e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 19-25 October 2025 * ‘The Ceylon National Congress was so reactionary that it actually opposed the grant of adult franchise proposed by the Donoughmore Constitutional Reform Commission in 1929. This class, however, secured its political ascendency when the Donoughmore Constitution (1931)– while granting adult franchise – barred […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ රටේ ජාතික ගීය ලියු රචකයා තාමාට සිදුවූ අසාධාරණය නිසා සියදිවි නසා ගත්තේ නම්, ඉන්දීය නොවන, අපේ  රටටම ආවේනික වූ අපුරු සංගීතයක් නිර්මාණය කල අසහාය ගායකයාගේ ගීත වසර 20ට තරම ගුවන් විදුලියෙන් උවමනාවෙන්ම ප්‍රචාරය කිරීම නතර කලේ නම්, ජාතියක් වශයෙන් අප ලජ්ජා විය යුතුයි. 60/70 දශකයේ පහළ වූ ශ්‍රේෂ්ට සංගීතඟයයන් අද කාලේ බිහි නොවීමට […]

Prof. Hudson McLean 1) India 3,206 (Positive 2,500; Dismissed 1; Expired 125; Negative 580). 2) Philippines 2,614 (Positive 2,453; Expired 8; Negative 153). 3) Sri Lanka 2,438 (Positive 2,246; Expired matter 20; Negative 172). 4) Nepal 2,340 (Positive 2,149; Expired matter 33; Negative 158). 5) Bangladesh 2,317 (Positive 1,995; Expired matter 34; Negative 288). statistic sources: migri.fi Finland Offers-, High salaries […]

National Development Bank PLC NDB Bank has entered into a strategic partnership with AHZ Education Consultants, one of the fastest-growing UK-focused education consultancies in the world. The collaboration, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on 18th September 2025, further strengthens NDB’s Student File proposition, a holistic banking solution designed to support students and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Oct. 27 (Daily Mirror) – As torrential rains lash Sri Lanka, health experts are sounding the alarm over a surge in waterborne diseases. Senior Consultant Physician Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama told the Daily Mirror that diseases such as dengue, leptospirosis, hepatitis A, typhoid, and diarrhoea could spread rapidly as rainwater contaminates […]

Shripal Nishshanka Dear Mr. President, I vehemently believe you, as a boy hailing from a village like beautiful Thambuththegamuwa would never allow the following most dangerous and unfair activities to take place in our beloved motherland Sri Lanka ever; Please do not let constitutionalize LGBTQ in Sri Lanka ever! May you with your family and […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna The recent request by a group of Muslim women to modify nursing uniforms for religious reasons and the government’s hasty assurance that there are no legal restrictions” reveals a deeper problem: a shared lack of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) on both sides of the conversation. Cultural Intelligence is not about appeasement. It is […]

AI Overview  https://share.google/aimode/hSdM8yntKRMfY3KJL Senaka Weeraratna, a Sri Lankan attorney and animal rights activist, has advocated for a “Slaughter-Free Christmas” in Sri Lanka, arguing for the extension of the Buddhist tradition of non-violence (ahimsa) to the holiday.   Core arguments for Slaughter-Free Christmas Broader animal rights activism Weeraratna’s advocacy for a Slaughter-Free Christmas is part of his […]

Courtesy Hiru News A person suspected of being the shooter in the murder of the Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman has been arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) in Nawinna, Maharagama. Furthermore, two other individuals suspected of aiding and abetting the murder have been arrested in the Matara area. Several individuals have already been arrested […]

SEPAL AMARASINGHE

Courtesy The Tab Thanks to her research, the future of tea might be looking a little less bitter A University of Bristol PhD student’s research may be able to save tea crop from the impact of climate change. Thamali Kariyawasam’s goal is to find tea cultivars which will survive with less water, ensuring tea farming […]

By Huzefa Aliasger, Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, October 25. (Daily Mirror) – The World Bank has highlighted a rapid rise in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) skills across South Asia, including Sri Lanka, noting that this trend is beginning to influence hiring patterns. Between January 2023 and March 2025, the share of AI-related job […]

Courtesy The Island MPs get special audit report on the visa scam at Immigration and Emigration Dept. SJB Colombo District MP Dr Harsha de Silva told Parliament yesterday that the special audit report on Sri Lanka’s controversial e-visa contract, awarded to a foreign consortium by the Department of Immigration and Emigration, had been made available to the […]

(විශේෂ පණිවිඩය මහාචාර්ය නිශාන් සී විජේසිංහ විසිනි). පැලවත්තේ බොරු චෝදනා මඟින් හිටපු ජනාධිපති ගෝඨාභය රාජපකක්ෂ, ඇවන්ගාඩ් සභාපති නිශ්සංක සේනාධිපති සහ හිටපු හමුදාපතිවරුන් තිදෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව පාවරා තිබූ අල්ලස් නඩුවෙන් ඔවුන් සියළු දෙනා නිදොස්කොට නිදහස්කර ඇත…..ඔවුන් එසේ නිදහස් වුවත් පැලවත්තෙ බොරුව නිසා ඩොල්ර් බිලියන ගණන් ආදයම් ගෙන ආ හැකි ව්‍යාපෘතියක් මේවනවිට රටට අහිමි වී ඇත…. රටේ ජනතාවට […]

වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යාපන වැඩසටහන. දිතයෙකුට ජීවිතාන්ත සිරදඬුවම් නියම කිරීමට තනි අභිමතයට නඩු වාර්තාවේ සාක්ෂි වෙනස් කළ විනිසුරු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට..? ජනාධිපතිට සහ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව සභාවට ඉල්ලීමක්….. චූදිතයෙකුට ජීවිතාන්ත සිරදඬුවම් නියම කිරීමට හැකිවන පරිදි තනි අභිමතයට නඩු වාර්තාවේ සාක්ෂි සටහන් වෙනස් කළ ගිහාන් කුලතුංග විනිසුරු ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට නිර්දේශ/ අනුමත කිරීම, යුක්තිය ඉටු කිරීම සහ ජනතාවගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Congratulations to Dhammika Perera for Magnanimous  Generosity to Sri Lanka! DP Education – Languages – IELTS – Japanese – Italian – Korean – Chinese General inquiries 076 133 3666 | info@dpedu.org DP has offered a great service to the Development of Sri Lankan youth! However, as a Sri Lankan abroad for many decades, I […]

Prof. Hudson McLean THE   VISA SCAM  IN SRI LANKA Part 5 KAMALIKA PIERIS THE   VISA SCAM  IN SRI LANKA Part 6 KAMALIKA PIERIS Why does Sri Lanka Immigration Need VFS Global? 1: Did Any Person in Sri Lanka Receive a (Bribery Corruption) BACK-HANDER from VFS to facilitate this Unnecessary involvement of a Foreign Agent? 2: […]

by Shenali Waduge  · 25th October 2025 Around the world — and now proposed in Sri Lanka — two programs targeting schools and workplaces appear harmless but raise serious questions: CSE for children in schools and DEI for adults in workplaces. On the surface both sound harmless. Who doesn’t want children protected from abuse? Who doesn’t want […]

Nava Thakuria As sorrows over the mysterious death of Assam’s beloved son  Zubeen Garg in Singapore turned into massive outrages against the government, where the opposition political parties started extracting benefits to prepare their ground for their electoral benefits, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has now jumped into the space keeping an eye for […]

Sri Lanka Review Oct 23, 2025 While it is too early to tell who exactly is responsible for the recent fires at the refineries in Hungary and Romania as investigations are still ongoing, figuring out who benefits from them is easier, Endre Simó, the president of the Hungarian Community for Peace, tells Sputnik. The same […]

Times Of India

By Rohana R. Wasala We survived Pharaoh, we’ll get through this too. Just over two weeks ago, Israelis commemorated the second anniversary of the horrific October 7 terror attacks carried out by Hamas in Southern Israel. During the raid, the Islamists massacred in cold blood about 1200 men, women and children including babies, and took […]

Justice for Animals and Nature Sri Lanka exists in the stone age, metaphorically speaking, when it comes to recognition of the Rights of Animals and Nature.  The Justice for Animals and Nature was established in Sri Lanka for that purpose. To canvas public support for the Rights of Animals and Nature through legislative reform and […]

National Development Bank PLC Twenty-four staff members from NDB Bank participated in a meaningful volunteer initiative on 10 October 2025 at the Anawilundawa Wetland Sanctuary, a vital Ramsar site in Sri Lanka. The programme was conducted under the Life of Our Mangrove project, in collaboration with Biodiversity Sri Lanka (BSL) and The Wildlife & Nature […]

Glenn Diesen

Glenn Diesen

KAMALIKA PIERIS Money was  an important factor in the VFS Global visa service launched  at Katunayake in April 2024. Firstly,  there was the money that the Consortium was supposed to bring into the project. The Parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF) said in its report on the visa matter, thatCabinet Memorandum dated September 8, 2023, […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In July 2024 the Parliamentary Committee on Public Finance (COPF)   was asked to  look into the GBS-IVS-VFS  matter . COPF  conducted a formal, detailed  inquiry into  the appointment of the  VSF Global Consortium as the authorized representatives for online visa applications to Sri Lanka COPF issued a damning 640-page report titled Outsourcing Online […]

චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ ඔන්න පහුදිය දවසක මම ගියා දේශනයක් අහන්න. මහා තර්ක විතර්ක ගොඩක්. මිනිස්සුන්ට ලංකාවේ ඕනෑම  තැනක ජීවත් වෙන්න පුලුවන්ලූ. හැබැයි, එතකොට උතුරේ පරම්පරා ගානක් හිටපු සිංහලයෝ උතුරට ආපසු යන්නේ නැද්ද කියලා ඇහුවහම හ්ම් නැහැ. ලබන සතියේ තවක් රැස්වීමක්‌.  බලමු එදාට මොකක්ද මේ අය  කියන්නේ කියා. අවම තරමින් 25% කට පමණ වූ භුමි ප්‍රදේශයක්  මේ […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්       යාපන දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ එකම සිංහල ගම්මානය පිහිටා තිබෙන චාවකච්චරි ප්‍රා දේශීය සභාව විසින් අරුම පුදුම නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ.නාවක්කුලි හි  දුම්රිය ස්ථානයට යාබදව පවත්වාගෙන යනු ලබන සමිද්ධි සුමන විහාරස්ථානයේ පිහිටුවා තිබෙන වන්දනා කරුවන්ට තිබෙන විශ්‍රාම ශාලා පහසුකම් වහාම නවතා දමන ලෙසටත් එසේ නොකළහොත් නඩු පවරන බවටත් මේ නිවේදනයේ කියා තිබේ.මේ පිළීබඳව පුවත් පත් […]