Hiru  News Sri Lanka Human Rights Centre Executive Director Rajith Keerthi Thennakoon states that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has intervened to control the rapid rise in the value of the US dollar within the domestic foreign exchange market by taking steps to impose an unofficial capped price for the dollar. Issuing a statement, […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය සංසරණයේ පැවති ව්‍යවහාර මුදල් මාස 17 ට රු. මිලියන 303,956 ක් වැඩි වෙලා IMF නොතකා ‍මහ බැංකුවෙන් ඩොලරයට නිල නොවන උපරිම මිලක් (capped price) ඒකාබද්ධ පුළුල් මුදල් සැපයුම වැඩි කරමින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව වානිජ්‍ය බැංකුවලින් ඩොලර් මිලදී ගැනීම සිදු කරනු ලබන නමුත්, සංචිත ඉහල නංවා ගැනීමට […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr) 2066 Kings Grove Crescent . Ottawa, Ontario . K1J 6G1 24 May 2026 The Right Honourable  Mark Carney, PC  OC  MPPrime Minister of CanadaOffice of the Prime Minister80 Wellington StreetOttawa, OntarioK1A OA2 BY LETTER IMPORTANT & URGENT Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney: Re: Sri Lankan-Canadian Community Divisive Tamil Genocide Memorial Monument in Brampton, Ontario.  This […]

ආචාර්ය සරත් ඔබේසේකර Kandidat Tekhnicheskikh Nauk (1977)Кандидат технических наук ඉතිහාසය පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ පැරණි පද්ධතියක් පෙරළා දැමීම, ස්ථාවර නව පද්ධතියක් ගොඩනැගීමට වඩා පහසු බවයි. 1917 රුසියානු විප්ලවයෙන් පසු ජයග්‍රාහී බොල්ශෙවික්වරුන්ට තේරුම් ගියේ සටනකදී ඇති වූ එකමුතුකම, රජය පවත්වාගෙන යාමේදී අනිවාර්යයෙන්ම පවතින්නේ නැති බවයි. අද ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna සහ National People’s Power පිළිබඳව පවතින සාකච්ඡාවන් […]

Professor Harendra de Silva & Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Since the JVP uprising in 1971, Sri Lanka has faced the alarming issue of child soldiers, a situation that escalated notably during the 1988-1989 revolt. These young recruits, referred to as the “Rathu Gatv” or “Red Youth,” were employed in various roles, including intelligence gathering, transporting […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Beyond Rail Tracks: How Britain Used the Elizabeth Line to Stimulate Industry and Employment — Can Sri Lanka Do the Same?” Question  Was the East–West London Elizabeth Line (formerly Crossrail) implemented   during Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government primarily as a transport improvement project, or was it also intended as a large-scale […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Kandidat tekneecheski Nauk  1977 Kandidat tekneecheski Nauk  1977 Кандидат технических наук History shows that overthrowing an old order is often easier than building a stable new one. After the 1917 Russian Revolution, the victorious Bolsheviks discovered that unity during struggle did not guarantee unity in government. The same lesson can be observed […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka must study history carefully before opening the doors widely for inbound labour migration without proper controls, registration, monitoring and sector-specific policies. During the British colonial era, Indian Tamil estate workers were brought mainly from South India to work in plantations because local labour was either unavailable or unwilling to work […]

Dilrook Kannangara Without a doubt AKD is the most popular Sri Lankan leader ever in the north, east and Nuwara Eliya areas despite falling popularity elsewhere. However, this comes at a massive cost to the nation as billions of state funds are used to sustain his popularity in areas of low to no national economic […]

By Dr  Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka continues to produce thousands of graduates every year. Universities proudly hand over degrees in engineering, management, science, and technology. Parents celebrate. Politicians boast about literacy and education statistics. Yet many of these young graduates enter the real industrial world completely unprepared for modern global employment. The uncomfortable truth is […]