Dr Sudath Gunasekara මා එසේ පවසණුයේ මේ රටේ ජාතික දිනය විය යුත්තේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතිය උපන් පොසොන් දෙපෝ දිනය මිස, අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන් විසින් අප හිසමත පැටවු කිසිම ස්වාධීනත්වයක් නොලැබුණු ව්‍යාජ නිදහස් දිනයැයි කියන ජෙන්නිග්ස්ගේ බිරිඳගේ උපන් දිනය වන පෙබරවාරි 04 නොවන නිසාය  . දේශමාන්‍ය ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ ශ්‍රී […]

ආචාර්ය සරත් ඔබේසේකර මෙය ඉතා රසවත් ඓතිහාසික ප්‍රශ්නයක් වන අතර, ඉතිහාසඥයන් සහ භාෂා විද්වතුන් දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ මේ පිළිබඳව විවිධ අදහස් ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ පුරාණ වංශකතාවක් වන මහාවංසය අනුව, අරහත් මහින්ද හිමියන් (සම්ප්‍රදාය අනුව අශෝක අධිරාජයාගේ පුත්‍රයා හෝ සමහර මූලාශ්‍ර අනුව සහෝදරයා) ක්‍රිස්තු පූර්ව තුන්වන සියවසේදී දේවානම්පියතිස්ස රජුගේ රාජ්‍ය සමයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට වැඩම […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera https://themorningtelegraph.com/45808 Answer to this post in morning telegraph  https://hirunews.lk/en/business/438866/closure-of-walkers-colombo-shipyard-a-national-loss-dr-obeysekera Closure of Walkers Colombo Shipyard a national loss – Dr. Obeysekera Share Post Walkers Colombo Shipyard (Pvt) Ltd has been closed down and urgent steps should be taken to reopen it, former founding Managing Director Dr Sarath Obeysekera said. He noted that Walkers […]

Submitted By: Boat Building Technology Improvement Institute- The association of Boat /ship builders By gamini Herath Submitted By: Boat Building Technology Improvement Institute- The association of Boat /ship builders By gamini Herath Posted by dr Sarath Obeysekera Boat and Ship Building Sector- Includes all types of sea going vessels and vessels used in internal waters […]

Sports ‘Player – Referral’ (DRS) is a gift from heaven to Sri Lanka like Vaibhav Suryavanshi is a gift from the Gods to India. The similarity ends there. Sri Lanka takes no pride in DRS as a Sri Lankan invention or its Sri Lankan inventor  while India is experiencing a nationwide celebration of the arrival […]

Source – AI Overview                 The Conceptual Creator            Paul Hawkins –  The Technological Pioneer The Decision Review System (DRS), originally known as the Player-Referral System, did not emerge from a single source. Instead, its creation is divided between the conceptual architect who designed […]

 Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge Vinnytsia is a vibrant city in west-central Ukraine, along the Southern Bug River, with a rich history spanning over 650 years.  Living in Vinnytsia for several years provided me with the opportunity to discover its many historic landmarks. But the city’s past is marked by a particularly dark period during World War […]

Courtesy: Al Hakam, London. Imagine for a moment a person sitting in deep contemplation, searching for meaning and considering their future against their past. For an hour, they wrestle with the questions of life. Then, all of a sudden, in pin-drop-intense silence, they notice their phone has reached 100% charge. The future could wait, but […]

Al Jazeera English n South Korea, Buddhist monks and clergy are rallying against what they call religious bias” within the government. They are demanding a personal apology from the president for remarks made by a member of his government last year. The governing Democratic Party has apologised several times after a member of the National […]

Courtesy Hiru News Addressing corruption during both the previous and the present governments remains one of the key pillars of the IMF reform programme, said the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Mission Chief for Sri Lanka is Evan Papageorgiou, yesterday. Speaking at the IMF press conference, Breuer said the IMF would continue to press the government to […]

Courtesy Hiru News Economic management strategies by the government received high appreciation from the International Monetary Fund delegation during a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat today. Sri Lanka achieved higher progress compared to many other countries implementing IMF-supported programs. The delegation praised the government for maintaining macroeconomic stability and commitment to reform initiatives, even amid […]

Courtesy Hiru News The IMF’s Executive Board signed off on Sri Lanka’s combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews under the Extended Fund Facility on May 28, unlocking another SDR 508 million, roughly US$695 million, and bringing total purchases under the four-year programme to about US$2.4 billion. By the conventional measure of an IMF review, this is […]

Nalliah Thayabharan For over a century, Germany was the industrial heartbeat of Europe. The country that built the cars the world wanted to drive, the factories that produced the chemicals, the steel, the machinery that powered global manufacturing. Germany wasn’t just Europe’s largest economy. It was the engine that made the entire European project possible. […]

AI overview If the International Cricket Council (ICC) grants full recognition to Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna for inventing the Player Referral concept, he can expect a multi-tiered series of formal accolades, naming rights, financial compensation, and institutional honors. Because the ICC has acknowledged it holds no official author for the Decision Review System (DRS), […]

AI overview If the International Cricket Council (ICC) grants official recognition to Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna for inventing the Player-Referral System (the foundation of the Decision Review System or DRS), it would be a watershed moment for both local and global legal communities. Because Weeraratna famously designed the system drawing directly from his legal […]

Sports In his book The Club: Empire, Power and the Governance of World Cricket, published by Pitch Publishing, cricket journalist and historian Rod Lyall (often referred to as Rob or Rod) explicitly acknowledges Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna as the intellectual architect behind the Decision Review System (DRS). Key Facts Acknowledged in the Book This […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera This is a fascinating historical question, and historians have debated it for a long time. According to the traditional Sri Lankan chronicle, the Mahavamsa, Mahinda Thera, the son (or, according to some traditions, brother) of Ashoka, arrived in Sri Lanka during the reign of Devanampiya Tissa around the 3rd century BCE. The […]

Dilrook Kannangara A recent article in the Sunday Observer titled – Can Sri Lanka afford to wait for Trincomalee Port development – prompted me to point out matters not fully discussed in the article from a Sri Lankan point of view. The article is written from an Indian point of view and has little or […]

Rod Lyall https://www.cricinfo.com/story/how-the-icc-dragged-umpiring-into-the-21st-century-1500988 Neutral officials, match referees, the aid of technology and DRS – from the 1990s, cricket’s global body has taken a lot of effort to modernise decision-making in the game Published: Sep 5, 2025, 7:40 AM Call the shots: the fears that technology would make umpires obsolete have been unfounded  •  Getty Images Allegations of […]

AI OVERVIEW Devendra Moolachari, the celebrated Architect of the last three Kandyan Kings and designer of the Pathirip­puwa, the Octa­gonal Pavil­ion in Kandy’s Sri Dalada Maligawa, Maha Maduwa (Audience Hall) and Kiri Muhuda (Kandyan Lake) deserves long overdue recognition and State Honours for Beautifying Kandy with remarkable architectural feats in the last phase of the […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Kandyan Resistance (1593–1818) was a 225-year struggle where the Kingdom of Kandy successfully defied three global superpowers—the Portuguese, Dutch, and British—making it the last independent native kingdom of Sri Lanka. Using asymmetric warfare, treacherous terrain, and absolute resolve, the Kandyan Sinhalese repeatedly annihilated European invading armies until internal betrayal finally brought down […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka has no shortage of strategic advantages. Our location, skilled workforce, natural harbours, fertile land, and maritime heritage make us an attractive destination for foreign direct investment (FDI). Yet, time and again, promising investment opportunities have slipped through our fingers. Several years ago, a Saudi investor expressed serious interest in establishing […]

AI OVERVIEW Devendra Moolachari the celebrated Architect of the last three Kandyan Kings and designer of the Pathirip­puwa, the Octa­gonal Pavil­ion in Kandy’s Sri Dalada Maligawa, Maha Maduwa (Audience Hall) and Kiri Muhuda (Kandyan Lake) deserves long overdue recognition and State Honours for Beautifying Kandy with remarkable architectural feats in the last phase of the […]

By Rajendra Bandara – Saturday Magazine Island Mar 23 2002 http://www.worldgenweb.org/lkawgw/sinhalaartists.html On the advice of Rev. Weliwita Sangaraja Saranankara, King Keerthi Sri Rajasinghe rebuilt and renovated hundreds of Buddhist temples which were destroyed by invaders or abandoned. For the restoration works, the King employed traditional Sinhala artists who were scattered throughout the country. These artists […]

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Hiru News When money goes missing from a wardrobe at home, the person in charge knows about it, so when money goes missing from a bank, don’t the bank officers assigned to it know, Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S Bodaragama questioned in court. The Magistrate made these remarks when the case regarding the fraud of […]

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e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.June 27, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:China, history, India, migration, news, politics blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 21-27 June 2026 The European Union (EU) has been operating a giant human trafficking network, buying & selling workers around the world, including from Sri Lanka. Not only is the EU involved, but the governments of Anglo North […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර 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 https://www.sundayobserver.lk/2026/06/28/business/79914/can-sri-lanka-afford-to-wait-for-trincomalee-port-development Critical overview  Trincomalee Must Become Sri Lanka’s Offshore Industry Capital – Not Just Another Commercial PortThe current debate on Trincomalee Port development has largely centred on logistics, container handling, oil storage, industrial zones, and real estate. While these sectors are important, they alone will not maximise the strategic and economic value […]