By A Ranasinghe  Tuesday, 14 July 2026 05:34 –      – 34  For months, the nation’s attention has been riveted on the construction industry’s deepening crisis. Contractors lament labour shortages, escalating costs, delayed payments, and abandoned projects, while the proposed importation of 7,500 skilled foreign workers is being hailed as a solution. But are we treating the […]

AI Overview The use of cricket as a vehicle for religious outreach in South Asia is a documented strategy within localized “sports ministries”, though its scale, systemic impact, and intent to target specific Dharmic populations are highly debated. While evangelical networks use the game to build community trust, critics argue it acts as a soft-power […]

AI Overview Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and Sir John D’Oyly were both master intelligence officers who weaponized cultural fluency to absorb independent kingdoms into the British Empire, yet they operated in entirely different environments and left vastly contrasting personal legacies. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] AI Overview ## Similarities ### Deep cultural immersion […]

අරුණ උණවටුන (නිවැරදි පිළිතුර දක්වා රු.1100/- වටිනා නීති කෘතියක් දිනා ගන්න) විනිසුරු ධූර කාලය වැඩි කිරීමට විරුද්ධ වීමට හේතු වන්නේ 1. ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ පවතින වැරැද්දක් නිවැරදි කිරීමට 22වන ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන පනත් කෙටුම්පත 2024.07.18 ගැසට් පත්‍රයේ පළ කිරීමට අනුමැතිය ලබා දීමට  නීතිපතිවරයා පියවර ගෙන ඇති බව එළිදරව්වීම. (It has been revealed that the Attorney General […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera From Labour Export to Industrial Growth While listening to a popular radio station broadcasting lively baila music enjoyed by many young people, I heard a cheerful young announcer promoting foreign employment opportunities. The advertisement encouraged young Sri Lankans to seek overseas jobs as cooks, nurses, motorcycle riders, masons, carpenters, steel bar benders, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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), […]

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 […]

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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Lankacnews The government’s initiative to extend the retirement age for judges faced a resounding defeat during a special general meeting of the Judicial Services Association (JSA) held today, November 11. The meeting took place at the Kadawatha Magistrate’s Court premises, where attending judges unanimously expressed their opposition to the proposal. Reports indicate that none of […]

AI OVERVIEW ‘Dharma’ means Truth, ‘ Adharma’ means untruth. When an on-field umpire makes a mistake ‘ Adarma ‘ is created for the Player – Referral system to come into play enabling a Player to appeal to the Third Umpire who uses Video Replay to make an informed truthful decision replacing Adharma and restoring the […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A.Matara Posted on September 19th, 2025 As a school boy at St Peter’s College I was always dragged by my father to mount and set up a public address system at one of the LSSP meetings. He owned Radio Works Bambalapitiya and held a contract with the LSSP to supply public […]

Senaka Weeraratna Legal bodies like the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) and local sports historians continue to lobby for state-backed diplomatic intervention, demanding the system be formally renamed the Weeraratna Decision Review System (WDRS) to reflect its true origins. India’s Neighbourhood First Policy is a diplomatic strategy prioritizing cooperative relations with immediate South Asian […]

AI සමාලෝචන ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රමුඛ නීතිඥයෙකු වන සේනක වීරරත්න, ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවේ තීරණ සමාලෝචන පද්ධතියේ (DRS) සංකල්පීය පියා සහ බුද්ධිමය ගෘහ නිර්මාණ ශිල්පියා ලෙස පුළුල් ලෙස ගෞරවයට පාත්‍ර වේ. ඔහු එහි මූලික “ක්‍රීඩක යොමු කිරීමේ” යාන්ත්‍රණය නිර්මාණය කළේය. DRS හි ආරම්භය සහ ඉතිහාසය ශතවර්ෂයකට වැඩි කාලයක් ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාව නොසැලෙන රීතියක් යටතේ ක්‍රියාත්මක විය: විනිසුරුවරයාගේ තීරණය අවසාන […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  For a modern Chinese shipyard building a merchant vessel of around 1,000 tonnes of fabricated steel, the productivity of welders and fabricators is significantly higher than in most South Asian yards because of extensive automation, panel lines, robotic welding, and block Fabricator (Fit-up):
0.8–1.5 tonnes per man-day Welder:
0.5–1.0 tonnes per man-day (depending on […]

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By: Rohana R. Wasala Continued from July 2, 2026 So, let’s adapt the Israeli leader’s cogent appeal to his historically wronged fellow innocent Jewish people and tell ourselves to Stand up. Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Fight back. Because people will only respect us if we respect ourselves. When our enemies (who are none other […]

by Professor Nishan C Wijesinha of the German School of Medicine What actually happened: Haaland played in a charity match in Oslo for “Vivil IL”, a team from Oslo that helps people with disabilities, including Down syndrome. Vivil IL works to get people with disabilities active through football. The game was organized by the Norwegian […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  In 1970, I travelled to Oslo, Norway, to work in the offshore oil and gas industry. At that time, there were very few Sri Lankans in Norway. Besides myself and one other Sri Lankan engineer, only a handful of Sri Lankans worked in technical assistant or clerical positions. Occasionally, one would come […]

AI Overview Senaka Weeraratna and C.L.R. James are two highly influential figures whose intersection lies in their radical, transformative impacts on the socio-legal framework, philosophy, and jurisprudence of cricket. Though they belong to different eras and backgrounds, both men fundamentally challenged the rigid, traditional establishment of the sport, using their intellectual and professional training to […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera  https://adaderana.lk/news/cmrddx0sv000b356q294bse8d The reported proposal to pump seawater into Beira Lake as part of its restoration has generated considerable public interest. While improving the water quality and reducing pollution are commendable objectives, introducing seawater into what has long functioned as a predominantly freshwater urban lake raises important environmental, engineering and economic questions that […]

Courtesy Hiru News The current government informed the chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Sustainable Development, Parliamentarian Hector Appuhamy, that the opposition leader cannot express views despite being able to join as an observer. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa shared this today as the committee scheduled a meeting to discuss […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Gampaha District redorded the highest number of dengue patients in the country. The highest number of dengue patients was previously recorded from the Colombo District, and the National Dengue Control Unit stated that over 1,000 dengue patients were reported during the past day. The National Dengue Control Unit mentioned that the […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge I have visited Kyiv several times to meet friends, including Shantha Kulasekara, who is currently involved in a UN project; Bandula Pattiyage, now residing in the UK; and Sisira Gunawardene, who lives in Canada. Regardless of these visits, I have yet to explore Babi Yar (Babyn Yar), a significant historical site […]

 by Garvin Karunaratne  In view of the increasing youth unemployment in Sri Lanka we could perhaps copy/emulate the Youth Self Employment Programme of Bangladesh which has created employment for youths in Bangladesh.  A detailed paper is submitted for kind consideration by the authorities.  It all happened in the Bangladesh Secretariat, three days after General Ershard […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Cricket Transformative Committee (CTC) is the Official Face of Sri Lanka. It has multiple duties. It is duty bound not only to change the Constitution of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) but also to hold accountable those who have committed crimes against Sri Lanka at Intellectual Property levels, and caused harm to Sri […]