Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka has rarely been treated as a sovereign nation in international geopolitics. Sri Lanka had very few leaders able to read geopolitical shifts well enough to spin it to Sri Lanka’s advantage. Sri Lanka has been positioned as a pawn on the chessboard of great powers. Today, we see another dimension unfold. […]

by Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University The most vulnerable today in our Motherland are the persons and families that live on casual incomes far lower than Rs. 100,000 a month, some who depend on any income that comes their way., with no regular income whatsoever. In the City of Colombo I am personally aware […]

By Sanjeewa Jayaweera, Courtesy The Island Only time will tell whether the arrest and remand of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW) marks a watershed moment for Sri Lanka. While the courts will ultimately determine whether he is guilty of misusing public funds, the political fallout has already exposed deeper systemic issues. RW’s arrest highlighted two […]

e-Con e-News eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 31 August – 06 September 2025 * In 2021, NATO members sent 21 warships into Asian waters where they conducted joint operations with all the regional navies that the USA is trying to pull into alignment against [China]… – see ee Sovereignty, The […]

Shenali D Waduge The demand for full implementation of Sri Lanka’s 13th Amendment has once again surfaced — but it is important for India to pause and examine who is really making this demand, and why. This demand does not come from India or even Sri Lankan Tamils on the ground — it is being pushed […]

Sarath Bulathsinghala 7 Sep 2025 There is hardly any intelligent discourse on the Aftermath of Eelam becoming a Reality. Most of the time what you see is analysis paralysis, legalese and protests against Tamil Separatists clamouring for Eelam. These are politicians, sometimes half-baked academics and at other times by genuine patriots not full conversant of […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන 1. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 23.1 අනු ව්‍යවස්ථාව අනුව සියලු නීති සහ අනු නීති පැනවීම නැතහොත් සෑදීමද එකී සියලුම නීති සහ අනු නීති පළ කිරීමද ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් පරිවර්තනයක්ද ඇතිව සිංහල සහ දෙමළ භාෂා දෙකෙන්ම විය යුතු බව දක්වා ඇත. 2. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ […]

Vijaita Singh Courtesy The Hindu Although last week’s Home Ministry order removes the tag of an ‘illegal migrant’ from registered Sri Lankan Tamil nationals who entered India before January 9, 2015, it will not immediately help in grant of Indian citizenship Undocumented Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who were exempted from penal provisions by a Union […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Sept. 7 (Daily Mirror) – The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said it will not remain tolerant of continuous smear campaigns carried out by the current government and will not allow such practices to continue in the future. Speaking at a media briefing held at the party headquarters, SLPP National […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ රජය විසින් මෑතකදී කොන්දේසි මත විදේශ යයි කියන සමාගම් වලට (7ට)  මේ රටේ නිතීගතව ගංජා වගා කිරීමට අවසර දෙනු ලැබිය. මේ සමඟම මේ රටේ ගංජා ප්‍රවර්ධනකාරිනට නව පණක් ලැබී තිබේ.   තායිලන්තයේ ක්‍රමය මෙහිද අනුගමනය කළ යුතු යයි එක් හිටපු දේශපාලනඥයෙක් විවිධ යු ටියුබ් නාලිකාවල ඉදිරිපත් වෙමින් පවසයි. 2022 දී ගංජා නිතීගත කිරීමෙන් […]

Sapiens of Sri Lanka – සේපියන්ස් ඔෆ් Was J.R. Jayewardene responsible for destroying Sri Lankan politics? In this exclusive discussion, Professor Rajiva Wijesinha – writer, academic, and former Member of Parliament – shares deep insights into the political legacy of J.R. and its impact on Sri Lanka’s present and future. This conversation explores the roots […]

Shenali D Waduge Why Sri Lanka Should Not Ratify the ICC 1. Sovereignty at Risk ·      External ICC jurisdiction would override Sri Lanka’s Constitution, domestic courts, and national security decisions. ·      Even functioning national mechanisms would be sidelined, undermining judicial independence. 2. Politically Motivated Targeting ·      ICC disproportionately targets smaller or weaker states while ignoring powerful nations. ·      Sri […]

Shenali D Waduge The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006 (GA Resolution 60/251) with noble intentions: to promote universality, impartiality, and cooperation protecting human rights. Yet in practice within less than 2 decades, the Council has become a political arena where blocs of states advance strategic interests, discipline weaker nations, and […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa . Ontario , K1J 6G1 . CANADA 5 September 2025 OPEN LETTER Hon . Vijitha HerathMinister of Foreign AffairsGovernment of Sri Lanka.Colombo . SRI LANKA OPEN LETTER 5 September 2025 Dear Minister Herath: The Sri Lanka Daily News reports that you briefed Diplomats of the Human Rights Situation in Sri Lanka. I […]

Shenali D Waduge The OHCHR Report A/HRC/60/21 is illegitimate, selective, and legally void. For 30 years of LTTE terror — assassinations, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing — the UNHRC and its High Commissioners remained silent. Only when terrorism was militarily defeated in May 2009 did Geneva suddenly awaken, not to commend Sri Lanka for restoring peace, but […]

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos, from Athens / Greece Sep. 2, 2025 Two very important uprisings are now stirring up large parts of humanity, even if many of mainstream media — not media of information, but of lobotomizing and bestializing — under the suffocating, historically unprecedented control of financial capital and of the Israeli and Zionist lobbies […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්                මේ දිනවල සාකච්ඡාවට බඳුන්වන කාරණා කීපයක් ඇත. ආණ්ඩුව විසින් මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීම පිළීබඳව පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළ මතුකළ ප්‍රශ්නය ඉන් ප්‍රධානය. මහ බැංකුව විසින් එම චෝදනා  ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කර ඇත. එසේම සංචාරක ආකර්ෂණය දිනා ගැනීම උදෙසා මහනුවර දළදා වීදිය තුළ නොනිදන සැණකෙළි තීරුවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම මත අස්ගිරි මල්වතු ප්‍රධාන විහාර පාර්ශවයන්ගෙන් ඊට විරෝධය එල්ල වීම […]

KELUM BANDARA  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Sept. 6 (Daily Mirror) – The government has delayed the enactment of the proposed piece of legislation for monitoring and supervision of both local and international NGOs despite the availability of a draft worked out during the previous rule, Daily Mirror learns. The need for monitoring and supervision of […]

Courtesy Adaderana As a key step towards achieving the target of fulfilling 70% of the country’s electricity demand from renewable energy by 2030, construction work on the Siyambalanduwa Rividanavi” Solar Power Park, Sri Lanka’s largest renewable energy project, commenced this morning (06) under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. This massive project, which will […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Opposition will question the government in Parliament next week over its decision to liquidate 33 state institutions, including the defunct airline Mihin Lanka. This was announced by Member of Parliament Dayasiri Jayasekara, who questioned the government’s reasons for the decision. Jayasekara also claimed that a previous government’s attempts to restructure these […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ සිවිල් සහ දේශපාලන අයිතිවාසිකම් පිළිබඳ ජාත්‍යාන්තර සම්මුතිය (The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – ICCPR)  1976දී ජාත්‍යාන්තරයේ බිහි විය. එය බහුපාර්ශ්වික ගිවිසුමකි. රාජ්‍යයන් 175කට වැඩි ප්‍රමාණයක් මේ වන විට එයට සම්මුති වී ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව 1980 ජූනි 11 වැනි දින මෙම ගිවිසුමට (මෙතැන් සිට, ‘සම්මුතිය’) ඇතුළත් විය.   මෙම සම්මුතිය මගින් වගකීම් පනවන්නේ රාජ්‍යයන් මත පමණි. එනම්,  සම්මුතියේ පාර්ශ්වකරුවන්. මෙම […]

Shenali D Waduge Although UNHRC resolutions are non-binding, since 2009 the Council has effectively acted as a mouthpiece formalizing overseas LTTE lobbyist demands into intrusive resolutions. A Council that failed to act against LTTE over 30 years of terror has, since 2009, issued 11 resolutions against Sri Lanka—outside its original mandate and without UNGA or […]

Rohana R. Wasala That distressful video of 24 year old Israeli hostage Evyatar David, made to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel reminded me of the harrowing accounts of the worst anti-Semetic violence perpetrated on Jews in the last century under Germany’s NAZI leader Adolf Hitler during World War II (1939-45). From the […]

National Development Bank PLC NDB Bank recently concluded the much-anticipated 2025 edition of its signature quiz competition, Battle of the Brains”, an exciting initiative designed to foster camaraderie, collaboration, and continuous learning among its employees. This year’s competition saw an overwhelming response, with 69 teams registering from across the Bank. Of these, 66 teams competed […]

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නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක, වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන 1. 2016 අංක 12 දරන තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ අයිතිවාසිකම පිළිබඳ පනත මහජනතාවට තොරතුරු වෙත ප්‍රවේශවීම පිණිස පනවන ලද සක්‍රීය නීතියකි. 2. සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 83 වන ව්‍යස්ථාවේ (ආ) ඡේදය නිවැරදිව ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන් ඇති ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ නොදැක්වෙන හෙයින් එය නිවැරදිව ඉංග්‍රීසි […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් රහස් පොලීසියට හිටපු ජනපති ලේකම් සමන් ඒකනායක එපා වූයේ, භාරත තෙන්නකෝන්ගේ උදේ හෑල්ල නිසා පමණක් නොව තවත් හේතු කිහිපයක්ම නිසාය.   ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරුන් පත්වන්නේ ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 41 (1) වගන්ති ප්‍රකාරව ය. ඔවුන්ගේ වගකීම නැත්තම් රස්සාව විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ‘ජනාධිපති ධූරයේ බලතල, කාර්ය සහ කර්තව්‍ය ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේලා සහ ඉටු කිරීමේලා තමාට සහාය දීම පිණිස තම මතය […]

The Chris Hedges Report August 9, 2025 Author and attorney Jennifer Harbury describes the Silent Holocaust” in Guatemala and its links to the genocide in Gaza, using any methods of barbarity necessary.” Known as the Silent Holocaust,” the genocide in Guatemala is seldom mentioned in modern history. The United States, with support from Israel, backed yet another violent crusade […]

National Development Bank PLC NDB Bank’s SME Re-Energizer Loan is designed to fuel the growth ambitions of Sri Lanka’s Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and start-ups. Launched in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Government, this timely initiative underscores NDB’s role as a steadfast partner in enabling entrepreneurship and empowering businesses that form the backbone […]

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