Courtesy Daily Mirror Colombo, Dec 24 (Daily Mirror) – A tourist family visiting Sri Lanka has spoken out about difficulties they faced while trying to extend their visa, calling the process the most painful experience ever.” The family, known as ‘The Hutchinsons’ on TikTok, had arrived in Sri Lanka under the visa-free scheme and attempted […]

Courtesy Hiru News A group of 120 internationally renowned economists and development experts has issued a joint letter calling for the immediate suspension of Sri Lanka’s debt repayments, citing the devastating impact of recent floods and Cyclone Ditwah. The group argues that the scale of destruction constitutes a force majeure” event, making it impossible for […]

Courtesy Hiru News Hiru TV has issued a scathing response to the Police Media Division—an entity funded by the public purse—asserting that the division’s recent letter regarding the assault on a police officer involved in a cannabis raid in Embilipitiya constitutes a severe blow to the public’s right to information and democratic principles. The reply […]

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Shenali Waduge Your Ladyships / Lordships, This submission seeks judicial guidance on distinguishing between legally binding treaty obligations and non-binding international policy frameworks operationalized in Sri Lanka’s gender-based violence programmes. The purpose of this submission is not to oppose international engagement, but to seek constitutional and legal clarity on the limits of non-binding international instruments […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. තමන්ට අන්තිමේදී ගොළු මුහුදවත් ඉතුරු නොවන බව නොදැන අන්ද මන්දව සිටිනා සිංහල බෞද්ධ රැළ් එතෙක් පැවති SLFP-LSSP-CP ආණ්ඩුවල විකාර හැසිරීම් දඩමීමා කරගෙන, JRJ විසින් රටට කරන්නට යන නැස්පත්තිය ගැන ඇතිවූ කළකිරීමද නිසා, 1978 මාර්තු මාසයේදී ලංකාවෙන් පිටවූ දා සිටම රටට සිදුවන දේ දෙස කණගාටුවෙන් බලා සිටි පංචස්කන්ධයක් වශයෙන් මේ වන විට […]

Courtesy Relifweb COLOMBO, December 22, 2025—Cyclone Ditwah, which struck Sri Lanka in late November, has caused an estimated US$4.1 billion in direct physical damage to buildings and contents, agriculture and critical infrastructure, according to a World Bank Group Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) report released today. This damage is equivalent to about 4 percent of Sri […]

Courtesy The Statesman External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday announced India’s decision to offer a reconstruction package of USD 450 million to Sri Lanka post ‘Cyclone Ditwah’. xternal Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday announced India’s decision to offer a reconstruction package of USD 450 million to Sri Lanka post ‘Cyclone Ditwah’. At a […]

Courtesy Adaderana he Police Constable who was arrested and subsequently released on bail in connection with the assault incident involving Ratnapura District National People’s Power (NPP) Member of Parliament Shantha Pathma Kumara Subasingha, has been suspended from service pending further investigations, police stated. He was arrested yesterday (22) by officers attached to the Embilipitiya Divisional […]

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[ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ මූලධර්ම අභියෝගයට ලක් කරමින් මර්දනකාරී නීති ගෙන ඒම පිළිබඳ සමාජ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශනය සදහා වූ සාමූහිකය (CSMD) දැඩි විරෝධය] ජාතික ජන බලවේග ආණ්ඩුව (NPP) විසින් අලුතින් හඳුන්වා දීමට උත්සාහ කරන ‘ත්‍රස්තවාදයෙන් රාජ්‍ය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත’ (PSTA) සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැන නැගී ඇති මූලික ප්‍රතිචාර නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීමේදී, එය පුරවැසියන්ගේ මූලික මිනිස් අයිතිවාසිකමක් වන ප්‍රකාශනයේ නිදහස ඇතුලු අයිතිවාසිකම් […]

ආර්ථික දර්ශක නිවේදනය  රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය   ඩොලරයට සාපේක්ෂව රුපියලේ අගය පහත වැටීම නිසා, පසුගිය මාස 15 තුල ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විදේශ ණය ප්‍රමාණය රු. බිලියන 703 කින් ඉහළ ගොස් ඇතැයි ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනයේ දැක්වේ. 2024 ඔක්තෝබර් මස රු. 293 ක් වූ ඩොලරයේ අගය මේ වන විට […]

Collective for Social Media Declaration (CSMD) 22 December 2025: The Protection of the State from Terrorism Act, No. of 2026(PSTA) presents itself as a human rights improvement on the existing Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). This framing obscures the reality that its core architecture, including administrative detention, military powers, proscription regimes, and broad speech offences, […]

by Garvin Karunaratne Posted on January 17th, 2024 Our monetary economists of today have decided that printing money is to be stopped till the end of the year. The new Central Bank Act of 2023 is said to forbid money printing. Some foremost economists and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka are of the opinion […]

Vijay Prashad Beyond oil interests, Vijay Prashad argues that the US escalation against Venezuela is about reestablishing its hegemony in the hemisphere. US Marines carrying out exercises on USS Iwo Jima as part of SOUTHCOM’s Operation Southern Spear in the Caribbean Sea. (SOUTHCOM) Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States […]

By Dharshan Weerasekera    Human rights law, by contrast, is founded on the concept of universal rights which the international community is duty-bound to uphold International human rights institutions become vulnerable to manipulation by powerful states seeking to bypass traditional sovereignty safeguards in order to impose their political will on weaker nations An organisation is only […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මහ නාහිමියන් විසින් ජනාධිපති අනුර දිසානායක මහතාගේ අතේ බැන්ද පිරිත් නූල ගලවා විසි කර ඇති බව මහින්තලා රාජමහා විහාරාධිපති පූජ්‍ය වළවහැංගුණුවැවේ ධම්මරතන හිමි පවසයි. ආණ්ඩුවට පක්ෂ නොවන භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලාට චීවරධාරීන් යැයි බැණ වදිමින් නොසෑහෙන්න නින්දා අපහාස කරමින් ඇතැයි ද එහිමියන් පෙන්වා දෙයි. වර්තමාන පාලකයන් බොරු වැපිරීම නිසා රටට වස් වැදී […]

Courtesy The Fiji Times Sri Lankan renewable energy company Vidullanka PLC has announced that it has emerged as the lowest-cost bidder for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to expand and upgrade a 100-kilowatt mini hydropower facility at Buca Village in Fiji. In a disclosure to the Colombo Stock Exchange, the company said the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sustained adherence to the reform agenda has underpinned a robust economic recovery, price stability, substantial revenue-based fiscal consolidation, and progress in rebuilding foreign exchange reserves, but the economy remains vulnerable, and GDP has not recovered to its pre-crisis level, according to an IMF official. Kenji Okamura, Deputy Managing Director and Acting […]

Courtesy Adaderana The inaugural 2026 budget proposal of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), which is under the control of the ruling National People’s Power (NPP), has been defeated by a majority of three votes. The budget received 57 votes in favour, while 60 councilors voted against it, Ada Derana reporter said. The votes of two […]

Hiru News Cyclone Ditwah caused extensive physical destruction across all 25 districts of Sri Lanka after striking the island in late November 2025. This assessment, conducted by the World Bank using the Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) methodology, estimates the direct physical damage at approximately 4% of the country’s GDP. The disaster affected nearly […]

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C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. If the Tamils’ cry for separatism is given up, the two communities could solve their problems and continue to live in amity and dignity.” M.C. Sansoni, CJ-(Sessional Paper No. 7 of 1980).  It is interesting to observe the behavior of the young Tamil M.P. Archuna among the other disoriented Sinhala-speaking M.P.s who are […]

e-Con e-News blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 14-20 December 2025 * ‘Whitey didn’t leave, Whitey didn’t stay. Neither went, nor remained.’ – Nanda Malini, Nidahas Baila * An enigma indeed. National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa’s adroit revelations this week about who secretly visited the then-Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena […]

Nava Thakuria Geneva, 22 December: Expressing serious concern over the current volatile situation in Bangladesh erupted after the murder of a young leader, the global media safety and rights body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) urges the caretaker government in Dhaka to ensure safety & security to the media fraternity across the south Asian country. Condemning […]

by Garvin Karunaratne . Ph.D (Michigan State University) The recovery for the Ditwah Disaster will require billions. It is a bigger task than fixing all our irrigation tanks and financing the resettlement of people in the Dry Zone, a task well done in recent times. How is this task to be financed. Already foreign money […]

Shenali D Waduge It is crucial that we understand how a private sexual behavior that has lasted centuries suddenly became converted into a global political tool to reshape society, education, policy, medicine and population outcome.  STEP 1 — Reclassification (to create Legitimacy) ·      International medical bodies removed homosexuality from psychiatric classifications in which it had previously appeared, without new […]

By Dr Sarath Obeysekera Chairman .Advisory Board fir EDB to develop Marine and Offshore Industry 1.     Purpose Sri Lanka is currently facing a severe shortage of foreign currencycreating hardships to the people in the country .Conventional foreign income generating avenues such as tourism,export of garments ,coconut products ,export of teas and spices are not performing […]