e-Con e-News blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 11-17 January 2026 * ‘Sovereign countries don’t get sovereignty if the US wants their resources.’ – Stephen Miller, US President Don Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy & Homeland Security Adviser (see ee Industry) * ‘Other actions that we are witnessing in […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror Last week, the Daily Mirror exclusively reported of yet another foreign investor pulling out of Sri Lanka citing regulatory obstruction and arbitrary state action. China based Amber Adventures Private Limited, the country’s first cable car venture said it had officially pulled out of the Ambuluwawa Cable Car Project due to arbitrary and […]

Annelies Nie | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA Courtesy Jurist News New Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday stated that the Sri Lankan government’s proposed counterterrorism legislation risks a similar oppression to its current abusive law. The bill fails to meet benchmarks set by the UN. According to the rights group, the bill also does not comply with […]

Courtesy Hiru News Delays in the construction of the Central Expressway, caused by protests over a “Crudia zeylanica” (Pandu Karanda) tree, caused significant economic damage to the country, according to former Transport and Highways Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardena. He stated that it is fair to recover these financial losses from those who led and participated […]

Courtesy Hiru News රටේ සංස්කෘතිය සහ සභ්‍යත්වය විනාශ කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්‍රණයක් ඇතැයි අස්ගිරි පාර්ශ්වයේ මහ නායක අතිපූජ්‍ය වරකාගොඩ ශ්‍රී ඥානරතන මහ නා හිමියන් පෙන්වා දෙනවා. උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ, බදුල්ල මුතියංගණය රජමහා විහාරයේ පැවැති ආගමික වැඩසටහනකට වැඩම කළ අවස්ථාවේදීයි. මෙම අවස්ථාවට අනුශාසනා කළ උන්වහන්සේ වර්තමානයේ බුදුදහමට සහ සිංහල සංස්කෘතියට එල්ල වී ඇති අභියෝග පිළිබඳව සිය […]

Courtesy Hiru News Six former Members of Parliament have filed petitions in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the bill proposed to abolish parliamentary pensions. The first petition was filed by former MPs M.M. Premasiri, Navaratne Banda, B.M. Deepal Gunasekera, and Samansiri Herath. A second petition regarding the same matter was submitted by former […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් පිිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය මූලස්ථානයේ පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවේ දී එම පක්ෂ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙම අදහස් පල කලේය. ආණ්ඩුව ඉතිහාසයේ කිසිම ආණ්ඩුවකට නොවුණු විධියට වැරදීම් වෙන ආණ්ඩුවක්.  මුලින්ම සංචාරක ප්‍රවර්ධන අධිකාරිය සමලිංගික ජෝඩු වලට ගැලපෙන පාරාදීසිය විධියට ලංකාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කරන්න යෝජනා කරලා ලිපියක් යැව්වා.  ඒකට සමාජ විරෝධය ආවාම වැරදීමක් […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Venerable Balangoda Kassapa Thera, currently in remand for placing a Buddha statue within an unauthorised construction at the Trincomalee Fort beach area without a valid permit, refused his lunch today (15). Prisons Commissioner Operations and Media Spokesperson Chammika Gajanayake confirmed this development, noting that while the Thera accepted visitors and items brought […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Colombo District Member of Parliament Mujibur Rahman of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) stated that the party’s Working Committee has granted approval to continue discussions on working together with the United National Party (UNP). He explained that the progress of the ongoing discussions with the UNP was briefed to the Working Committee […]

Courtesy Hiru News A meeting between President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya, and representatives of teachers’ trade unions was held this afternoon (13) at the Presidential Secretariat. At the meeting, the teachers’ union representatives stated that they accept the necessity of the new education reforms being implemented by the government and emphasised […]

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e-Con e-News blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 04-10 January 2026 * ‘Trump even admitted to having informed ‘the oil companies’ of the secret operation in advance, which appears to imply they took part in the planning of the whole affair from the get go – or perhaps, were even the […]

Courtesy AA.com Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi makes brief stopover in Sri Lanka while on his way back from Africa trip. China is willing to deepen strategic cooperative partnership with Sri Lanka, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, as he made a brief stopover in the South Asian island country while on his way back […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island AKD’s request to Harsha: Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne has frustrated an attempt by Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) Dr. Harsha de Silva, MP, to intervene to settle the continuing dispute over the appointment of a new Auditor General. Dr. De Silva yesterday told The Island he had recently […]

Courtesy The Island Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa on Friday told Parliament that the Buddhism textbook contained a serious error,” citing the use of the Ashoka Chakra instead of the Dharmachakra. He said the Dharmachakra depicted in the book differs from the one featured in the state symbol and called on the Education Minister […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Joint Opposition has claimed a significant victory in the election held yesterday (10) to elect members for the General Assembly of the Katugampola Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society (MPCS). The opposition bloc secured a commanding majority, effectively taking over the management of the society. According to our correspondent, the Joint Opposition polled 113 […]

ඉංජිනේරු බන්දුල කෑන්දරාගම ලිපිය / මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහත්මයාණෙනි / මහත්මියනි, කොත්මලේ ජලාශයේ සම්භාව්‍ය ජලයෙන් ආවරණය විය හැකි ප්‍රදේශය තුළ, සාමාන්‍යයෙන් සතුටුදායක ලෙස ක්‍රියාත්මකව තිබූ ජංගම දුරකථන ජාල කිහිපයක් 2025 නොවැම්බර් 27 සිට 30 දක්වා කාලය තුළ ක්‍රියාත්මක නොවීම හෝ අසාර්ථක වීම සිදු වූ බව මාගේ අවබෝධය වේ. මාගේ අදහස අනුව, එම ජංගම දුරකථන ජාල සතුටුදායක […]

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Bandula Kendaragama, Independent Dam Safety Consultant Dear Sir / Madam, As I understand, several mobile networks which were working in a satisfactory condition in the potential inundation area of the Kotmale Dam, were not functional or failed on 27 to 30 November 2025. In my view, if the mobile network had been operating satisfactorily, the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් රජය මගින් ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට සැලසුම් කර ඇති නව අධ්‍යාපන ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් මල්වතු සහ අස්ගිරි උභය මහා විහාරීය මහානායක ස්වාමින් වහන්සේලා සිය අප්‍රසාදය පළ කරති.  අස්ගිරි පාර්ශවයේ මහානායක, අතිපූජ්‍ය වරකාගොඩ ශ්‍රී ධම්මරතන මහානායක හිමිපාණන්  පෙන්වා දෙන්නේ මෙම ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ හරහා රට නිරාගමික රාජ්‍යයක් කරා ගෙන යාමේ අවදානමක් පවතින බවය. පූජ්‍ය උලපනේ සුමංගල […]

e-Con e-News blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 28 December 2025 – 3 January 2026 * ‘They took all of our oil…’‘We are going to run the country’ – USA The New York Times & Washington Post proudly admit how they were told in advance of the US military attack on Venezuela, and the planned kidnapping of its […]

Courtesy Hiru News Education reforms are being implemented haphazardly without the necessary safeguards seen in developed nations, leading to the “obscenity” of the current curriculum. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa, speaking to the media in Mirigama today (5), criticised the government for launching new educational programs without proper formal frameworks like White Papers or Green Papers. […]

Courtesy Adaderana It is essential to act in a manner that safeguards a country’s sovereignty in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and international law, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vijitha Herath stated when questioned over the attacks carried out by the United States in Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro. […]