Archive for June, 2026
Sunday, June 21st, 2026
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 […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2026
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 […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2026
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 […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2026
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 […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2026
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 […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2026
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 […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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 […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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 […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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 […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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 […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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 […]
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Saturday, June 20th, 2026
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) […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2026
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 […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2026
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 […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2026
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 […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2026
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 […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News The government is misleading the public over fuel pricing by claiming that fuel prices cannot be reduced because existing stocks were purchased at higher rates, former Member of Parliament Patali Champika Ranawaka accused. Speaking to the media, Patali Champika Ranawaka questioned the explanation from authorities, pointing out that fuel prices went up […]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Health and Mass Media Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa has warned that if the number of dengue patients continues to increase, the country’s hospital system could struggle to cope. He made these remarks while attending the Beruwala Divisional Coordination Committee meeting. The Minister stressed that public and institutional responsibility is crucial in controlling […]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News The United National Party (UNP) has issued a special statement saying that following the Easter Sunday attacks on April 21, 2019, Sri Lanka’s investigative institutions lacked sufficient expertise at the time, and therefore, then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe requested the United States Government to conduct a full investigation into the attacks and […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්රී ගුණරත්න, නීතිඥ අතුල ද සිල්වා,සම කැඳවුම්කරු – ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය හදිසි මිලදී ගැනීමක් ලෙස මෙ.ටො. එකකට ඩොලර් 142 ක් බැගින් ගෙවීමේ පොරොන්දුව මත ගෙන්වා ගත්, ගල් (අළු) අඟුරු නැවක් ගොඩබෑමකින් තොරව ජූනි 16 (ඊයේ) ඉන්දියාවේ විශාකාපට්ටම් බලා පිටත්ව ගොස් ඇත. Ana Ocean නැව නොරොච්චෝලේ වෙත ගල් අඟුරු රැගෙන විත් ගොඩබෑම් සිදු නොකළ දෙවන […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Dr Sarath Obeysekera https://www.srilankabusiness.com/ebooks/national-export-strategy-of-sri-lanka.pdf Sri Lanka’s National Export Development Plan (NEDP) rightly focuses on transforming the country into a competitive logistics and export hub and prioritises marine-based industries and high-value manufacturing. However, the strategy does not adequately address one of Sri Lanka’s most significant untapped opportunities—the development of an offshore and heavy industrial hub in […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Dr Nasim Rehmatullah Whether it’s a new year or a milestone, it usually brings with it a longing for peace, a hope that the world and our lives will somehow grow calmer, kinder and more stable. Yet year after year, that peace seems to slip through our fingers. The turmoil that engulfs us is not just political […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Sam Ben-Meir – June 17, 2026 In 2016, during the first Trump campaign, I wrote an article asking whether American democracy could survive the reduction of politics to entertainment. At the time, the question seemed exaggerated to some readers. Politics had always contained theatrical elements. Presidents cultivated images. Campaigns relied on slogans and symbolism. The […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Dr Sarath Obeysekera There are numerous online betting websites accessible in Sri Lanka, such as platforms branded for local users like Mostbet, MelBet, 1xBet, and others. Most operate under offshore licenses, mainly from Curaçao, and offer deposits and withdrawals in Sri Lankan Rupees. Regarding Chinese operators, there have been reports and public discussions suggesting […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Lanka Leader උතුරු පළාතේ සිංහල ජනාවාසවල අවසන් සීමාව සනිටුහන් කරන පදවි ගොවි ජනපදයේ බෝගස්වැව ඇතුළු ගම්මාන රැසක බෞද්ධ ජනතාව ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් ඉතා සූක්ෂම බෞද්ධහරණ වැඩපිළිවෙළක් ක්රියාත්මක වන බව ආචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා පවසයි. පසුගිය මාස කිහිපය තුළ පමණක් එහි පවුල් 300කට වැඩි පිරිසක් ආගමික පරිවර්තනයට ලක්ව ඇති බව ද ඔහු අනාවරණය කරයි. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඒ […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Dr Sarath Obeysekera The media plays a vital role in shaping public opinion and influencing national priorities. In a democratic society, television channels and newspapers are expected to educate, inform and inspire the public. Unfortunately, much of Sri Lanka’s electronic media has become trapped in an endless cycle of political mudslinging, sensationalism and personality-driven controversies.Every […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News Majority of government MPs threatened to remove COPF chairman Harsha de Silva from his post if video footage of investigations into internal hackers released to the media, former Parliamentarian Ajith P. Perera said. Replying to journalists on the “Hiru Salakuna” political programme yesterday on the 15th, he noted that severe pressure from […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
නීතිඥ අතුල ද සිල්වා සම කැඳවුම්කරු රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධාරි ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය අපාරාධ පරීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් විමල් වීරවංශ, උදය ගම්මන්පිල, දිලිත් ජයවීර, මහින්ද පතිරණ, අසංක නවරත්න සහ සුගීශ්වර බණ්ඩාර යන පක්ෂ නායකයින් හා දේශපාලන ක්රියාකාරීන්ගේ අදහස් ප්රකාශ කිරීමේ නිදහසට භාධා කිරීම ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය දැඩිව හෙළාදකී. ඉතිහාසයේ පක්ෂ නායකයින් පස් දෙනෙකුට එරෙහිව […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Sri Lanka Sovereignty Forum Political Asylum Must Not Become a Shield Against Accountability We respectfully call upon foreign governments, the European Union, and the United Nations to apply the highest level of scrutiny when considering asylum or protection requests from former public officials, law-enforcement officers, prosecutors, or politically involved persons. This appeal is made under […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2026
ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්රී ගුණරත්න නීතිඥ අතුල ද සිල්වා සම කැඳවුම්කරු – ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය අතිගරු අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මැතිතුමා,ජනරජයේ ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා,ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 1. ගරුජගත්වික්රමරත්නමැතිතුමා,ගරු කතානායකතුමා,පාර්ලිමේන්තුව, ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර. අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, ගරු කතානායකතුමනි, මහා භාණ්ඩාගාර – මහ බැංකු මංකොල්ලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශන කිරීම හා මෙවැනි තත්වයක් යළි ඇතිවීම වලක්වා ගැනීම සඳහා සුදුසු පියවර යෝජනා කිරීම සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක […]
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