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By Sarath Obeysekera A recent newspaper report highlighted concerns raised by a policy think tank regarding the quality of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) in Sri Lanka. While the report correctly points out deficiencies in some EIA studies, it stops short of addressing a more fundamental question: Have EIAs become an instrument of environmental protection, or […]
More >by Kalavai Venkat Whenever the Islamic siege of Europe, including the UK, or the US is brought up, some insular Hindus react by arguing that Britain colonized India and now it’s payback time. Yes, Britain colonized India, looted $ 45 trillion worth of its wealth, and committed a massive genocide of Indians. As the researches […]
More >Dr. Sarath Obeysekera When Technology Meets Red Tape: The Reality Behind Sri Lanka’s Digitisation Drive Digitisation or Paperisation? A Senior Citizen’s Experience At my age, climbing several flights of stairs is no longer easy. Fortunately, my wife, a medical doctor, anticipated this challenge years ago and arranged for a lift to be installed in our […]
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More >Courtesy Hiru News The wife of retired Major General Suresh Sallay, Manori Sallay, and their son reportedly have met the Chief Prelates of the Malwatta and Asgiriya Chapters yesterday (08), requesting their intervention to ensure justice for him. Our correspondent reports that Manori Sallay and her son spent more than an hour in discussion with […]
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More >Free Lawyers Press Statement Free Lawyers Sri Lanka, an association of legal professionals dedicated to the rule of law, access to justice, and protection of fundamental rights, expresses profound alarm at the continued administrative detention of retired Major General Thuwan Suresh Salley for over 100 days under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Mr. Salley […]
More >පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය 2026 ජූනි 8 ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්රී ගුණරත්න කැඳවුම්කරු හිටපු ආණ්ඩුකාර රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් ප්රධාන විධායක නිලධාරි ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය ත්රස්තවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ පනත යටතේ විශ්රාමික මේජර් ජෙනරාල් තුවන් සුරේෂ් සාලි මහතා දින 100කට වඩා රඳවා තබාගැනීම හා කෲර ලෙස සැලකීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය දැඩි කනස්සල්ල ප්රකාශ කරයි. 2019 පාස්කු […]
More >Dr Sarath Obeysekera A recent news item showed former students who studied in socialist countries joining hands with the Russian Cultural Centre to clean parts of Colombo. While such initiatives are commendable, they also remind us of a painful reality: Sri Lanka’s cleanliness problem is not caused by a lack of cleaning campaigns. It is […]
More >Nava Thakuria The readers of a venerated newspaper from Guwahati noticed an unusual full front-page advertisement on 26 May 2026 stating that the English daily was not for sale. Grabbing the most important space for hard news (meant for valued readers who buy the newspapers every morning), the arrogant management did not hesitate to use […]
More >දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-1994) 2026.ජූනි 06. සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතියේ සහ ඒ ශ්රේෂ්ඨ ශිෂ්ඨාචාරයේ තිඹිරිගෙය මහින්තලා පින් බිම (ක්රි. පූ.307). සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජාතියේ උපත සිදුවූයේ ක්රි.පූ.307 වන සියවසේ පොසොන්පෝය දිනයේදීය.ලෝක ඉතිහාසයේ ඒ අන්දමින් වෙනත් කිසිම ජාතියක උපත නිශ්චිතව ලේඛනාරූඩව […]
More >Dr Sarath Obeysekera In 1989, five years after returning to Sri Lanka from the United Kingdom and Norway, where I had worked on offshore oil and gas projects in the North Sea, an unexpected opportunity changed the course of my life. One afternoon, a friend visited my home and asked whether I would be interested […]
More >by Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine. The Persian Gulf Formed when Ice Age glaciers melted and sea levels rose. Before that it was a river valley and dry basin called the “Gulf Oasis”. (Time frame as of Genesis 1:10). In Biblical Genesis the Persian Gulf was already a sea by […]
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More >Insight News Sri Lanka’s rupee is under pressure, inflation is creeping up, and the debate over “money printing” is back in the spotlight. Did the Central Bank really print Rs. 2.1 trillion? Is money printing always bad? Who is actually responsible for the rupee’s depreciation? And are we heading toward another economic crisis? In this […]
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More >e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.June 6, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:13th Amendment, chattel-slavery, history, India, politics, travel, US Constitution, USA blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 31 May – 06 June 2026 ‘We have in the Tamil coolie a perfect machine for the cultivation of our tea, coffee, or other tropical produce.’ Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Lovell B Clarence, […]
More >2026 ජූනි 7 පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් 2026 වසරේ පළමු කාර්තුවේ ඉලක්කම් විජ්ජාවක ප්රබන්ධය නමුත් සත්යය නම් මේ වසරේ පළමු මාස 3 තුල පමණක්, මෙරට විදේශ ණය ඇ.ඩො.මි. 788 කින් ද, දේශීය ණය රු. බි. 490 කින් වැඩිවී ඇත. රාජ්ය ණය කලමනාකරණ දොපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිල වාර්තා අනුව, ගෙවන ලද මුලික මුදල (Principal Amount) ඩො.බි. 5.98 කි. […]
More >Courtesy Hiru News The legal counsel for Former State Intelligence Chief Major General (Rtd) General Sallay has written to CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekara, demanding urgent medical intervention for his client. He emphasised that prolonged detention conditions pose an immediate risk to life, noting that the State has a non-delegable duty of care towards individuals […]
More >Senaka Weeraratna The International Cricket Council (ICC) faces serious allegations of institutional fraud and deliberate misrepresentation because physical dossiers submitted by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) provided the governing body with actual notice of the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS) origin framework. The long-running intellectual property dispute centers on Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who designed […]
More >Senaka Weeraratna The Sri Lankan lawyer who took on the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the betterment of cricket is Senaka Weeraratna. Known globally as the “Father of DRS” (Decision Review System), Weeraratna has been engaged in a decades-long intellectual property battle with the ICC to claim rightful authorship and recognition for inventing the system. […]
More >Dr Sarath Obeysekera A Policy Shift Towards Steel and Prefabricated Construction for Sri Lanka’s Public Infrastructure Time for a New Approach to Government Construction Procurement Sri Lanka’s public sector construction procurement procedures have traditionally been based on conventional reinforced concrete structures with brick-and-mortar walls. Under existing procurement regulations, government institutions are required to prepare preliminary […]
More >Rear admiral ( Dr ) Sarath Weerasekera VSV RWP USP Former Public Security Minister This is regarding the editorial of The Island on 19 th May 2026, titled Defeat ofTerrorism- Triumph of hypocrisy”.I fully agree with the Editor when he says that Terrorism need to be eliminated in allits forms and manifestations. Terrorism is generally […]
More >By Eng. Sarath Obeysekera Former Chairman, Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLRDC) The recent announcement ( Sunday Times 7th June) of a major Beira Lake clean-up programme has generated renewed hope that one of Colombo’s most iconic water bodies can finally be restored. Dredging, aerators, landscaping, jogging paths, and beautification projects are all […]
More >Senaka Weeraratna The International Cricket Council (ICC) has not announced any formal disciplinary or legal actions against the three specific legal and administrative figures—David Becker (former Head of Legal), Jonathan Hall (General Counsel), and David Richardson (former CEO)—implicated by critics in the ongoing dispute over the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS). [1, 2, 3] The […]
More >Dr Sarath Obeysekera Blue economy promoter Sri Lanka is once again celebrating agreements to send skilled graduates and engineers overseas. While foreign employment generates valuable remittances, we must ask a fundamental question: Are we exporting our most valuable resource because we have failed to create opportunities at home? Recent discussions on providing employment opportunities in […]
More >Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka is currently engaged in a vigorous campaign against corruption in the public sector. Investigations, prosecutions, and public debate have rightly focused on the misuse of state resources and abuse of political power. However, an equally important question remains largely unaddressed: what about corruption and governance failures in the corporate sector? […]
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