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Sarath Wijesinghe PC Real thief too runs with the running crowd to catch the real thief running with belongings for safety. Thriving is   illegal punishable under penal code as a criminal offence, but only few real thieves are caught and punished as real thief somehow escapes as he has the knowledge and intelligence of God […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera There are journeys that shape a man’s career—and then there are journeys that shape his entire philosophy of life. Mine began in the austere yet intellectually rich environment of the former Soviet Union. As a young Sri Lankan engineer, I found myself under the guidance of remarkable academics, including my mentor, Professor […]

AI Overview https://share.google/aimode/imFpAa9y6gHnVP8IN The period from 1505 to 1948, marking 450 years of colonial rule in Sri Lanka by Portuguese, Dutch, and British powers, is often described by historians and scholars as a time of intense pressure and systematic efforts to dismantle the traditional Buddhist and Sinhalese culture . Despite these attempts, which included the […]

By Nishan de Mel Courtesy Atlantic Council This is the eleventh chapter in the Freedom and Prosperity Center’s 2026 Atlas, which analyzes the state of freedom and prosperity in ten countries. Drawing on our thirty-year dataset covering political, economic, and legal developments, this year’s Atlas is the evidence-based guide to better policy in 2026. Evolution of freedom Sri Lanka entered […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO – Sri Lanka announced on April 7 that a record US$320 million (S$411 million) relief package for farmers, fishermen and low‑income households hit hardest by soaring energy costs due to the Middle East war. Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the package, the biggest state handout ever, would help the most […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO – Sri Lanka on April 6 raised prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by nearly a quarter, blaming higher global prices triggered by the Iran war. As well as gas, Sri Lanka also imports all of its oil and buys coal for electricity generation. Colombo has warned that a prolonged war in […]

Courtesy Adaderana A special audit report has uncovered multiple irregularities in the coal procurement process carried out by the Lanka Coal Company for the Lakvijaya Power Plant for the 2025/2026 season. According to the report issued by the Auditor General, a controversial supplier, Trident Chemphar Ltd, had relied on laboratory reports from a loading port […]

Shenali D Waduge by Shenali Waduge · 6th April 2026 The 2019 Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were not unforeseen. Intelligence agencies had repeatedly flagged threats, warrants existed against Zaharan. Yet negligence, inaction, and bureaucratic delays allowed an ideology rooted in hatred to manifest in mass murder. Over the years, a conspiracy theory has circulated suggesting that […]

by Garvin Karunaratne On many an occasion on my never ending irrigation inspections in Kandy and Nuwara Eliya long ago I had to cling onto trees and, creepers to avoid being blown off by the power of the wind. I enclose what I once wrote hoping that our new Government of Anura Kumara Dissanayake will […]

e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.April 4, 2026Posted inUncategorized blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 29 March – 04 April 2026 As our New Year dawns and the sun arcs directly over Sri Lanka after crossing the equator – the northern hemisphere’s spring equinox – the English media in Sri Lanka […]

Dilrook Kannangara Seven Easter Sundays have passed since the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attack but none has been convicted in Sri Lanka. A few were convicted in the US but not in Sri Lanka. Former intelligence service chief Suresh Salley is currently being questioned to gain information of the attack solely because his unit was […]

Courtesy: AI Overview Historical accounts from both Portuguese chroniclers and contemporary researchers document a systematic campaign of religious ( mainly Buddhist and Hindu) destruction in Sri Lanka during the Portuguese colonial period (1505–1658). Portuguese historians like Fernão de Queiroz in his work The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon and Paulo da Trinidade in [Conquista […]

Source: AI Overview The Christian Church cannot claim a glorious history in Sri Lanka because it entered the country in collaboration with foreign invaders i.e., Portuguese, Dutch and the British, and then joined hands with them to dislodge Buddhism as the dominant religion through forcible religious conversions and wholesale destruction of Buddhist Temples leaving a […]

Courtesy: AI Overview A countless number of Churches in former Portuguese occupied territory of Ceylon were built on sites of destroyed Buddhist Temples is an incontrovertible fact.   Historical accounts from both Portuguese chroniclers and contemporary researchers document a systematic campaign of religious ( mainly Buddhist and Hindu) destruction in Sri Lanka during the Portuguese colonial period […]

by, Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of German School of Medicine Iranian Key Uranium Field Saghand Uranium Mine is situated in the  (Yazd Province). It is considered as Iran’s largest Uranium mine.  It uses both open-pit and underground techniques; with depths exceeding 1,000 feet which is designed to feed the Ardakan yellowcake production plant. The Ardakan […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera TRINCOMALEE 2040 India–Sri Lanka Integrated Maritime & Energy Hub (A Transformational Bilateral Proposal) 1. The Big Idea (Simple but Powerful)  Turn Trincomalee into: The Singapore of the Bay of Bengal The Rotterdam of South Asia  A Joint India–Sri Lanka Strategic Energy & Marine Hub Not just a port—but a fully integrated ecosystem: […]

Source:  Facebook Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has called for the creation of a new global cricket governing body, saying the current International Cricket Council has become overly influenced by Indian political and commercial interests. In a social media post on Tuesday, Asif said a new organisation was needed to keep the spirit of the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera The summer trains of the Soviet Union had a rhythm of their own—metal grinding against steel, a steady heartbeat echoing across endless plains. From Belorusskaya railway station, I began my long pilgrimage westward—two days across borders and ideologies, through guarded crossings into Poland, then through the divided veins of Germany, eventually spilling […]

Bodhi Dhanapala A group of avowed Islamic exrimists carried out the Easter bombing where several prominent Christian Churches and devotees attending them were killed. The assassins also died in the blasts, or were captured by the police. All the pesidential commissions and investigations picked Zahran as possibly the lead individual. Several people closely connected with […]

Ratanapala  Easter Sunday –  5 Apr 2026 ගම්මන්පිල මහතගේ පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ මහා මොලකරු සොයා යාමේ කෘතියේ  සඳහන් කරනවා අල් බග්ඩාඩිගේ ලෝක ඉස්ලාමීයකරනයේ ISIS න්‍යායපත්‍රයේ සහරාන් මෙහෙයුම කිරීමේ බරපැන වශයෙන් රු 300 මිලියනයක් සැපයූයේ ජවිපේ සාමාජික ඊබ්‍රහාමි නානාබව. මේබව පසුපස යෑමට ලංකා නීති පද්ධතියටත්, දනට බලයේ ඉන්න ජවිපෙටත්, කතෝලික පල්ලියටවත් අවශ්‍ය නැත. කතෝලික පල්ලිය පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ කතෘකම […]

Sports The total silence of BCCI and the Govt. of India on the ownership of the Intellectual Property of Player – Referral system (DRS) which is rightfully claimed by a Sri Lankan makes a mockery of India’s so – called Cricket Friendship with Sri Lanka. It is tantamount to a betrayal of Sri Lanka by […]

UNDP UNDP satellite data shows 2.3 million Sri Lankans exposed and 1.1 million hectares flooded as cyclone Ditwah strains infrastructure and public services December 9, 2025 Colombo/New York, 9 Dec 2025 – An estimated 2.3 million people – more than half of them women – were living in areas flooded by Cyclone Ditwah that struck Sri Lanka on 28 November. New geospatial analysis from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) shows […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 4 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka is unlikely to secure a shipment of Russian oil anytime soon, as logistical arrangements are still under discussion while the one-month US sanctions waiver is due to expire on April 11, the Daily Mirror learns. After the sanctions were lifted, the Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy Adaderana The government of China has agreed to provide a shipment of refined fuel to Sri Lanka, according to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC). The CPC stated that a special discussion is scheduled to be held tomorrow (06) in this regard. During the discussion, a final agreement is expected to be reached regarding the […]

Shenali D Waduge There are numerous protagonists to Sri Lanka Easter Sunday massacre. We have Zaharan and his suicide bombers alongside an ideological network slowly spreading across the Island unchecked. The Church initially forgave the suicide bombers but has spent the past seven years in a relentless hunt for an undefined single mahamolakaru.” This pursuit, […]

Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The United States torpedo of the Iranian ship, IRIS Dena, in the Seas of Sri Lanka last month reveal Geopolitical economic continuities with a crime committed seven years ago: The 2019 ISIS-claimed Easter Sunday terror attacks were a complex logistical operation in 6 different sea-front locations on the east and west coasts […]

By Jonathan Manz Is Trump’s conduct demented, as portrayed? Or, are the Republicans, and the Democrats playing out a charade to hoodwink the world and the American people by working towards a ‘One-World’ Dictatorship’ of the Oligarchs as was planned at Bretton Woods in 1944? The USA pays plenty of lip-service to Democracy. Is there […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න—-ඇමරිකාවේ සිට   19 සියවසේ සිට  20 සියවස දක්වාම  ඇමරිකානු කලුජාතීන් කොන්කිරීමේ ජිම් ක්‍රෝ  නීතිය  ඔවුන්ගේ උපතේ සිට මරණ මන්චකය දක්වා  සෑම අංශයක ම   ඇමරිකාවේ  ඉතා කුරිරු අන්දමින්  ක්‍රියාත්මක විය.රටේ විවිධ ප්‍රාන්තවල විවිධ මතධාරීන් එක පොදුමතයකට ගෙන රට එක්සත් කරතබා ගැනීමට  ෆෙඩරල්  හෙවත් මධ්‍යමරජය ගන්නා බොහෝ සාධනීය පියවර  නිෂ්ක්‍රිය හෝ අකර්මන්‍ය කිරීමටහෝ හැකිතාක් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera It began in the vast, cold stretches of the Soviet Union—between the industrial smoke of Orenburg, the oil-stained yards of Azerbaijan, and the distant authority of Moscow—a young foreign trainee navigating a world that was equal parts discipline, danger, and adventure. My first year was spent inside a compressor factory that still […]