Courtesy Hiru News President Anura Kumara Dissanayake stated that if fragmented opposition groups band together to seize control of local government bodies, he will use constitutional, legal, and political power to thwart their efforts. The President made these remarks while addressing the JVP’s 60th anniversary celebration held in Colombo on May 14. This is against […]

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By Raj Gonsalkorale Good ideas fail automatically. In a competitive environment and with limited resources, political parties need robust strategies to maximise their chances to win. In every day’s working routines, there is often a high focus on action and reaction – and little to no direction due to an unclear or non-existent strategy – […]

W.T. Whitney Jr. is a retired pediatrician and political journalist living in Maine. In South Asia, a Regional Cold War is ramping up with India’s Beggar thy Neighborhood First” policies, including war on Pakistan Image by Getty and Unsplash+. Movement toward war with China accelerates. Trump has raised America’s military budget to a Trillion dollars although […]

LankaPropertyWeb Colombo, May 2025 — The Sri Lankan land market is gaining renewed strength, with Colombo and the broader Western Province leading the way in price growth, according to the latest Land Price Index (LPI) published by LankaPropertyWeb (LPW). The 2025 index reveals that land prices in Colombo city (Colombo 1-15) have risen by 7% […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Where is Sri Lanka Going Wrong & Into Debt? A great country, with a history going back into Before Christ, a country with unparalleled industrial engineering strength, and after years of Self-Rule, the only credit to Sri Lanka is a growing debt! Corruption, Greed of the Ruling Class, has stepped on and […]

Courtesy Al Hakam The Conclave acted quite swiftly ending the weeks-long speculations about the next pope – only on the second day of the cardinals’ meeting.  The announcement of Robert Prevost being the new Pope sent waves of excitement in not only the crowds gathered in and around St Peter’s Square in the Vatican, and […]

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Natalie Ecanow Senior Research Analyst Courtesy Foundation for Defense of Democracies White House Correspondents’ season just wrapped in Washington. Last weekend, celebrities, journalists, and politicians descended on Washington to celebrate the free press. Traditionally, the weekend is also an occasion to take jabs at the administration. Among this year’s events was a soiree hosted by the Embassy […]

By Garvin Karunaratne President Trump is looking after the interests of the USA and mind you within months many industries will open up making what the USA did import. Once I owned a Roadtrek-Chevrolet campervan in the USA and clocked over 50,000 miles travel over hill and dale. It was a marvel, far better that […]

By Rohana R. Wasala This article is dedicated to the memory of Sri Lankan patriot, humanitarian, and friend of fellow global Buddhists, Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar, who was instrumental in winning official recognition for Vesak as an international holiday at the United Nations in September 1999, on the eve of the 3rd Millennium Jairam Ramesh quotes […]

Aloysius Hettiarachchi I must confess that I am only a professionally qualified Civil & Structural Engineer with some computer programming experience plus some knowledge about Structured Computer Organization, I have no training on teaching methods. However, throughout my carrier I have been associated with teaching at primary and secondary education in several parts of the […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col), සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන.  1. කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට අධිකරණයට යන නීතීඥයන් සහ තැනැත්තන් රක්ෂිත බන්ධනාගාරගත කිරීමට විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ අධිකරණ ඇමති ගෙනා 2024 අංක 8 දරන අධිකරණයකට, විනිශ්චය අධිකාරයකට හෝ ආයතනයකට අපහාස පනත අහෝසි කිරීම. 2. සරත් එන්. සිල්වා අගවිනිසුරුගේ බලපෑම මත අධිකරණ භාෂාවෙන් නීති […]

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Courtesy Tamil Guardian The National People’s Power (NPP) has released a series of Tamil-language campaign songs for the upcoming local government elections, embracing rhetoric and imagery closely associated with Tamil nationalism and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).  The campaign, aimed at boosting electoral performance in the Tamil North-East, has raised questions over the […]

By Sasanka De Silva (Pannipitiya) Sri Lanka’s public road transport has long been a menace on the roads. For decades, citizens have endured the daily trauma of riding in filthy, overcrowded, and dangerously maintained buses, often driven by men who appear to treat roads like racetracks. Public transport, instead of being a symbol of convenience […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, May 11 (Daily Mirror) – The Media Division of the Ministry of Energy has rejected reports circulating in the media regarding the resignation of CEB Chairman Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya. A senior official from the Ministry said that the Chairman had submitted a letter to the President informing him of his […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) Dr. Tilak Siyambalapitiya has handed in his letter of resignation. It is reported that he submitted his resignation letter to Minister of Energy Kumara Jayakody last Friday, and accordingly, it has been accepted by the Subject Minister. Dr. Siyambalapitiya was appointed to the post on […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com Before you study the economics, study the economists!” e-Con e-News 04-10 May 2025 The French warship Beautemps-Beaupré has just barged into Colombo – so far from gay Paree and le port de Marseille. And while India (using French & US weaponry) and Pakistan (using US, Chinese & Swedish materiel) indulge in target practice on […]

Shenali D Waduge A 15-year-old girl named Amshi—brilliant, talented, and full of promise—is dead. She took her own life after being sexually abused three times by her teacher at Ramanathan Hindu Ladies College in Colombo. Instead of being protected, she was forced to be removed from school by the very principal who should have defended her. […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, former GA Matara  It is reported that a number of leading countries including the USA and India want to wrest control of our graphite. I have read somewhere that our graphite is of superb quality- something like the best in the World.. Because we are buried in the quagmire of debt and […]

German Dharmaduta Society Vietnamese Bhiksuni Dr. Bich Lien greets  President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Bhiksuni Dr. Bich Lien  also known as Ven Bhikkhuni Elizabeth Sujata The American Vietnamese Bhiksuni Dr. Bich Lien  also known as Ven Bhikkhuni Elizabeth Sujata is seen greeting President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Conference Hall in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly […]

Shenali D Waduge Two young lives lost—one a university student, the other a schoolgirl in Kotahena. These are not isolated tragedies. They are searing warnings that Sri Lankan society is spiraling into a moral crisis. A breakdown is underway—of values, of accountability, of conscience. Behind every funeral lies a failing: in our families, our schools, […]

Dr. Neil Fernando & Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Suicide is a psychiatric emergency and needs immediate intervention. It has been recognized as a major health problem and a leading cause of death worldwide. Suicide does not occur in a vacuum; it’s a fatal outcry and a highly complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Suicide is the most […]

මනුකා විජේසිංහ May 2, 2025 සංස්කාරක Comments Offon අහිංසාවාදයට සිදුවූයේ කුමක්ද?(2) නව ලිබරල්වාදය ස්වමාංශ භක්ෂණය අරඹා තිබේ. දැන් ඔවුහු දරුවන් මරාදමමින් සිටිති. (What Happened To Ahimsa? යන ලිපි පෙළේ  – Neoliberalism Has Turned Inwards – It Is Killing Its Children යන මැයෙන් පළවු 2 වන කොටසේ පරිවර්තනය) 1 කොටස ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය නම් හොල්මනක් ගැන ප්‍රචාරක ව්‍යාපාරයක් ගෙන යන අතරම ස්වෛරී […]

මනුකා විජේසිංහ April 30, 2025 සංස්කාරක Comments Offon අහිංසාවාදයට සිදු වූයේ කුමක්ද? (1) ජාතික විමුක්ති ව්‍යාපාරයන්ට එරෙහි අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ රහසිගත මෙහෙයුම්: බණ්ඩාරනායක ඝාතනය සහ නොබැඳි ව්‍යාපාරයේ බිඳ වැටීම මනුකා විජේසිංහ (මෙම ලිපිය මනුකා විජේසිංහ විසින් ලියන ලද What Happened To Ahimsa? – From Ahimsa To Democracy & Non-Alignment To Gender Ideology යන ලිපියේ පළමු කොටසේ පරිවර්තනයයි.) තමන් විසින් මෙහෙයවන ලද කාලිංඝ […]