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Monday, July 20th, 2026
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 […]
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Wednesday, July 15th, 2026
Jayantha Liyanage Sinhaladeepa Jathika Peramuna Dear Editor,New Constitution should reinstate the historical rights of the Sinhala peopleSix Tamil & Muslim political parties in their joint statement issued today (14.07.2026) has said that the present Government should enact a new constitution as promised before they come to power. Several National Newspapers has published that statement as […]
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Sunday, July 12th, 2026
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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Sunday, July 12th, 2026
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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Sunday, July 12th, 2026
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Saturday, July 11th, 2026
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Friday, July 10th, 2026
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 […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
උපුටාගැණීම මුහුනුපොත පසුගියදා මා මීගොඩ ආර්ථික මධ්යස්ථානයට ගියේ දානයකට අවශ්ය එළවළු මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහාය. එක් වර්ගයකින් කිලෝ දෙක තුන බැගින් අවශ්ය වූ බැවින් මා ගියේ ආර්ථික මධ්යස්ථානයේ මැද පිහිටි තොග වෙළඳ අංශය වෙතය. එහිදී මා මිලදී ගත් එළවළුවල කිලෝ එකක තොග මිල ගණන් මෙසේය: අළු කෙසෙල් – රු. 130/- දඹල – රු. 300/- කැකිරි – […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2026
e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.July 5, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:BBC, Bloomberg, China, economy, export-economies, history, India, politics, Reuters blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 28 June – 04 July 2026 Believing in the BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg and the rest of the English media gang, requires an almost total eclipsing of any brains we are supposed to possess. It requires a daily lobotomy. According to […]
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Sunday, July 5th, 2026
BY JATILA KARAWITA Courtesy: The Morning https://www.themorning.lk/articles/RwRFr97rNUfevrbOFeXU A prominent and highly influential Buddhist monk Ven Elle Gunawansa Thera alleged that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has been taken over by a religious group belonging to the ‘faith-based group’ ideology. He charged that at the same time the newly installed set of administrators have taken cover under […]
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Saturday, July 4th, 2026
By Neville Ladduwahetty, courtesy The Island The Preamble to Sri Lanka’s Constitution states: The PEOPLE of SRI LANKA having by their Mandate…entrusted and empowered their Representatives …to draft, adopt and operate a new Republican Constitution in order to achieve the goals of a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC whilst ratifying the immutable republican principles of REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRATIC”. […]
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Friday, July 3rd, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News A nation faces the risk of destruction not only from natural disasters but also from an ineffective judicial system, Chief Justice Preethi Padman Surasena warned during an event in Colombo yesterday (July 2). Stressing the importance of judicial accountability, the Chief Justice explained that sovereignty is divided into four main pillars: legislative […]
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News The IMF’s Executive Board signed off on Sri Lanka’s combined Fifth and Sixth Reviews under the Extended Fund Facility on May 28, unlocking another SDR 508 million, roughly US$695 million, and bringing total purchases under the four-year programme to about US$2.4 billion. By the conventional measure of an IMF review, this is […]
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Sunday, June 28th, 2026
e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.June 27, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:China, history, India, migration, news, politics blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 21-27 June 2026 The European Union (EU) has been operating a giant human trafficking network, buying & selling workers around the world, including from Sri Lanka. Not only is the EU involved, but the governments of Anglo North […]
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Saturday, June 27th, 2026
The Life Traveler ආගමික චාරිත්රවලට විරුද්ධ වෙනවා නම් ඔවුන් මරා දැමිය යුතුයි. කුරුණෑගල මුස්ලිම් දේවස්ථානයක කල ප්රසිද්ධ දේශනාවක් ගැන පූජ්ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමියන් විශේෂ මාධ්ය හමුවක්.
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Saturday, June 27th, 2026
Fall of Nations Denmark was once the world’s most liberal, high-trust country. Today, it’s Europe’s toughest fortress against parallel societies. From tearing down immigrant neighborhoods to banning face veils and prayer rooms, Denmark is rewriting the rules of Western integration. What forced this dramatic shift, and why is the political left leading the charge? As […]
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Thursday, June 25th, 2026
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Thursday, June 25th, 2026
MEDIA RELEASE | June 24, 2026 Collective for Social Media Declaration (CSMD) The ‘Collective for Social Media Declaration'(CSMD) hereby expresses its grave concern regarding the. “CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF MEDIA PROFESSIONALS OF SRI LANKAl” gazetted by the government in June 2026, which poses a serious risk of severely restricting the digital civil space and the freedom […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
ECONOMYNEXT ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has urged investors from Belgium and Luxembourg to seize opportunities in the island nation, citing economic reforms, affordable real estate and cheap labour. Speaking at a panel discussion during the BELGOLUX -Sri Lanka Business Forum with a number of Belgian and Luxembourg delegates at Colombo Port City, deputy minister of […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News Claudia Sallay, the mother of the Major General (Retd) Suresh Sallay, who is the former head of the State Intelligence Service, forwarded a letter to Pope Leo XIV today (23). The letter requests justice, human dignity, and a compassionate intervention regarding Suresh Sale. Accordingly, arrangements were made to hand over the relevant […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News The proposal to reduce the annual turnover threshold for Value Added Tax and Social Security Contribution Levy from Rs. 60 million to Rs. 36 million, which was proposed in this budget to be implemented from the upcoming 1st of July, will not be implemented. Deputy Minister of Economic Development Nishantha Jayaweera stated […]
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026
Courtesy Hiru News Prioritising the protection of existing garment factories, which face severe risks amid the current economic crisis, must take precedence before the government considers manufacturing textiles from banana plant fibres, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said. Addressing a public gathering, the Opposition Leader pointed out that Sri Lanka’s garment factories currently stand in an […]
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Sunday, June 21st, 2026
e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.June 20, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:history, India, law, malabar-games, Rice, sri-lanka, Steel, travel, WPNS blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 14-20 June 2026 In November 2020, 120 whales were run aground on Panadura beach, gasping for breath. There was widespread despair at the unfolding scene. Yet there was nary an exclamation from such environmental babblers as […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026
Lanka Leader උතුරු පළාතේ සිංහල ජනාවාසවල අවසන් සීමාව සනිටුහන් කරන පදවි ගොවි ජනපදයේ බෝගස්වැව ඇතුළු ගම්මාන රැසක බෞද්ධ ජනතාව ඉලක්ක කරගනිමින් ඉතා සූක්ෂම බෞද්ධහරණ වැඩපිළිවෙළක් ක්රියාත්මක වන බව ආචාර්ය චන්න ජයසුමන මහතා පවසයි. පසුගිය මාස කිහිපය තුළ පමණක් එහි පවුල් 300කට වැඩි පිරිසක් ආගමික පරිවර්තනයට ලක්ව ඇති බව ද ඔහු අනාවරණය කරයි. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඒ […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2026
Sri Lanka Sovereignty Forum Political Asylum Must Not Become a Shield Against Accountability We respectfully call upon foreign governments, the European Union, and the United Nations to apply the highest level of scrutiny when considering asylum or protection requests from former public officials, law-enforcement officers, prosecutors, or politically involved persons. This appeal is made under […]
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Monday, June 15th, 2026
ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මෛත්රී ගුණරත්න නීතිඥ අතුල ද සිල්වා සම කැඳවුම්කරු – ෆ්රී ලෝයර්ස් සංවිධානය අතිගරු අනුර කුමාර දිසානායක මැතිතුමා,ජනරජයේ ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා,ජනාධිපති කාර්යාලය, කොළඹ 1. ගරුජගත්වික්රමරත්නමැතිතුමා,ගරු කතානායකතුමා,පාර්ලිමේන්තුව, ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර. අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, ගරු කතානායකතුමනි, මහා භාණ්ඩාගාර – මහ බැංකු මංකොල්ලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් විමර්ශන කිරීම හා මෙවැනි තත්වයක් යළි ඇතිවීම වලක්වා ගැනීම සඳහා සුදුසු පියවර යෝජනා කිරීම සඳහා පාර්ලිමේන්තු තේරීම් කාරක […]
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Sunday, June 14th, 2026
e-Con e-News blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 07-13 June 2026 While the USA’s & India’s warships (& related NGOs) keep barging into & out of the country’s ports, bearing second-hand gifts and dishing out third-rate sermons about human rights, devolution, the rule of law, free & open oceans, etc., Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya […]
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Saturday, June 13th, 2026
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