ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්‍රී ගුණරත්න සභාපති / ‍ෆී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය ‍ 2026 අප්‍රේල් 22 ගරු කතානානයකතුමා, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව, ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ, කෝට්ටේ. ගරු කතානායකතුමනි, මහා භාණ්ඩාගාරයේ ඩොලර් මිලියන 2.5 ක මුදල් පරිගණක හැකර් කෙනෙකු අතට පත් වී තිබේදැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තුව හරහා විමර්ශනයක් සිදු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලීමයි.   ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය 2025 සැප්තෑම්බර් මස අග වන විට […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera 1. Stop thinking like a builder — start thinking like a dealmaker Sri Lanka’s mistake has been engineering-led development without parallel commercial strategy. What’s missing is aggressive anchor investor targeting. Without 5–10 global anchor tenants, the skyline will remain empty. 2. Re-negotiate utilization—not ownership The narrative that Sri Lanka lost” Hambantota Port […]

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By Dr. Sarath Obeysekera The recent visit of Jagdeep Dhankhar to Sri Lanka has once again exposed a familiar pattern in India’s engagement with its southern neighbour—symbolism over substance, visibility over viability, and soft diplomacy masking strategic hesitation. Let me be clear at the outset: Sri Lanka must welcome goodwill. Assistance for schools, temples, and […]

Courtesy Hiru  News Four members of a special parliamentary committee intend to request the summoning of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and three other witnesses to testify regarding the release of 323 containers from the Colombo Port without mandatory physical inspection. Members of Parliament Ajith P. Perera, Dayasiri Jayasekera, Mujibur Rahman, and D.V. Chanaka plan to […]

Courtesy Hiru News A payment of $2.5 million released by the General Treasury to settle a foreign debt failed to reach the intended recipient and was reportedly diverted to a computer hacker or a third party, according to the ‘FREE LAWYERS’ organisation. The chairman of the organisation, President’s Counsel Maithri Gunarathne, sent a letter to […]

Courtesy Hiru News A strong response has been sent to the letter of demand issued to Hiru News by the lawyer of Agriculture Minister K D Lalkantha, regarding his declaration of assets. The legal team of Hiru News has communicated that their client categorically denies all and singular the several claims, assertions, allegations and demands made […]

Source:   A1 Overview On November 14, 2018, Sri Lankan attorney Senaka Weeraratna addressed a symposium at the Japanese Diet (Parliament). Invited by the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact, he delivered a keynote speech titled “Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour ignited the liberation of Asia from Western domination – Time for Asia to express gratitude […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Beating India is great; that is our ultimate opponent.  They underestimated SL prior to  the match. The problem of fitness still persists. Angelow, Asela, Kusal must be back in action in the quarter final against Pakistan on Monday. SL has a remarkable record of coming from behind.  India has a […]

By Dr. Sarath Obeysekera In 1984, I returned to Sri Lanka after working in the harsh, demanding offshore environment of the North Sea. There, welding was not just a trade—it was a science governed by precision, discipline, and unforgiving standards. When I joined Colombo Dockyard as a consulting engineer, I stepped into a yard that […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Case study for Cololmbo dockyard/  Mazagon combination  For a product/chemical tanker in the ~30,000 DWT range: Why fillet welds are so high: Even though butt welds are fewer, they consume a large share of time and QA effort (full penetration, radiography, UT, class approval). Where fillet welds are concentrated During block construction […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Marine sector development in India and Sri Lanka is an area that needs urgent attention  right  now, Sri Lanka can either lose skilled labor to a Middle East pull, or deliberately position itself as the alternative regional shipbuilding power   Trying to stop workers from leaving the country is not practical in a […]

By Garvin Karunaratne Half a century ago I was privileged to be one of the youngest lieutenants handpicked to implement the Paddy Lands Act, the magnificent piece of legislation devised by the visionary leader Hon Philip Gunawardena to allay all the ills of peasant agriculture in Sri Lanka.  It was a time when our country, […]

Nava Thakuria As Assam completed the single-phase largely peaceful polling on 9 April 2026 to elect 126 representatives for State legislative assembly,  the focus shifted to probable outcome as both the ruling and opposition parties are claiming the result  in their favours citing the reason of an all time high voters’ turnout (85.96 percent) in […]

Sarath Wijesinghe PC former Chair CAA CAA main Regulator in the country CAA is the main regulator in Sri Lanka set up with so many expectations in 2003, yet the citizen only will be able to assess the impact and efficiency of CAA which is known to a limited number of citizens of the existence […]

Source: National WW11 Museum, New Orleans, USA https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/justice-radhabinod-pal-tokyo-war-crimes-trial At the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinod Pal voted for the acquittal of all the defendants on all counts.  Pal’s dissent, more than 1,230 pages in length, reveals the fissures within the attempts to bring to justice Japanese war criminals. The last of the justices selected for the […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Mark Julian Edwards Sri Lanka’s storytelling excellence took centre stage at Inspire Global Media Awards 2026, held recently in London, United Kingdom.  The Sri Lankan travel documentary produced by Mark Julian Edwards won the prestigious Television Broadcast of the Year at the ceremony, contested by BBC and Amazon TV.  The documentary […]

Courtesy The Hindu BusinessLine Radhakrishnan and Dissanayake also had productive discussions on further deepening the multifaceted bilateral ties, housing projects and fishermen issues between the two South Asian neighbours By PTI Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan meets with Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake at the Presidential Secretariat, in Colombo on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The cover of the report launched by the Centre for Society and Religion and titled ‘Memory, Pain and Hope; Seeking Justice Even after 7 Years’ Since 2019, April 21 is not just another day for Sri Lankans who became victims of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks. Seven years have elapsed since […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror April 21 (Daily Mirror) – Ship-tracking data indicates that a crude oil tanker intercepted by the US military in the Indian Ocean made a sharp change of course in the early hours of this morning and is now broadcasting its position around 700km (430 miles) south-east of Sri Lanka. According to […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel Former Ambassador to UAE and Israel and former Chair Consumer Affairs Authority Ombudsman System Ombudsman system is prevalent worldwide successfully and in Sri Lanka too from the time of Kings as advisor (called Duck – Ganna Rala) to the king and take part in settlement of disputes when king has the […]

XpressJobs As the recruitment landscape evolves, platforms must continuously adapt to meet the changing expectations of both employers and candidates. XpressJobs has consistently taken this approach, building a connected ecosystem that serves multiple talent segments across Sri Lanka. The latest addition to this ecosystem is InternJobs.lk, a platform designed to better engage Gen Z talent […]

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Shenali D Waduge Since May 2021, a sequence of public statements has attempted to reshape the understanding of the Easter Sunday attacks and promote a new narrative burying a critical factor that may contribute to future attacks if the indoctrination that Zaharan & associates were subject to was not identified and remedial actions taken at […]

e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.April 18, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:China, India, Indian Ocean, Iran, Pakistan, politics blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 12-18 April 2026 * A man dressed like Jesus Christ caused panic in Negombo… ‘People should act intelligently and should not get deceived by impostors,’ [pleaded the Catholic Church] on the report of a certain […]

Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Did no one tell President Trump who sent shock waves around the world when he claimed that he would ‘destroy a civilization overnight’ that the Straits of Hormuz controlled and bordered by Iran, is an integral part of the vast Indian Ocean’s energy superhighway? The Sea Silk Route of yore connected the maritime […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka is now gripped by a new illusion—that artificial intelligence can somehow compensate for decades of poor decision-making, weak policy frameworks, and a chronic inability to act on opportunity. It cannot. Artificial intelligence is not a magician. It is not a policymaker. It is not a visionary. It is, at best, […]

Hela Nomad: In Search of Helese Colonial Wounds: The Untold Atrocities of the British Empire in Sri Lanka 🕯️  A story of pain, resilience, and survival. For over 150 years, the island of Sri Lanka — once a proud and sovereign land — was held under the shadow of the British Empire. Behind romanticised myths […]