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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