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News Archive for Oct 2025
MP Archchuna keeps sword for safety after denied securityJaffna District Member of Parliament Ramanathan Arjunan states that despite receiving death threats, he has not been provided with security by the government, and therefore, he keeps a sword for his protection. He says he has informed the Speaker of Parliament and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) about this. The MP pointed out that he had previously requested security in writing on two occasions due to threats to his life, but received no response from the government. The MP mentioned that he requested a pistol for his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/25)
පොල්රාජ් - ලැජ්ජයි කැතැයි හිරිකිතයි
https://youtu.be/UrZVsVrZmaA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/25)
Defending 4 Billion Women: CEDAW’s Mandate hijacked – Let’s Protect Biological Women’s Rights
For over 40 years, the CEDAW Convention was the global standard protecting women — defined as biological females— from discrimination and ensuring equality in every sphere of life. Today, however, the Committee charged with safeguarding this treaty has overstepped its mandate, replacing “sex” with “gender identity” in its guidance. By doing so, it has redefined what it means to be a woman, undermining protections for billions of biological women worldwide, including 1.1 million in Sri Lanka. This ideological drift is not a minor policy change; it is a direct threat to female-only spaces, healthcare, maternity rights,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Smart, multiple alliances can be India’s new path
The international system is undergoing a profound transformation. The certainties of the post-World War II order — anchored in the UN, Bretton Woods institutions, and a rules-based multilateral framework — are buckling under pressure. What appears to be emerging in its place is a more transactional and interest-driven global order, shaped by spheres of influence and great power bargains reminiscent of the 19th century’s Congress of Berlin and the Cold War doctrines of George Kennan and Henry Kissinger’s realpolitik. The present Trump administration seems to be shaping a strategy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
NDB Bank Strengthens Sri Lanka’s Tea Industry with the Tea Manufacturer Finance Programme
National Development Bank PLC (NDB) continues to empower Sri Lanka’s export and manufacturing sectors with the introduction of its Tea Manufacturer Finance Programme, a specialised financial solution designed to support tea producers and exporters in expanding their operations and growing beyond borders. As one of Sri Lanka’s most iconic industries, tea remains central to the nation’s economy and heritage, sustaining thousands of livelihoods and earning global recognition for its unmatched quality. In recognition of this, NDB has introduced this tailored financial programme to help tea manufacturers, producers, and exporters access affordable funding... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Do Sri Lankans Lack Creative Imagination of Einstein?
Are Sri Lankan Government Officials & Businessmen Asleep Whilst India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam Forging into Euro-USA Markets? Bara Bada Bastua the Indian way: this is how Hindus celebrate the Festival of Lights in Espoo Finland! https://yle.fi/a/74-20188474 The British introduced TEA from China, which became the main export! Rubber exports have dwindled. Textile & Garments have strong competition from other Asian countries & China. Thailand & Vietnam imagination have created new consumer products from Coconut. Philippines have exports in Fish-Mango-Pineapple, for over 50 years. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Sri Lanka deserves accolades from the entire global sport industry for designing the 'Player Referral' concept
Sri Lanka deserves accolades from the entire global sport industry for designing the 'Player Referral' concept which has influenced not only Cricket ( DRS) in a remarkable way but also several other major World Sports by introducing greater fairness leading to harmony and understanding between players of opposing sides on the playing field. AI Overview It is widely acknowledged that the player referral concept, which led to the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket, was invented by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna . He first proposed the idea in a letter... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
කතානායක, ඇමති තුනක් එංගලන්තෙට ඉකොනමි ක්ලාස් අරගෙන බිස්නස් ක්ලාස් ගිහිල්ලා..
හිටපු පළාත් සභා මන්ත්රී වරුණ රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් කථානායකවරයා ඇතුළු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරුන් සිව්දෙනෙකුගේ ගුවන් ටිකට් පත් 'ඉකොනොමික් ක්ලාස්' සිට 'බිස්නස් ක්ලාස්' දක්වා යාවත්කාලීන කිරීම (Upgrade) සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැඩි විවේචනයක් එල්ල කර ඇත. පාඩු ලබන ශ්රී ලංකන් ගුවන් සමාගම හරහා මහජන මුදල් වැය කරමින් සිදු කර ඇති මෙම ක්රියාව සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම වංචා සහගත බව ඒ මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පෙන්වා දුන්නේ, එක්සත් රාජධානියේ පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත වැඩසටහනක් සඳහා කථානායකවරයා ඇතුළු මාලිමාවේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු ඇමතිවරුන් සිව්දෙනෙකු පිටත්ව ගිය බවයි. ඔවුන් මුලින් ඉකොනොමික් ක්ලාස් ගුවන් ටිකට් පත් මිලදී ගෙන තිබුණද, ගුවන් යානය තුළදී ඒවා බිස්නස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Drug menace will be defeated and victory is certain – President
The drug menace must be defeated to ensure social stability in the country and that the steps taken by himself and the government in this regard will undoubtedly lead to victory, according to President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. President Dissanayake stated that narcotics have turned into a deep deceptive trade that has gripped the nation and that he is taking action to defeat it. The President further noted that children, the general public and the entire country are becoming victims of this deceptive trade. Meanwhile, the President pointed out that the younger generation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
'' කූට ලේඛන හදලා සල්ලි ගත්තා කියන නළුවා හැංගිලා ද ? ''
https://youtu.be/Lmc0X8zLqn8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Identifying Sri Lanka’s Societal ills – Who are promoting – who are victims & the dangerous outcomes if not addressed
Below is a compilation of statistics publicly available covering all the current ills of society which are being presented as “normal” and promoted to make profit for those selling or tasked to promote immorality. The statistics cover substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, prostitution/sex industry, pornography/online harms, smoking, alcohol, crime/domestic abuse, social‑media influences. The outcomes are also shown as well as the role of Family, School, Religious, Government, Institution (NGO / Health / Law Enforcement / Private sector) and measures for media accountability & funder transparency. Multiple data sources show rising harms across drugs, HIV cases linked to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Richard de Zoysa's murder
Richard de Zoysa's murder is widely believed to have been carried out by a special intelligence death squad that was formed under the President Ranasinghe Premadasa government to crush the insurrection launched by the Militant "Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) organization". On 18 February 1990 Richard de Zoysa, a 31 year old journalist, was abducted from his home near Colombo in the early hours of the morning by a group of men. His body was found in the sea on 19 February. He had been shot. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
IMF projects 3.1% economic growth for Sri Lanka in 2026
Colombo, Oct 29 (Daily Mirror) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Sri Lanka’s economy will grow by 3.1% in 2026, reflecting a gradual return to its long-term trend, officials said. Thomas Helbling, Deputy Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department, made the announcement during a press conference on the Asia and Pacific Region’s Economic Outlook. Helbling highlighted that Sri Lanka has experienced a strong economic recovery, supported by the government’s ongoing reform program in collaboration with the IMF. He noted that the country’s growth reached 5%... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Pakistan, Sri Lanka chart new course for blue economy growth
Seek to boost connectivity, prosperity through cooperation in marine and coastal tourism ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Sri Lanka have agreed to explore joint cooperation in marine tourism, recognising the vast potential of their coastlines and rich marine biodiversity to strengthen sustainable economic growth and regional connectivity. Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry proposed enhanced collaboration in marine tourism during a meeting with Sri Lankan Minister for Transport, Highways and Urban Development Bimal Niroshan Rathnayake. Junaid Anwar highlighted that marine industries, including fisheries and tourism,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/25)
Arrest warrant issued for NPP MP Jagath Manuwarna
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of National People’s Power (NPP) Member of Parliament Jagath Manuwarna by the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court, Ada Derana reporter said. The order was issued today (29) by Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Neththikumara after the MP failed to appear in court for a scheduled hearing. Accordingly, the Magistrate ordered that he be taken into custody and produced before court. Meanwhile, the Counsels representing MP Jagath Manuwarna informed court that their client was unable to attend the proceedings as he was participating in a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/10/25)
Is a system change possible without a mindset change?
Changing the world begins with changing our minds. In the midst of growing global crises, including climate change, increasing polarization, inequality, and an overarching sense of disconnection from those around us and the natural world, it’s not a stretch to say that humanity needs change. Without question, the external systems and structures of our world need to be examined and adjusted. Yet a more hidden source of our current problems runs so deep that it is often overlooked. The very mindset that has enabled today’s crises lies inside of us. As we wrestle with the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
Rapunzel Syndrome in a 14-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report
Introduction; Trichobezoars are uncommon foreign bodies in the gastrointestinal tract, composed of swallowed hair. They are most often encountered in adolescent girls with trichotillomania and trichophagia (Naik et al. 2005). When the hairball extends beyond the pylorus into the small intestine, the condition is termed Rapunzel syndrome, first described by Vaughan and team in 1968 (Gonuguntla & Joshi 2007). It is a rare and potentially life-threatening disorder, with fewer than 100 cases reported worldwide (Gorter et al. 2010). Trichobezoars are common in patients with underlying psychiatric disorders (Altonbary & Bahgat, 2015). ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
NDB Bank Partners with Gavinro International (Pvt) Ltd. to Expand Access to Electric Passenger and Commercial Vehicle Financing
National Development Bank PLC (NDB) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Gavinro International (Pvt) Ltd., one of Sri Lanka’s latest EV franchise holders representing several reputed Chinese vehicle manufacturers. This strategic partnership is designed to provide customers with innovative and affordable leasing solutions across Gavinro International’s extensive range of passenger and commercial vehicles, supported by tailor-made financial facilities. Through this partnership, NDB customers will gain access to a premium portfolio of passenger vehicles, including globally renowned brands such as Skywell, Skyworth, Manufactured by a Fortune 500 China Company, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
Shabbos-Goyim
The late saint of the communist calendar, Rosa Luxemburg, often called her opponents ‘Shabbos-goyim,’ meaning servants of the Jews. A Shabbos-goy is a non-Jew who toadies to every wish and whim of the Jews, especially in politics, or a non-Jew who is heavily supportive of Israel, says the dictionary. They are a breed apart. One can argue about how successfully Jews rule the countries they lead. There are more- and less-successful examples. Usually, Jewish rule is good for the king and his coterie, and bad for the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
Teaching Sri Lanka’s 2009 UNHRC Geneva Win: The Barcelona Lecture
Dayan and Rajiva in Geneva With the discussion on Sri Lanka and the UNHRC resurfacing this year, the singularity of Geneva 2009 and Sri Lanka’s decisive victory has been noted in Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition. Though no Lankan institution ever asked me to explain that 2009 outcome, it has figured amply in international scholarly literature. When I served as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
ඇමරිකා හමුදා කදවුරක් ත්රිකුණාමලයට..? බදු අඩු කරන්ගන්න එකග වෙලා…?
ඇමරිකාව සිය කොන්දේසී ඉටු නොකළ ඉන්දියාවට 50%ක තීරු බදු පනවන අතර කොන්දේසි ඉටු කළ පාකිස්ථානයට 19%ක තීරු බදු පැනවූ බව හිටපු අමාත්ය විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා ප්රකාශ කරයි. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ පාකිස්ථානය ඇමරිකානු තෙල් මිලට ගැනීමට, එරට දුර්ලභ ඛනිජ සම්පත් කැනීමේ අවස්ථාව සහ ඩිජිටල්කරණ කටයුතු ඇමරිකානු සමාගම් වෙත ලබා දීමට එකඟ වී ඇති බවයි. https://youtu.be/bbfKGKZsI5s ඒ අනුව ඇමරිකාව ශ්රී ලංකාවට ද පාකිස්ථානයට සමානව 20%ක බදු පැනවීම සඳහා යම් කොන්දේසි ප්රමාණයකට එකඟ වී ඇති බවත් ඒවා ආණ්ඩුව රටට හෙලිදරව් කළ යුතු බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙයි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
So much for good governance: Weligama PS chairman killing yet again reveals underworld nexus in politics
The pertinent question before Sri Lankan political parties is whether electability or popularity should warrant a repeat offender, a known underworld criminal, or an accomplice being placed on their electoral lists. Such individuals defile the sanctity of the elected office The killing of Wickremesekara saw allegations by SJB that the government had failed to provide security for the deceased politician despite several written requests. However, concerns have also been raised over the chequered character of Mr. Wickremesekara himself, who had previously been charged with a litany of crimes Last week’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
New State Intelligence Chief assumes duties
Colombo, Oct. 28 (Daily Mirror) - Major General Nalinda Niyangoda has officially assumed duties as the new Chief of State Intelligence Service. He received his letter of appointment from the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuiyakontha (Retd).The formal assumption of duties took place today (October 28) at his office at the Ministry of Defence in Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte. Major General Niyangoda, a senior officer of the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps, brings over 35 years of distinguished service to the position. Throughout his illustrious military career,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
Female lawyer arrested for aiding murder of ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’
A female lawyer from the Kadawatha area has been arrested for allegedly for providing a copy of the Penal Code for Ishara Sewwandi to conceal the pistol used in the killing of underworld figure Sanjeewa Kumara Samararatne alias ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’, police said. The infamous gang leader known as “Ganemulla Sanjeewa” was fatally shot by a gunman disguised as a lawyer in the No. 05 Magistrate’s Court within the Aluthkade Courts Complex (Hulftsdorp) on February 19. ’Ishara Sewwandi’, the fugitive female suspect wanted in connection with the murder and who is suspected to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
Why Sri Lanka was Really Denied Admission to the United Nations
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 19-25 October 2025 * ‘The Ceylon National Congress was so reactionary that it actually opposed the grant of adult franchise proposed by the Donoughmore Constitutional Reform Commission in 1929. This class, however, secured its political ascendency when the Donoughmore Constitution (1931)– while granting adult franchise – barred the election of anyone to the State Council who is unable to speak, read & write the English language. Also, the device of a Board of Ministers enabled the notables in this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (14කොටස)
රටේ ජාතික ගීය ලියු රචකයා තාමාට සිදුවූ අසාධාරණය නිසා සියදිවි නසා ගත්තේ නම්, ඉන්දීය නොවන, අපේ රටටම ආවේනික වූ අපුරු සංගීතයක් නිර්මාණය කල අසහාය ගායකයාගේ ගීත වසර 20ට තරම ගුවන් විදුලියෙන් උවමනාවෙන්ම ප්රචාරය කිරීම නතර කලේ නම්, ජාතියක් වශයෙන් අප ලජ්ජා විය යුතුයි. 60/70 දශකයේ පහළ වූ ශ්රේෂ්ට සංගීතඟයයන් අද කාලේ බිහි නොවීමට ප්රධාන හේතුවක් වන්නේ බොහොමයක් ගුවන් විදුලි සහ රුපවාහිනි නාලිකා විසින් තේරුමක් නැති,අප රටට ආවේනික නොවූ බොල් සංගීතයක් නගා සිටුවීමට කටයුතු කිරීමයි. සිංහල ඉංග්රීසි පටලවාගත්, බොහෝ විට වාචාල බස් දොඩවන නිවේදකයන් කිසිම වැදගත්කමක් හෝ ශාස්ත්රීය වටිනාකමක් නැති බොල් ගීතම ශ්රාවකයනට පුද කරත්.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/25)
First Residence Permit statistic Jan.-Sept. 2025 Finland.
1) India 3,206 (Positive 2,500; Dismissed 1; Expired 125; Negative 580). 2) Philippines 2,614 (Positive 2,453; Expired 8; Negative 153). 3) Sri Lanka 2,438 (Positive 2,246; Expired matter 20; Negative 172). 4) Nepal 2,340 (Positive 2,149; Expired matter 33; Negative 158). 5) Bangladesh 2,317 (Positive 1,995; Expired matter 34; Negative 288). statistic sources: migri.fi Finland Offers-, High salaries - No Corruption -Best Medicare - Free Education - No Pollution - Personal Safety - Great Environment! The average annual salary for a dental nurse in Espoo,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/25)
NDB Bank Partners with AHZ Education Consultants to Empower Students Pursuing UK Higher Education
NDB Bank has entered into a strategic partnership with AHZ Education Consultants, one of the fastest-growing UK-focused education consultancies in the world. The collaboration, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 18th September 2025, further strengthens NDB’s Student File proposition, a holistic banking solution designed to support students and their families as they pursue overseas education. The MoU was signed by Sanjaya Perera, Senior Vice President – Personal Banking and Customer Experience, and Zeyan Hameed, Vice President – Retail Banking, on behalf of NDB Bank, while Manuel Pragash, Country Manager,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/25)
Experts warn of disease outbreaks across Sri Lanka
Colombo, Oct. 27 (Daily Mirror) - As torrential rains lash Sri Lanka, health experts are sounding the alarm over a surge in waterborne diseases. Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama told the Daily Mirror that diseases such as dengue, leptospirosis, hepatitis A, typhoid, and diarrhoea could spread rapidly as rainwater contaminates drinking water sources and creates ideal conditions for mosquitoes to breed. He said the rainy season greatly increases the risk of several serious illnesses, with dengue fever posing a major threat. “Flooded and stagnant areas become perfect... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/10/25)
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRSIDENT ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE
Dear Mr. President, I vehemently believe you, as a boy hailing from a village like beautiful Thambuththegamuwa would never allow the following most dangerous and unfair activities to take place in our beloved motherland Sri Lanka ever; Legalization of LGBTQ: Today when even the majority of most developed countries also reject this concept, should my beautiful and sacred country Sri Lanka implement it? A well-civilized country would not let happen such a disastrous act to be included into the constitution so that the meaning of a family would also be destroyed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/25)
From Nightingale to Surrender: Who Hijacked the Nursing Uniform?
The recent request by a group of Muslim women to modify nursing uniforms for religious reasons and the government’s hasty assurance that “there are no legal restrictions” reveals a deeper problem: a shared lack of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) on both sides of the conversation. Cultural Intelligence is not about appeasement. It is about recognizing context, respecting native frameworks, and understanding when adaptation becomes distortion. In this case, both the petitioners and the officials failed to uphold the civic and professional integrity of Sri Lanka’s public health system. Let us be clear: the nursing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/25)
Pioneer of Slaughter free Christmas in Sri Lanka
https://share.google/aimode/hSdM8yntKRMfY3KJL Senaka Weeraratna, a Sri Lankan attorney and animal rights activist, has advocated for a "Slaughter-Free Christmas" in Sri Lanka, arguing for the extension of the Buddhist tradition of non-violence (ahimsa) to the holiday. Core arguments for Slaughter-Free Christmas Contradiction of Christian message: Weeraratna highlights the irony of celebrating a religious figure known as the "Prince of Peace" with the mass slaughter of animals. Drawing from Buddhist principles: He frequently references the centuries-old Sri Lankan custom of closing slaughterhouses and banning meat sales on the Buddhist holy day of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/25)
Suspected gunman in Weligama PS Chairman murder arrested
A person suspected of being the shooter in the murder of the Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman has been arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) in Nawinna, Maharagama. Furthermore, two other individuals suspected of aiding and abetting the murder have been arrested in the Matara area. Several individuals have already been arrested over their alleged connection with the fatal shooting of the Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, which occurred earlier this week.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/25)
'' අනුරගේ පුතාට එයාලංකා ජොබ් එක දුන්නෙ කවුද ?
https://youtu.be/AY1aYmhJ8KE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/25)
Bristol PhD student brewing a future for tea
Thanks to her research, the future of tea might be looking a little less bitter A University of Bristol PhD student’s research may be able to save tea crop from the impact of climate change. Thamali Kariyawasam’s goal is to find tea cultivars which will survive with less water, ensuring tea farming persists in growingly uncertain conditions. Tea plantations in Sri Lanka provide livelihoods to nearly 615,000 people in Sri Lanka, so there is more than the quality of tea on the line. Image via Thamali... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/10/25)
AI job demand in South Asia, including Sri Lanka, surges 75% Faster: World Bank
Colombo, October 25. (Daily Mirror) - The World Bank has highlighted a rapid rise in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) skills across South Asia, including Sri Lanka, noting that this trend is beginning to influence hiring patterns. Between January 2023 and March 2025, the share of AI-related job postings in the region more than doubled, increasing from 2.9% to 6.5%, growing approximately 75% faster than non-AI job listings. The analysis shows that around 22% of jobs in South Asia are exposed to AI. Most of these roles—nearly 70%—are considered... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
Audit urges urgent legal reform, transparency in e-visa deal
MPs get special audit report on the visa scam at Immigration and Emigration Dept. SJB Colombo District MP Dr Harsha de Silva told Parliament yesterday that the special audit report on Sri Lanka’s controversial e-visa contract, awarded to a foreign consortium by the Department of Immigration and Emigration, had been made available to the MPs. The report includes nine recommendations, which the Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance Dr de Silva said, should be implemented immediately. The audit report, by Acting Auditor General G. H. D. Dharmapala, recommends several key reforms, including... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
බොරුවට පොල් ගෑව
පැලවත්තේ බොරු චෝදනා මඟින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපකක්ෂ, ඇවන්ගාඩ් සභාපති නිශ්සංක සේනාධිපති සහ හිටපු හමුදාපතිවරුන් තිදෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව පාවරා තිබූ අල්ලස් නඩුවෙන් ඔවුන් සියළු දෙනා නිදොස්කොට නිදහස්කර ඇත.....ඔවුන් එසේ නිදහස් වුවත් පැලවත්තෙ බොරුව නිසා ඩොල්ර් බිලියන ගණන් ආදයම් ගෙන ආ හැකි ව්යාපෘතියක් මේවනවිට රටට අහිමි වී ඇත.... රටේ ජනතාවට තෙල් පෝලිම්වල ගෑස් පෝලිම්වල ලගින්නට සිදුවූයේ ජවිපෙ විසින් ඉතිහාසය පුරාවටම මෙවන් ආයෝජන සහ ව්යාපෘති කඩාකප්පල්කර දමා පැලවත්තෙ බංකොලොත් දේශපාලනයට බොරුවෙන් ඉංධන සපයාගත් නිසා නොවේද.?... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
චූදිතයෙකුට ජීවිතාන්ත සිරදඬුවම් නියම කිරීමට තනි අභිමතයට නඩු වාර්තාවේ සාක්ෂි වෙනස් කළ විනිසුරු ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට..? ජනාධිපතිට සහ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව සභාවට ඉල්ලීමක්.....
දිතයෙකුට ජීවිතාන්ත සිරදඬුවම් නියම කිරීමට තනි අභිමතයට නඩු වාර්තාවේ සාක්ෂි වෙනස් කළ විනිසුරු ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට..? ජනාධිපතිට සහ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව සභාවට ඉල්ලීමක්..... චූදිතයෙකුට ජීවිතාන්ත සිරදඬුවම් නියම කිරීමට හැකිවන පරිදි තනි අභිමතයට නඩු වාර්තාවේ සාක්ෂි සටහන් වෙනස් කළ ගිහාන් කුලතුංග විනිසුරු ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට නිර්දේශ/ අනුමත කිරීම, යුක්තිය ඉටු කිරීම සහ ජනතාවගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේදී සළකා බැලීමට ජනාධිපතිට සහ ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව සභාවට නීතීඥවරයෙකුගෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්..... කොළඹ මහාධිකරණ HC/5333/2010 නඩුවේ චූදිතට ජීවිතාන්ත සිරදඬුවම් නියම කිරීමට හැකිවන පරිදි තනි අභිමතයට නඩු වාර්තාවේ සාක්ෂි සටහන් වෙනස් කළ ගිහාන් කුලතුංග විනිසුරු ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණටට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
A Note to DP Education!
Congratulations to Dhammika Perera for Magnanimous Generosity to Sri Lanka! DP Education - Languages - IELTS - Japanese - Italian - Korean - Chinese General inquiries 076 133 3666 | info
dpedu.org DP has offered a great service to the Development of Sri Lankan youth! However, as a Sri Lankan abroad for many decades, I have noticed even the Parliamentarians of Sri Lanka, lack the General Etiquette & Good Manners when visiting overseas! Once I met the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, waiting for transport, outside... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
Visa Scam in Sri Lanka - Questions?
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA Part 5 KAMALIKA PIERIS THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA Part 6 KAMALIKA PIERIS Why does Sri Lanka Immigration Need VFS Global? 1: Did Any Person in Sri Lanka Receive a (Bribery Corruption) BACK-HANDER from VFS to facilitate this Unnecessary involvement of a Foreign Agent? 2: Why Does VFS Transfer the Visa Fees to UAE from Sri Lanka, and Hold the Funds for several days benefitting from Overnight Bank Interest? 3: Does Sri Lanka Receive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
CSE for Kids. DEI for Adults. Same Funders. Same LGBTQIA Agenda
· 25th October 2025 Around the world — and now proposed in Sri Lanka — two programs targeting schools and workplaces appear harmless but raise serious questions: CSE for children in schools and DEI for adults in workplaces. On the surface both sound harmless. Who doesn’t want children protected from abuse? Who doesn’t want fairness in workplaces? But behind the soft terminology and wording and promoted by handpicked trained “experts” lies a global LGBTQIA agenda, strategically designed and funded by the same network of organizations, enforced through: ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
Political theatrics enter arousing high profile Zubeen Garg-death probe
As sorrows over the mysterious death of Assam’s beloved son Zubeen Garg in Singapore turned into massive outrages against the government, where the opposition political parties started extracting benefits to prepare their ground for their electoral benefits, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has now jumped into the space keeping an eye for next State assembly elections scheduled for early next year. The saffron party announced the erection of statues of the cultural icon and opening two music schools (along with one in memory Dr Bhupen Hazarika) in different locations. After various civil society groups and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
Fires Help EU Topple Pro-Peace Governments: Hybrid Energy war on Russia and lessons for Sri Lanka
Oct 23, 2025 While it is too early to tell who exactly is responsible for the recent fires at the refineries in Hungary and Romania as investigations are still ongoing, figuring out who benefits from them is easier, Endre Simó, the president of the Hungarian Community for Peace, tells Sputnik. The same goes for fires in forests and “climate disasters’ staged in Sri Lanka. According to Simo, it is “those who want to gain a market with their own products by displacing cheaper Russian products.” “Given the history, namely... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
LIVE: 'UKRAINE WAR IS OVER': Huge News From West; Jefrey Sachs Bombshell Reveal As Trump Meets Putin
https://youtu.be/6QNM75wcYag... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/25)
Israel’s fight for survival and the prophecy of the Rising Lion
We survived Pharaoh, we’ll get through this too. Meir Ariel, singer and songwriter Just over two weeks ago, Israelis commemorated the second anniversary of the horrific October 7 terror attacks carried out by Hamas in Southern Israel. During the raid, the Islamists massacred in cold blood about 1200 men, women and children including babies, and took hostage 251 more. Following days of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas in Egypt, brokered by America with the participation of Qatar and Egypt, it was agreed to release all the 48... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights | Environment | The Guardian
Justice for Animals and Nature Sri Lanka exists in the stone age, metaphorically speaking, when it comes to recognition of the Rights of Animals and Nature. The Justice for Animals and Nature was established in Sri Lanka for that purpose. To canvas public support for the Rights of Animals and Nature through legislative reform and thereby reconnect with our Buddhist Heritage which led the world on Animal Rights in the distant past. It was King Devanampiyatissa (300 BC) who established the World's First Wild Life Sanctuary at Mihintale after the epic encounter with Arahant Mahinda,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
NDB Volunteers Support Mangrove Conservation Efforts at Anawilundawa
Twenty-four staff members from NDB Bank participated in a meaningful volunteer initiative on 10 October 2025 at the Anawilundawa Wetland Sanctuary, a vital Ramsar site in Sri Lanka. The programme was conducted under the Life of Our Mangrove project, in collaboration with Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) and The Wildlife & Nature Protection Society (WNPS). The session began with representatives from BSL and WNPS briefing the volunteers on the project’s objectives and the ecological importance of mangrove restoration. Participants were also introduced to invasive species in the area, with special emphasis on Ipil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
Douglas Macgregor: Broken NATO Escalates War on Russia
https://youtu.be/dZdnC1btS4M... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
Jeffrey Sachs: Last Chance for Peace in Ukraine Sabotaged by Europe
https://youtu.be/7Wrd2J1pLqk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA Part 5
Money was an important factor in the VFS Global visa service launched at Katunayake in April 2024. Firstly, there was the money that the Consortium was supposed to bring into the project. The Parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF) said in its report on the visa matter, thatCabinet Memorandum dated September 8, 2023, presented by Ministry of Public security, said that IVS-GBS Global Services proposed to invest USD 200 million to provide the necessary technical equipment, software, and knowledge needed for the new visa service they were offering. However, upon reviewing the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA Part 6
In July 2024 the Parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF) was asked to look into the GBS-IVS-VFS matter . COPF conducted a formal, detailed inquiry into the appointment of the VSF Global Consortium as the authorized representatives for online visa applications to Sri Lanka COPF issued a damning 640-page report titled “Outsourcing Online Visa and Passport Application Services between the Consortium and the Department of Immigration and migration of Sri Lanka on July 12 2024. see https://www.parliament.lk/uploads/comreports/1720771221058053.pdf COPF found many abuses in the handling of this offer. To start with,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (13කොටස)
ඔන්න පහුදිය දවසක මම ගියා දේශනයක් අහන්න. මහා තර්ක විතර්ක ගොඩක්. මිනිස්සුන්ට ලංකාවේ ඕනෑම තැනක ජීවත් වෙන්න පුලුවන්ලූ. හැබැයි, එතකොට උතුරේ පරම්පරා ගානක් හිටපු සිංහලයෝ උතුරට ආපසු යන්නේ නැද්ද කියලා ඇහුවහම හ්ම් නැහැ. ලබන සතියේ තවක් රැස්වීමක්. බලමු එදාට මොකක්ද මේ අය කියන්නේ කියා. අවම තරමින් 25% කට පමණ වූ භුමි ප්රදේශයක් මේ රටේ මහ ජාතිය වන ජන කොටසට එහි ඉඩමක් මිලදී ගෙන, නිවෙස් තනා තම පවුල් සමඟ ජීවත්වීමට නොහැකි නම්, එය ඔවුන්ට සිදු වන මහඟු අසාධාරණයකි. දෙසැම්බර් 12, 13 සහ 14 යන දිනවල ‘ශ්රී ලාංකික දිනය’ නමින් වැඩසටහනක් කොළඹ කොළඹ මහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
නාවක්කුලි කොටිත් එක්ක උස්සන දෙසැම්බරයේ කොඩි
යාපන දිස්ත්රික්කයේ එකම සිංහල ගම්මානය පිහිටා තිබෙන චාවකච්චරි ප්රා දේශීය සභාව විසින් අරුම පුදුම නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ.නාවක්කුලි හි දුම්රිය ස්ථානයට යාබදව පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරස්ථානයේ පිහිටුවා තිබෙන වන්දනා කරුවන්ට තිබෙන විශ්රාම ශාලා පහසුකම් වහාම නවතා දමන ලෙසටත් එසේ නොකළහොත් නඩු පවරන බවටත් මේ නිවේදනයේ කියා තිබේ.මේ පිළීබඳව පුවත් පත් වල පළ වී තිබෙන වාර්තා අනුව නාවක්කුලියට පමණ් නොව යාපනයේ සිංහල ජනතාව ජීවත් වන තවත් ප්රදේශ වලටත් මේ නීතිය බලපවත්වන්නට ඔවුන් කැස කවන බව පෙන්නුම් කෙරේ. දෙමළ ඊළාම් මතවාදයෙන් පෝෂණය වූ වර්ගවාදී මෙහෙයුම් ආරම්භ වන්නේ කන්කසන්තුර මහජන මන්ත්රීවරයාව සිටි එස්.ජේ.වී.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
'' මේ අපි හිටපු ජේවීපීය නං නෙවෙයි...'' 🥸🙁😉මේක අලුත් UNP එකක්
https://youtu.be/bbfKGKZsI5s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
Renewable Energy In Sri Lanka: Is China Set To Return? – Analysis
Fresh tenders are expected to be called for the two renewable energy projects that were previously offered to India’s Adani Group. In the Sri Lankan context, it is not surprising that projects with Indian funding in the north-east often face opposition under the banner of environmental concerns, while Chinese investments rarely encounter the same level of scrutiny. For example, the Indian-funded coal power plant planned for Sampur, Trincomalee, in the Eastern Province was abandoned due to environmental objections. India, respecting public sentiment, pivoted to a solar alternative. In contrast, the Chinese-backed coal power... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
Exports cross US$ 12.9bn in nine months
SL on track to meet 2025 target In September alone, exports surged 12.33% YoY to US$ 1.46 bn 72% of yearend target set for 2025 achieved thus far Exports to the United States, SL’s largest single destination, fell 2.84% in September but rose 3.04% year-to-date to US$ 2.25 bn Sri Lanka’s export engine continued to gather pace this year with steady growth delivered across both goods and services. Provisional data released by the Export Development Board (EDB) showed that total export earnings... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
Plans to regulate eateries catering to long distance bus passengers: Deputy Minister
Colombo, Oct. 24 (Daily Mirror) - The government has launched a programme to regulate wayside eateries that cater to passengers on long distance buses, Deputy Minister of Transport and High Ways Prasanna Gunasena said today. He told Parliament that the programme was first introduced in the Puttalam corridor from Colombo to Jaffna in line with the introduction of the joint timetable. Responding to a question by MP Sena Nanayakkara, the Deputy Minister said 73 eateries where long distance Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) buses stop have been identified. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
දකුණු කොරියාවේ ප්රබල හිමි නමකගෙන් නාමල්ට හදිසි කැඳවීමක් -මියන්ගේ ආරාධනාවක් අනුවයි. A sudden summons for Namal from a powerful monk in South Korea — upon the invitation of Myan.
The Chairman of the China–Korea Buddhist Association is Venerable Yeong Dam Lim. He is a monk with strong international connections, and the Korean government holds him in very high regard. To describe how influential he is — when Namal visited the temple, even the Deputy Speaker of South Korea was brought there. All the Korean delegates present extended their best wishes to Namal, and the Korean Buddhist leader offered him a special blessing: “I see you as the young Buddhist leader... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/10/25)
Right of Reply: Defending Civilization, Protecting Children – Rejecting Extremism of LGBTQIA
Sri Lanka must ponder: living privately is one thing; legalizing confusion and unnatural sexual behavior is another. Civilization has been built on the natural order of man and woman, family, and procreation. Religions, laws, and cultural norms across time have consistently condemned acts that undermine this foundation. Societies endure and prosper when natural family structures are respected; they falter when unnatural sexual behavior is normalized. LGBTQIA ideology—backed by foreign funding and driven by ideology and profit—sought to overturn biology, target children, undermine families, interfere with religion, and punish dissent, all under the guise of “inclusion”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
WRANGLE FOR AN ASS’S SHADOW
Vijitha Herat the Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that Sri Lanka did not attempt to join a losing race when he and the government decided to let the UNHRC to adopt the proposal A/HRC/60/21/2025 against Sri Lanka. He also added that they wanted to save funds by not getting involved in canvassing support from other nations. The minister’s excuses remind us of a tale of Demosthenes of an ass’s shadow in which two persons contended about trifles while both lost what they should have protected. What happened in Geneva, was the losing of an... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
ඇමති ආනන්ද විජේපාල ත්රස්තවාදී චෝදනා මත පොලිස් සේවයෙන් නෙරපූ අයෙක්…- චාමර
ඇමති ආනන්ද විජේපාල මහතාගේ අතීතය සහ පොලිස් සේවයෙන් නෙරපීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී චාමර සම්පත් දසනායක මහතා විසින් ප්රකාශයක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී සිදු කර තිබේ. ඇමති විජේපාල මහතා ලසන්ත වික්රමසේකර නොහොත් ‘ලසා’ගේ ඝාතනය පාතාල ක්රියාවක් ලෙස කෙලින්ම හුවා දැක්වූ බව මන්ත්රී දසනායක මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. එසේ යටගිය දවස ගැන කතා කරනවා නම්, ඇමති විජේපාල මහතාගේ ජීවිත කතාව ගැන ද කතා කළ හැකි බව ඔහු ප්රකාශ කළේය. මන්ත්රී දසනායක මහතා පෙන්වා දෙන අන්දමට, ආනන්ද විජේපාල මහතා 1988 වසරේදී එස්.අයි. ලෙස පොලිස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට බැඳුණු නමුත්, ඔහු පුහුණුව ලබමින් සිටි කාලයේදී, බුද්ධි වාර්තා සහ CID... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
Sri Lanka Golden Visa Program: Investor residence visa available for foreign nationals
he Sri Lanka Golden Visa allows foreigners to live, invest, and study in the country with residency options up to 10 years under the Investor Visa Program. All foreign nationals, including their spouse and dependents of the main applicant, are eligible for the residence visa under the Individual Investor Category. The visa fee is USD 200 per year for each main applicant, spouse and each dependant. The minimum investment amount for a 5-year residence visa under the Investor Visa Category is USD 100,000, while a 10-year visa requires USD 200,000. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
Leading a Fulfilling Life After Service for Sri Lanka's Armed Forces Veterans
Sri Lankan armed forces veterans participated in a lengthy and intense conflict known as the Eelam War, culminating in a significant victory in 2009. Despite this achievement, many veterans emerged from the conflict with lasting physical injuries that continue to affect their lives long after their military service has ended. Additionally, numerous veterans were confronted with the harsh realities of war, leading to mental health challenges such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Unfortunately, a substantial number of these conditions remain undiagnosed and untreated, which exacerbates their... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
'Kaavan', the Sri Lanka born Elephant suffered heavily for 36 years in a Zoo in Pakistan until the Islamabad High Court recommended its release
In a Monumental Judgment covering the lives of animals in captivity i.e., Zoo, the Islamabad High Court also addressed the imprisonment and suffering of Kaavan the Sri Lanka born Elephant in the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. It is a 67 page comprehensive judgment. The Judgment was delivered by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. ATHAR MINALLAH on May 21, 2020. Date of Hearing: April 25, 2020 A valuable document to be read, digested, and acted upon by all those who have love and care for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
Greenwashing Debt in the Galápagos Islands: Green, Blue and “Sustainability Bond” scam Lessons for Sri Lanka
The Galápagos Islands harbor some of the most unique ecosystems on the planet. Their isolated location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has allowed species to evolve independently from their relatives on the mainland over millions of years. Creatures such as Darwin’s finches, giant tortoises, and marine iguanas are found only on the Galápagos Islands. It was here, 600 miles west of the South American mainland, that Charles Darwin gathered insights that shaped his theory of evolution. In 1959, the Ecuadorian government founded the Galápagos National Park, protecting around 97 percent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (12කොටස)
ගුණදායක කෑම, දිනපතා ව්යායාම, නිදහස් මනස, පිරිසිඳු වතුර, තරබාරුකම පාලනය; මේ වගේ දේවලින් බොහෝ ලෙඩ දුක් අපෙන් ඉවත් කර තබා ගන්න පුළුවන් - හර්ද, පිළිකා, දියවැඩියා, වකුගඩු, අංශබාග වැනි රෝගී තත්ත්ව. ඇවිදීම, යොගා, පිහිනීම, විවිධ ව්යායාම, බය්සිකල් පැදීම, සෙමින් දිවීම ඉතා හොඳ ව්යායාම වර්ග වේ. නිරොගීව, ක්රියාශීලීව දිගු කලක් ජීවත්වෙන්න පුළුවන් වේවි. නිරතුරුව භාවනා කරන්නා නිරෝගී පුද්ගලයෙකි. අඩු තරමේ ගෙදර දොරේ වැඩ, කැත්තෙ උදැල්ලේ වැඩ හරි කරන්න. බැරිම නම් නිකමට හරි KM 2ක් විතර දවසකට ඇවිදින්න. දවසම පුටුවකට වී වැඩකරන අය, මේසය මත තිබෙන කොම්පුටරයේ වැඩ කරන අයට කිසිම ව්යායාමයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/25)
මාලිමා මන්ත්රීන් 159 ටම බන්ධනාගාරයෙන් වාට්ටුවක්. ගම්මන්පිලගෙන් තවත් අනාවරණයක්.
https://youtu.be/8MLXVu3XAkk... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/25)
රණවිරු පුතාට රජ කැපිල්ලක්
https://youtu.be/ZDxPROFU_H8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/10/25)
Is a Job Mafia to Israel Operating from Sri Lanka?
The recent arrest and bail of former Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara has renewed attention on allegations of a foreign employment network funneling Sri Lankan citizens to Israel under questionable circumstances. At the center of the controversy is Saman Priyantha, a private employment agent reportedly offering job placements in Israel. Multiple complaints filed with the Urugasmanna Junction Police allege that Priyantha collected substantial sums from prospective workers, delivering few legitimate job placements. Allegations of a shadowy employment network needs to be investigated. What distinguishes this case is the reported connection between Priyantha and Israeli Consul General in Sri Lanka, Dinesh Rodrigo. Publicly available... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
Landmines Miraculously Unearthed in Jaffna After USA Issues Travel Advisory
eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 12-18 October 2025 The English left time bombs in South Asia…– Zhou Enlai, Premier of China, 1949-76 ‘In Muhamalai, once one of the world’s densest minefields,decades of clearance are allowing people, once displaced by the war, to finally come back home.’ – 22 June 2025, Sunday Times, ‘Recovering a Mined Patch of Land to breathe free once more’ The USA is not only constructing miracles in Argentina, but in Sri Lanka too. Constructing the Miracle is the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) must felicitate lawyer - innovators
Question Has the invention of the 'Player Referral' system by a Sri Lankan lawyer, which is now being used in Cricket (DRS) and four other major world sports, Soccer, Tennis, Rugger, Badminton and spreading rapidly to other sports, enhanced the reputation of both Sri Lanka and Sri Lanka's legal fraternity for global scale ingenuity and innovation? What steps must the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) take to claim credit for the legal fraternity of Sri Lanka by this remarkable innovation of a Sri Lankan lawyer? Answer ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
Government’s “Big Kuchchan” and people’s “Bing Chun”
any critics argued that the Minister made a big blunder by attending a forum in which the working language was English and messed it up Members of the opposition political parties, both minority and majority, have been making fun out a mispronunciation of two English words by a prominent Cabinet Member of a NPP government. The phrase that has been mocked at is “It’s a Big Kuchchan”, a mispronunciation of “It’s a Big Question”. It was the opening sentence of the Minister who was questioned about US president Donald Trump’s role at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
Police report mandatory for election nominees, Says Namal
Colombo, Oct. 19 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organizer and Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa has announced that a police report will be mandatory for anyone seeking party nominations in the upcoming elections, to verify whether candidates have any involvement in drug-related or organized crime activities. Speaking on the preparations for the future Provincial Council elections, Rajapaksa emphasized that the party will decide on nomination procedures after consultations with allied parties, including Left-leaning and other partner political groups. He further said that he will reveal his own election... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
Simple Explanation of the Most Notorious Experiment | Double Slit and Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser
https://youtu.be/7iKebDDs2Pg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
මිහින්තලා නාහිමියන්ට යකා වැහෙයි - මේක අපේ බෞද්ධ රට බොලව්....
https://youtu.be/yzM0Iwhib1k... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/25)
නි. ඇමති මුනීර් මරාගෙන මැරෙන දර්ශනය හඳුන්වා ෂුරා සභා නියෝජිතයෙක්..- ඥාණසාර හිමි
අලුතින් පත් වූ ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු නියෝජ්ය අමාත්ය මුනීර් මුලව්ෆර් මහතා තම සංවිධානය පිළිබඳව රටට පැහැදිලි කිරීමක් කරන ලෙස බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන් විසින් ඉල්ලා තිබේ. මෙය, නියෝජ්ය අමාත්යවරයා සම්බන්ධයෙන් රට තුළ ඇති වී තිබෙන සැකය දුරු කිරීමේ අරමුණින් කරන ලද ඉල්ලීමක් බව උන්වහන්සේ සඳහන් කළහ. https://youtu.be/JOZdX030Syg මෙම ඉල්ලීම සිදු කරමින් ඥාණසාර හිමියන් පෙන්වා දුන්නේ, අතීතයේදී මුස්ලිම් ප්රජාව පීඩාවට පත් කළ සංවිධාන හතරක් පිළිබඳව තමන් දිගින් දිගටම කරුණු අනාවරණය කළ බවයි. 2014 වසරේදී පවා එවැනි ම්ලේච්ඡ ප්රහාරයක් රට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/25)
Ordaining Young Children
The ordination of young children has emerged as a significant societal concern, primarily due to the alarming reality that many of these vulnerable individuals become targets for pedophiles. This troubling trend underscores the urgent need for government intervention to implement stringent measures aimed at safeguarding children from abuse within religious institutions. Authorities must take decisive action to establish comprehensive policies and oversight mechanisms that not only prevent the exploitation of minors but also promote a culture of accountability and transparency within these organizations. Child Ordination is a practice that is still prevalent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/25)
සිංහල සහ ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවලින් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවල 83 වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ වෙනස්කම් තිබේද කියා නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව කර ඇති පරීක්ෂණය සම්බන්ධ විස්තර නීතීඥවරයෙකු තොරතුරු පනතෙන් ඉල්ලයි.
October 18, 2025 සිංහල සහ ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවලින් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවල 83 වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ වෙනස්කම් තිබේද කියා නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව කර ඇති පරීක්ෂණය සම්බන්ධ විස්තර නීතීඥවරයෙකු තොරතුරු පනතෙන් ඉල්ලයි. 2016 අංක 12 දරන තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ අයිතිවාසිකම පිළිබඳ පනත යටතේ නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් සිංහල සහ ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවලින් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවල 83 වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ වෙනස්කම් තිබේද සම්බන්ධයෙන් නීති කෙටුම්පත් සම්පාදක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ විසින් සිඳුකර ඇති පරීක්ෂණය හෝ විමර්ශනය හෝ සළකා බැලීම පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු ඉල්ලා ඇත. 1.1) ඉංග්රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවේ 83 වන ව්යවස්ථාවේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (11 කොටස)
ලෝකේ මිල කළ නොහැකි වටිනාම සම්පත පුංචි දරුවෝයි. අම්මෙක් තම 18 හැවිරිදි පුතාට එයාගේ උපන් දිනය දා දුන් ඔවදන් - ‘හිතන්න එපා අත පය හතර දික් වුණා කියලා සර්ව සම්පූර්ණයි කියලා. මේ සමාජය හරි විසයි. දන්නා දේට වඩා නොදන්න දේ බොහෝයි. වැරදෙන එක පුංචි දෙයින් ඔයාගේ ලස්සන මුළු ජීවිතේම අඳුරු කරන්න පුළුවන්. එදාට ළඟ ඉන්න යාළුවන් කවුරුත් නැහැ, තමන්ට තමන් විතරයි.’ දරුවන්ට කන්න දෙන්න, උගන්වන්න දෙමව්පියෝ මොනතරම් දහදුක් විඳිනවද? දෙමව්පියන් සැම විටම දරුවන්ට ආදර්ශයක් විය යුතුයි. දරුවන් නොමඟ යා හැකි නරක/වැරදි වැඩ නොකර සිටීමට දෙමව්පියන් ඉතාම ප්රවේශම් විය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/25)
අනුරත් මායිම් නොකරන ආන්ඩුවේ පා පිස්සෝ
https://youtu.be/PRgBfoDIKjU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/10/25)
Operation Colombo to Operation Aragalaya: De-Colonizing Global South History
‘Operation Colombo’ in Santiago de Chile in 1973, reverberated with the same Disinformation that had unfolded across Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, who was like Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the Global South, then called the Third World. President Sukarno had hosted the famous Afro-Asian Bandung Summit with the heads of state of 29 newly independent countries near the Indonesian capital Jakarta Ten years after the Bandung Conference the CIA’s “Jakarta Method” Operation unfolded across Indonesia against Sukarno in 1965, and a decade... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
'' ලංකාවේ ළ#මයින්ටත් වැඩේ දෙන්ඩ වගේ හදන්නෙ...'' 🥸🙁😎දන්නා තේ වෙළඳාම කරගෙන හිටියොත් නරකද?
https://youtu.be/dqyK7pX5EqE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
Mr. President AKD – Never Reform History Subject Academically and Legalize LGBTQ Ever In Sri Lanka
It appears that our motherland the Great Sri Lanka is heading towards an agonizing state day by day gradually and slowly. Historically Sri Lanka has a written history for more than 2500 years and it is incomparably rich in culture, religion and with human values and dignities. Unfortunately, the current Sri Lankan government led by President AKD is proposing Sri Lanka to be an LGBTQ legalized country and his lawmakers in the parliament argue that it will be implemented soon. Their personal lives including the prime ministers’ should be kept privately confidentially by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
The Emergence of Tamil Militancy in Sri Lanka
The emergence of Tamil militancy in Sri Lanka can be traced back to a complex interplay of historical, social, and political factors that have shaped the island's ethnic landscape. It reflects a broader narrative of ethnic strife, where historical injustices and socio-political exclusion catalyzed a movement that sought to reclaim identity and autonomy through armed struggle. The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), and the Eelam Revolutionary Organisation of Students (EROS) are significant political and militant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
බංගලාදේශයේ බෞද්ධ හින්දු ජනයා ඉලක්ක කර එල්ල කරන ම්ලේච්ච ප්රහාර වල නැවැත්වීමට මැදිහත්වන ලෙස බංගලාදේශ රජයට බලකරන විරෝධතා පා ගමනක්
පසුගිය 14 වනදා දේශප්රේමි ජාතික ව්යාපාරය සහ ත්රෛනිකායික භික්ෂු පෙරමුණෙහි නායකත්වයෙන් බංග්ලාදේශයේ චිතගොංහි බෞද්ධ සහ හින්දු ජනතාවට එල්ල වන ම්ලේච්ඡ මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදී ප්රහාරවලට එරෙහිව ශ්රී ලංකාවේ වැඩ වාසය කරන බංග්ලාදේශ, මියන්මාර, තායිලන්ත සහ කාම්බෝජ ඇතුළු රටවල්වල භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් කොළඹ 7 සම්බුද්ධත්ව මහා විහාරයේ සිට බංගලාදේශ මහකොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය දක්වා සාමකාමී විරෝධතා පා ගමනක් ගමන් ගත්හ. දේශප්රේමී ජාතික ව්යාපාරය සහ ත්රෛනිකායික භික්ෂු පෙරමුණ එකතුව බෞද්ධ සහ හින්දු ජනතාවට විරුද්ධව එල්ලවන මිලේච්ඡ මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදී ප්රහාරවලට එරෙහිව විරුද්ධත්වය ප්රකාශ කරමින් සහ බංග්ලාදේශ බෞද්ධ හා හින්දු ජනතාවගේ ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කරන ලෙස බංග්ලාදේශ මහ කොමසාරිස් කාර්යාලය වෙත... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
India's civilizational clash with Bollywood
Is Bollywood influencing the Indian mind and taking it away from its deep seated nationalism and spiritual roots, and replacing the sacred icons of India like the Buddha, Mahavira, Emperor Asoka, Mahatma Gandhi, and the like with lightweight film stars and singers of mean repute and dubious character who are being increasingly projected by billboards and framed pictures in Indian Restaurants and public places as the true role models for the young and future generations?Both India and China are giants. They are competing with each other for the rank of the mother civilization of Asia. While... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
The First Christian King of Asia - Don Juan Dharmapala
https://youtu.be/hdlGfaE0foo?si=ZGHi4VzhJ__9eTUd https://youtu.be/hdlGfaE0foo This video explores the dark legacy of European colonialism in Sri Lanka, beginning with the arrival of the Portuguese in 1505. Under the pretense of religious conversion and a so-called "divine command" from the Pope, they launched a brutal conquest—imposing Christianity, dismantling local cultures, and exploiting the island’s rich resources.Central to this history is the tragic figure of Don Juan Dharmapala, remembered as the first Christian king in Asia. His story reflects betrayal and manipulation, as he abandoned his people and Buddhist heritage under Portuguese influence.The narrative continues through Dutch and British... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
India: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) expresses concern over attacks on media persons
Geneva, 16 October 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the mob attack on a number of media persons, engaged on duty, in Assam of far eastern India, while they were covering a protest demonstration in Baksa locality on 15 October. A section of agitators, who were demanding justice to Assam’s cultural icon Zubeen Garg soon after his mysterious death in Singapore on 19 September, targeted the reporters and video journalists as five accused in the sensational case were shifted to Baksa jail from Guwahati. The agitators... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
How the IMF and US Helped Loot and Entrap Argentina with Debt
Argentina is back in the news with renewed financial turmoil spurred by President Milei’s poor political standing. That poor standing is the product of anger with Argentina’s dire economic performance and massive corruption within Milei’s administration, and it augurs poorly for his party’s performance in the forthcoming October 2025 election. In response, the IMF and US have jumped into action to save Milei’s government. The IMF had already provided a $20 billion bailout in April 2025. Now, the US government has provided another $20 billion (in the form of a central bank currency swap... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
ගුරුගෙදර විදුගෙදරක් කළ කන්නන්ගර මැතිඳු
සීතාවක රාජ්යය බිඳ වැටීමේ කාලවකවානුව තුළ ශාසනික වශයෙන් සිදු වූ පරිහානියත් සමග මෙරට පැරණි අධ්යාපන ක්රමයද අභාවයට පත් විය.ඉන් පසු සරණංකර සංඝරාජ සමයෙහි පුනර්ජීවනයට පත් ශාසන සම්ප්රදාය සහ මෙරට අධ්යාපනයට මූලික වූ මහඟු ග්රන්ථයක් වූයේ වදන් කවි පොතයි. වීර පරාක්රම නරේන්ද්රසිංහ රජ දවස දී ශාස්ත්රඥයෙකු ලෙසට ප්රකටව සිටි අත්තරගම බණ්ඩාර පඬිතුමන් විසින් මෙම කාව්යග්රන්ථය රචනා කරන ලද බව දැක්වේ. එතුමා තම තරුණ කාලයෙහි දිම රාජ කුමාරවරුනට අකුරු ශාස්ත්රයට ගුරු වූ නිසා රාජගුරු යනුවෙන් ද ප්රකට වූහ. තිබූ තැනක සොර සතුරන් ගත නොහෙනා - එසැඬ මනාවන් වතුරෙන් වල නොයනා කෝප වුවත් රජ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
මට ලැජ්ජයි හරිනි අගමැතිනිය ගැන, ජවිපෙ සාහසික අපරාධ යුක්ති සහගත කරන්න යනවා ලස්සන සාරි ඇඳලා
https://youtu.be/X-n1bXj6J4k... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association -Lajna Imaillah Sri Lanka Ijtima – 2025.
Lajna Imaillah (Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association) Sri Lanka held its Annual Gathering (Ijtima) on 20th and 21st of September at Fazl Mosque premises, Negombo. The event was chaired by the President of the Association. The programme commenced with the recitation of the Holy Qur’an, followed by the Pledge and silent prayer led by the President of the Association The two days gathering (Ijtema) was enriched with a variety of spiritual, academic, and engaging activities: Annual Ijtima of Nasirath (Ahmadi girls between 7 years to 15) was also held on the previous... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/10/25)
Hollywood Has Always Known That Jesus Was Black
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I lived like a Cuban for a week: hungry, broke, but happy. And here's the secret...
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ණය මත යැපීමෙන් ලංකා ආර්ථිකය අවදානමේ..- මූඩීස්
ගෝලීය ණය ශ්රේණිගත කිරීමේ ආයතනයක් වන මූඩිස් (Moody’s) මෑතකදී නිකුත් කළ වාර්තාවකින් පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය යථා තත්ත්වයට පත් කිරීමේ ක්රියාවලිය බොහෝ දුරට නිවැරදි මඟක ගමන් කරන නමුත්, ඊට බාධා එල්ල කරන සාධක කිහිපයක් පවතින බවයි. ඔවුන් පෙන්වා දෙන පරිදි, රටේ ඉහළ ණය බර, මූල්ය අවකාශයේ සීමිත බව සහ අඛණ්ඩව විදේශ මූල්ය ආධාර මත යැපීමට සිදුවීම මෙම ප්රගතියට බලපාන ප්රධාන අවදානම් ලෙස සැලකේ. කෙසේ වෙතත්, මූඩිස් ආයතනය පවසන්නේ, මූල්ය ප්රතිසංස්කරණ, සංචාරක කර්මාන්තයේ ශක්තිමත් ආදායම් සහ විදේශ ප්රේෂණවල වර්ධනය හේතුවෙන් ආර්ථිකය යළි නඟා සිටුවීමේ ගමනට සැලකිය යුතු තල්ලුවක් ලැබී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/10/25)
IMF chief says lack of retaliation against Trump tariffs aiding global growth
Decisions by most countries to not retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs are among the top factors bolstering the global economy’s resilience, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Tuesday. “The world, so far, and I cannot stress enough, so far, has opted not to retaliate and to continue to trade pretty much on the rules that have existed,” Georgieva said during an event at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Washington, noting that this avoided debilitating tariff escalation. Earlier on Tuesday, the fund had edged up its 2025... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/10/25)
Report on UNP-SJB unity framework to be handed over next week
Member of Parliament Kabir Hashim, who is the head of the committee drafting the framework for the unity between the United National Party (UNP) and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), announced that the report is currently being finalised and will be handed over to the Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the SJB, Sajith Premadasa, next Wednesday (22). Hashim noted that the report includes several key areas, such as:The two political parties are working together.Engaging in politics together.Contesting elections together. Operating under one policy, one ideology, and one plan. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/10/25)
පීචං ලෝයර්ලා, සකල බුජං හා හොර ඔප්පු
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අද වෙනකොට බුදු දහම දැවැන්ත අනතුරක වැටිලා - අභිනව අස්ගිරි අනුනායක හිමි රටටම කියයි
https://youtu.be/2dQA5clH168... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/10/25)
Sri Lanka’s digital economy urgently needs global positioning reevaluation
Sri Lanka’s digital economy is at risk of not realizing its full potential by rethinking its export strategy and global positioning, according to a top official. Doerscircle COO and Sarvodaya Fusion Board Member Yasas Vishuddhi Abeywickrama, addressing the CA Sri Lanka National Conference in Colombo said that the country’s digital exports have enlarge from $300 million in 2010 to nearly $2 billion in 2025, but the country still lose its targets. The current digital strategy aims to achieve $5 billion in digital exports, digitize public services, build a $15 billion digital economy, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
Titanium Sands secures Stage-2 funding for Sri Lankan mineral sands project
Titanium Sands’ titanium-rich heavy mineral sands project is situated on the northwest coast of Sri Lanka. Credit: File Titanium Sands has confirmed it has secured Stage 2 debt funding to advance its Mannar Island project in northwest Sri Lanka that is rich in heavy mineral sands that contain lucrative titanium minerals. Geomorphologically, Mannar Island is a classic consolidated sand-spit formed by the accumulation of sediments transported and sorted by longshore currents and tidal action along Sri Lanka’s northwest coast. The island is about 32 kilometres long, stretching northwest... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
The government was right not to spend goodwill and energy on the UNHRC resolution
Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath argues that Sri Lanka cannot secure a favourable position in the vote because the UNHRC, due to its structure, since some blocs, such as Europe, tend to adopt a collective position. File Photo The Foreign Minister attributes the ‘Geneva issue’ to the Rajapaksa administration’s politicisation of war victory for dynastic politics, preventing a credible national mechanism for addressing post-war grievances Concerns have been raised over the two-year extension of the evidence-gathering mechanism, which could potentially enable universal jurisdiction cases against... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (10 කොටස)
තම සැමියා/බිරිඳ ට දේවත්වයෙන් මෙන් සළකන අය ඇත. එහි ගැටළුවක් නැත. තමන් ‘පිච්ච මලින් උපන් කුමාරියක්’ මෙන් සුපිරිසිදුයි කියා සිතන ස්ත්රීන් ඇත. තමන් 'සුදු පාවඩයක්’ වාගේ පිරිසිඳුයි කියා සිතන පිරිමි ඇත. එසේ සිතීම හොඳය, මන්ද, එසේ සිතන්නේ ඒ අය එසේ ජිවත් වෙන නිසාය. තම ස්වාමියා පිට රට යන අවස්ථාවේ අපේ සිංහල කුල කාන්තාවක් නිව් යෝර්ක්හි JFK එයාර්පෝර්ට්හිදී ඔහුගෙන් සමුගන්නා වේලේ, එහි සෙනග මැද, දන ගසා ඔහුට වැන්දාය. එය දුටු සුදු ජාතිකයෙක් ෆොටෝ එකක් ගසා ප්රධාන ප්රවුර්තියක් ලෙස නිව් යෝර්ක් ටය්ම්ස් පත්තරේ දැමීය - ‘ශ්රී ලංකා සමාජයේ උසස් ගති පැවතුම්’ යන මාර්තෘකාව යටතේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
A New International Manifesto & Economic History for Sri Lanka
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 5-11 October 2025 The white masque of benevolence crackles asunder As plasterers flustered patch oozing fractures… The past week saw the 3 old invaders of Sri Lanka – England, Portugal & Holland, without even a pale flush of shame, pushing the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt a resolution titled ‘Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability & Human Rights in Sri Lanka’ (A/HRC/60/L1/Rev1) – ‘without a vote’. These pirates... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
President Putin UNVEILS The Black Biblical Icons In Russia | Africa's Biblical Icons Revealed
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VFS Exclusivity Becomes Mafioso Monopoly
VFS Global Exclusivity Monopoly LankaWeb – THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA PT 3 <https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2025/10/11/the-visa-scam-in-sri-lanka-pt-3/> <https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2025/10/11/the-visa-scam-in-sri-lanka-pt-3/> LankaWeb – THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA PT 3 Owned by <https://www.blackstone.com/> Blackstone: Home <blob:https://mail.yahoo.com/8694f221-4e5c-42ed-beb2-ee2f4a93f3ec> Blackstone https://www.blackstone.com <https://www.blackstone.com/> Home - Blackstone Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager, serving institutional and individual investors by b... <https://www.vfsglobal.com/en/general/board-member-zubin-karkaria.html?from_section=1> For Governments | About | Executive Board | Zubin Karkaria ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
A Huge Airbase with a Small Country Attached: Israel, British Imperialism, and Airpower Colonialism
Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s nomination of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his hands already crimson with the blood of innocent Iraqis, to run post-war Gaza, brings to mind a distant era when London sent its politicians out to be viceroys in its global colonial domains. Consider Blair’s proposed appointment, made (of course!) without consulting any Palestinians, a clear signal that the Middle East has entered a second era of Western imperialism. Other than Palestine, which has already been subjected to classic settler colonialism, our current neo-imperial moment is characterized by the American... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Elders’ Association (Majlis Ansarullah) - Annual Gathering -2025
The Second Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at (Community) in Islam Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmood Ahmad, may Allah be pleased with him, formed Auxiliary Organizations in the Jama’at to serve the needs of both genders according to different age groups: In 1922: Majlis Lajna Ima’illah for women. In 1928: Majlis Nasirat-ul-Ahmadiyya for girls ages 7 – 15. In 1938: Majlis Khuddam-ul-Ahmadiyya for men ages 15 – 40. In 1940: Majlis Ansarullah for men age 40 and above. On Sunday the 6th October 2025, at Baitul... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
Hiru TV Salakuna Live | Udaya Gammanpil | Episode 500 | 2025-10-13 | Hiru News
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The UNHRC’s continuing assault on Sri Lanka: A way forward
The UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) latest resolution on Sri Lanka raises serious questions about the Council’s impartiality and respect for the UN Charter. This new measure extends the mandate of the external mechanism established under Resolution 46/1 of March 2021. At the start of the UNHRC’s 60th Session on 08 September, 2025, 43 nations objected to any further country-specific action on Sri Lanka, with several specifically arguing that the external mechanism contravenes Article 2(7) of the UN Charter — which prohibits the UN from interfering in the domestic affairs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
NDB Privilege Banking Hosts Exclusive Wellness Webinar on Diabetic Reversal
NDB Bank, recently hosted an exclusive virtual well-being session for its esteemed Privilege clientele, reaffirming its commitment to offering holistic lifestyle experiences that go beyond traditional banking. The webinar, which saw an attendance of about 200 of NDB’s Privilege customers, focused on the highly topical subject, “Diabetic Reversal: Fact or Myth”. The session was conducted by Dr. Ng Jen Min Ben, an expert endocrinologist from Arden Endocrinology Specialist Clinic, Parkway Hospitals, Singapore, who shared valuable medical insights and evidence-based perspectives on the potential of reversing diabetes through lifestyle adjustments and clinical interventions.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
Former Navy Commander Ulugetenne granted bail
Colombo, October 14 (Daily Mirror)- Former Navy Commander Nishantha Ulugetenne, who was in remand custody in connection with the disappearance of a youth from Pothuhera, was granted bail by the Kurunegala Magistrate's Court today. Ulugetenne was arrested in connection with the disappearance of a youth from Pothuhera, which reportedly occurred during his tenure as Director of Naval Intelligence.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
Three police teams deployed to arrest lawyer Gunaratne Wanninayake: Police
Three police teams have been deployed to arrest attorney-at-law Gunaratne Wanninayake, who was involved in a confrontation with a police constable at the Mount Lavinia Court premises, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) F.U. Wootler said today. He told the weekly briefing to announce Cabinet decisions that further investigations have been launched into the incident and said that the police made submissions to the court under special provisions of the penal code. He said legal action will be taken against the this lawyer soon.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
US updates travel advisory for Sri Lanka
The U.S. Department of State has issued a travel advisory advising its citizens to exercise increased caution when travelling to Sri Lanka due to unrest, terrorism, and landmines. According to the Department, protests over the economic and political situation in Sri Lanka can happen at any time, adding that terrorist attacks have occurred in Sri Lanka, with little or no warning. “Police have used water cannons and tear gas to disperse protesters and protests could turn violent with little or no warning,” the department... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/10/25)
Sri Lanka’s Economy is sustained by Sinhala Taxpayers: Without them, Sri Lanka stops – thank Sinhalese without demanding separatism
Sri Lanka survives today because ordinary, hardworking Sinhala taxpayers across the Western, Southern, Sabaragamuwa, North Western and North Central Provinces carry the economic weight of the entire nation. These provinces produce the largest share of national income and generate most tax revenue, which is then used to fund all nine provinces, including those that demand special political powers or separatism. This is not emotion.This is not racism.This is economic fact. What the numbers say: According to Central Bank of Sri Lanka – Provincial GDP (PGDP) 2023: Total GDP:LKR 27.4 trillion Total Tax... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
NDB Bank Partners with United Motors Lanka PLC to Strengthen Passenger and Commercial Vehicle Financing
NDB Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Motors Lanka PLC (UML), one of Sri Lanka’s most pioneering and highly respected automobile companies with over eight decades of industry leadership. This strategic partnership enables customers to access flexible, affordable, and innovative leasing solutions across UML’s renowned range of passenger and commercial vehicles. Through this collaboration, NDB customers will be able to finance Mitsubishi passenger vehicles, supported by UML’s extensive after-sales network and trusted reputation. With tailor-made leasing facilities offering fast approvals, minimal documentation, flexible repayment terms, and no guarantor... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
ISCCI Hosts Second Edition of “Bridging Borders” Financial Dialogue in Colombo
ISCCI Hosts Second Edition of “Bridging Borders” Financial Dialogue in ColomboTheme: Enabling Sri Lanka’s Market Bond Issuance in Indian Currency – Pathways, Policies, and PreparednessDate: Wednesday, 15th October 2025Venue: BMICH, Colombo | Time: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Followed by High TeaThe Indo–Sri Lanka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ISCCI) held its second edition of its flagship financial dialogue series titled “Bridging Borders II: Enabling Sri Lanka’s Market Bond Issuance in Indian Currency – Pathways, Policies, and Preparedness.”The event was held on 15th October 2025 at the BMICH,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
Shell Shock to Palali Syndrome: PTSD Sri Lankan Experience - By Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge
Shell Shock to Palali Syndrome: PTSD Sri Lankan Experience traces the history of trauma in Sri Lanka, from the experiences of a few "shell-shocked" Sri Lankan soldiers during World War II to the widespread psychological damage caused by the decades-long civil war and the 2004 tsunami. Dr. Jayatunge introduces the term "Palali Syndrome" as a metaphor for the specific post-traumatic reactions and long-term readjustment problems faced by Sri Lankan combatants and society following the prolonged Eelam War. Palali, a military base in the north, becomes a powerful symbol of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
වෘත්තීය පුහුණු ආයතන විසින් සිදුකරනු ලබන වෙල්ඩින් තාක්ෂණ පාඨමාලා වල අසම්පූර්ණ කාර්ය සාධනය පිළිබඳව
සම්මානීය සභාපතිතුමනි, උසස් වෘත්තීය අධ්යාපන කොමිෂන් සභාව ජාතික ශිල්ප පුහුණු මණ්ඩලය සිලෝන් ජර්මානු පුහුණු ආයතනය – සභාපති/අධ්යක්ෂතුමා මහත්මයනි, වෘත්තීය පුහුණු ආයතන විසින් සිදුකරනු ලබන වෙල්ඩින් තාක්ෂණ පාඨමාලා වල අසම්පූර්ණ කාර්ය සාධනය පිළිබඳව Temple Trees හි පැවති Skills Expo විශේෂ සැසි මණ්ඩපයේදී පැවති සංවාදයකදී, මගේ ප්රශ්නයකට ප්රතිචාර දුන් සියලුම විශිෂ්ට පැනල් සාමාජිකයින් විසින්, TVEC, NAITA, VTA, තාක්ෂණ විද්යාල වැනි වෘත්තීය පුහුණු ආයතන මඟින් නිපදවන වෙල්ඩර්වරුන්ගේ ගුණාත්මකභාවය දෘශ්යමාන ලෙස පහළ වී ඇති බව අත්හදා බලමින් පිළිගත් බව කරුණාවෙන් අවධාරණය කරමි. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
විමර්ශනවලට සහාය නැතිනම් නීතිඥ වන්නිනායකව අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නවා! පොලිසිය
https://youtu.be/EoXnjC7CzjU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
විමර්ශනවලට සහාය නැතිනම් නීතිඥ වන්නිනායකව අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නවා! පොලිසිය - Hiru News
https://youtu.be/EoXnjC7CzjU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
ගල්කිස්ස කොස්තාපල්ගේ ලෝයර් සියල්ල හෙළිකරයි
https://youtu.be/tvGokMPBmq8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
ගල්කිස්ස අධිකරණය ඉදිරිපිට උණුසුම් වෙයි කොස්තාපල් වෙනුවෙන් ජන ගඟක් බන්ධනාගාර බස් එක එද්දී වටකරගනී
https://youtu.be/kFqCO6uAHk4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/25)
WE ARE STILL AWAITING CANCELLATION OF THE LGBTQ TOURISM LETTER – THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT DECEIVE THE NATION
On 09 September 2025, Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) Chairman Buddhika Hewawasam issued an official letter endorsing and approving LGBTQ tourism in Sri Lanka. That letter was sent to the foreign-funded organization Equal Ground, giving them written official access to Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, its staff, institutions, and policy framework. This is not a “misunderstanding”. This is an official policy shift that violates the constitution & penal code and betrays national culture and religious values and opens the door to foreign ideological control. The letter is written evidence — and written evidence is what foreign lobbyists and international bodies use.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
Integration of Virtual Welding Training into NVQ-Level Curriculum in Sri Lanka
Prepared by: Dr. Sarath ObeysekeraChairman – Advisory Board on Offshore and Marine Industry DevelopmentUnder the Export Development Board (EDB), IDMS welding school Background Sri Lanka’s shipbuilding, offshore fabrication, and heavy engineering industries face a growing shortage of certified welders meeting international standards (ASME, AWS, ISO 9606). Traditional welding training methods, while effective, are limited by high costs of consumables, workshop safety risks, and constrained training space. Globally, virtual welding simulators are transforming welder training. They provide an immersive, interactive platform for trainees to practice welding techniques safely and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA PART 1
In 2012, the Department of Immigration and Emigration had asked Mobitel to establish and operate an online gateway for those wishing to apply for visas to Sri Lanka. Mobitel provided the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) system for the Department . This was tried out on a trial basis on 1 October 2011 and became fully operational on 1 January 2012. This functioned satisfactorily from 2012 to 2024. There were no complaints. Mobitel provided the service free of charge while recovering part of its costs from advertising and services to tourists. Mobitel... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA PART 2
Revised 12.20.25 The contract for issuing on-arrival visas at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) was taken over by VFS Global on April 17, 2024. This matter had previously been satisfactorily handled by the officers of the Sri Lankan Immigration Department , without any complaints. After VFS Global took over, those applying for e-visas had do so at the new online platform operated by IVS-GBS. This replaced the ETA system (Electronic Travel Authorization) created by Mobitel, that was used earlier. Incoming tourists were now forced to get their visas from the IVS-GBS-VFS... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA PART 3
The tourist industry protested vehemently over the VFS take over at Katunayake. but the Ministry ignored the protests and allowed VFS to continue regardless. Then something happened and the issue went public . On 3 May 2024, television news showed an enraged Sri Lankan at the Katunayake International Airport complaining loudly over denial of a visa for his partner .He strongly criticized the foreign visa service. News channels ran this in their evening news. see https://youtu.be/QYqD-0LJLzM Newsfirst The VFS deal came under fire after the public saw this video. Public wanted to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
THE VISA SCAM IN SRI LANKA PART 4
The Department of Immigration ignored the Supreme Court order and continued with VFS. Minister Alles held a special media conference after the Supreme Court order to explain why they could not obey the Supreme Court Order. He was flanked, I think, by the Permanent secretary, Vyani Gunatilaka and Harsha Illukpitiya, Controller General of Immigration . They looked very determined and confident . Minister Tiran Alles said that the change to VFS was the government’s response to “feedback from tourists and the need for an improved visa issuance system.”. He condemned the ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
Pathfinder Foundation Participates in 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in China
Admiral Dr Jayanath Colombage, a distinguished fellow of the Pathfinder Foundation, took part in the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Press Release Pathfinder Foundation Participates in 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in China Admiral Dr Jayanath Colombage, a distinguished fellow of the Pathfinder Foundation, took part in the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, held in Beijing, China, representing the Pathfinder Foundation and Sri Lanka. This year’s forum was held under the main theme of “Upholding International Order and Promoting Peaceful Development,” with the participation of over 1000 senior military and defence leaders, academics, and researchers.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
ලංකාව යලි දරුණු ආර්ථික අර්බුදයක අවදානමකට..- නවතම වාර්තාවක් කියයි…
පසුගිය කාලයේ මුහුණදුන් දරුණුතම ආර්ථික අර්බුදවලින් මිදී ආර්ථිකය ස්ථාවර වෙමින් පවතින නමුත්, එවන් තත්ත්වයක් නැවත ඇතිවීමේ සැලකිය යුතු අවදානමක් පවතින බව ස්වාධීන අධ්යයන කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් සකසන ලද වාර්තාවක් මගින් අනතුරු අඟවා ඇත. ශ්රී ලංකාව වර්තමානය වන විට තීරණාත්මක සන්ධිස්ථානයක සිටින බව පෙන්වාදෙන එම වාර්තාව මගින්, මෙකී අවදානම හේතුවෙන් දැන් අත්කරගනිමින් පවතින සාර්ව ආර්ථික ස්ථායිකරණය දිගටම පවත්වාගෙන යා යුතු බවත් රාජ්ය ධාරිතාවය පිළිබඳ විශේෂ අවධානයක් සහිතව ආර්ථික වර්ධන ප්රතිපත්ති මාලාවක් ක්රියාත්මක කළ යුතු බවටත් නිර්දේශ කර ඇත. “ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පරිවර්තනීය ආර්ථික වර්ධනය තිරසාර කිරීම 2025-2030” මැයෙන් ODI Global සහ දරිද්රතා විශ්ලේෂණ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
Court authorises police to obtain CCTV footage for Mount Lavinia incident investigation
The Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate today (October 12) granted permission to the police to obtain CCTV footage relevant to the full investigation launched into the recent incident between a lawyer and a police constable within the Mount Lavinia Court premises. The permission was granted following submissions made today by the Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police to the Additional Magistrate. The Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police will conduct further investigations under the supervision of the officer in charge of the Mount Lavinia Division, Senior Superintendent of Police A. J. Gunasekara. The investigation... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
Police launch investigation against senior lawyer in Mount Lavinia court incident
Police Headquarters has announced that the Mount Lavinia Headquarters Police have commenced an investigation into a senior lawyer who accompanied the attorney allegedly assaulted by a police officer in the Mount Lavinia Court premises. Police Headquarters issued a statement confirming that the investigation targets the senior lawyer for allegedly swearing at and threatening the police officer involved in the incident and using criminal force to obstruct his duty. The police statement provides the following background: The police officer in question was arrested following a complaint that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
ආණ්ඩුව හාන්සි කල කොස්තාපල් සිළිදු සමග ජනබලවේගයම කණපිට පෙරලෙයි
https://youtu.be/vs1fYLrpay0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
CHAPA on Disorder in Sri Lanka! Lawyers! Mount Lavinia Magistrate Court කළු කෝට් මැරයෝ! Oct 12, 2025
https://youtu.be/_z_a04446xw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/10/25)
Malima Cabinet Reshuffle and Contradictions Between the NPP and JVP: A Marxian Analysis
1. Introduction: Speeches That Sparked a Dialectical Inquiry Addressing the 60 th Anniversary of the formation of the JVP on 14 May 2025, Anura Kumara in a moment of rhetorical blunders, said that there are leaders in the NPP who were not considered even as door mats (“Papisi”) by the other political parties, a metaphor that was as provocative as it was revealing. This speech reverberated across Sri Lanka’s political landscape. For many observers, this was a passing remark in the heat of political discourse. For others, including myself, it signaled... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
What are the potential economic and other benefits that would accrue to Sri Lanka if the ICC grants official recognition to DRS as an invention modelled on the foundational concept of ' Player Referral' conceived by a Sri Lankan lawyer?
See https://share.google/aimode/BlVquJxNsYWSjOEQ8 Also see https://thuppahis.com/2025/10/11/the-drs-in-cricket-ai-in-support-of-senakas-role-as-the-inventorr-of-the-drs-in-cricket/ AI OverviewAnswerIf the ICC officially recognizes Sri Lanka's claim to the 'player referral' concept behind the Decision Review System (DRS), the country could see benefits like potential financial compensation through royalties, a boost in national pride and a stronger claim to intellectual property, and increased tourism and branding opportunities associated with the innovation.This official acknowledgment would not only bring economic benefits but also recognize the country's significant contribution to shaping modern cricket.Economic benefitsFinancial compensation: Sri Lanka could receive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
15 new breast cancer cases reported daily in Sri Lanka
Approximately 15 new breast cancer cases are reported daily in Sri Lanka, while about three women die each day due to the disease, health authorities have revealed. Health experts point out that breast cancer is completely curable and that every woman should perform a self-breast examination after the age of 20. The Ministry of Health has announced that women aged between 20 and 40 should undergo a clinical breast examination once every three years, while those above 40 are advised to have the examination annually. The Ministry further stated that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
Election Commissioner General says 'no law' to hold Provincial Council Elections
Commissioner General of Elections, Saman Sri Ratnayake, states that there is currently no legal framework in the country under which to hold the Provincial Council elections. He explained that the old law was repealed, and the new set of laws being drafted has been stalled since 2018. The Commissioner General stressed that the entire responsibility for this lies with the Legislature, and they must take decisive action on the matter. Ratnayake further urged public representatives in the Legislature to be committed to establishing the relevant law immediately, instead of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
P.R.O දැරිවිය දැක්කම මගේ පපුව රිදුනා !
https://youtu.be/5h-XuvwQsrI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
බොරු කී කතානායකට විශ්වාස භංගයක්. මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසමේදී ලංකාව තනිවූ රහස එළියට.
https://youtu.be/gHSL_i8XmDY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
අපිපරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (9කොටස)
සමාජයේ කවුරුත් එකයි. හැමෝගෙම ලේ රතු පාටයි. හැම දරුවෙක්ම (රාජ කුමාරයෙක් හෝ සිඟන දරුවෙක්) මේ ලොවට බිහිවෙන්නේ අහිංසකව හඬා, එතැන උස් පහත් භේදයක් නැත. විෂම සමාජයයි ඒ දරුවන්ව විෂම වැඩිහිටියන් බවට පත් කරන්නේ. බොහෝ වේලාවට ගමේ පොලිස්කාරයා, ග්රාම සේවක, සමෘධි නිලධාරි දුප්පත් මිනිස්සුන්ට තමා ‘පාර්ට්’ පෙන්වන්නේ. මේ අයගේ බලය නිසා පළාතේ පොලිසිය, දිසා ලේකම් පිළිගන්නේ මේ අය කියන දේයි. නීතියෙන් මොන දේ කීවත්, යටින් අර ‘ජරාව; කියන දේ හිස්මුදුනින් - දෝතින්ම පිළිගෙන, රාජ්ය නිලධාරින් සමහර විට යථාර්තය උඩු යටි කුරු කර පෙන්නනවා. මොන තරම් අයුක්තිය,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
German support for Israel a 'legal and moral mistake' - Law and ethics professor Janina Dill
https://youtu.be/APSJzzj7gRQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘Peace’ Has Lost Its Meaning
Far from a symbol of peace, the article exposes Machado's history of supporting coups, sanctions, and calls for foreign military intervention in Venezuela. Maria Corina Machado is known for her incendiary speeches (AP) When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she stands for knows there’s nothing remotely peaceful about her politics. If this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
The real reason why Trump is bailing out Argentina with $20 billion
https://youtu.be/HSt6LWjw0YU... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
Sri Lanka’s first AI-powered hotel inaugurated
Colombo, October 11 (Daily Mirror ) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Vijitha Herath attended the inauguration of the Grand Serendib Colombo, Sri Lanka’s first AI-powered hotel project, held last night (10) at the Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo. The event also celebrated the 20th anniversary of ABEC, the company behind the project. Sri Lanka National Cricket Team Head Coach Sanath Jayasuriya and ABEC Premier Dilip K. Herath joined the minister in officially launching the landmark initiative. Speaking at the ceremony, Minister Herath said, “This project is a significant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
India upgrades ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban, says it will reopen Kabul embassy
India on Friday upgraded ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban administration, giving a boost to the diplomatically isolated group, by announcing it would reopen its embassy in Kabul that was shut after the Taliban seized power in 2021. The Afghan Taliban administration will also send diplomats to New Delhi, its foreign minister said. India closed its embassy in Kabul following the withdrawal of U.S.-led NATO forces from war-torn Afghanistan four years ago, though it launched a small mission in 2022 to facilitate trade, medical support and humanitarian aid. About a dozen countries... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
President Dissanayake carries out first cabinet reshuffle
The first cabinet reshuffle of the new government was carried out today, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swearing in three new Cabinet Ministers and ten Deputy Ministers. The reshuffle increases the number of Cabinet Ministers to 23 and the number of Deputy Ministers to 33. One significant promotion to the Cabinet is Susil Ranasinghe, who was sworn in as Minister of Housing, Construction, and Water Supply. He previously served as the Deputy Minister of Housing, Construction, and Water Supply. In a major portfolio change, Bimal Rathnayake was sworn in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/10/25)
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT ANURA KUMARA D.
Dear President Anura, Congratulations on passing a trouble free 365 plus days as the President of Sri Lanka. Anyhow, it was not a pleasant speech that you delivered at UN assembly a few days ago. A head of a country shall never ever criticize its own country in public, which is just spitting up to the sky. In-house matters shall be resolved internally and not necessary to complain to the outsiders. There is no country on the earth where corruption is zero. Remember you are living today to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/25)
Protecting Our Children & Culture: How Mahanayakas & the Cardinal Saved Sri Lanka from Harmful LGBTQIA Policies
Over the past several years, there has been a string of attempts by successive governments in Sri Lanka to implement policies that mirror Western LGBTQIA ideologies at the national level, particularly targeting children. These included proposals to teach LGBTQIA content in schools, allow pride parades, provide sex clinics in government hospitals, promote sexual activity for children as young as 16, distribute condoms in schools, legalize abortion and prostitution, and more. If implemented, these measures could have led to alarming rises in AIDS, teen pregnancies, and the overall moral erosion of society. The dangerous consequences of these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/25)
Woman Assaulted in Kandy After Filming Distressed Monkeys
On the morning of 9 October 2025, a disturbing incident unfolded at Dharmasoka Mawatha, Arupola, Kandy, raising urgent questions about animal welfare, civic safety, and constitutional accountability in Sri Lanka. Mrs. D. Hearath, a concerned citizen and practicing Buddhist, was riding past the area when she witnessed a group of monkeys confined at the roadside without food, water, or visible care. Cages were present, the animals were clearly restricted and in distress. Eyewitnesses later confirmed that the monkeys were crying like babies, and some villagers had tried to feed them out of compassion. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/25)
BRICS Just SURPASSED G7, What's Next for Global Power?
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Ananda Wijepala is a Tamil
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NDB Bank Partners with SJP Global to Empower Sri Lankan Students with Seamless Overseas Education Support
NDB Bank has entered into a strategic partnership with SJP Global (Pvt) Ltd., further strengthening its commitment to empowering the next generation of Sri Lankans through education. The partnership was formalised with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 27th August 2025, with a focus on enhancing the NDB Student File proposition, a comprehensive solution designed to make overseas education journeys seamless, secure, and stress-free. The MoU was signed by Sanjaya Perera, Senior Vice President – Personal Banking and Customer Experience, and Ashan Wickramanayake, Assistant Vice President & Head of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/25)
Winners And Losers In Trump’s Peace Plan
Dated: 06.10.2025 What is the urgency driving Donald Trump to push his Gaza peace plan, even by dishonest means if necessary. In his eagerness to bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump resorted to subterfuge, straight forward knavery. Even more compelling than his yen for the Nobel was the pressure of global public opinion which chastises the US collaborating with Israel’s unspeakable brutality, the genocide of Gaza, frame by frame on live TV. A peace plan developed with representatives of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan attending... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/10/25)
Message to youth & adults being misled by LGBTQIA-DEI ideology: QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE YOU BELIEVE ANYONE WHO SAYS “YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR SEX”
1️. The First Truth: Sex is Not a Choice Your sex is decided the moment you are conceived. Male: XY chromosomes Female: XX chromosomes These chromosomes exist in every cell of your body.They determine your organs, hormones, and natural design —and no drug, surgery, or hormone can ever change them. 2️. What a Biological Woman Is Born with XX chromosomes Has ovaries, uterus, vagina Produces eggs Experiences monthly menstruation Can carry and give birth to a child No medicine can give... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (8 කොටස)
“මම කිසියම් වැරැද්දක් කර ඇත්නම් සමාවෙන්න දෙවියනේ. මාව මරන්න එපා. මට දරුවන් තිදෙනෙක් සිටිනවා. ළමයින් පාසලෙන් නිවසට පැමිණ මා සොයා නොගත් විට ඔවුන් ද සාගින්නෙන් මිය යනු ඇත”. මේ මැදිවියේ මවක් අලියාට කිවූ දෙයක්. මර බිය නිසා ඇයගේ මුවින් මේ එක් වදනක් වත් පිට නොවීය. ඇයට කළ හැකි වූයේ බිම වැතිර අලියාගේ දෑස් දෙස ආයාචනාත්මකව බලා සිවීම පමණි. එවිට, අලියා (ඇතින්න) කාන්තාවගේ ඇඟ උඩින් තබා තිබු වන්ගෙඩියකට වඩා විශාල වූ සිය කකුල ඉවතට ගත්තාය. සිය පුංචි දෑස් තවත් පුංචි කර, මිනිත්තු 2ක් පමණ අලියා කාන්තාව දෙස බලා සිටියාය. ඇයව පාගා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
The deadly dose: Inside India's cough syrup obsession
It's happening again. In early September, a cluster of unexplained child deaths in a small town in Madhya Pradesh sent local health workers scrambling. At least 19 victims - aged one to six - had died within weeks of taking a common cough syrup. Officials tested everything from drinking water to mosquitoes before the truth emerged: their kidneys had failed. Weeks later, a state laboratory in the southern city of Chennai confirmed the worst. The syrup in question contained 48.6% diethylene glycol, a toxic industrial solvent that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
The Deputy Minister of Defence Addresses the Senior Officers of the Sri Lanka Navy
The Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd), paid an official visit to the Sri Lanka Navy Headquarters in Colombo yesterday (07 October). Upon arrival, the Deputy Minister was warmly received by the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Kanchana Banagoda, and accorded a ceremonial welcome. He also took the opportunity to observe the operational dynamics of the Naval Operation Room, Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) and the Information Fusion Centre (IFC). Addressing the senior officers, Major General Jayasekara, on behalf of His Excellency the President,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
NDB Bank Partners with DIMO to Expand Affordable Leasing Solutions for Passenger and Commercial Vehicles
NDB Bank recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with DIMO, a leading diversified conglomerate in Sri Lanka, to extend affordable and accessible leasing facilities to a wide spectrum of customers. This partnership reflects NDB’s continued focus on enabling mobility and empowering individuals and businesses through flexible, customer-friendly financial solutions. Through this collaboration, customers can now access DIMO’s renowned range of passenger vehicles including Mercedes-Benz and Tata together with tailor-made leasing solutions from NDB. With quick approvals, minimal documentation, no guarantor requirements, and repayment plans designed to meet diverse customer needs,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
Sri Lanka's growth strong but recovery remains uneven: World Bank
Insights Sri Lanka's economy is projected to grow 4.6 per cent in 2025, yet recovery remains incomplete, the World Bank said. Its Sri Lanka Development Update urges reforms to improve spending efficiency, manage public wages, and enable private-led growth. The report stresses better-targeted investments and governance to secure sustainable and inclusive development. Sri Lanka’s recent economic rebound has been strong but remains incomplete, with growth still below pre-crisis levels and poverty significantly elevated, the World Bank said in its latest Sri Lanka Development Update – Better... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
Ensuring all teachers are degree holders is a key goal of the current govt – PM Harini
It is a key goal of the current government to gradually ensure all teachers become degree holders, Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education, Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated. The Prime Minister expressed this view today (8) during a parliamentary debate on educational reforms. “Teacher training colleges have not been reformed in a long time. The lack of attention isn’t just about resources – there hasn’t been enough focus on how they operate either. Within this year, we need to design a curriculum that matches both current... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
කවුරුත් හරියට නොකියන LGBTQIA+ විශේෂ හෙලිදරව්ව. පැලවත්තේ ගොබෙල්ස් සැමරුමේ අලුත්ම විස්තර.
https://youtu.be/uSe-Qr-Qgeg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/25)
NDB Privilege Banking Hosts Global Education Expo 2025 in Collaboration with ACH Education
NDB Privilege Banking successfully hosted the Global Education Expo 2025, an exclusive event curated for Privilege customers and their families, in collaboration with ACH Education. The event was held at the NDB Privilege Havelock Centre Branch and brought together a distinguished audience of clients keen on exploring global education opportunities for their children. The Expo provided participants with invaluable access to over 30 leading international universities, represented by their officials, who shared insights on academic programs, admission processes, scholarships, and pathways for higher education across destinations such as Australia, New Zealand, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/10/25)
තර්ජන කරලා මගේ කට වහන්න බෑ - ෆයිල් සේරම ගම්මන්පිල එළියට අදියි
https://youtu.be/kWCZqyCnxVM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/10/25)
රනිල් නිල්පාට බස් එකේ ගියාට වයින් බෝතලයක් බිව්ව ජපානයේ සහෝදරයා ගැන තලතා කට අරියි
https://youtu.be/XAolrsQcE24... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/10/25)
Concept Note: Establishment of Offshore and Marine Industry Support Cluster in Colombo Port City
1. Background Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean, along major East–West shipping routes, offers an unmatched opportunity to position the country as a regional hub for offshore, marine, and energy-related services. The newly developed Colombo Port City, adjacent to the existing Colombo Harbour, provides a world-class urban and business environment ideal for attracting international companies in engineering design, project management, and consultancy sectors. However, compared to regional centers such as Chennai and Singapore, Sri Lanka’s international investment inflow into knowledge-based and offshore-support services remains low. A focused... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/25)
Qatar Airways accused of killing ‘strict vegetarian’ passenger with meat-based meal
Exclusive: Asoka Jayaweera, a strict vegetarian, died after choking on a piece of food while attempting to ‘eat around’ the meat in the meal he was served instead of the meatless one he had requested, according to his family A Southern California cardiologist flying Qatar Airways from Los Angeles to Sri Lanka was denied the vegetarian meal he had ordered, then died after choking on a piece of food while attempting to “eat around” the meat in meal he was given instead, according to his grieving family. The pilot couldn’t make an emergency landing to get... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/10/25)
500,000 British children were left confused due to LGBTQIA curriculum (2010-2020) – don’t let it happen to Sri Lanka’s 4.2m children
Countries that once proudly promoted “inclusivity” and “gender diversity” in schools are now backtracking —the United Kingdom is leading that reversal after destroying lives of 500,000 British children. It began as a movement to “end bullying” and quietly turned into a campaign that taught children to question their own sex, reject biology, and distrust parents & distance themselves from faiths. Between 2010 and 2020, the UK government allowed foreign-funded NGOs and activist groups to rewrite school policies under the banner of “LGBTQIA rights.” Teachers were re-trained, curriculums rewritten, and children as young as five were told... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
Paradigm shift needed in economic thinking, policies and strategy
Sri Lanka GDP growth rate needs to rise above 8% over ten years to achieve a GDP of USD 200 million and a GDP per capita of USD 9000 to qualify as an upper middle-class status. A high-income status requires a per capita of $13,846 or more. Can Sri Lanka achieve these targets? It is noteworthy that Singapore GDP in 2024 was USD 547.4 billion and per capita 90,674.07 USD while Sri Lanka’s GDP was USD 98.96 billion with a per capita of 4,515.57 USD. Singapore’s projected GDP will be 900 billion USD in 10 years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
How IMF destroyed Sri Lanka’s development programmes since 1977.
The Sri Lankan government is finding it hard to fulfil the regulations agreed upon with the IMF in the Houses of Parliament on April 28, 2023. However, there was no other option but to agree. According to Professor Vasanta Atukorale, the increases in taxes amount to a staggering 441%. The IMF’s experts fail to understand that implementing these regulations will cause untold hardships to the public and may even lead to a severe recession. Perhaps, this is the ulterior motive of the IMF. Sri Lanka was not a dollar in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
NPP Leaders are Anti-Western & Marxist: So says the USA
blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 28 September – 04 October 2025 ‘Ranil Wickremesinghe had been a shrewd driver & just before he left the office, he got the parliament to enact special legislation binding future governments to uphold the goals set by him. That legislation, the Economic Transformation Act or ETA had nothing to do with transforming the economy but adding to the law books the goals & targets set by IMF for its EFF (Extended Fund Facility) … If AKD fails to attain these... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
‘Operation Colombo’ and the Disinformation Game
Rithika Kodithuwakku as a Tamil Sakkili Woman in Asoka Handagama’s art house rape fantasy which effectively character assassinated Chile’s Poet Laureate, Pablo Neruda in a different sort of ‘Operation Colombo’ to that which followed the CIA backed coup against Democratic Socialist President Dr. Salvador Allende in September 1973 September saw anniversaries in the chilling deaths of two democratically elected Socialist heads of state during the United States’ led Cold War anti-communist crusade that unfolded across the world between 1948-91: The first assassination of concern here happened in Colombo, the capital of the geostrategic... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
Billionaires, Zionists and a UN official: Tony Blair’s proposed team for Gaza
October 3, 2025 Aryeh Lightstone, Naguib Sawiris, Marc Rowan and Sigrid Kaag were named in the leaked Blair plan for Gaza Earlier this week, a draft plan of what Gaza’s governance would look like under former British prime minister Tony Blair was leaked. Blair, who took Britain into the war in Iraq and has spent his life since leaving office travelling around the world making money and building influence, is being considered to lead a transitional authority in the Palestinian enclave. The plan for the Gaza International Transitonal Authority... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
Sri Lankans and their International Ally, the Ceehale World Heritage Foundation File Complaint to UNOversight Office on $16 Million Sri Lanka Accountability Project
Ceehalé World Heritage Foundation (CWHF) announces that a formal complaint has been filed with theUnited Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) concerning the Sri Lanka AccountabilitProject (SLAP).The complaint has been submitted in public interest by Venerable Kassapa of Great Britain, the Founderof CWHF, Anuradha Yahampath, former Governor of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka, Rear Admiral Dr.Sarath Weerasekera, former Cabinet Minister and Member of Parliament, and Dharshan Weerasekera,Attorney-at-Law.The OIOS is UN’s own watchdog body, created to ensure that the organization complies with its rulesand uses contributions of Member States with integrity and prudence.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
තජූඩීන් Photo අපි බැලුවා.. ඒ කජ්ජා නොවේ.. කජ්ජාගේ මව හා සහෝදරියන් මාධ්ය හමුවේ..
ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ අරුණු විධානගමගේ හෙවත් කජ්ජාගේ පවුලෙන් ඥාතීන් සමඟ මාධ්යවේදී චමුදිත සමරවික්රම මහතා සාකච්ඡාවක් සිදුකර තිබේ. මියගිය කජ්ජාගේ මවත් සහෝදරයන් තිදෙනකුත් සමග මෙම සාකච්ඡාව ඔහු මෙහෙයවයි. https://youtu.be/H0bN5qdYxTQ පවුලේ සාමාජිකයන් හත් දෙනෙකු සිටිනා බවත් ඉන් තුන්දෙනෙකු පමණක් එම සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගී වීමට හැකියාව ලැබූ බවත් ඔවුන් එහිදී සඳහන් කළහ. ඔවුනට අමතරව කජ්ජාගේ මවද මාධ්ය එම සාකච්ඡාවට එක්ව සිටියහ. අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව නිලධාරීන් විසින් තාජුඩීන් ඝාතනයට අදාළ සීසීටීවී දර්ශනයේ පින්තූර තමන් සියලු දෙනාටම පෙන්වූ බවත් තමන් සියලු දෙනාම ඒ සිටින්නේ තම සහෝදරයා නොවන බව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
US Supreme Court girds for culture wars with LGBT, guns and race cases
Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court is set to wade back into the nation's culture wars during its new nine-month term that begins on Monday with a series of contentious cases on issues including transgender athletes, gay conversion therapy, guns and race. The first of these goes before the court on the second day of its term. Arguments are slated for Tuesday over the legality of a Democratic-backed Colorado law banning "conversion therapy" aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity. Republican President Donald Trump's administration is supporting the Christian professional... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
Harsha raises concerns on Central Expressway contract
Colombo, Oct. 5 (Daily Mirror) - Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) Harsha De Silva raised concerns on the new contract for the construction of the Central Expressway, claiming that negotiations with neither the contractor (MCC) on their claims nor with China EXIM Bank on terms and conditions on the reduced USD 500 million facility have been completed. He said the CoPF reviewed the Rs. 226 billion Central Expressway project driven by delays and mounting interests. He said in a post on X that "Even though President Anura... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
Removing religion, culture, and history will ruin the country, says Malwatta Deputy Chief Prelate
The Deputy Chief Prelate of the Malwatta Chapter, Venerable Dimbulkumbure Sri Wimaladhamma Thera, stated that economic development achieved by disregarding religion, morality, culture, civilisation, and history is of no use to a country. The Venerable Thera expressed these views today (October 5) when the leader of the Janasetha Peramuna, Venerable Battaramulle Silarathana Thera, paid a visit to the Malwatta Maha Viharaya. During the discussion, the Malwatta Chapter Deputy Chief Prelate warned that if laws are introduced that prevent parents or teachers from even hitting a child who has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/10/25)
The President must Retract SLTDA Chairman’s endorsement of LGBTQIA Tourism
His Excellency the President has given solemn assurances to the Maha Nayaka Theros that Sri Lanka’s national heritage, culture, and religious values will be protected and safeguarded in all state policy. He has also publicly praised our heritage as the foundation of tourism and development. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtDQBeEPUHo&t=196s Yet, in complete contradiction, the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) formally endorsed an NGO-led initiative to promote and develop LGBTQIA tourism in Sri Lanka. His letter dated 9th September 2025 grants authority to liaise with hotels, tour operators, training institutes, guides, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (7 කොටස)
ඉස්සර දැව සංස්ථාවෙන් වනාන්තර අක්කරයක් කපනවා නම් කැලෑ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවෙන් ඒ ගමන්ම අක්කර 2ක් වත් කැලේ වවනවා. අද එය එසේ සිදුවන්නේ නැහැ. අපේ කැලෑ කපා ස්වාභාවික පරිසරය සහ කාලගුණය වෙනස් කරගැනීම සහ වන ජීවී ගහනය අඩු කර ගැනීමට වඩා හොඳයි අපට අවශ්ය ලී වැඩි ප්රමාණයක් පිටරටින් ගෙන්වීම. මැලේසියාව, ඉන්දුනීසියාව රටවලින් අඩුවට ගන්න පුළුවන්. සමහර රජයේ කාර්යාල තවමත් වැඩ කරන්නේ අතින් ලියන පොත්/ලෙජර්/ටය්ප් රයිටර් වලින්. මේවාත් එක්ක දුර යන්න බැහැ - 20 වැනි ශත වර්ෂයේ තාක්ෂණය දැන් හරියන්නේ නැහැ. බොහෝ නිලධාරින් නව තාක්ෂණය දන්නේ නැහැ. පොලිසියේ පැමිණිලි තවමත් ලියන්නේ අතින්, ලොකු පොතේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Sri Lanka targeted by the hypocritical West and UN Agencies for “War Crimes” must support Iran. -The Iranian Foreign Minister seeks Lanka’s support amid renewed UN sanctions
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has appealed to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Vijitha Herath, for solidarity following the United Nations’ reimposition of sweeping economic and military sanctions on Tehran, foreign media reports said yesterday. A report published by REGTECHTIMES said: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has sent urgent messages to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, urging both nations to oppose sanctions imposed by the United States and its Western allies. According to Iran’s Ambassador in Colombo, Alireza Delkhosh, the letters highlighted concerns that these sanctions could weaken international law and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
SLC's fundamental duty is to serve Sri Lanka first and not the vested interests of the ICC
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) as a governing body registered under the Ministry of Sports is tasked with upholding the country's cricketing heritage and promoting the sport from the grassroots to the international level. They also have responsibilities related to protecting the integrity of Sri Lankan cricket through disciplinary protocols and ensuring fair play. The question of recognizing the DRS as a Sri Lankan innovation is a matter that falls squarely under their mandate to serve the nation and potentially contribute to national pride and the recognition of Sri Lankan ingenuity in world cricket. SLC as a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Sri Lanka: Women’s Wing of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Lajna Imaillah) – Annual Gathering – 2025.
Lajna Imaillah (Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association) Sri Lanka held its Annual Gathering (Ijtima) on 20th and 21st of September at Fazl Mosque premises, Negombo. The event was chaired by the President of the Association. The event started with flag hoisting by the President of the Association followed by silent prayer. The main event began with the recitation of Holy Quran followed the Association pledge was read out and the audience repeated. The two days gathering (Ijtema) was enriched with a variety of spiritual, academic, and engaging activities: Annual Ijtima of Nasirath... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
රංග දිසානායක අල්ලස් කොමිසමට පත්වන්නේ ඇමති බිමල්ගේ ටොම් පචයකින්
https://youtu.be/XFA62lIe1s4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
සමන්මලීට ලොකු චෝදනාවක්…
බස්නාහිර පලාත් පෙරපාසල් ඒ්කකය කිසි දිනක ඉතිහාසයේ මෙතරම් දේශපාලනීකරණය වී නොමැති බව පෙර පාසල් ගුරු වෘත්තිකයන්ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති අසංක ශ්රීනාත් මහතා පවසයි. වර්තමාන අධ්යක්ෂකවරිය පුටුවේ වාඩි කරවන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නියෝජනය කරන මන්ත්රීවරියක්, එනම් ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂයේ සංවිධායකතුමාගේ නෝනා බව හෙතෙම පෙන්වා දෙයි. එමෙන්ම, මන්ත්රීවරිය මහරගමට, කොළඹට හෝ හෝමාගමට පැමිණ පෙර පාසල් ගුරුවරුන්ට දේශන පවත්වන බවට තමා මෑත දිනවල දුටු බව ද සභාපතිවරයා සඳහන් කළේය. වර්තමානයේ දී මෙම මන්ත්රීවරියක් විසින් බස්සාර පළාතේ වැඩසටහන් කරගෙන යන බවත්, ඇය විසින්ම වැඩසටහන් දාන බවත් ශ්රීනාත් මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් චෝදනා කරයි. බස්සාර පළාතේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Colombo closes liquor shops for a day. But programmes are needed
Faced with 22,000 deaths a year linked to alcohol consumption, the Sri Lankan government has made a symbolic gesture on World Temperance Day. Former alcoholic entrepreneurs tell AsiaNews: "A scourge that leaves the poorest defenceless. Politicians must choose whether they want the revenue from excise duties or these victims." Colombo (AsiaNews) - Sri Lanka also celebrated World Temperance Day yesterday, 3 October, established by the World Health Organisation in 1988 to focus attention on the effects of alcohol on health and society. Every year, there... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Has the government mixed up its priorities?
The proposed promotion of LGBTQIA tourism as well as abolishing the caning of children has stirred fierce debate The LGBTQ issue has been a controversy following a letter sent by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority Chairman Buddhika Hewawasam to Equal Ground Executive Director Ms. Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, commending an initiative to promote and develop LGBTIQ tourism in the country It is not clear whether it is due to a mix up of priorities or ideological obsession of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Endorsement of an LGBTIQ initiative unconstitutional and therefore unlawful
On 9 September 2025, the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) and the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) formally endorsed a project spearheaded by EQUAL GROUND (apparently an NGO) to promote and develop LGBTIQ tourism in Sri Lanka. In this letter, titled “Endorsement of the Project on Promoting and Developing LGBTIQ Tourism in Sri Lanka“, the Chairman not only recognised this initiative, but also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
An alternative to IMF needed
The IMF claims success in helping poor countries to recover from economic crises. This may be true to some extent in terms of economic parameters like GDP, interest rates, revenue, debt/GDP ratio, etc. But it has, by and large, failed to bring about a positive change in the lives of poor people, particularly in Asian and African countries. For example, Sri Lanka faced an acute economic collapse and the IMF helped it to recover from the immediate contingency, but the poor people have not benefited.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
SJB to propose select committee to probe judicial transfers and promotions
Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Member of Parliament, Mujibur Rahman, has announced that a resolution requesting a Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the transfer and promotion of judicial officers will be handed over to Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne during the next parliamentary sitting week. Rahman stated that the proposal, signed by representatives of all parties in the Joint Opposition, will seek the establishment of the Select Committee to look into numerous complaints received by the Opposition regarding the promotion and transfer of judges over the past period. He noted that the issue has... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Security concerns for Mahinda Rajapaksa after government vehicles withdrawn
The withdrawal of all state-provided vehicles for former President, the fifth Executive President of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and his security detail has created a serious security concern, according to his media spokesperson, Manoj Gamage. Gamage stated that the bulletproof vehicle provided by the government to Rajapaksa was handed back to the state yesterday (3 October). He added that all vehicles allocated for the security personnel have also been recalled, leaving the guards with no transport. Gamage pointed out that the security personnel, who are armed, cannot travel in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/25)
Rectifying history or wreaking vengeance? - II
Continued from October 1, 2025 Bhante Missaka (Mihintale) Kamalasiri, a Sri Lankan scholar monk well known as a guided meditation teacher working in association with the Buddhist retreat centres of the Star of the North and the Metta Meditation Center, Minnesota, USA, made some important revelations about the elusive Ariyamagga character in an authoritative 15-minute presentation in Sinhala, which I viewed on a YouTube video uploaded in November 2021. It reveals Ariyamagga as a former LTTE Tamil who, having fled from Sri Lanka and arrived in Norway as a refugee, now poses... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/25)
ජවිපෙ මධ්යම කාරක සභාවට ආපු ගෝනි බිල්ලා කවුද? | Nandana Gunathilaka | Balana Kapolla
https://youtu.be/NaCNWzA_T8Y... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/25)
මේ නීතිය සම්මත කරන්නේ ගර්භනී ශිෂ්යාවන් බිහි කරන්නද ?පනත අස් කරගන්නා තුරු ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ සටනේ
https://youtu.be/moC6FwLjDP8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/25)
Domestic flights with 70-seater aircraft could take off in six months- Peter Hill
Peter Hill Sri Lanka could see the launch of a scheduled domestic airline service using 50-70-seater aircraft within the next six months, a move that could solve a long-standing barrier to tourism growth, according to aviation veteran and former SriLankan Airlines CEO Peter Hill. Hill made these remarks during a panel discussion at International Tourism Leaders Summit 2025, held on Thursday, at the BMICH, in Colombo. The event, organised by Sri Lanka Tourism in collaboration with the Alumni Association of Tourism Economics... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/25)
Sri Lanka ranks last in South Asia in computer skills
Computer literacy remains low in the South Asian country, while the region reported overall progress. In 2024, 64.1 per cent of the population did not know how to use a computer, and only 19.1 per cent of households owned one, according to new data from the Department of Census and Statistics. Literacy is higher among young people and those with higher education, with rates dropping in rural areas. Colombo (AsiaNews) – According to Sri Lanka's Department of Census and Statistics, only two people in five have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/25)
Court grants permission to detain and question ‘Beliatte Sana’
The Tangalle Magistrate’s Court has granted permission for police to detain and interrogate Sanath Weerasinghe, also known as ‘Beliatta Sanaa,’ who was arrested in connection with the large haul of narcotics recently seized in Seenimodara, Tangalle. Accordingly, Additional Magistrate Vidura Weerakoon permitted police to detain and interrogate the suspect until October 9, police said. The suspect was arrested on October 1 by the Tangalle Divisional Crime Investigation Unit.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/10/25)
Foreign DEI & LGBTQIA Impositions: The Silent Career Bribery of Sri Lanka’s Non-LGBTQIA Workforce
Sri Lanka has long been a nation rooted in law, culture, and tradition. Today, this foundation faces direct assault from foreign-funded DEI and LGBTQIA campaigns, imposed through corporations, NGOs, and even diplomatic channels — in open defiance of our laws, Constitution, and civilizational ethos. Under Penal Code Sections 365 & 365A, homosexuality is illegal. Gender recognition is strictly male or female, making attempts to normalize LGBTQIA identities through corporate or NGO policies a direct violation of sovereignty and legality. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the Gender Equity Bill 2024 reconfirms that foreign-inspired identity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/25)
A Gateway to a Happy, and peaceful 26th century world of Unity within Diversity and distinct identity of each nation,
A Gateway to a Happy, and peaceful 26th century world of Unity within Diversity and distinct identity of each nation, free from the ugly Colonialism of The Euro-Atlantic civilization, where each nation respects the other on equal terms irrespective of its size. This is an introduction to my Proposal to set up a “Memorial Museum of Patriotic Wars of Kandyan Sinhalese (MMPKS) 1505-1848 and an Institute of Colonial Crimes Studies in Sri Lanka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/25)
The Significance of Professor Gananatha Obeyesekere's Scholarly Contributions
Professor Gananatha Obeyesekere was a distinguished scholar from Sri Lanka, and his writings stand out for their originality and depth, offering profound scholarly insights. His influence extended far beyond the confines of the small island where he originated, allowing him to disseminate his knowledge on a global scale. Through his extensive body of work, which includes numerous books and research papers, he has become a pivotal figure in academia. Institutions of higher learning across various continents frequently reference his contributions, integrating his insights into their curricula and research initiatives. I had... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/25)
Deputy Minister of Defence Addresses Senior Officers of the Sri Lanka Air Force
The Deputy Minister of Defence, Major General Aruna Jayasekara (Retd), paid an official visit to the Air Force Headquarters at the DHQC in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Yesterday (01 October). The Deputy Minister was warmly received upon arrival by the Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Bandu Edirisinghe, and was accorded a ceremonial welcome. There, he held discussions with the Air Force Commander and was introduced to the Air Force Board of Management, during which key operational and administrative matters were deliberated. Major General Jayasekara (Retd), addressing a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/25)
නන්දලාල්ගේ රු:මිලියන 50 ක සූදුව ! දින හා ගණං එක්ක විමල් කරන හෙළිදරව්ව !!
https://youtu.be/cIeYUqRFb3A... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/25)
කවුද මේ.... අයිස් තොග පිටින් ගෙනා ජවිපෙ ආධාරකරු ? සියළු විස්තර මෙන්න!!
https://youtu.be/O0f7kGSCPpQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/10/25)
අපි පරිසරය රැක්කොත් තමා පරිසරය අපිව රකින්නේ (6 කොටස)
රටේ ජනාධිපති, ප්රබල ඇමතිවරු, විපක්ෂනායක, සභානායක සහ බොහෝ මන්ත්රීවරු තමන්ගේ මන්ත්රී පදවි ලැබීමට පෙර කිසිදා රැකියාවක් කර නැති අය නම් ඒ රටට දෙවියන්ගේම පිහිටයි. රටේ සාමාන්ය ජනතාව මෙන් රට කරන පාලකයන් කළින් කිසියම් හෝ රැකියාවක් කර තිබු අය විය යුතුයි. එවිටයි ඔවුනට රටේ වැඩ කරන ජනතාවගේ හර්ද ස්පන්දනය දැනෙන්නේ, තේරෙන්නේ. ආයතනයක සේවකයෙක් මාසික වැටුපක් ලබා, EPF/ETF ගිණුම් පවත්වා ගෙන අය. කිසිදා රක්ෂාවක් නොකළ කෙනෙකුට මේ අත්දැකීම් නැහැ, මේවා තේරෙන්නේ නැහැ. ආයතනයක සෙසු සේවක සේවිකාවන් සමඟ වැඩ කර, සාමුහික වගකීම යනු කුමක්ද (team spirit) යන්න රක්ෂාව තුලින් අත් දැකීම් ලබනවා. ඇඳුම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
Who is entitled to claim the legacy of DRS which has revamped Cricket at the fundamental level?
QuestionWhich country is most entitled to claim the legacy of DRS?Answerhttps://share.google/aimode/zMN0ZlOCMxyLo6nK2Sri Lanka is most entitled to claim the legacy of DRS, as Senaka Weeraratna, a Sri Lankan lawyer, is widely credited with conceiving the fundamental 'Player Referral' concept that the Decision Review System (DRS) is built upon. Despite the concept originating in Sri Lanka, the International Cricket Council (ICC) adopted the system without formal acknowledgment or financial benefit to the country or its innovator.Evidence of Sri Lanka's claim:Conception of the idea:Senaka Weeraratna conceived the core idea of player referral to challenge umpire decisions in 1997,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
Russian Position on Ukraine and Global Security Discussed at Pathfinder Foundation’s ‘Ambassador’s Roundtable’
The Ambassador's Roundtable hosted by Pathfinder Foundation, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, H.E. Levan S. Dzhagaryan, provided a comprehensive overview of his government’s position on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, NATO expansion, international law, global energy scenario and security dynamics in the region. The event brought together think tank experts and media professionals for a candid discussion on current geopolitical challenges, with a special focus on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In his remarks, the Russian Ambassador outlined historical, political, and security factors that led to Russia’s actions in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
NDB Bank Becomes The Only Local Bank to be Named as a Great Place to Work
NDB Bank is proud to announce that it has once again been certified as a Great Place to Work for the period July 2025 to July 2026, affirming its status as a leading employer and the only local bank in Sri Lanka to receive this esteemed recognition. The certification is based on extensive independent evaluations by Great Place to Work Sri Lanka, using globally benchmarked criteria that assess employee experience, workplace culture, trust, and people practices. Through confidential employee surveys and a comprehensive audit of HR initiatives, NDB Bank was recognised for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
Sri Lanka looks to global examples for digital economy blueprint
Speaking at last week’s Sri Lanka Fintech Summit 2025, Dr. Hans Wijayasuriya, Chief Advisor to the President on Digital Economy, stressed that the country’s digital economy is open and adaptable, drawing on both local and international elements. Referring to the kottu roti analogy to illustrate the agility and inclusivity of Sri Lanka’s digital economy, he emphasized its dynamic nature comparable to the local dish that can incorporate various ingredients. He discussed the development of the digital economy blueprint, which involved analyzing successful models from different countries and various markets and merging successful elements from them.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
Whither LGBTQI tourism?
I am writing to express my views on the recent news about Sri Lanka Tourism endorsing the LGBTQI travel initiative. While I understand the importance of promoting tourism and inclusivity, I believe this decision warrants careful consideration. Dollar earnings “by hook or by crook” are not everything. I think export of Rilaw monkies for meat production is a better alternative to earn dollars than gay tourism. Or even special secluded beach hotels for nudist tourism will be a lesser evil. Sri Lanka is a country with a rich cultural... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
Immigration thwarts Sri Lankan syndicate’s attempt to obtain Malaysian passport
KUALA LUMPUR: A Sri Lankan syndicate’s attempt to fraudulently obtain a Malaysian passport using a child’s identity was thwarted by the Kuala Lumpur Immigration Department. The incident occurred at the UTC Pudu Immigration Office this morning when a Sri Lankan man arrived with a local woman claiming to be his mother. They were applying for a first-time child passport under the 10-year-old category. Kuala Lumpur Immigration director Wan Mohammed Saupee Wan Yusoff said suspicion arose when officers noticed the man’s physical appearance appeared much older than the age on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
Driving ETCA Forward: Sri Lanka Needs A Chief Negotiator – OpEd
Recent reports have sparked serious concerns about Sri Lanka’s economic future. The country continues to struggle to recover from its lowest point, and prospects for economic stability remain uncertain. As the National People’s Power (NPP) government marks its first year in office, both the U.S. State Department and the Asian Development Bank have issued red alerts about Sri Lanka’s economic outlook. The State Department highlights that Sri Lanka’s investment climate remains challenging, even though 5 percent GDP growth in 2024 exceeded expectations. The NPP government’s commitment to the $3 billion, four-year (2023–2027) Extended... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
'New corporal punishment bill belongs in the dustbin' – Former Minister Rajapakshe
The proposed new bill to amend the Penal Code, which seeks to criminalise corporal punishment, has been strongly criticised by a former government minister and President's Counsel as a move that could lead to "anarchy" and destabilise the country. The government maintains that the bill, which Prime Minister Dr Harini Amarasuriya recently said does not target schools or teachers, is aimed at ending disciplinary methods that cause harm to students and providing legal punishment for such offences. However, several factions, including the Chief Prelates of the Malwatta and Asgiriya chapters of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
මගේ තාත්තා 2012දී බස් කොන්දොස්තර කෙනෙක් : කජ්ජාගේ පුතා කොළඹදී කට අරී
“2012 දී මගේ තාත්තා බස් කොන්දොස්තර කෙනෙක් හොරණ කොළඹ පාරේ. මට මගේ තාත්තව අඳුන ගන්න පුළුවන්. තාත්තගේ සහෝදර සහෝදරියන්ට තාත්තව අඳුන ගන්න පුළුවන්. මම කියන්නේ මගේ තාත්තා වෙනුවෙන් සාධාරණය ඉෂ්ට කරන්න කියලා විතරයි.” යැයි මිද්දෙණියේදී ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ අරුණ විදානගමගේ හෙවත් ‘කජ්ජා” නමැත්තාගේ වැඩිමහල් පුත්රයා අද පැවසුවා. රගර් ක්රීඩක වසීම් තාජූඩීන්ගේ මරණයට අරුණ විදානගමගේ හෙවත් ‘කජ්ජා” සම්බන්ධ බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා ප්රතික්ෂේප කරන බව අද (01) මධ්ය හමුවකදී ඔහු එලෙස ඉඳුවර අමීෂ් විදානගමගේ (16) සිය ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේද සටහනක් තබමින් මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් පළකර තිබුණා. වසීම් තාජුඩීන් ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ දිනයේ ඔහුගේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
මාලිමාවේ ඩෝබිලාට දුන්න අලුත්ම මස් කට්ට.. වසීම් තාජුදීන් නැවතත් ගොඩ ගන්න සූදානම්.. - 220 වන දිගහැරුම
https://youtu.be/jZu-nvEcLow... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
ඔබ ඇසිය යුතුම බැලිය යුතුම වීඩියෝවක්.. 30 වසරක යුද්ධයේ සිදු වූ අපරාධ ගැන නොදන්න අය මේ වීඩියෝව බලන්න.
https://youtu.be/rp8y1yrg8Qs... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
මෙතනින් පස්සෙ ලක්මාලිගෙත් කට වැහෙයිද ? සාක්ෂිත් එක්කම වරුණ හෙළිකරයි | ලක්මාලි නිසා බැටකෑමට නියමිතයි
https://youtu.be/RSCHTnW6u8U... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
ජනපතිගේ ජපන් ගමන ප්රෝඩාවක්. දෙරණ වාද පිටියේදී අග මුල සියල්ල එළියට එයි. මාලිමා සුන්බුන් හාන්සි.
https://youtu.be/U6CQhgFKtxc... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
මාලිමාව මසකට කෝටි තුන බැගින් මහජන මුදල් වංචා කරයි. පාන්ද අහන්න බැරිවෙන්න සාක්ෂි මෙන්න
https://youtu.be/C8JUJBBY-bQ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
මේ ආණ්ඩුවේ උන්ට මොන්ගල්ද කොහෙද ? දෙහිවල නගර සභාවේ බුදු පිළිමයක් අයින් කරලා
https://youtu.be/zPZ1Nze5z30... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
අල්ලස් කොමිසමේ අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයාගේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ගැන වගේම සුදුසුකම් ගැනත් ප්රශ්නයක් තියෙනවා
https://youtu.be/MRAxyuS9Guo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/25)
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