e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 10-16 August 2025 * ‘In virtually every colonial territory a certain number had to be killed before the survivors would accept the new prospects. This might even be said to introduce a new concept into the study of political economy – the indispensable […]

Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Former Governor of Uva, Southern and Central Provinces Former Executive Director of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Center for Human Rights and Research – CHR Sri Lanka Money printing, declining foreign reserves, and rising domestic debt could pose a significant challenge to achieving the year’s economic development targets, the […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීම, විදේශ සංචිත පහත වැටීම හා දේශීය ණය ප්‍රමාණය ඉහළ යාම වසරේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන ඉලක්ක සපුරා ගැනීමට බලවත් අභියෝගයක් විය හැකි බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි.     2024 ඔක්තෝබර් සිට 2025 ජූනි දක්වා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව විසින් රුපියල් […]

Shenali D Waduge We are concerned about the consistent manner that successive UN High Commissioners for Human Rights have been involved or caved into pressure by a handful of bloc nations using the UNHRC to exert political pressure over nations. Not only have resolutions been intrusive, and beyond the Human Rights Councils advisory mandate as […]

RANJITH SOYSA  Dear President and the Ministers. The victimization of some of the members of the defence intelligence officers and senior members of the Army, the Navy and the Airforce is a bootless errand headed by the CID and other law enforcement agencies of the government. It is obvious that the scheme is pre-planned by […]

Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe Beena Sarwar’s international documentary film ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’ (26 minutes), adapted to Sinhala by Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, will be screened at the Thilak Wijesekera Library Building, Katapothuwila Viharaya, Pahala Athuraliya, Matara, on Tuesday, 19 August 2025 at 10.00 a.m. A discussion will also be held with […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Army commemorated the 33rd death anniversary of Major General Vijaya Wimalaratne with a wreath-laying ceremony at his statue in Kiribathgoda on August 8, 2025. The event was led by the Commander, Security Forces Headquarters (West) and Colonel of the Gajaba Regiment, Major General U. K. D. D. P. […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna IMAGES: Preparations are underway for the commencement of the Kandy Night Bazaar. With approval from the Kandy Municipal Council, vehicle movement along Dalada Veediya and Kotugodalla Veediya will be restricted from 6:00 p.m. to midnight to facilitate the event. The bazaar will include night-time trade activities and entertainment, aiming to provide the Kandy […]

Courtesy Lloydslist The Sri Lankan supreme court ordered the owners of X-Press Pearl to pay a fine of $1bn after the containership was lost in 2021 and polluted water off the island nation X-Press Feeders has accused the court of convicting the vessel’s master and its agents before their trials have concluded, while the London […]

Courtesy CNA COLOMBO: Owners of a Singapore-registered vessel urged Colombo on Friday (Aug 15) to consider more “rational” compensation after they were ordered to pay US$1 billion in damages for causing Sri Lanka’s worst case of environmental pollution. Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court ordered X-Press Feeders in July to pay the damages within a year for causing marine […]

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By Sena Thoradeniya 1. Introduction Dr. Sudath Gunasekera in his essay posted in LankaWeb on 15 August 2025 proposes the Government of Sri Lanka, to set up a Memorial Museum of Patriotic Wars of Kandyan Sinhalese (1505-1848) and an International Institute of Postgraduate Research on Colonial Crimes in Sri Lanka”. Accordingly, the proposed Museum will […]

by Garvin Karunaratne Let us harness the wind for power and stop spending dollars for oil By Garvin Karunaratne I enclose a write up by eesrilanka wordpress.com/2019/04/13/playing with history: on some of my writings. __________________________________________________________ C2. Buying Power from Multinationals Garvin Karunaratne recalls his experience of 18 years working in stations like Hambantota as well as in […]

මාධ්‍ය අංශය, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83 වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදයට ගැලපෙන ලෙස ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83වන ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ (b) ඡේදය නිවැරදිව පළකරන ලෙස නීතීඥවරුන් 209ක් සහ නීතීඥවරුන් නොවන පුරවැසියන් 104ක් විසින් ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමාගෙන් කරන ඉල්ලීම් ගැන ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය දැනුවත් කර එකී ඉල්ලීම් සහිත A-3 ප්‍රමාණයේ ලේඛන […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Commending Assam government for deciding to name the under-construction Dighalipukhuri–Noonmati flyover in the city after legendary Kamrup ruler Prithu Maharaj, a forum of nationalist citizens appeals to State chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for erecting a life-size statue of the iconic ruler of Kamrup (ancient Assam), also known as Visvasundaradeva, along with […]