By Raj Gonsalkorale In the latest escalation of the crisis in the Middle East, Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz According to Science Direct, Sri Lanka imports nearly all of its oil and gas, relying heavily on the Middle East, with major suppliers being Oman, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain. The country […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Eelam wars (1983-2009)  between the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), arose over the issue of self-determination for Sri Lankan Tamils and the separation of the Northern and Eastern provinces from the rest of the country. The goal was a separate state.  The Eelam war was […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Eelam war was never  a terrorist war.   LTTE   engaged in regular  military warfare using modern weapons. It had a trained army, dressed  in uniform. It attacked the state army where ever it could and concentrated on taking  territory.       Dayan Jayatilleke  observed  that  LTTE was not a terrorist cell, or a branch of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Eelam wars were defeated by the government of Sri Lanka in May 2009. Nirmala  Chandrahasan said that the Tamils must start all over again. I do not think that Tamil nationalism with secessionist aspirations, will die a natural death. Even if the LTTE is destroyed , it is possible that a new […]

by Garvin Karunaratne Our external debt has reached $ 33.2 billion by the end of December 2025. The increase in foreign debt denotes that we are on the wrong path. My earlier Papers in Lanka Web indicate the measures that have to be done if the authorities are interested to build up our economy. Garvin […]

Defend Democracy Press March 2, 2026  Spain’s government on Monday said the US has neither used nor will use Spanish military bases to conduct attacks against Iran, insisting Madrid maintains full control over its sovereign facilities, Anadolu reports. According to Spanish news outlet El Diario, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said in a television interview that the […]

Israel Shamir, courtesy The Unz Review The US, UK, France and Germany are flattered to call themselves the West”, but it is more realistic to call them the Jewish-State-in-progress, or Epsteinia”. We have just learned that President Trump had already made up his mind to go to war against Iran weeks ago, and that the pretence […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පාස්කු ඉරිදා ප්‍රහාරයේ මහමොළකරු ලෙස සැලකෙන සහරාන් හෂීම්ගේ නඩුව වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටි නීතිඥයා අද මෙරට අධිකරණ ඇමති ධුරය හොබවන බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. රත්නපුර පැවති ජන හමුවකදී අදහස් දක්වමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව සඳහන් කළේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ වීරවංශ මහතා කියා සිටියේ වත්මන් […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Sri Lankan government, led by the President, failed to issue a single word condemning or protesting the invasion of Iran and the killing of its spiritual leader by the US and Israel, despite opposition from global bodies like the US Congress and British Parliament, SJB Colombo District MP Mujibur Rahman stated […]