Courtesy Adaderana Two more petitions have been filed before the Supreme Court challenging the bill presented in Parliament by the government to revoke the privileges of former Presidents, according to Ada Derana reporter. The petitions were filed by two individuals from Veyangoda and Pannipitiya. The Attorney General has been named as the respondent in both […]

Courtesy The Island The Illegal Assets Investigation Unit has summoned former Ministers Manusha Nanayakkara, Vadivel Suresh and Sagala Ratnayaka for questioning over allegations of amassing wealth through unlawful means. Officials said the trio would appear before the unit in the coming days as part of a sweeping probe into 26 politicians, including a former top […]

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උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් මුලතිව්, මුත්තියාන්කට්ටු හි යුද හමුදා කඳවුරකට ඇතුළු වූ පුද්ගලයෙකු මරණයට පත්වීම ඇතුළු කරුණු කිහිපයක් මුල් කරගනිමින් උතුරු – නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල අද හර්තාලයක් ක්‍රියාත්මක වුණා. කෙසේ වෙතත් එම ප්‍රදේශවල දෛනික කටයුතු සාමාන්‍ය පරිදි සිදුවූු බවයි අප වාර්තාකරුවන් සඳහන් කළේ. ඒ අනුව බොහෝ ප්‍රදේශවල පාසල් කටයුතු සාමාන්‍ය පරිදි සිදු වූ අතර, කඩ සාප්පු […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 10-16 August 2025 * ‘In virtually every colonial territory a certain number had to be killed before the survivors would accept the new prospects. This might even be said to introduce a new concept into the study of political economy – the indispensable […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය මුදල් අච්චු ගැසීම, විදේශ සංචිත පහත වැටීම හා දේශීය ණය ප්‍රමාණය ඉහළ යාම වසරේ ආර්ථික සංවර්ධන ඉලක්ක සපුරා ගැනීමට බලවත් අභියෝගයක් විය හැකි බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් පවසයි.     2024 ඔක්තෝබර් සිට 2025 ජූනි දක්වා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව විසින් රුපියල් […]

RANJITH SOYSA  Dear President and the Ministers. The victimization of some of the members of the defence intelligence officers and senior members of the Army, the Navy and the Airforce is a bootless errand headed by the CID and other law enforcement agencies of the government. It is obvious that the scheme is pre-planned by […]

Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe Beena Sarwar’s international documentary film ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka – Beyond the Headlines’ (26 minutes), adapted to Sinhala by Priyantha Pradeep Ranasinghe, will be screened at the Thilak Wijesekera Library Building, Katapothuwila Viharaya, Pahala Athuraliya, Matara, on Tuesday, 19 August 2025 at 10.00 a.m. A discussion will also be held with […]

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lanka C news August 15, 2025 at 10:22 pm | ‘මට ඩිමෙන්ෂියා තියෙනවා.. ළග ඒව පොඩ්ඩක් අමතක වෙනවා’ යයි ඇමති කේ.ඩී. ලාල් කාන්ත මහතා පැවසීය. කොළඹදී පැවති රජයේ මිනුන්දෝරු සංගමයේ 99 වන සංවත්සර උත්සවය අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේය. තමා දරන වෘත්තීය සමිති නායක සහ කැබිනට් අමාත්‍ය යන දෙකේම වගකීම් දෙකම සමබරව පවත්වාගෙන යාමට සිදුව […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The newly appointed Defence Attaché of the United Kingdom in Sri Lanka, Colonel Keith Miles, paid a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd), today (Aug 14) at the Ministry of Defence in Sri Jayawardenepura, Kotte. He met the Defence Secretary, accompanied by the […]

By Poojathmi Rivithma Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, August 14 (Daily Mirror) – The Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC) has voiced strong concerns over the government’s decision to allow seven foreign investors to cultivate cannabis in Sri Lanka under the Board of Investment (BOI). At a conference, Minister Nalinda Jayatissa announced that the cultivation […]

Courtesy Hiru News Share Post Ramanathan Arjuna, an independent Member of Parliament for the Jaffna District, has announced that he will file a complaint against the Speaker with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) on August 21. According to MP Arjuna, the Speaker has disabled his microphone for eight days without any reason, interrupting his speeches. He […]

Courtesy Adaderana UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has urged the Sri Lankan government to repeal or amend existing laws or proposed laws that unduly restrict the rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association, and peaceful assembly, including the Online Safety Act, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Act, draft Non-Governmental […]

Media Release – The Internet Media Action (IMA) | August 14, 2025The Internet Media Action (IMA) urges the government to immediately suspend the summonsissued by the Counter Terrorism and Investigation Division (CTID) to photojournalist Kanapathipillai Kumanan to ensure that journalists are able to work freely. A police notice has revealed that the CTID has issued […]

Bodapati Srujana, Tricontinental Asia On 31 July 2025, U.S. President Trump announced a blanket 25% tariff on all exports from India to the United States. This came despite the conclusion of five rounds of bilateral trade negotiations, with the sixth round scheduled for later in August. Trump’s frustration was evident, as India continued to resist […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Sri Lanka, H.E. Khaled Nasser Sulaiman AlAmeri, paid a courtesy call on the Defence Secretary, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd), at the Ministry of Defence today (13 Aug). During the cordial discussions, both sides explored avenues to further strengthen bilateral […]

By Jehan Hameed Courtesy FT.lk This article is written in response to the following: https://www.ft.lk/opinion/Defence-Ministry-has-its-say-over-remanding-of-former-Navy-Commander-Ulugetenne/14-779939 https://www.ft.lk/opinion/Letter-of-concern-to-Defence-Secretary-over-arrest-of-former-Navy-Chief/14-779697 The Defence Ministry’s statement on the arrest of former Navy Commander Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne reduces a serious constitutional and security matter to a public relations slogan The law applies equally to all.” That is not a legal conclusion, in […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, August 13 (Daily Mirror) – Minister Wasantha Samarasinghe should be removed from the Cabinet for violating the collective responsibility of the Cabinet, Navin Dissanayake, a senior UNPer said today. He said Minister Samarasinghe has actually challenged Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya by uttering about the SupremeSAT. The Minister should have discussed […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre The National Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force (NAHTTF) issues an urgent public warning in light of alarming information on new trend wave of human trafficking activities targeting Sri Lankan nationals. Reportedly, organized trafficking syndicates operating cyber scam centers im South East Asia without effective government regulating contents have launched a […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Proposed ‘Gambling Regulatory Authority’ law inadequate” The Committee on Public Finance (CoPF) has said the proposed Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) law will not be adequate to meet the challenging task of overseeing the thriving casino industry.In spite of discussions held since Nov., 2022 when the CoPF formally called for […]

By Janakantha Liyanage Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, August 11 (Daily Mirror) – One time JVP Politburo member Nandana Gunathilake who defected from the party, said the JVP, which encouraged former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to resort to a military solution to the war, should not make him vulnerable to the threats of the Tamil Diaspora […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, August 11 (Daily Mirror) – Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa is ready to form a new government together with progressive factions of the National People’s Power (NPP), Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Sujith Sanjaya Perera said today. It looks like the NPP government is shaken by the SupremeSAT drama. Opposition Leader […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Bribery Commission and the Colombo Crimes Division are actively trying to arrest three high-profile individuals: former Minister Rajitha Senaratne, former Member of Parliament Venerable Athuraliye Rathana Thera, and Thusitha Halloluwa, a former Director of the National Lotteries Board and Director General of Public Relations for former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. The Bribery […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 03-09 August 2025 The USA & England have escalated covert attacks on shipping: Russia-India-China routed vessels have mysteriously caught fire, most recently near Oman and Kerala, which affected Sri Lanka too). The merchant media is meanwhile gasping at the USA’s 50% […]

lanka C news හරිනි අමරසූරිය මහත්මිය අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කළහොත් පැහැදිලිවම ආණ්ඩුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකේ බලය අහිමිවන හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ප්‍රේමනාත් දොලවත්ත මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. ඒ සමගම වර්තමාන ආණ්ඩුවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් පනස් හතර දෙනකු ස්වාධීන වනු ඇති බවද ඒ මහතා කියයි. සුපි‍්‍රම් සැට් චන්ද්‍රිකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඇතිවී තිබෙන අර්බුදකාරී තත්ත්වය ගැන අදහස් පළ කරමින් ඔහු මේ බව පැවසුවේය. […]

 KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror PM openly humiliated by Cabinet Minister President goes after petty cash issues, ignores major scandals such as e-visa fraud Challenges President to submit Auditor General’s report on e-visa scam SJB will be in opposition for 30 years if Sajith Premadasa remains leader Says President’s closest buddy is involved in […]