KAMALIKA PIERIS ARMING SINHALA SETTLEMENTS, 1984 The Tamil response to the Maduru Oya settlement was an eye-opener for the small coterie of Colombo elite who had taken an interest in the matter. They found that settling Sinhalese in Eelam needed much more strategy than they thought.  Tamils who arrived here through settler colonialism were determined […]

Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.   Cao Fei (China), My Future Is Not a Dream 05, 2006. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump indicated his interest in annexing Greenland and brokering a peace deal for Ukraine […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක මහතා මෑතකදී සිදු කළ විදේශ සංචාරයන් සඳහා වැය වූයේ රුපියල් ලක්ෂ දහඅටක් පමණක් යැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අගමැතිනි හරිනි අමුරසූරිය කළ ප්‍රකාශයට පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දිලිත් ජයවීර මහතා අභියෝග කරයි. ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ එම ගමන් එම මුදලින් රටවල් තුනකට සංචාරය කලේ යයි විශ්වාස කල නොහැකි බවයි. ‘ජනාධිපතිතුමා විදේශ සංචාර වියදම් […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 27 (Daily Mirror) – The Singaporean authorities have cited inability to extradite former Central Bank Governor Arjun Mahendran to Sri Lanka in terms of the legal system of that country, posing a fresh challenge for the government in its attempt to investigate the bond scam which caused a loss […]

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Courtesy Adaderana President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has directed the District Secretaries to allocate Rs. 1,400 billion in recurrent expenditure for the implementation of productive projects at the grassroots level over the next eight months. The President made these remarks during a discussion held with the District Secretaries, today (27) at the Presidential Secretariat, the President’s […]

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Courtesy The Island Gnanasara Thera The Colombo High Court yesterday (25) released on bail Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera, who was sentenced on 09 January, 2025, for a nine-month jail term for making defamatory comments on Islam. The court issued the order after examining a revision petition filed by the […]

Courtesy The Island Thuyyakontha … Easter Sunday carnage suspects among them The government has issued a gazette extending the ban on several Tamil diaspora groups, alleging they supported terrorism-related activities,” The Tamil Guardian has reported. The gazette, signed by Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal (retd.) Sampath Thuyyakontha, declared that these organisations have repeatedly provided financial support for […]

By Poojathmi Rivithma Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 26 (Daily Mirror) – A total of 2.5 million people have started to focus on donating their eye corneas after their death, marking a significant step in supporting eye donation efforts, the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society (SLEDS) said. SLEDS Senior Manager, Janath Saman Matara Arachchi, […]

Courtesy Hiru News Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this morning to provide a statement regarding the ongoing investigation into an Airbus deal involving SriLankan Airlines. According to reports from the scene, he reached the CID at around 9.15 am. The Financial Crimes Investigation Unit of the Financial and Commercial Crimes […]

Sugath Kulatunga As a person associated with Export Development from 1975, in Sri Lanka and abroad, I am delighted to note the priority given to Export Development in the current Budget. I am also happy to see the restoration of the Export Development Council of Ministers and the proposal to formulate a National Export Development […]

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Feb 23, 2025 In a previous article (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/a-first-look-at-trumps-foreign-policy/) we highlighted the (apparent and at first glance) contradictory nature of Donald Trump’s foreign policy. On one hand, we observe an extreme expansionism reminiscent of the 1930s (Greenland, Canada, Palestine, Panama), and on the other, a significant push for peace in Ukraine and an […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් පාසල් දරුවන් ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් සූක්ෂමව බෞද්ධ සංකල්ප වලට පහරදීමට රාජ්‍ය අනුග්‍රහය ලබාදෙන බවට “ලංකා ලීඩර්” පාඨකයෙකු විසින් අප වෙත තොරතුරු වාර්තා කර ඇත.  ඔහු සදහන් කරන ආකරයට බස්නාහිර පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ මැදිහත්වීම මත චාල්ස් තෝමස් නැමති පුද්ගලයාගේ මොහෙයවීමෙන් ගම්/ දොම්පේ මහා විද්‍යාලයීය ක්‍රීඩාංගණයේදී 2025/02/28 දින පැවත්වීමට නියමිත දරුවන්ට රටක් රටට හෙටක් […]

BY Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning The Election Commission (EC) stated that all legal issues related to holding the Local Government (LG) Elections have been resolved and that the Election date will be announced in early March 2025. It was reported that the EC is scheduled to meet tomorrow (27), during which a decision on […]

Insight Written by Yunnan Chen, Tom Hart Courtesy ODI Global This year’s G20 presidency has shifted to South Africa, under which sovereign debt will be a key priority. South Africa is pushing for a review of the G20’s Common Framework (CF) for debt treatments, five years since its creation during the Covid-19 crisis in 2020. It was part of […]

By A. Jathindra Courtesy Eurasia Review We will not allow ourselves to be used against India – we will get help from anyone – on that basis we received help from China – for that China cannot use us to threaten India’s national security in the maritime area – we will not allow that,” stated the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Security tightened outside Hulftsdorp court complex moments after underworld kingpin alias Ganemulla Sanjeewa was shot dead inside a courtroom Last week, underworld kingpin Sanjeewa Kumara Samararathne, alias ‘Ganemulla Sanjeewa’, was shot dead inside the Colombo magistrate court by a gunman disguised as a lawyer. The killing, as shocking as it was, […]

Wimal Weerawansa මහාචාර්ය ටියුඩර් වීරසිංහ මහතා විසින් ජාතික අධ්‍යයන කේන්ද්‍රය සංවිධානය කළ නිරුවත් වානරයාගේ කතා වස්තුව බුද්ධිමය සම්මන්ත්‍රණයේදී සිදුකළ ආරාධිත දේශනය

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Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. පාතාලය මර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා හමුදාවෙන් පැන ගිය සොල්දාදුවන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් නියෝග කොට තිබේ. ඔවුන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට ගැනීමෙන් පමණක් මේ ප්‍රශ්නය විසඳිය නොහැක. යුද ආතතියට ලක්ව සිටින සහ සමාජ විරෝධී පෞරුෂ ලක්‍ෂන පෙන්වන කොටස් මනෝ විද්‍යාත්මක සහ මනෝ සමාජීය පුනරුත්තාපනයට යොමු කල යුතුය. ඒ සඳහා දැණුමක් තිබෙන […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 16-22 February 2025 The deadly, malignant role played by England’s Ceylon Tobacco Co (CTC) in Sri Lanka is a story yet to be told, and the media sure ain’t gonna tell it. The media’s function in Sri Lanka is to create diversionary dramas that […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් දේශපාලකයන් පසුපසින් අතීතය ලුහුබැඳ ඒම වැළක්විය නොහැකිය. නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමැති චතුරංග අබේසිංහ සහ මන්ත්‍රී නිලන්ති කොට්ටහච්චි වැනි ජාතික ජන බලවේගයේ සාමාජිකයන් අතීතයේ සිය සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ගිණුම් ඔස්සේ ප්‍රකාශ කළ ප්‍රකාශ සහ ඔවුන් කළ ප්‍රසිද්ධ ප්‍රකාශ දැන් ඇතැම් විට ඔවුන්ට පාරාවළල්ලක් වී ඇති බව දැකගත හැකිය. නියෝජ්‍ය ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය විශ්‍රාමික මේජර් ජෙනරාල් අරුණ […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Spokesman for the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) Pubudu Jagoda yesterday said that the government owed an explanation regarding the circumstances the courtroom killing took place on 19 February and two suspects who died in police shooting two days later. Jagoda pointed out that Ganemulle Sanjeewa had been produced in […]

The Pathfinder Foundation The Pathfinder Foundation and the Heritage Foundation (USA) will conduct a joint briefing session online on 28th February 2025 at 7:30 p.m. (SLST), which is 9:00 a.m. (EST), via Zoom. The session’s main topic is titled Prospects for US-Sri Lanka Relations: Impact of the Second Trump Administration.” It will also address US-South […]

by, Professor Nishan C. Wijesinha First of all, it is highly important to note, that after the incorporation of the  Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC), on the 20th of March 1602; thereafter  soon afterwards, within a month and ten days; on the 2nd of May 1602, the Dutch Admiral Joris van Spilbergen’s arrival in […]

සිංහල දීප ජාතික පෙරමුණ විරෝධයක