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Cyber-crimes and management weaknesses – The government risks a crisis of confidence amongst potential investors
By Raj Gonsalkorale
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are the cornerstone for sustainable development, but if they are not appropriately managed, they will impede progress towards the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals. Among undesirable impacts, emphasis must be put on the risk of information security (ISec) breaches, as they pose a potential threat to businesses there. Especially for publicly traded firms, they could create a long-lasting influence on their financial performance and, thus, stock investors' confidence - MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), a major Switzerland-based publisher of over 500 peer-reviewed,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/04/26)

The Jaffna Kingdom (1215–1619 CE)
by, Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine.
The Jaffna Kingdom (1215–1619 CE) was a major historical Kingdom on the Jaffna Peninsula in the northern part of Ceylon which was popularised by it's stilts related cultural dancers; within the Peninsular.  The purpose of this Mahapabbata ritual was to spread the message of the value of agriculture for a productive and self sustainable economy. Aryacakravarti dynasty — the line of kings who ruled the Jaffna Kingdom in northern Sri Lanka. Jaffna Kingdom Aryacakravarti line of kings... Final... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/04/26)

Sri Lanka should develop steel melting by scrapping steel in Trinco
Dr Sarath Obeysekera
https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2026/04/01/sri-lanka-should-plan-to-benefit-from-war/ The core problem: labour shortage Middle East pull (especially if reconstruction or instability increases demand) can drain skilled workers like masons, bar benders, and carpenters from Sri Lanka. The Chamber of Construction Industry Sri Lanka has flagged this before—construction here is still heavily labour-intensive and slow to modernize. steel + prefabricationsteel structures with prefabricated panels—is globally proven: China → mass prefabrication, rapid high-rise assembly South Korea → modular construction systems United States → increasing use of offsite fabrication ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/04/26)

"සිමෙන්ති බැම්මට ලක්ෂ 10ක් වියදම් කරන්න කලින්, මේ 'ජීවී' යකඩ කූරු ගැන දැනගන්න!" — කන්ද පහළට එන එක නවත්වන්න පුළුවන් රහස මෙන්න! දන්නවද?
Sri Lands - මහපොළොවේ හැංගුණු විද්‍යාව සහ ස්මාර්ට් ජීවන රහස් කියාදෙන තැන.
රෑ 2 ට විතර වැස්ස වැඩි වෙද්දී, කන්ද පිටුපසින් ඇහෙන ඒ දිය සද්දෙට කී පාරක් නම් අපේ ඇඟ සීතල වෙලා තියෙනවද? වත්ත පහළ පිටුපස බිත්තියට රතු පාට ඉඩමේ පස හේත්තු වෙලා තියෙන හැටි දකිද්දී, ඒ "කොළ මඩ" වතුර කෑලි කොන්ක්‍රීට් එක දිගේ ගලාගෙන එද්දී දැනෙන බය අපේ තාත්තලාට, ගෙවල් හදන සොහොයුරන්ට අමුතුවෙන් කියලා දෙන්න ඕනේ නැහැ. "බැම්මක් ගහන්න ඕනේ..." අපි හැමෝම මුලින්ම හිතන්නේ ඒක. හැබෑවටම අද කාලේ තියෙන බඩු වල ගණන් එක්ක අඩි 10 ක කැපුම් බැම්මක් (Retaining Wall) ලස්සනට ගහගන්න ලක්ෂ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/04/26)

පාද චාරිකාව, ප්‍රයෝජනය සහ ජනප්‍රියවාදයේ ප්‍රශ්නය..
- චමිල ලියනගේ. උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර්
මෙම සටහන ගැන ඔබ උරන විය හැක. එහෙත් මම මාගේ අදහස ඉදිරිපත් කරමි.  ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ ටෙක්සාස් සිට වොෂින්ටනය දක්වා ඉතා අසීරු පරිසර සාධක මැද කිලෝමීර් තුන්දහසක් හෝ ඊට ආසන්න ගණනක් පයින්ම වැඩම කළ පූජ්‍ය පඤ්ඤාකර හිමියන් ඇතුළු භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාගේ ව්‍යායාමය දෙස ඉමහත් සතුටින් බුද්ධාලම්භන ප්‍රීතියෙන් බලා සිටි, ඒ ගැන බොහෝ දෑ ලියා පළ කළ මට, උන්වහන්සේලාගේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පාද චාරිකාව දැකීමෙන් - නම් කර ඇති පරිද්දෙන් ඒහිපස්සිකෝ - එබඳු සැනසිලිදායක, නිවුනු පහන් සිතක් උපදින්නේ නැත. මම ඒ ඇයිදැයි කල්පනා කරමි. ඊට හේතුව ඝර්ම කලාපික අපි, බොහෝ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/04/26)

19 monks arrested at BIA test positive for narcotics
Courtesy Hiru News
Nineteen out of 22 Buddhist monks arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) with a large stock of narcotics have tested positive for drug use, according to the Judicial Medical Officer. The suspects were taken into custody on April 25 after arriving from Thailand with 112 kilograms of “Kush” cannabis and “Hashish,” valued at over Rs. 110 million. They are currently being detained and questioned by the Police Narcotics Bureau.Investigations have revealed that a group of monks had previously traveled to Thailand, during which narcotics had allegedly been smuggled and later hidden... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/04/26)

ෆී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානයෙන් ජනාධිපතිතුමා ප්‍රමුඛ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට ප්‍රශ්න 22 ක්.
ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්‍රී ගුණරත්න  නීතිඥ අතුල ද සිල්වා කැඳවුම්කරු
ෆී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය විසින් මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරයේ මංකොල්ලය හෙළිදරව්කර අද වන විට දින පහක් (5) ගතවී ඇත.  මේ අපරාධය සම්බන්ධයෙන් මේ දක්වා අවම වශයෙන් විමර්ශකයින් මහෙස්ත්‍රාත් අධිකරණයකට ‘කරුණු වාර්තා කිරීමක්’ හෝ සිදු කර නැත.  වැඩ තහනමට ලක්වී ඇති නිලධාරීන්ගේ සාක්ෂි සටහන් කිරීමක් හෝ විමර්ශකයින් විසින් සිදු කර නැත.  එවැනි පසුබිමක,  අප සංවිධානය මේ සිද්ධිය පිළිබඳ අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාට සහ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට විවෘත ප්‍රශ්න 22 ක් මෙලෙස යොමු කරමු. මහජන සුබසෙත උදෙසා කටයුතු කරන නීතිඥවරුන් ඇතුළු වෘත්තිකයින්ගේ එකමුතුවක් වන ‘‍ෆී ලෝයර්ස්’ සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරන්නේ ජනාධිපතිතුමන් සහ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/04/26)

Addressing the “Zaharan did it “BUT” claim”
Shenali D Waduge
We are in agreement on one point: on 21 April 2019 Zaharan and a team of suicide bombers targeted 3 hotels and 3 churches causing 269 fatalities. PART 1 — ESTABLISHED FACTZahran carried out the attacks PART 2 — THE “BUT” CLAIMZahran acted with the support of military intelligence This second claim is not a minor extension of the facts—it is a serious allegation of state complicity in mass-casualty terrorism for political change. Under basic principles of criminal law and evidence, such an allegation requires strict... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/04/26)

THOSE WHO GOVERNED & HEADED SECURITY DURING EASTER ATTACKS 2019
Shenali Waduge
THOSE WHO GOVERNED & HEADED SECURITY DURING EASTER ATTACKS 2019 ·     President (Minister of Defence) – MAITHRIPALA SIRISENA-2015-2019 ·      Prime Minister – RANIL WICKREMASINGHE -2015-2019 ·      Defense Secretary – HEMASIRI FERNANDO -Jan 2018-May 2019 Police Leadership ·      IGP - Pujith Jayasundara - 2016 – October 2019 Intelligence Services ·       Chief of National Intelligence (CNI) – Sisra Mendis - 2015-2019 ·       Head of State Intelligence Service (SIS) – Nilantha Jayawardena Mar 2015 – Dec 2019 Criminal Investigation Department ·       Senior DIG CID – Ravi Seneviratne - 2015 – July 2019... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/04/26)

කොල්ල කෑ මුදල් අමෙරිකාවේ...| Hiru Eththa | Maithri Gunaratne Keerthi Tennakoon
Hiru News
https://youtu.be/hO8vGZziT3U... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/04/26)

භාණ්ඩාගාර මංකොල්ලයට, ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ ඇති වගවීම  රටට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැහැදිලි කළ යුතුයි
ෆී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය
දැන් ලංකාව ‘තාක්ෂණිකව ණය පැහැර හැරි රාජ්‍යයකි’ (technical default)  
පරිගණක මුල්‍ය අපරාධ, හැකින්, ස්කෑම් ගැන ජනතාව දැනුමත් කරන ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, රටේ භාණ්ඩාගාරය තමන් යටතේ තිබූ ‘රාජ්‍ය ණය දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව’ විසින් ආරම්භ කර, නඩත්තු කළ ‘ඕස්ට්‍රෙිලියානු ණය ගිණුම්’ හි සිදුව ඇති අක්‍රමිකතාවය පිළිබඳ රටටත්, පාර්ලිමේන්තුවටත් සත්‍යය හෙළි කළ යුතුව ඇතැයි ‘ෆී ලෝයර්ස්’ සංවිධානයේ රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පවසයි.  මහා භාණ්ඩාගාර මංකොල්ලය ගැන ලේකම් හර්ෂණ සුරියප්පෙරුම, මුදල් නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති අනිල් බොරු, අසත්‍යය පතුරවමින් ඇතැයි ප්‍රකාශ කළේ තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ප්‍රකාශ ‍කළේ  අද නිපෝන් හෝටලයේ පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාව අමතමිනි. භාණ්ඩාගාර මංකෝල්ලය... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

A Short History of English Corruption in the Colonial Civil Service of Ceylon
e-Con e-News
e-Con e-News 19-25 April 2026 blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 19-25 April 2026 Shocking revelations – about the USA inveigling Indian & Sri Lankan officials to comply with their murder of over 100 naval cadets – have been made by the Iranian captain of the ship IRIS Dena. The captain last week appeared live on Iranian TV, revealing the dirty details of the ambush by the USA in Sri Lanka’s Exclusive Economic Zone. The USA had been made aware that... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

Menacing echoes of the regime change of 2015 - III
By Rohana R. Wasala
Continued from April 16 Part II of this write-up concluded with a reference to the perceived anti-Buddhist (and anti-Hindu) mindset of the ex-Marxist strategist who advocated the abolition of the institution of executive presidency as the single pivotal goal to be fought for by the promoters of the engineered regime change  at the 2015 January presidential election. (I describe the 2015 regime change as ‘engineered’ with powerful external support and corresponding internal collaboration, not based on any special information that I have discovered on my own; I do so based on what... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

Kasi Hideaki's Vote of Thanks to Senaka Weeraratna's speech at the Japanese Parliament on November 14, 2018
History
Introduction: Mr. Senaka Weeraratna, Attorney – at – law, delivered the keynote address at aSymposium held on the premises of the Japanese Parliament (Conference Room No. 101 of the Diet) on 14th November, 2018 on the topic titled ‘ Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour ignited the liberation of Asia from Western Domination – Time for Asia to express gratitude to Japan’.  The Symposium was organized by the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact.Mr. Weeraratna was the first Sri Lankan and first Asian to thank Japan on the premises ofJapan’s Parliament for making... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

SRI LANKAN NOVELIST SHORTLISTED FOR TWO AWARDS IN THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS’ ASSOCIATION ROMANTIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2026
THE ROMANTIC NOVELISTS’ ASSOCIATION
British Sri Lankan author and former Musaeus College student, Jeevani Charika, is a finalist in two categories of Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2026. Both books were published last year and have British-Sri Lankan heroines as main characters. How Can I Resist You? (written as Jeevani Charika) is a contemporary romance/women’s fiction story about Vidya who is trying very hard not to fall for her work colleague and has been shortlisted in the Contemporary Romance Novel category. It is published by HQ (Harper Collins). Christmas With The Secret Tycoon... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

IS PEACE FAR AWAY FROM US?  IS DONALD TRUMP ISOLATED?
Sarath Wijesinghe Presidents Counsel Former Ambassador to UAE and Israel President Ambassador’s Forum Uk
DONDLD TRUMP AND USA Trump is the President of USA supposed to be the richest nation who is self-appointed the world policemen despite the existence of UN and the major five powers which can take decisions for the world through United Nations now appear to be inactive and in effective especially when major nations are fighting, though all nations are equal before the UN Convention on which the organization is formed. There is no world president but UN can be the Parliament... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

PCI gets Chairman, journalist-quotas remain vacant.
Nava Thakuria
After months of uncertainties, the Press Council of India (PCI) got its chairman as  Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai assumed the charge on 24 April 2026. The retired judge of the Supreme Court of India, who was nominated for a second term for a period of three years, served as the PCI chairman from 17 June 2022 to 16 December 2025. However, the quotas for working journalists remain vacant as seven members, to be represented by professional scribes (other than editors) and six members, to be represented by journalist-editors, are yet to be picked up to complete... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

හැකර් ඉස්සුවා කියපු ඩොලර් මිලියන 2.5 ඩුබායි බැංකුවක් හරහා ගිහිං තියෙන්නේ
Top News Lk
https://youtu.be/yd-d5J6pFRU... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

භාණ්ඩාගාරේ කොල්ලය ඇතුලෙන්ම ගහපු ගේමක් මෙන්න සාක්ෂි..Account එක චෙක් කරන්න හොරාටම කෝල් කරලා.
Truth with Chamuditha and Chamuditha News Brief
https://youtu.be/TTXvoCJyAtY... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/04/26)

Sri Lanka’s Cardinal Questions: Why were Churches targeted? — The Facts Answered
Shenali D Waduge
The Cardinal has publicly expressed uncertainty as to why churches were targeted in the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks. However, this is not an unresolved mystery in terms of established findings. Multiple investigations — including international intelligence assessments, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI), Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), Supreme Court observations, and other formal reviews — have already examined the matter in detail. Established facts are clear The Easter Sunday attacks were carried out by a structured extremist network led by Zahran Hashim. Across all... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

THANK YOU AND CONTGRADULATIONS
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel former ambassador and Chair Ambassador’s forum UK/SL
We congratulate We congratulate ‘’Mr Mithree Gunaratna’’ PC and the media Giant and attorney -at- law ‘’Diith Jayaweera’’ for having exposed the scam of robbery, or misappropriation of 25 million us dollars to an unknown group in Australia, the funds due to be paid as an installment of the loan due to the IMF for loans granted to Sri Lanka. This scam was not informed to the public until the free lawyers group pointed out that this amount is syphoned, robbed or taken which belongs... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

What should the Government of Sri Lanka do to contain the spread of the harmful false narrative that the Buddha was born in Sri Lanka?
Senaka Weeraratna 
What should the Government of Sri Lanka do to contain the adverse effects on Sri Lanka in the rest of the World by the spread of the false narrative and pseudo history that the Buddha was born in Sri Lanka, including instituting action in court for wilful distortion of historical fact and diabolical undermining of the Buddha Sasana which the State is mandated under Article 9 of the Constitution to protect and foster?   Query:  Senaka Weeraratna  AI Overview Response is as follows: To contain the adverse effects of the false... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

Science Diplomacy by Professor Ranjith Senaratna and Dr Palith Kohona
Sarath wijesinghe President’s counsel and former Ambassador to UAE and Israel
Science Diplomacy The book on Science Diplomacy is timely, creative, and first attempt on the topic except for few attempts at the other parts of the world, yet the contents and quality of the book is excellent and useful to academics, students, and diplomats. The two editors need no further introductions to the areas they have excelled to the esteem, yet the readers are given an overview on their services sometimes not known to the public. Diplomacy is a part of governance required by the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

‘’HOLES IN THE TREASURY COFFERS AND TIGHT -SEALED AND WELL SECURED BANKS’’
Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel Former Ambassador to UAE and Israel solicitor in England and Wales
Sri Lanka country with educated citizens and educated Law Makers Sri Lanka is considered to be a nation of educated intellectuals with a great history and exemplary banking system withstood the collapse of banks world over sometime back to the credit to the banking system in Sri Lanka. Today nation is being digitalized to be in per with the age of artificial intelligence with experts heading the ProJet. Sri Lanka is not a rich country and depending on loans granted by... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

රුසියානු තෙල් ඩොලර් 150ට දෙන්න හදද්දි ඉන්දියාවෙන් ඩොලර් 258ට ගන්නේ ඇයි? උවිඳු ප්‍රශ්න කරයි
Lanka Leader
ලංකාවේ  බලශක්තිය නිෂ්පාදනයට අදාලව උපරිම දාරිතාව ලබාදිය හැකි ගල් අඟුරු ලංකාවට පැමිණ නැති බව මේ වන විට අනාවරණය වී ඇති බවත්, එනිසා ගල් අඟුරු හරහා විදුලිය නිෂ්පාදනය කිරීමේදී බලශක්ති ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ දැවැන්ත පසුබෑමක් ඇතිවී තිබෙන බවත් දෙවන පරපුර පක්ෂයේ නායක උවිඳු විජේවීර මහතා පවසයි. මෙම තත්ත්වය යටතේ ගෝලීයව ඇතිවී තිබෙන තත්ත්වයත් සමග මෙම අර්බුදය ලංකාවට ඉතා තදින් බලපා ඇති බවත් පවසන ඒ මහතා මෙයින් ගොඩ ඒම සඳහා රුසියානු රජයෙන් ලංකාවට ඉතා වාසි සහගත දැවැන්ත යෝජනාවක් ගෙනවිත් තිබුනද ඊට රජයෙන් ප්‍රතිචාර ලබාදීම ප්‍රමාද වන්නේ කිසිවෙකුගේ බලපෑමක් නිසාදැයි ප්‍රශ්න කරයි. සවිස්තරාත්මක වීඩියෝව නරඹන්න.. ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

භාණ්ඩාගාර හොරකම තුළින් පෙන්වන්නේ ආණ්ඩුවේ ඩිජිටල්කරණ උපදේශකයින්ගේ තරම නොවේද? - ජාතික සංවිධාන ප්‍රශ්න කරයි..
Lanka Leader
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ ප්‍රථම වතාවට සිදුවූ භාණ්ඩාගාර ගෙවීමක් මගින් සිදුකළ මුදල් වංචාව පිළිබඳව ලංකා ලීඩර් ජාතික සංවිධානවල මතය විමසන ලදී. මේ වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස් ඔහුගේ වචනයෙන්, "මේක පැහැදිළිවම බරපතළ මුදල් වංචාවක්. බොහෝ පාර්ශ්ව චෝදනා කරන ආකාරයට මෙය සිදුවන්නේ අභ්‍යන්තර දුර්වලකමක් නිසා නම් එය බරපතළ තත්ත්වයක්. එහෙත් වෝහාරික විගණනය මගින් වැරදිකරුවන් සොයාගත හැකියි. එසේම වගකීම් පැහැර හැරීම සහ වගවීමට අදාළව වගකිවයුතු පුද්ගලයින් සොයාගත හැකියි. නමුත් ආණ්ඩුවේ යම් පාර්ශ්ව කියන ආකාරයට මෙය හැකර්ලා හෙවත් සයිබර් අපරාධකරුවන්ගේ වැඩක් නම් ඔවුන් ඇතුළට සම්බන්ධ වුවද එසේ නැද්ද යන්න කෙසේවෙතත් ඒ මගින් භාණ්ඩාගාරයේ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

Australian officers currently assisting investigations in SL
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Colombo, April 25 (Daily Mirror) - Australian officers are currently assisting with Sri Lanka's investigation into the incident in which cyber criminals stole US $ 2.5 million after breaching the computer systems of the Finance Ministry, according to Australian High Commissioner Matthew Duckworth. The funds were part of a bilateral debt repayment to Australia, with a settlement due in September 2025. The diversion had taken place in January. Finance Ministry Secretary Dr Harshana Suriyapperuma told a news conference that the cyber criminals had intervened and diverted the funds to other... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

IMF monitors $2.5 million cyber theft at Finance Ministry
Courtesy Hiru News
The International Monetary Fund closely monitors the situation in Sri Lanka following a cybersecurity breach at the Finance Ministry. Officials confirm that cybercriminals gained unauthorized access to the External Resources Department (ERD) computer systems, resulting in the theft of US$ 2.5 million. These funds were intended for debt repayment to Australia. An IMF spokesperson informed Hiru that the organization is aware of the Finance Ministry's statement regarding the unauthorized access and considers this a significant development. Deputy Minister of Digital Economy Eranga Weeraratne stated that an international... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

“හැකර් නෙමෙයි මෙතන ඉන්නේ පචයෙක්” - “හැකර් කියන කතාව මම පිළිගන්නේ නැහැ” - Hiru News
Hiru News
https://youtu.be/GcH61cYm2Lc... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/04/26)

අතුරුදහන් වූ ඩොලර් මිලියන 2.5 ගැන හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති හෙළිදරව්වක් කරයි
Top News Lk
https://youtu.be/OZFiq8ZWYoA... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/04/26)

භාණ්ඩාගාරේ ඩොලර් මිලියන ගානකට ගේම දුන්නේ හැකර්ලා නෙවෙයි. ගනුදෙනුවේ Emails නිකන් love letters වගේ.
Truth with Chamuditha and Chamuditha News Brief
https://youtu.be/Vqy8NN31D8k... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/04/26)

Ven. Panakkara - World's most influential Buddhist Monk
Senaka Weeraratna
Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra (also known as Sư Tuệ Nhân) is a Vietnamese-born Buddhist monk who recently gained global recognition as a "Peace Monk" for his 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace" across the United States. While the title "world's most influential" is subjective, his recent pilgrimages have made him one of the most visible modern figures in Vipassana meditation and engaged Buddhism.  Key Facts and Achievements Background: Before ordaining, he was a Motorola engineer with a degree in Information Technology from the University of Texas at Arlington. The Walk for Peace... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/04/26)

Pepe Escobar : What to Expect From China
Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
https://youtu.be/TqMVwIV54a0... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/04/26)

Against Preventive Detention: Recognition, Coercion, and Mental Health Policy
Sam Ben-Meir
In recent years, jurisdictions such as New York City have expanded policies permitting the involuntary psychiatric evaluation—and in some cases detention—of individuals deemed to pose a potential risk to themselves or others, even in the absence of any criminal act. These policies are often defended as pragmatic responses to public safety concerns, homelessness, and untreated mental illness. Critics typically object on utilitarian grounds (questioning effectiveness or unintended harms) or deontological grounds (invoking individual rights and bodily autonomy). While these objections are important, they do not reach the deepest ethical problem with preventive detention.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/04/26)

‘වෛරයෙන් නොව ප්‍රේමයෙන් වෛරය නැති වේ’.
රොහාන් අබේගුණවර්ධන
ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර මහ රෝහලේ කතාව අපගේ මතකය අතීතයට ගලා යන්නේ 1951 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේ පැවති 'සැන් ෆ්රැන්සිස්කෝ සාම ගිවිසුම් සමුළුව' දක්වා ය. 1945 අගෝස්තු 6 සහ 9 යන දිනවල හිරෝෂිමාවට සහ නාගසාකි යන නගරවලට එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් පරමාණු බෝම්බ හෙළීමෙන් පසුව අගෝස්තු 15 වන දින ජපානය සිය යටත් වීම නිවේදනය කළේය. ඉන්පසු ජපානය එක්සත් ජනපද හමුදා  පරිපාලනය යටතේ පැවති අතර, එම කාලය තුළ  රට ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී කිරීමට සහ නිරායුධ කිරීමට කටයුතු කරන ලදී. එක්සත් ජනපදය (බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය සහාය ඇතිව)1951 සැප්තැම්බර් මාසයේදී සැන් ෆ්‍රැන්සිස්කෝ හි සමුළුවක් සංවිධානය කරන ලද අතර එහි අරමුණ වූයේ ජපානය... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/04/26)

හොරාගේ අම්මගෙන් නෙවෙයි දැන් පේන අහන්නේ හොරාගෙන්..එළියට නොදා මේක වහගන්නද බැලුවේ?
Dasatha News
https://youtu.be/ramQJG4buMY... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/04/26)

ඩොලර් මිලියන 2.5ක හොරකම ගැන කරුණු රැසක් එළියට..ජනපති මුදල් ඇමතිකමින් ඉවත් වෙන්න
Dasatha News
https://youtu.be/zbWoogZl75c... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/04/26)

හැකර්ලට අපහාස කරන්නේ නැතුව ඉන්නවද ? දිලිත් ආණ්ඩුවට හැකර්ලා ගැන කියා දෙයි
Top News Lk
https://youtu.be/uVjWGBXKdA0... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/04/26)

SRI LANKA: Silent shift from Sovereign Control to India-Centric System Dependence
Shenali D Waduge
Sri Lanka is not being taken over by force. No foreign troops. No invasion. No declaration of surrender. What is happening is far more dangerous. History has shown us that sovereignty was not lost in the battlefield. The 1815 Kandyan Convention is a grim reminder of how power shifted via agreement. Authority was ceded. The consequences were long term & irreversible. Fast forward to present century, Sri Lanka appears to have a penchant for repeating its mistakes. Strategic sectors are being interconnected to externally controlled systems. Many have not passed through form... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/04/26)

මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම් හර්ෂණ සුරියප්පෙරුම වහා ඉල්ලා අස්විය යුතුය.
ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්‍රී ගුණරත්න නීතිඥ අතුල ද සිල්වා
ඩොලර් මිලියන 2.5 ක් තෙවන පාර්ශවය අතට පත්වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්වරයා වහා ඉල්ලා අස්විය යුතු බව ‘‍ෆී ලෝයර්ස්’ සංවිධානය අවධාරණය කරයි. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම්වරයා විසින් අද දින පැවැත්වූ පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාව කෙරෙහි අප සංවිධානයේ අවධානය යොමු විය.  2025 සැප්තෑම්බර් මස මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශයේ පරිගණක සර්වරයේ ‘රූට් ඇස්කස්’ (Root Access) ලබාගැනීමට යම් පුද්ග‍ලයෙකු සමත්වී තිබුණි.  අමාත්‍යාංශ ලේකම්වරයා එම තොරතුර දැන සිටි නමුත්, ඒ පිළිබඳ කිසිදු විධිමත් ආරක්ෂක පියවරක් ගනු නොලැබීය.  මේ බව අද පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවේ දී ද, ඔහු විසින් වසන් කරන ලදී.  එමගින් ඔහු රටත් ජාතියත් සියළු පාර්ශයන් ද රැවටීමට ලක්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/04/26)

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  • THE ANCESTRY OF RAVANA A close study of the Ramayana, particularly the last book or Uttara Kanda, reveals that Ravana, the enemy of Lord Rama, was not a Dravidian, as many people have thought, but related to the Sri Lanka, who are considered to be Aryans-that Ravana was a migrant to Sri Lanka from the Vedic family of the Yadus, perhaps deriving originally from the city of Mathura south of Delhi. The first wave of migrants to Sri Lanka from the north was from Gujarat and of the Yadu family, which dominated the southwest of India and from the region of Gujarat had access to the sea on which they travelled far in their trading and colonizing ventures. The Ramayana tells the Ravana, the king of Sri Lanka, had close connections with region of the Yadus, which included Gujarat, parts of Maharashtra and Rajasthan up to Mathura south of Delhi.
  • Beginning and growth of civilization in Sri Lanka
    123,000 BC - Oldest human found in Lanka - Pathirajawela in the deep South.
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    7500 BC - Connections between Cambians, Sri Lankans, Ramayanaya & Mahabharataya The first wave of migrants to Sri Lanka from north India, were from the Yadu family from Gujarat. Yadus dominated the southwest of India (which included Gujarat, parts of Maharashtra and Rajasthan up to Mathura, just south of Delhi).
    6000 BC - Lankan city on Mahamevuna Uyana - Archeologists uncovered 35 feet under the present Mahamevuna Uyana in Anuradapura,
    3000 BC - Sigiriya is considered the AlakaMandava of the Ravana
    2517 Ramayanaya and Sri Lanka According to Ramayana story, Ravana, the king of Sri Lanka, belongs to a family of migrants from North India who had close connections with region of the Yadus,
    2517 BC - Ravana gets killed in Balangoda during March, 2517BC Ravana, while attending to the wounds suffered in combat by Vibishana (his brother) in Balangoda,
    1000 BC - Sri Lanka has the latest technology : Iron technology is evident in SL
    900 BC - Anuradapura, a major town of, at least 10 Hectares (25 Acres). Anuradhapura was at least 10 ha in extent by ca. 900 BC (perhaps much more). By then prehistoric stone tool technology had been completely superseded by that of iron
    700 BC - Anuradapura Town, 50 Hectares (125 Acres) .
    600 BC - Earliest Proof of Brahmi writing in Lanka At 600-500 BC, the very first appearance of writing (in Brahmi letters almost identical to the Asokan script 200 years later) marked the beginning of the Early Historic period. This writing, radiocarbon dated on charcoal and checked by thermoluminescence dating, is inscribed on potsherds signifying the ownership. Among the names, was Anuradha.
    483 BC - Vijaya lands in Sri Lanka. Girihadu Seya is built in Thiriyaya. Buddha's relics are enshrined in Mahiyanganaya Dagaba Sarabu Maharahatan Vahanse picked Budda relics from the burning cortege and arrived in Mahiyanganaya
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