Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake PART 2  Continued from Last Sunday https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2026/07/04/the-worlds-first-woman-head-of-state-and-priorities-for-the-next-unsg-an-indian-ocean-zone-of-peace-and-enmod/ The only woman in the room: Ceylon’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike with Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito with NAM heads of state in the SIV Building, where sessions of the founding conference of the Non-Aligned Movement took place in 1961. © Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade The United Nations […]

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By Raj Gonsalkorale When one hears of sexual misconduct, drug trafficking and business dealings of Buddhist Monks, the power and spread of the underworld mafia that deals in illicit drugs, with patronage from all sectors of the society including politicians, members of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies and public servants, bribery and corruption at […]

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e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.July 11, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:China, economy, EPF, ETF, global-south, history, ILO, IMF, news, pension, politics, SBD de Silva, warwick-powell, World Bank blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 05-11 July 2026 This week saw history slap us in the face once. And then twice. The massacre of prisoners & prison officials in the Negombo prison. Then the decision to renovate the […]

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ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර ආචාර්‍ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ස්ථිර ලේකම්, ශ්‍රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94), මහනුවර ජාතික කලා මණ්ඩලයේ සභාපති, ශ්‍රී ලන්කා හදබිම සංකල්පයේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලන්කා හදබිම අධිකාරියේ නිර්මාතෲසහ පළමු විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ (1985-91) 2026.7.11. මහනුවර. ශ්‍රී ලන්කා ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපති තුමනි, පහත සඳහන් හේතු නිසා බෝගම්බර භන්ධනාගාරය නැවත විවෘත කිරිම […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, July 12 (Daily Mirror) – Sri Lanka has been ranked the most traffic-congested country in Asia, according to the Numbeo Traffic Index by Country 2026 Mid-Year. The latest index gave Sri Lanka a traffic score of 254.5, placing it ahead of Bangladesh (246.2), Iran (215.3), India (205.1) and Indonesia (191.1), […]

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By Hasarel Gallage and Umesh Moramudali, courtesy The Diplomat Regional geopolitical tensions and a legal stalemate are constraining both countries’ cobalt ambitions in the Afanasy Nikitin Seamount. Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean often pulls the country into the geopolitical rivalry between regional giants India and China. In 2023, for example, Sri Lanka’s granting of permission […]

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Hussin Alameedi | St. Louis U. School of Law, US Courtesy Jurist News July 11, 2026 12:15:50 pm The UN Human Rights Office on Friday urged Sri Lankan authorities to conduct a prompt, independent and transparent investigation into recent incidents of prison violence following deadly clashes and allegations of torture involving transferred inmates. UN Human Rights Office […]

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