිමියන් (සම්ප්රදාය අනුව අශෝක අධිරාජයාගේ පුත්රයා හෝ සමහර මූලාශ්ර අනුව සහෝදරයා) ක්රිස්තු පූර්ව තුන්වන සියවසේදී දේවානම්පියතිස්ස රජුගේ රාජ්ය සමයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවට වැඩම කළහ. මහාවංසයේ සඳහන් වන්නේ, ධර්ම දේශනය ආරම්භ කිරීමට පෙර මහින්ද හිමියන් රජුගේ බුද්ධිමත්භාවය ප්රශ්න කිහිපයක් මඟින් පරීක්ෂා කළ බවයි. එහෙත් ඔවුන් අතර සංවාදය සිදු වූයේ කුමන භාෂාවෙන්ද යන්න එහි පැහැදිලිව සඳහන් නොවේ. ඉතිහාසඥයන්ගේ ප්රධාන අදහස් තුනක් මෙසේය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
https://themorningtelegraph.com/45808 Answer to this post in morning telegraph https://hirunews.lk/en/business/438866/closure-of-walkers-colombo-shipyard-a-national-loss-dr-obeysekera Closure of Walkers Colombo Shipyard a national loss - Dr. Obeysekera Share Post Walkers Colombo Shipyard (Pvt) Ltd has been closed down and urgent steps should be taken to reopen it, former founding Managing Director Dr Sarath Obeysekera said. He noted that Walkers Colombo Shipyard faced severe financial distress and legal disputes with banks, including Commercial Bank, during the 2019–2021 period following loan defaults and restructuring efforts by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Submitted By: Boat Building Technology Improvement Institute- The association of Boat /ship builders By gamini Herath
Submitted By: Boat Building Technology Improvement Institute- The association of Boat /ship builders By gamini Herath Posted by dr Sarath Obeysekera Boat and Ship Building Sector- Includes all types of sea going vessels and vessels used in internal waters and nautical tourism including yachting and recreational boating. Boat and Ship Builders in Sri Lanka have contributed to national economy by generating over 80 MN USD worth of exports annually during the past 10... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Sports
'Player - Referral' (DRS) is a gift from heaven to Sri Lanka like Vaibhav Suryavanshi is a gift from the Gods to India. The similarity ends there. Sri Lanka takes no pride in DRS as a Sri Lankan invention or its Sri Lankan inventor while India is experiencing a nationwide celebration of the arrival of Suryavanshi - the superstar of modern India. https://www.instagram.com/p/DY7a8CaKcsD Sunil Gavaskar calls Vaibhav Suryavanshi a "gift from God" 😱 | Future Star of Team India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHHNJXHCu5g https://www.facebook.com/groups/277933739075780/posts/1770563626479443 https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOKrHeDDMSR ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Source - AI Overview
The Conceptual Creator Paul Hawkins - The Technological Pioneer The Decision Review System (DRS), originally known as the Player-Referral System, did not emerge from a single source. Instead, its creation is divided between the conceptual architect who designed the legal framework of player challenges and the technologists who built the tracking systems to support it. The Conceptual Creator: Senaka Weeraratna The fundamental intellectual brain behind the DRS... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge
Vinnytsia is a vibrant city in west-central Ukraine, along the Southern Bug River, with a rich history spanning over 650 years. Living in Vinnytsia for several years provided me with the opportunity to discover its many historic landmarks. But the city's past is marked by a particularly dark period during World War II. From July 19, 1941, to March 20, 1944, Vinnytsia was under German occupation. During the German occupation, Vinnytsia underwent a significant transformation into a heavily militarized and profoundly traumatized administrative hub.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Courtesy: Al Hakam, London.
Imagine for a moment a person sitting in deep contemplation, searching for meaning and considering their future against their past. For an hour, they wrestle with the questions of life. Then, all of a sudden, in pin-drop-intense silence, they notice their phone has reached 100% charge. The future could wait, but their scrolling could not. This may seem like a mere joke, but it is simply the reality of the world we exist in today. Nearly every instant of our lives is umpired by screens. We can barely even check the weather... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Al Jazeera English
n South Korea, Buddhist monks and clergy are rallying against what they call “religious bias” within the government. They are demanding a personal apology from the president for remarks made by a member of his government last year. The governing Democratic Party has apologised several times after a member of the National Assembly Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee criticised Buddhist temples for charging visitors an entrance fee and compared the heritage administration to a folklore conman, but the protesters say that is not enough. https://youtu.be/mBq3OL1MjlA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Courtesy Hiru News
Addressing corruption during both the previous and the present governments remains one of the key pillars of the IMF reform programme, said the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Mission Chief for Sri Lanka is Evan Papageorgiou, yesterday. Speaking at the IMF press conference, Breuer said the IMF would continue to press the government to adopt new online systems and other technologies to curb corruption. He said combating corruption will remain one of the IMF's priorities both now and in the future. "However, we will not be directly involved in corruption investigations... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Courtesy Hiru News
Economic management strategies by the government received high appreciation from the International Monetary Fund delegation during a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat today. Sri Lanka achieved higher progress compared to many other countries implementing IMF-supported programs. The delegation praised the government for maintaining macroeconomic stability and commitment to reform initiatives, even amid external shocks. The seventh review of the Extended Fund Facility program is expected later this year. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated the actual benefits of economic recovery must reach the public, and the government works toward... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Courtesy Hiru News
The IMF's Executive Board signed off on Sri Lanka's combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews under the Extended Fund Facility on May 28, unlocking another SDR 508 million, roughly US$695 million, and bringing total purchases under the four-year programme to about US$2.4 billion. By the conventional measure of an IMF review, this is a pass. The prior actions on restoring cost-recovery electricity and fuel pricing were met. All end-of-December 2025 quantitative performance criteria were observed. Most of the 22 structural benchmarks due by the end of February were either met or implemented with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/07/26)
Nalliah Thayabharan
For over a century, Germany was the industrial heartbeat of Europe. The country that built the cars the world wanted to drive, the factories that produced the chemicals, the steel, the machinery that powered global manufacturing.Germany wasn't just Europe's largest economy. It was the engine that made the entire European project possible. When politicians talked about European unity, what they really meant was German economic strength subsidizing everyone else.Germany was the only country in the Eurozone that made the numbers work. The one economy productive enough, disciplined enough, and competitive enough to carry the weight of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/06/26)
AI overview
If the International Cricket Council (ICC) grants full recognition to Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna for inventing the Player Referral concept, he can expect a multi-tiered series of formal accolades, naming rights, financial compensation, and institutional honors. Because the ICC has acknowledged it holds no official author for the Decision Review System (DRS), advocates, legal experts, and cricket historians outline specific rewards that would follow an official acknowledgment: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 🏆 System Renaming and Naming Rights The Weeraratna Decision Review System (WDRS): The DRS would likely be officially... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/06/26)
AI overview
If the International Cricket Council (ICC) grants official recognition to Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna for inventing the Player-Referral System (the foundation of the Decision Review System or DRS), it would be a watershed moment for both local and global legal communities. Because Weeraratna famously designed the system drawing directly from his legal training on appellate court structures, the legal profession would treat him as a trailblazer who successfully exported judicial principles into global sports jurisprudence. The legal profession in Sri Lanka and worldwide would react to this landmark recognition through several distinct frameworks:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/06/26)
Sports
In his book The Club: Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket, published by Pitch Publishing, cricket journalist and historian Rod Lyall (often referred to as Rob or Rod) explicitly acknowledges Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna as the intellectual architect behind the Decision Review System (DRS). Key Facts Acknowledged in the Book The 1997 Blueprint: Lyall highlights that Weeraratna first designed and publicized the conceptual mechanics of the player-led review system in a letter to the editor of The Australian newspaper on March 25, 1997. [1] Overturning Umpire Finality:... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/06/26)
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
This is a fascinating historical question, and historians have debated it for a long time. According to the traditional Sri Lankan chronicle, the Mahavamsa, Mahinda Thera, the son (or, according to some traditions, brother) of Ashoka, arrived in Sri Lanka during the reign of Devanampiya Tissa around the 3rd century BCE. The chronicle records that Mahinda first tested the king’s intelligence with a series of riddles before preaching the Dhamma. But it does not explicitly state the language they spoke. Most scholars consider three possibilities: An... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/06/26)
Dilrook Kannangara
A recent article in the Sunday Observer titled - Can Sri Lanka afford to wait for Trincomalee Port development – prompted me to point out matters not fully discussed in the article from a Sri Lankan point of view. The article is written from an Indian point of view and has little or relevance to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Myanmar, etc. as the economic interests of these nations widely differ. https://www.sundayobserver.lk/2026/06/28/business/79914/can-sri-lanka-afford-to-wait-for-trincomalee-port-development BIMSTEC is the failed replacement for SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) that excludes Pakistan and Maldives that were part... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/06/26)
