Shenali D Waduge Political Analyst May 2009 – 30-year terrorist conflict ends ·      Unlike 9/11, a single incident resulting in immediate bombing & occupation of several nations, Sri Lanka’s decision to military deal with LTTE was taken after failure of internationally promoted peace talks, cease fires, negotiations & when LTTE denied water to 40,000 farmers in the […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ලේකම් සමන් ඒකනායක 2025 සැප්. 1 (හෙට) උදේ 9 ට අපරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවට කැඳවා ඇත්තේ රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහගේ  ලන්ඩන් සංචාරය ගැන ප්‍රශ්න කිරීමටය. රහස් පොලීසිය රනිල් ලෙසම ඔහු ද, අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නේ නම් (if), පොලිස් අත්අඩංගුවට පත් වන දෙවන  ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරයා හෙවත් රාජ්‍ය සේවයේ ඉහළම පුටුව හෙබවූ නිලධාරියා සමන් ය.   අද […]

e-Con e-News No, no one else plays, it is a game purely for one. Once a chess piece is moved; ‘we’ (USA) simply turn the board the other way around – & move the other side’s chess pieces (for ‘them’). There is ‘no other’ in this game. – Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, US Primacy & Its Geostrategic […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න රාවනා දී වශයෙන් කියවෙන හෙළ පාලනය  පිරිහීමෙන් පසුව  අප දිවයින පාලනය කලේ කුඩා කුඩා හෙළ  කණ්ඩායම්ය.මේ අතර පැමිණි  විජයසිංහගේ සිංහ වංශිකයන්ද  භද්ද කච්චානාගේ ශාක්‍ය වංශිකයන් ද  ග්‍රීක  ආදී විවිධ වාර්ගිකයිනුත් ජෛන, නිඝන්ට,පාශාන්ඩ  ආදී විවිධ  විවිධ ආගමික මත ධාරිනුත් ,’’නිරාගමික ‘හා නිදහස් මතධාරීන්ගේනුත්  සැදී සමාජයත් ආදී හෙළ කණ්ඩායම් හා එකතු කර’’එක්සේසතක් ‘ යටතට ගෙනාවේ  […]

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නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන 1. 2019 නොවැම්බර් මස ජනාධිපති ධූරයේ ප්‍රතිඥා දුන් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට ජනාධිපති ධූරයේ කටයුතු කළ නොහැකි වූ තැන ජනාධිපති ධූරයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වී ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට කටයුතු කළේය. 2. ඉන්පසු පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ඉතිරි ජනාධිපති ධූර කාලය වෙනුවෙන් […]

by Arundathie Abeysinghe Courtesy PIME Asia News A new environmental emergency has hit the strait separating the Indian coast from Sri Lanka, threatening to cripple local tourism and fishing. Carried by currents from India, mounds of plastic reach the Mannar region. Monsoon currents, which carry dust, are more difficult to collect, compounding the problem. Globally, […]

By Anuka Vimuthi Silva and Amali Wedagedara, Courtesy Al Jazeera From Africa to Asia to Latin America, billions go hungry while creditors profit. Sri Lanka is undergoing one of the most complex economic recoveries in its history. The country’s financial collapse in 2022 was precipitated by a toxic mix of unsustainable borrowing, poor fiscal management, and external shocks. […]

KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government’s action has now created a launching pad for the Opposition to form an alliance In politics, even the right action has to be taken at the right time The arrest and remanding of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has become the talking point of politics Almost all the political […]

by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island Troops in Washington In Ranil Wickremesinghe’s parlance a cynic would probably describe the former president’s predicament as being the result of an L-Board arrest. Mr. Wickremesinghe himself might have described it as such had he not been weakened and silenced owing to excessive dehydration during and after his police […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United National Party (UNP) has decided to invite all opposition political party leaders to its annual convention. A preparatory discussion for the convention, which is scheduled to be held on September 6, was held this morning (31). A proposal in this regard has been made and is scheduled to be submitted to […]

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Courtesy Hiru News The United National Party has lifted the suspension orders against Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa and all party members who joined the Samagi Jana Balawegaya, or SJB. A senior UNP spokesperson stated that the decision was made on the instructions of UNP leader and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The party views this move […]

ISLAND EDITORIAL Tuesday 26th August, 2025 Minister Bimal Rathnayake has said Ranil Wickremesinghe should have been arrested about four decades ago over the Batalanda torture chamber, the 1983 racial violence, etc. The former has also flayed the latter for the Treasury bond scams (2015). It is now up to the judiciary to scrutinise charges against […]

Shenali D Waduge Switzerland, long celebrated for neutrality, serenity, and banking secrecy, has also quietly served as a discreet hub for global capital, both legitimate and controversial and the safe haven of dictators’ wealth. Street riots or public unrest has never been linked with Switzerland. Yet, the recent killing of a 17-year-old migrant during a police […]

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Dilrook Kannangara When Imran Khan became PM of Pakistan the whole world knew Pakistan will end its rot and turn the tide. However, it was not seen in good light by enemies of Pakistan both internal and external. Imran worked hard to contain corruption. But corrupt politicians, their lackeys, their supporters, extremists and the underworld […]

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Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka Political Analyst 1. Actions of then UNSG Ban Ki-moon immediately following end of Sri Lanka’s Conflict A. Unprecedented Unilateral Action ·      First occasion in UN history that a Secretary-General personally appointed the 2011 Panel of Experts (PoE) and separately commissioned the Petrie Report, both without UNGA or UNSC mandate, after a conflict had concluded. ·      These […]

Rohana R. Wasala The desert will rejoice, and flowers will bloom in the wastelands. The desert will sing and shout for joy; it will be as beautiful as the Lebanon Mountains and as fertile as the farmlands of Carmel and Sharon. Everyone will see the Lord’s splendour,  see his greatness and power. –Isaiah 35: 1-2 This is an expanded version of […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ 19/8/25 දින ලංකාවෙබ්හි පළවූ ‘Sri Lankan Marxists have not been pro – Sinhala or pro – Buddhist’ යන ඉංග්‍රීසී ලිපියේ සංශෝධිත සිංහල පරිවර්තනය, එම මුල් ලේඛකයා විසින්ම   ආචාර්ය එන්.එම්. පෙරේරා ආදී ආනන්දීයයෙක් බව සත්‍ය නමුත් වැඩිහිටියෙකු ලෙස ඔහු බුදු රජානන්  වහන්සේට සැබෑ ලෙස වන්දනා කිරීමේ අරමුණෙන් බෞද්ධ විහාරස්ථානයකට ගොස් තිබේද නැද්ද යන්න […]

National Development Bank PLC NDB Bank, in partnership with NewsFirst, proudly celebrated the Grand Finale of the Sri Lanka Vanithabhimana Awards on 20 August 2025, honouring extraordinary women across the island and marking a milestone season that advanced beyond recognition to long-term empowerment through the programme’s five-year sustainability model. This year built on the initiative’s […]

-SRI LANKA SOVEREIGNTY FORUM- As a fellow member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Sri Lanka expresses deep concern at Malawi’s alignment with the Core Group on Sri Lanka — comprising the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Germany, North Macedonia, and Montenegro — in advancing hostile resolutions against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC. Sri Lanka is […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් අර්තාපල් සහ ළූණු සඳහා බද්ද පනවන බවට වූ තොරතුර එම බද්ද පැනවීමට පෙර තමන්ට කීකරු ව්‍යාපාරිකයන්ට රජය විසින් ලබා දී ඇතැයි සමගි ජන බලවේග දූෂණ විරෝධී බලවේගයේ කැඳවුම්කරු, හිටපු පළාත් සභා මන්ත්‍රි නිරෝෂන් පාදුක්ක කොළඹ සජබ කාර්යාලයේදී පැවසීය. මේ හේතුවෙන් බදු අය කිරීමට පෙර ආණ්ඩුවට හිතවත් කූට ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් අල සහ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පොහොසත් රටක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ අදහස් ඇතිව කටයුතු කරන ජනාධිපතිවරයෙකු විදෙස්ගත වූ විට රාජ්‍ය නායක පෞරුෂයට ඔබින ආකාරයට ඉහළම පහසුකම් භුක්ති විඳිමින් කටයුතු කරන බව සර්වජන බලය නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දිලිත් ජයවීර පවසයි. රාජ්‍ය නායකයෝ විදෙස්ගත වුණාම ඒ රටේ තියෙන හොඳම වාහනේ යනවා. ඒ රටේ හොඳම මිනිස්සු ආශ්‍රය කරලා. හොඳම වයින් […]

Courtesy Eastern Eye The former political rivals of Wickremesinghe said the charges against him were frivolous and politically motivated. THREE former presidents of Sri Lanka expressed solidarity with jailed ex-leader Ranil Wickremesinghe last Sunday (24) and condemned his incarceration as a calculated assault” on democracy. The former political rivals of Wickremesinghe, who was president between […]

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Adaderana Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Colombo National Hospital, has been discharged from the hospital on Friday. The 76-year-old was rushed to the intensive care unit of the National Hospital in Colombo last Saturday (23), just hours after being remanded in custody. Wickremesinghe, who […]

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