e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 03-09 August 2025 The USA & England have escalated covert attacks on shipping: Russia-India-China routed vessels have mysteriously caught fire, most recently near Oman and Kerala, which affected Sri Lanka too). The merchant media is meanwhile gasping at the USA’s 50% […]

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Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Real and staged crises present opportunities to reorient, innovate and think outside the box.  Trump’s tariff ‘shock’ presents Sri Lanka’s business sector and national policy makers an opportunity for short, intermediate and long term economic and industrial policy shift out of the current neocolonial, services heavy, economic model. At this time, the focus […]

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Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham Aug 6, 2025 ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with […]

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Nava Thakuria Addressing the nation on live television on 5 August 2025,  Bangladesh’s interim government head Dr Muhammad Yunus announced that the south Asian nation will go for 13th Jatiya Sansad polls by the  first half of February next year (Bangladesh election authority later specified first week of February for the national event), where he also […]

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lanka C news හරිනි අමරසූරිය මහත්මිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කළහොත් පැහැදිලිවම ආණ්ඩුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකේ බලය අහිමිවන හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ප්‍රේමනාත් දොලවත්ත මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඒ සමගම වර්තමාන ආණ්ඩුවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් පනස් හතර දෙනකු ස්වාධීන වනු ඇති බවද ඒ මහතා කියයි. සුපි‍්‍රම් සැට් චන්ද්‍රිකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඇතිවී තිබෙන අර්බුදකාරී තත්ත්වය ගැන අදහස් පළ කරමින් ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේය. […]

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 KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PM openly humiliated by Cabinet Minister President goes after petty cash issues, ignores major scandals such as e-visa fraud Challenges President to submit Auditor General’s report on e-visa scam SJB will be in opposition for 30 years if Sajith Premadasa remains leader Says President’s closest buddy is involved in […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s youth clubs should not be drawn into political agendas, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has stated. The former President, while addressing concerns about the growing politicisation of youth organizations and on-going unrest among youth clubs, emphasized the importance of resolving issues through dialogue. Making a special statement, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe proposed […]

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