Courtesy Adaderana Property in Sri Lanka’s Colombo had risen 7.7 per cent in the second half of 2024 from a year earlier, according to a Land Valuation Indicator. According to the report, industrial land had risen 3.9 per cent in the first six months compared to a year earlier. Residential land had risen 9.9 per […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 23 February – 01 March 2025 * ‘Our economy is running on conditions. There is no economic independence or sovereignty – it is under probation and being monitored.’ – President AK Dissanayake, 2025 * ‘The nature of the political life of our island […]

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb 28 (Daily Mirror) – Number of persons in all three armed forces will be reduced while they will be made sophisticated with equipment, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament today.  “The Sri Lanka Army will be confined to 100,000 personnel, Sri Lanka Navy to 40,000 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 02 (Daily Mirror) – The special exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic for the public will be held from April 18 to 27, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. It said the exposition to the public will be on April 18 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and thereafter, […]

DARSHANA SANJEEWA BALASURIYA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 02 (Daily Mirror) – Denying the allegation by Leader of the House Bimal Ratnayake that the former Speaker had used fuel worth Rs. 33 million within nine months from January 1, 2024 to September 24, 2024, which amounts to Rs. 4 million per month, former Speaker […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, March 03 (Daily Mirror) – In a bid to avert any energy crisis in the future, the government is hurriedly taking measures to purchase both petroleum products, including LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) from Qatar under a government-to-government agreement, an official said. Chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) D.A. Rajakaruna […]

Courtesy Adaderana The two former Sri Lanka Army Intelligence personnel, who were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the abduction and assault of journalist Keith Noyahr in May 2008, have been granted bail by the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court, Ada Derana reporter said. Accordingly, the two suspects were ordered to be released on two […]

Courtesy Adaderana A discussion has been recently held between the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) and salt manufacturing companies at the CAA’s head office. The discussion had taken place on February 25, and its purpose was to make the necessary interventions to release high-quality salt for industry and food use into the market at a reasonable […]

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Shenali D Waduge US funding for GoSL entities & Civil Society 2015 to present  Click to open list With artificial intelligence” now becoming the buzzword, citizens should utilize it to gather information while knowing that it is not completely correct. It is an entity giving us information that is in public domain cutting time spent […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රජය විසින් යෝජනා කර තිබෙන නව අපරාධ නඩු අධ්‍යක්ෂ ධුරය (රජයේ අභිචෝදක තනතුර) නීතිය දේශපාලනයට යටකිරීමක් බව හිටපු අගවිනිසුරු සරත් එන් සිල්වා මහතා පැවසීය. මෙවැනි තනතුරක් 1970 – 1977 ආණ්ඩු කාලයේ ක්‍රියාත්මක විය. එකල නියෝජ්‍ය අපරාධ නඩු අධ්‍යක්ෂ පදවිය දැරූයේ තමා බැවින් මෙම කරුණ පිළිබඳව තමන් හොඳින්ම දන්නා බව පැවසූ […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa and Michelle Perera Courtesy The Morning Long queues at fuel stations have been reported across the country since last Friday (28 February) night, as a growing dispute between fuel distributors and the Government intensifies.  The situation is expected to worsen over the next few days, with fuel distributors warning of a complete […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced its Executive Board has ​completed the third review under the 48-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement, allowing the authorities to draw SDR 254 million (about US$334 million).  This brings the total IMF financial support disbursed to SDR 1.02 billion (about US$1.34 billion). IMF Deputy Managing Director […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Matara Magistrate’s Court has issued a foreign travel ban on former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon, along with a warrant for his arrest issued earlier. The court has also ordered the arrest of eight suspects, including Tennakoon, in connection with the shooting incident that occurred on December 31, 2023, in front of the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දේශය පුවත් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ඉදිරි දර්ශනය තමා අගය කරන බව ඉන්දීය අගමැති නරේන්ද්‍ර මෝදි මහතා පවසයි. ඉන්දියාවේ පැවත්වෙන NXT Conclave 2025″ සමුළුවට සහභාගි වීමට ඉන්දියාවට ගොස් සිටින රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා හමුවූ අවස්ථාවේ ඉන්දීය අගමැතිවරයා එහි ඡායාරූපයක් තම සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ පල කරමින් මේ බව සඳහන් කර තිබේ. ” […]