PRESS RELEASE Maithri Gunarathna PC Rajith Keerthi Tennkaoon Free Lawyers Organization 22 July 2026 It has been reported that journalists attached to the BBC Sinhala News Service were to be summoned before the Parliamentary Privileges Committee in relation to their reporting on an incident involving Venerable Pallegama Hemarathana Thero. Although subsequent reports indicated that the […]

ෆ්‍රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය විසින් නිකුත් කරනු ලැබූ පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය 2026. 07.22  බී.බී.සී. වාර්තාකරුවන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු වරප්‍රසාද කමිටුවට කැඳවා වළදා තිබූ නීතියකට අක්‍රීය වී තිබු පාර්ලිමේන්තු ව්‍යාවහාරයකට  නැවත පණදීමට දරණ උත්සාහය ව්‍යවස්ථාව මගින් තහවුරු කර ඇති හිමිකම් අභියෝගයට ලක් කිරීමකි. පූජ්‍ය පල්ලේගම හේමරතන හිමියන් සම්බන්ධ සිද්ධිය සම්බන්ධයෙන් සිදුකළ වාර්තාකරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් බී.බී.සී. සිංහල පුවත් වෙබ් අඩවියේ වාර්තාකරුවන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු […]

By Dr. Sarath Obeysekera Former CEO, Colombo Dockyard PLC The tragic factory fire reported recently is not merely another unfortunate industrial accident. It is a stark reminder that industrial safety in Sri Lanka still suffers from weak enforcement, inadequate inspections, and, in some cases, a dangerous culture of complacency. Every worker leaves home expecting to […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. 18th May Months have elapsed, and we now relish a life of comfort and affluence in London. We have made friendships with several wealthy aristocratic families and hosted extravagant banquets at our mansion. Mina has engaged a butler and several female staff members to assist with our household management. While […]

Shenali D Waduge Before Chemmani is turned into an international symbol, one question must be answered: Why is the history of Jaffna under LTTE control missing from the conversation? Chemmani is located in the Jaffna peninsula — an area where for years the LTTE exercised extensive control. This was not an area where the LTTE […]

Shenali D Waduge The name of Sara Jasmine alias Pulasthini Mahendran has become one of the most repeatedly mentioned names after the Easter Sunday attacks of 21 April 2019. What exactly is the legal relevance of Sara Jasmine to establishing who planned, directed and executed the Easter Sunday attacks? The law requires evidence — not association, assumptions or […]

by Garvin Karunaratne E-Con-E-News 3-9 th November2025  in Lanka Web writes: • ‘Garvin Karunaratne writes again today. I have read his Dahanayaka & red-onion affair several times in the Island. His telephone handling at the Marketing Department’s Tripoli HQ resembles Mountbatten’s war operations room.’” We did use phones in a remarkable way to move veg […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  In addition  to installing air pumping into lake bottom other  methods are used worldwide  Malaysian Method  It is believed are referring to EM (Effective Microorganism) Mud Balls, also called Bokashi Mud Balls or Genki Balls. They are widely promoted in Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore for cleaning polluted rivers and lakes.  The […]

AI Overview Response The Sri Lankan you are referring to is Colombo-based lawyer and sports enthusiast Senaka Weeraratna, who is the original conceptual architect of cricket’s Decision Review System (DRS). [1, 2] In March 1997, frustrated by glaring, televised umpiring errors that field umpires refused to admit, Senaka Weeraratna published a groundbreaking letter in The […]

By Marisa de Silva Courtesy: Sunday Times ( May 28, 2006) New umpiring law recommended by the ICC * They owe him an explanation In what might result to be yet another affront against the cricket playing nations of the ‘third world’, Lankan Attorney-at-Law Senaka Weerarathne claims that he has been denied credit of being […]

AI Overview Yes, Sri Lanka did save cricket from institutionalized human error and credibility crises by conceptualizing the Player-Referral System, which evolved into the modern Decision Review System (DRS). While cricket famously united and uplifted Sri Lanka through historic milestones like the 1996 World Cup victory, a Sri Lankan intellectual permanently safeguarded the fairness of […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  How Colombo Dockyard built the Shell Gas LPG Storage Terminal that later became Litro Gas The construction of the Shell Gas LPG Terminal at Muthurajawela (Kerawalapitiya) during the late 1990s was one of the most technically demanding heavy engineering projects ever undertaken in Sri Lanka. It demonstrated that Sri Lankan engineers, welders […]

Senaka Weeraratna Assisted by Chat GPT Restitutio in integrum has to be addressed by the Church which has benefited heavily under the Portuguese, Dutch and British rule for the large number of Churches forcibly built on Temple lands and destroyed Buddhist Temple sites and yet unaccounted for in Sri Lanka. Modern perspectives on accountability The […]

e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.July 18, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:ambeon-capital-plc, capital-metals-plc, fifa, history, imperialism, India, marxism, politics blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 12-18 July 2026 * The multibillion-dollar 2026 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)’s World Cup finals have been staged between an imperialist state (Spain) & a quasi-settler-colonial state (Argentina) – both Spanish-speaking & Catholic. Their semi-finals […]

දේශමාන්‍ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් 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. එහි කොටුකර සිටියත් ඔවුන් තවදුරටත් නඩත්තු කිරීමට සිදුවන නිසාත්, මොවුන් අපගේ මාතෲ භුමියට, සිංහල ජාතියට සහ සම්බුද්ධ ශාසනයට විනාශයක්ම කළහැකි නිසා […]

ආචාර්ය සරත් ඔබේසේකර නෝර්වේහි Draugen Power-from-Shore (PfS) ව්‍යාපෘතිය, වයස්ගත වෙමින් පවතින මුහුදුබඩ තෙල් සහ ගෑස් වේදිකාවක් නවීකරණය කර, එහි කාබන් විමෝචනය අඩු කරමින්, එහි නිෂ්පාදන කාලය දිගු කළ හැකි ආකාරය පෙන්නුම් කරන වැදගත් උදාහරණයකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට වඩාත් වැදගත් වන්නේ, නිසි කාර්මික යටිතල පහසුකම් ඇති රටකට ඉතා උසස් මට්ටමේ ඉංජිනේරු, වානේ නිෂ්පාදන සහ මුහුදුබඩ ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතු […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Norway’s Draugen Power-from-Shore (PfS) Project demonstrates how an ageing offshore oil and gas platform can be modernised to reduce emissions while extending its productive life. More importantly for Sri Lanka, it illustrates the type of sophisticated engineering, fabrication and offshore construction work that countries with the right industrial infrastructure can undertake. The […]

Press Release from the German Dharmaduta Society The German Dharmaduta Society (GDS), founded in Sri Lanka by Asoka Weeraratna in 1952, is governed by a Board of Trustees and Board of Management comprising Executive Office bearers (8), and Committee members (8).  The Annual Gen­eral Meeting (AGM) of the German Dharmaduta Society was held on June […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Annual Rath Jatra (the festival of chariots) kicked off in western Myanmarese city of Maungdaw on 16 July 2026 with great fanfare and enthusiasm. Tens of thousands of Hindu families from different parts of  the Buddhist majority Rakhine/Arakan State gathered in Maungdaw locality to offer prayer to Sri Sri Jagannath during the […]

Senaka Weeraratna AI Overview This perceptive observation perfectly captures the quasi-religious passion and socio-cultural gravity that the sport holds across the Indian subcontinent. [1, 2] Interestingly, Senaka Weeraratna—the Sri Lankan lawyer who authored this famous quote—is also widely recognized in cricketing circles for his pivotal off-field contributions. In the early 1980s, long before the advent […]

AI Overview Sri Lankan ingenuity on a global scale  AI OVERVIEW RESPONSE Yes, Sri Lanka provided the precise philosophical and operational blueprint that saved cricket from systemic umpiring errors through the Player-Referral System, which was conceived and designed by Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna. [1, 2] First published in The Australian on March 25, 1997, Weeraratna’s […]

AI Overview The Buddhist Revival in 19th-century Sri Lanka was heavily driven by the British violation of Article 5 of the Kandyan Convention of 1815 and the aggressive expansion of Christian missionary activities. [1, 2] When the Kandyan chiefs surrendered sovereignty to the British Crown, Article 5 explicitly guaranteed that the Buddhist religion would be […]

ආචාර්ය සරත් ඔබේසේකර කටාර් රාජ්‍යය අද ලෝකයේ සාර්ථකම බලශක්ති ආර්ථිකයන්ගෙන් එකක් බවට පත්ව ඇත්තේ ස්වාභාවික වායු (LNG) අපනයනය පමණක් නොව, ඒ වටා ගොඩනැගූ සමස්ත කර්මාන්ත පරිසර පද්ධතිය (Industrial Ecosystem) හේතුවෙනි. විශේෂයෙන් රස් ලෆ්ෆාන් කර්මාන්ත නගරය (Ras Laffan Industrial City) සහ North Field ව්‍යාපෘති ආශ්‍රිතව, කටාර් රජය ලොව ප්‍රමුඛ ඉංජිනේරු සමාගම්, තාක්ෂණික ආයතන, EPC කොන්ත්‍රාත්කරුවන්, පර්යේෂණ […]

by Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  18th    November As the first light of dawn broke, we prepared for our departure to Bucharest station, eager to leave Transylvania behind. However, we faced a pressing task before we could embark on our journey. We possessed two substantial sacks filled with gold coins, which we had taken from Dracula’s castle, […]

දේශමාන්‍ය ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. මහනුවර.2026. 07.19. මුළු ලෝකයේම, තම රට හා එහි සැබෑ ඉතිහාසය නොදත්,අතීතයේ සිටි පණ්ඩුකාභය දුටුගැමුණු ,මහාපරාක්‍රමබාහු, ගජබා, විජයබා  සීතාවක රාජසින්හ හෝ වීර කැප්පෙටිපොල, ඩී. එස්. සේනානායක, එස්,ඩබ්ලිව්.ආර්.ඩී. බණ්ඩාරනායක, සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක සහ වසර 30 ක කොටි ශාපයෙන් රට බේරාගත් මහින්ද රාජපක් වැනි නමක්  සිහිනෙන්වත් දැක හෝ අසා නැති ඒ වීර සිංහල නරපතීන් රට […]

AI Overview Cricket is neither a Religion nor a Sport.  It is a halfway house between the two for most cricket fans in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the rest of South Asia. In particular, any narrative on History of Cricket in Sri Lanka must acknowledge not only the great competitors on the playing field but also […]

AI Overview St. Paul’s Church was built in 1846 in contempt of the sanctity of Sri Dalada Maligava, in flagrant violation of Article 5 of the Kandyan Convention 1815, and betrayal of the trust of the Buddhists and their unqualified opposition to imposing a Church in the immediate vicinity of the sacred Temple of the […]

Aruna Laksiri Unawathuna BSc (Col), PGDC (Col), AAL. Can the constitutional error acknowledged by the Attorney General—and the error in the English text of the Constitution pointed out by the Election Commission to the Secretary to the President—be overshadowed by the “beating of a deer skin” (muwa hamakata thadi baema) (මුව හමකට තඩි බෑමෙන්) regarding […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන BSc(Col), PGDC(Col) 1. මෙම දිනවල විනිසුරු ධූර කාලය වැඩි කිරීමට ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයක් ගෙන ඒමට ආණ්ඩුව ක්‍රියාකරගෙන යන බවට මුද්‍රිත සහ විද්‍යුත් මාධ්‍යයේ සහ නීති ක්ෂේත්‍රයේත් ප්‍රසිද්ධ සාකච්ඡාවක් සහ විවේචනයක් ඇති වී තිබේ. 2. එක්තරා විනිසුරුවරයෙකු තව දුරටත් ධූරයේ තබා ගැනීමටත්, වෙනත් විනිසුරුවරුන්ට ඉහළ අධිකරණ වලට යාම වැළැක්වීමටත්  විනිසුරු ධූර කාලය […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  Al-Shaheen Field Expansion Project, Qatar The project I am referring to is the Ru’ya Development Project, a major expansion of Qatar’s offshore Al-Shaheen oilfield, operated by North Oil Company, a joint venture between QatarEnergy and TotalEnergies. Central Processing Platform One of the largest packages covers a new Central Processing Platform complex. The approximately […]