KAMALIKA PIERIS Medical prescriptions were written down on palm leaf manuscripts. Besajja Manjusa is the oldest medical manuscript   written in Sri Lanka. There is a Sinhala translation of the Pali original in the Colombo Museum library. The manuscript of Bessajja Manjusa held in Ayurveda Research Institute, Maharagama was included in the UNESCO Memory of the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I often reflect on my days as a young engineering student in the former Soviet Union. My mentor, a Russian Jew and a passionate patriot of Russia and its revolution, frequently spoke about how a nation becomes powerful through knowledge, discipline, and scientific inquiry.  Under leaders such as Stalin, he believed that […]

AI Overview Under the doctrine of stare decisis, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka generally treats its own prior judgments as binding. However, it can and does overturn its own previous decisions to correct legal errors, adapt to changing social realities, or rectify judgments made per incuriam (through carelessness or lack of regard to the […]

By Sarath Obeysekera The Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) remains one of Sri Lanka’s most debated infrastructure projects. Built in 2013 at an estimated cost of US$209 million, with the majority financed through Chinese loans, the airport was originally designed to handle one million passengers and 50,000 tonnes of cargo annually. Unfortunately, traffic projections never […]

ECONOMYNEXT ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has urged investors from Belgium and Luxembourg to seize opportunities in the island nation, citing economic reforms, affordable real estate and cheap labour. Speaking at a panel discussion during the BELGOLUX -Sri Lanka Business Forum with a number of Belgian and Luxembourg delegates at Colombo Port City, deputy minister of […]

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was finally unveiled a few days ago only reaffirmed how misguided the joint US-Israeli attack on Iran on February 28 was, as by every account and careful analysis, despite Iran’s heavy losses, it has come out on top. Should the US and Iran negotiate the various […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera AI assisted to formulate following . Many of the world’s great advances came from exceptional individuals such as J. Robert Oppenheimer, Tim Berners-Lee, and countless scientists, engineers, and thinkers whose creativity changed civilization. Their inventions brought enormous benefits but also risks. Nuclear technology, for example, can generate electricity or destroy cities. Will […]

AI Response Yes, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka can overturn its own decisions, but only under strictly defined, highly exceptional circumstances. [1, 2, 3] As established in landmark rulings, the Supreme Court is the apex judicial body and its judgments are constitutionally final. It has no statutory or constitutional power to rehear, review, or […]

By Sarath Obeysekera As a child, my mother was an ardent devotee of the deity of Kataragama Temple. Before every important examination or milestone in my life, she would take me on a long journey by bus to Kataragama. In those days, it was an adventure in itself.We travelled for an entire day and stayed […]

Anadolu Agency President Dissanayake authorizes security forces to join mosquito-control efforts as daily hospital admissions surge past 1,000 ISTANBUL Sri Lanka has deployed its military to assist in dengue-control operations amid a sharp rise in infections that has pushed daily hospital admissions above 1,000, local media reported Tuesday. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake authorized the armed […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, June 22 (Daily Mirror) – The United States today announced the provision of a Fleet Broadband satellite communications system worth approximately US$4 million (over Rs. 1.2 billion) to the Sri Lanka Navy, in a move aimed at strengthening maritime security and connectivity across the Indian Ocean. The announcement was made […]

Courtesy Hiru News Claudia Sallay, the mother of the Major General (Retd) Suresh Sallay, who is the former head of the State Intelligence Service, forwarded a letter to Pope Leo XIV today (23). The letter requests justice, human dignity, and a compassionate intervention regarding Suresh Sale. Accordingly, arrangements were made to hand over the relevant […]

Courtesy Hiru News The proposal to reduce the annual turnover threshold for Value Added Tax and Social Security Contribution Levy from Rs. 60 million to Rs. 36 million, which was proposed in this budget to be implemented from the upcoming 1st of July, will not be implemented. Deputy Minister of Economic Development Nishantha Jayaweera stated […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prioritising the protection of existing garment factories, which face severe risks amid the current economic crisis, must take precedence before the government considers manufacturing textiles from banana plant fibres, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said. Addressing a public gathering, the Opposition Leader pointed out that Sri Lanka’s garment factories currently stand in an […]

e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.June 20, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:history, India, law, malabar-games, Rice, sri-lanka, Steel, travel, WPNS blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 14-20 June 2026 In November 2020, 120 whales were run aground on Panadura beach, gasping for breath. There was widespread despair at the unfolding scene. Yet there was nary an exclamation from such environmental babblers as […]

By Sarath Obeysekera A New Paradigm for Infrastructure Financing Sri Lanka has historically financed large infrastructure projects through sovereign loans, bilateral financing, multilateral development banks, and foreign direct investment (FDI). While these mechanisms have delivered highways, ports, airports, and power plants, they have also contributed to high levels of external debt and fiscal vulnerability. The […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Investor Briefing for Policy Consideration The Trincomalee Marine Industrial Hub Tokenized Fund (TMT Fund) is a pioneering initiative designed to mobilize private and diaspora capital for the development of Sri Lanka’s proposed Marine Industrial and Offshore Repair Hub in Trincomalee. Using blockchain-based tokenization, the fund allows fractional investment and transparent participation in a Public–Private Partnership […]

මහින්ද  උදයසිරි රත්නායක  දඹුල්ල  ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මාතලේ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ දඹුල්ල, සීගිරිය බලකොටුවට උතුරු දෙසින් පිහිටි ඓතිහාසික, බෞද්ධ හා ස්වාභාවික සෞන්දර්යයෙන් අනූන පිදුරංගල රජමහා විහාරය නව ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණයන්ගෙන් අනතුරුව ඊයේ (20) දින සසුනට පූජා කරන ලදී. දේශීය හා විදේශීය සංචාරකයන්ගේ සිත්ගන්නා සුලු ස්ථානයක් වන පිදුරංගල විහාරයේ පෞරාණිකත්වයට හානියක් නොවන සේ එහි දායක සභාව සහ පුරාවිද්‍යා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව එක්ව මෙම […]

By Sarath Obeysekera Quote  Sri Lanka opens Mattala Airport to local & foreign investors The Ministry of Ports & Civil Aviation, through Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) (Private) Limited (AASL), has invited Expressions of Interest (EOI) from investors to utilize resources at Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Hambantota. Submissions are due by 09 […]

Dilrook Kannangara Despite its natural formation including its depth, historical economic use – the world has changed vastly since then, very limited modern economic current use and continuing military and fisheries utility, Trincomalee port and the region has no economic potential. All profitable ports are either on world’s largest shipping lanes or just adjacent to […]

Shenali D Waduge Fifty years after the Vaddukoddai Resolution and seventeen years after the defeat of the LTTE, it is time for an honest assessment. While separatist politicians, their supporters, promoters and beneficiaries continue to commemorate Vaddukoddai, it is ordinary Tamil families who paid the real price—through death, displacement, lost opportunities, economic hardship and generations […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න සෙංකඩගල සිංහද්වාරයේ සිට  “ඇය තමන්ගේ ස්වාමිපුරුෂයා වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටින්නේ යුක්තිය ඉටුකර ගැනීම සඳහා මිස ඇයගේ ස්වාමියා යම්කිසි අපරාධයකින් මුදවා ගැනීමට හෝ කිසිම අයෙකුට අගතියක් කිරීමට හෝ කිසිම අපහාසයක් කිරීමට නොවේ. නීත්‍යානුකූල පරීක්ෂණ සිදුවන අවස්ථාවකදී මින්සුන් කියාගන්නා මිනිසුන් මෙම කාන්තාවට කෘතඥතාවක් නොපෙන්වන්නේ නම්, එය යුක්තිය ඉටු වීමක් නොව, සාධාරණත්වය බිඳ වැටීමකි. විවිධ අය මෙම […]

SPORTS The “Player-Referral” concept—which serves as the operational foundation for Cricket’s Decision Review System (DRS) and has influenced global officiating frameworks like football’s VAR and tennis’s Hawk-Eye challenges—presents a fascinating case study of a Sri Lankan innovation reshaping global sports jurisprudence. [1, 2, 3] However, labeling it the country’s “biggest Intellectual Property (IP) export” is […]

ආචාර්ය සුද ත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම් සහ ශ්‍රී ලන්කා පරිපාලනසේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94)) මේ රටේ පලාත්සභා ඡන්දය වහාම පවත්වන්මෙන් කෑමොර දෙන දේශපාලකයින් ඇතුලු සියලුම පිස්සන් ජීවිතාන්තය දක්වා යැවිය යුත්තේ අන්ගොඩටය, එසේත් නැතිනම් ඔවුන් දේශද්‍රෝහීන්, ජාතිද්‍රෝහීන් සහ බෞද්ධ විරෝධීන් වශයෙන් වහාම මේ පින් බිමෙන් යළි කිසිදාක ආපසු ආ නොහැකි පිට සක්වලකටම පිටුවහල් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera The argument that Trincomalee lacks economic potential because it is not directly on the main East-West shipping route is an overly narrow interpretation of port development.  The world’s most successful heavy engineering and offshore industrial ports did not necessarily become successful because of their immediate proximity to shipping lanes.  They succeeded because […]

AI දළ විශ්ලේෂණය https://share.google/aimode/53JlW3bD2ytPXYo5j                   නීතිඥ සේනක වීරරත්න ශ්‍රී ලාංකික නීතිඥ සේනක වීරරත්න මහතා “ක්‍රීඩක යොමු කිරීමේ” ක්‍රමය හඳුන්වා දීමෙන් ගෝලීය ක්‍රීඩා නීති විද්‍යාව මූලික වශයෙන් විප්ලවීය වෙනසක් සිදු කළේය, එය සියවස් ගණනාවක් පැරණි පිටියේ විනිසුරුවරයාගේ නිරපේක්ෂ අධිකාරිය බිඳ දැමූ සංකල්පයක් වන අතර නවීන තීරණ සමාලෝචන පද්ධතිය (DRS) […]

Dilrook Kannangara Trinco port is a natural port; it had its place in ancient times along with the Mannar port when the island’s main goods trading partners were to its east and when it traded in grains and it was and still is militarily useful. However, it has no (zero) economic potential. No major shipping […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera News Sri Lanka looks for international investors for 108 acres near southern port” Tuesday June 16, 2026 2:51 pm The Government’s decision to invite international investors to develop 108 acres of land near the Hambantota International Port (HIP) through a 50-year lease is both timely and significant. With global shipping patterns being […]

Senaka Weeraratna Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna fundamentally revolutionized global sports jurisprudence by introducing the “Player Referral” system, a concept that dismantled the centuries-old absolute authority of the on-field umpire and laid the structural foundation for the modern Decision Review System (DRS). [1, 2] By applying legal principles directly to sports rules, Weeraratna introduced a […]

 Kamanthi Wickramasinghe  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Suresh Sallay By Kamanthi Wickramasinghe Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Retired Major General Suresh Sallay has been detained for over 105 days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) due to allegations of direct connections to the 2019 Easter Sunday carnage. While in Criminal Investigation Department […]