e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 13-19 July 2025 * ee’s poster this week portrays the Western Province Governor (& founder of Expolanka, importer of Japanese goods) Hanif Yusoof, Tea Exporters Association Chairman Huzefa Akbarally, and Brandix CEO Ashroff Omar, all appearing hawkish-eyed & wide awake, glaring & peering, at a meeting with President AK […]

 KAMALIKA PIERIS Intelligence reports indicated that the LTTE’s strategy was to demoralize the navy.[1] The more they target the navy the more the navy resolved to fight back, said Karannagoda .[2]   Navy  listed all the  vulnerable   naval targets and took precautions. [3]   Despite the many precautions we took LTTE always managed to find  ways to […]

 KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE  established small  Sea Tiger bases the north- eastern  and north- western coasts  in lagoons opening to the sea. They were approx. 10-15 km apart along the coast.    In 1994  LTTE went into the Vanni, it was pushed out of Jaffna. In Vanni, they freely used all the lagoons that opened to the […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Hon. Santosh Jha Esqr,                                              Dr Sudhath Gunasekara Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka,                   21  Dharsana”,Gemunu Mawatha Colombo.                                                                        Mahanuwara                                                                                            081 22 32744-071 1780449                        The Need to change the overall Kautilyan policy of Mathsya nyaaya and the Panikkar strategies towards its neighbors, particularly Sri Lanka, if India is to be respected and accepted […]

Aruna Laksiri Unawatuna B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) AAL Coordinator  Dr. Thilaka Padma Subasinghe Memorial Legal Educatuon Program Will the President enforce the law against the powerful legal personalities who have alienated and deprived the sovereignty of the people by using the incorrect English translation of the Constitution? 1. The Sinhala text of Article 83(ආ) of the Constitution has not […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රජය යෝජනා කර ඇති නව අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය වටා මේ වන විට උද්ගත වී ඇති අර්බුදකාරී තත්ත්වය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ සමීපතමයෙකු ලෙස සැලකෙන මාධ්‍යවේදී උවිදු කුරුකුලසූරිය මහතා සිය සමාජ ජාල ගිණුමේ සටහනක් තබමින් ප්‍රකාශ කර සිටින්නේ, ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙම තත්ත්වයට අත නොදමන බවයි. ඔහු සිය සටහන මඟින් අවධාරණය කර […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy  The Morning Scrutiny over financial and administrative irregularities in Sri Lanka’s State universities has intensified in recent times, thrusting institutions like the Sabaragamuwa University into the spotlight.  The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) convened on 4 June to examine the Auditor General’s report for the 2023 financial year, placing the Sabaragamuwa […]

 BY Buddhika Samaraweera Courtesy The Morning The Election Commission (EC) yesterday stated that it is currently preparing a report outlining the necessary amendments to the Election Expenditure Act, No. 03 of 2023.  This, as the commission claimed that they are required under the current form of the Regulation of the Act to accept even an […]

Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka’s JVP-led NPP government has made a dramatic pivot towards India, even utilizing legislative changes it once vehemently opposed. On August 19, 2023, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, then an opposition leader, criticized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe had signed with India. We must have the freedom to freely […]

Courtesy Island The government is forging ahead with its ambitious education reform package, amidst protests by teachers’ trade unions, university teachers and other stakeholders. Speaking at an event to raise awareness of the education reforms, among education officials, teachers and the public, at the Dakshinapaya Auditorium in Galle, on Saturday, Minister of Education and Prime […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 21 (Daily Mirror) – Former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Chief Nilantha Jayawardene has done his job as he has disseminated all information on events which led to the Easter Sunday attacks since 2015, MP Dayasiri Jayasekera said. The former SIS Chief has informed the state authorities on the impending […]