Shenali D Waduge In July 2022, protestors in Sri Lanka were made to believe, their protest forced the exit of the elected President. In January 2023 protestors in Brazil failed to overthrow the elected government. There are similarities and differences, but it should certainly tell people that protests elevated to riots & violence are not […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම, LL.B., Ph.D. (ඥානසාර හිමියන්ගේ මස් රාත්තල හා ලාල් කාන්තගේ පිරිත් නූල) (528) ” ඩලස්ලා එක්ක අපි ඊයේ කතා කළා…” – YouTube හැඳින්වීම මෙම මාතෘකාව ප්‍රතිවිරුද්ධ සමාජ-ආර්ථික-දේශපාලන ප්‍රවාහ දෙකක් පිළිඹඳ විමර්ශනයකි. *(1) මුර දේවතා සංකල්පය – බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානය ලංකාවේ 1802 න් පසු ඉතිහාසය  සුද්දන්/කළුසුද්දන් හා පන්සල යන දෙකොටස අතර ඇතිවූ නොනවතින ගැටුමක් […]

by Garvin Karunaratne My mind runs in nostaglia to three of my attempts at economic development in three countries, where in two where I failed and finally in the third I did succeed. The first was in Edinburgh where in 1980 I worked as a Senior Community Education Worker in Wester Hailes. One of my […]

Vichara CEB has requested the public to refrain from flying kites in the vicinity of electric pylons. But it is noted that there is some kite flying on the candidates in the 2024 presidential election. Of course, although no official announcement is made it is very clear that the incumbent President will be the prime […]

Senaka Weeraratna Whenever the Europeans entered a non-European country it spelled doom for the indigenous people. This is the history of the world beginning with Christopher Columbus.  On June 7, 1494, Pope Alexander VI published a Bull ‘ inter caetera’ to divide the New World between Spain and Portugal. Tordesillas – How the Pope divided the […]

Sarath Wijesinghe President’s Counsel ‘Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre’ authored by Prof. Rohan Gunaratna stands as a remarkable and unparalleled masterpiece that distinguishes itself on numerous counts. Foremost among its merits is the author’s profound erudition and exhaustive research on the subject, an expertise honed since the composition of his preceding work, ‘Lost Revolution.’ This […]

e-Con e-News ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News September 2023 Part 1 * ee decided to have some fun this week, and ask the US government’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) program ChatGPT to write us a ‘poem about the IMF robbing Sri Lanka’. It sure did! Here it is: * In island’s embrace, where oceans sigh, Sri […]

දේශමාන්‍ය පාලිත ආරියරත්න, ජාතික බෞද්ධ බලවේගය. Anyone who funds fraudulent activities of individuals and groups conducting media warfare operations against the Sri Lanka army is liable to get prosecuted under prevailing laws in Sri Lanka. 

Ethalaya News – ඊතලය පුවත්

මහජන ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශය 2023.09.03 (අද) වන දිනට යෙදෙන 157 වන පොලිස් දින සැමරුම නිමිති කරගනිමින් සර්ව ආගමික වැඩසටහන් රැසක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කර තිබූ අතර ඊට සමගාමීව 2023.09.02 වන දින රාත්‍රී 07.30 සිට පැවැත්වූ පරිත්‍රාන ධර්ම දේශනාව හා 2023.09.03 වන දින හීල් දානමය පින්කම කොළඹ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පති කාර්යාලයේ 04 වන මහලේ පිහිටි සම්මන්ත්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්විණි. එහි හින්දු ආගමික වතාවත් පැවැත්වීම 2023.09.03 (අද) දින පෙරවරු 8.30ට බම්බලපිටිය නව කදිරේෂන් හින්දු […]

By P.K. Balachandran/Sunday Observer Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 3: Speaking at the prize distribution ceremony at Anula Vidyalaya in Nugegoda on August 16, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that in the future, Sri Lankan children will have to learn Hindi and Chinese to fit into the changing world. The underlying theory is that the world is […]

Nirupama Subramanian Courtesy Wire In June 2022, Ceylon Electricity Board chair M.M.C. Ferdinando told the Committee on Public Enterprises that in November 2021 President Rajapaksa had told him the wind power project must be awarded to the Adanis, and that this was the wish of PM Modi. Three days later, Ferdinando retracted his statement and […]

Lanka Lead News වයස අවුරුදු 18 – 20ත් අතර තරුණයන්ට පුහුණුවක් ලබාදී සිවුරු පොරවා දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් යොදාගැනීමේ සූක්ෂ්ම වැඩ පිළිවෙළක් ක්‍රියාත්මක කොට ඇති බවට රාජ්‍ය බුද්ධ අංශ තොරතුරු අනාවරණය කරගෙන ඇති බව ජාතික පුවත්පතක් වාර්තා කර තිබේ. එසේ මේ වන විට 500කට ආසන්න පිරිසත් එසේ පුහුණු කර භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා ලෙස යොදාගෙන තිබෙන බවට බුද්ධි […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy highlighted the macro-economic stress as the main reason for the regression in Sri Lanka’s socio-economic indicators during the past 75 years of the country. Addressing a virtual event to launch the policy report ‘Understanding Multidimensional Vulnerabilities: Impact on People of […]

Courtesy Adaderana Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that the India has been greatly sensitive to the needs of Sri Lanka, during the tough times faced by the island nation. We have also been greatly sensitive to the needs of our valued neighbour, Sri Lanka, during their tough times,” he said, during an interview with […]