KAMALIKA PIERIS Sri Lanka’s development policy included state-sponsored colonization schemes which transferred people from the densely populated wet zone to the sparsely populated areas of the dry zone. The places best suited to such colonization schemes were located in the north and east of the island. These provinces were the least populated, the land was […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. බුද්ධාගම කියන්නේ බොරුවක්! 1505 දී පෘතුගීසීන් කොලොම් තොටට ගසාගෙන ආවේ එක අතකින් කඩුව හා අනිත් අතින් බයිබලයද රැගෙන යයි කියැවේ. 1096/1204 කාලයේ පෝප් මූලිකව මෙහෙයවු කුරුස යුද්ධ වලින් මුස්ලිම්වරු දිගටම පැරදවිය නොහැකිවිය. මේ නිසා යුරෝපයේ පොහොසත් පන්තියට ඉන්දියාවෙන් (චීනයෙන්?) ගොඩමින් ගෙනා කුළුබඩු යනාදිය ලබාගැනීම සඳහා වෙනත් මුහුදු මඟක් සොයා ගැනීමට අවශ්‍යය […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Tamil Separatist Movement was highly critical of the state colonization schemes of the 1950s. They were not in the least interested in the development aspect of the schemes, only on   the impact of Sinhala settlements on their precious Eelam. Tamil Separatist Movement charged that the colonization schemes, from the very beginning, were intended […]

Viraj Fernando    – virajfernando03@gmailcom 1. Procedural Irregularities in Awarding the Project The best argument we have to counter the arbitrary award of this project to Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), is to ask the question, whether AGEL would have been awarded such a project and at a PPA price of $0.0826 in India under Indian […]

Royal Thai Embassy in Berlin On Sunday, August 4, 2024, H.E. Mr. Nadhavathna Krishnamra, Ambassador of Thailand, along with his spouse, Ms.Viphawan Benniman, Minister and embassy officials, participated in the International Buddhist Conference Academic to make the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Das Buddhistische Haus, the first Buddhist House in Europe, at the Zehlendorf Community […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean Education Minister Anders Adlercreutz (SPP) told Yle News he wants to take that step. If his legislation is approved by parliament, high schools would be in a position to begin offering a curriculum in English by the autumn of 2026 https://yle.fi/a/74-20121822 Education minister “confident” Finland will introduce English-language matriculation exam by 2028 The upper […]

Firstpost India’s central bank – the RBI – has announced that it secretly repatriated around 102 tonnes of gold stored in the Bank of England vaults. The gold, which is part of the RBI’s reserves, had been pledged in London during the 1990s financial crisis. Why did the RBI decide to bring it back? Palki […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ඉල්ලන්නේවත් නැතිව ලෝක බැංකුවෙන් ඩොලර් මිලියන 200ක් ලබාදුන් බව ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ටිල්වින් සිල්වා මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. මිරිහාන ප්‍රදේශයේ පැවැති ජාතික ජන බලවේග මහ මැතිවරණ ජන හමුවක් අමතමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේය. අද වන විට මෙරට ආණ්ඩුවකට ලැබුණු වැඩිම ජාත්‍යන්තර සහයෝගය හිමි ආණ්ඩුව බවට මෙම ආණ්ඩුව පත්ව […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් මැතිවරණ කොමිසමේත් කනෙන් රිංගා රාජකාරි අවශ්‍යතා මත යනුවෙන් සඳහන් කර සී අයිද්ධියේ ප්‍රධාන පොලිස් පරීක්ෂක ඉන්දුක ද සිල්වා මහතාව සීඅයිඩියෙන් පොලිස් මුලස්ථානයට මාරු කිරීමට රවි සෙනෙවිරත්න මහතා ක්‍රියාකළ බවත්,  රාජකාරි අවශ්‍යතා මත යැයි පැවසූවද කිසිම රාජකාරියක් ඔහුට පවරා නැති බවත් සර්වජන බලය කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් අපේක්ෂක සහ පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය නායක නීතිඥ […]

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy The Island When I wrote Will SL govt. do better than the UK Labour administration?” (The Island, 18 October), I never imagined that there would be the need for a follow-up anytime soon but, as it happens, a downward spiral seems to have started already and cracks are appearing in […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Illankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) yesterday (03) dismissed Sarvajana Balaya claim that it had reached a post-general election understanding with the NPP government on the setting up of a federal structure in the Northern and Eastern Provinces and the inclusion of ITAK frontliner M. A. Sumanthiran, PC, in President Anura Kumara […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, November 04 (Daily Mirror)-  NPP member Tilvin Silva refuted making any allegations of hidden money in Uganda, while saying that such claims were made by the SJBers. He told a news conference that it was the NPP which said the so-called containers of US Dollars were printed here and taken […]

by Garvin Karunaratne The Department for Development of Agricultural Marketing(Marketing Department) My desk at Tripoli Market had three telephones. Tripoli Market was a very large hanger, perhaps the largest hanger fixed by the British Armed Forces during the Second World War, taken over by the Marketing Department where the headquarters of the vegetable and fruit […]

e-Con e-News blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 27 October – 02 November 2024 History is a joker who slaps us awake while its paid-up historians (anaesthetists, really) try to dope us asleep. Yet history is also recorded in our muscles & memories. More & more Sri Lankans are […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Today is 3rd November when All Saints (1st Nov) & All Souls (2nd Nov) are Peacefully-in-Slumber in Heaven when the Results of USA Elections Tumbled them from Slumber! The Two Options – Who Wins! 1: Donald Trump Wins! *Democrats Accept Defeat and Walks away with their Tails between their Legs! *Kamala Harris […]

By Rocco Caldero Courtesy RIO TIMES (for Sri Lanka and Sovereignty amid Digital Hype?) November 1, 2024 (Opinion) The Kenyan government’s recent decision to grant diplomatic immunity to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has sparked significant controversy and raised alarm bells about power, accountability, and the timing of this move. This unprecedented decision shields […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 3 (The Island): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urgently recalled 15 ambassadors and high commissioners appointed based on political affiliations to Sri Lanka. According to sources within the ministry, Secretary Aruni Wijewardena has issued this directive. Among those recalled are Mohan Peiris, a former ambassador who served as the Permanent […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් ආණ්ඩුවේ මාධ්‍ය ප්‍රකාශක විජිත හේරත් ඇමැතිවරයා ආණ්ඩුව ණය ගෙන නොමැති බව ප්‍රකාශ කළ ද ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව මගින්  තම වෙබ් අඩවියේ ආණ්ඩුව විසින් ණය ගත් බව පැහැදිලිව සඳහන් කර ඇති බව හිටපු පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. රූපවාහිනී සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා පවසන්නේ ඉකුත් 29 වැනි දා ආණ්ඩුව විසින්  […]

Courtesy Business Recorder Pakistan ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan has awarded 200 fully and partially funded scholarships to the 6th batch of Sri Lankan students under the Allama Muhammad Iqbal Scholarship Programme. Around 500 Sri Lankan students, apart from these awardees, are already pursuing their undergraduate, MS and PhD studies in leading universities […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The country will crash like the Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) bus which toppled along the Dunhinda-Badulla Road if you don’t elect experienced persons to Parliament, former President Ranil Wickremeisinghe said over the weekend. Wickremesinghe, who was responding in lighter vein to a question during a forum held at the Arcade Independence […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, November 03 (Daily Mirror)- Former Presidents used to enjoy unlimited perks and privileges where they used to get organic vegetables that were grown in Nuwara Eliya every week for their consumption, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake revealed today. Speaking at an election rally in Nuwara Eliya, the President said he instructed […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Paradox of Power: Militarily it is a unipolar world of U.S. hegemony; economically it is a multipolar world with U.S. leadership; but on many transnational issues – such as international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the migration of people, epidemic disease, drugs, and environmental degradation – we live in […]

Manuka Wijesinghe, WHAT IS GENDER IDENTITY.  Wikipedia states that ‘gender identity’ is an individual self-conception of perceiving oneself as man or woman, as fluctuating between man and woman or being something outside of man and woman. Gender identity, despite political, social and lexical prominence, given to it, especially it in the last years; is an […]

Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University Posted on February 11th, 2022 One of my earlier papers which is appropriate for the moment- Garvin Karunaratne The Editorial of The Island tells it all: The challenge before us is to retrace our steps, figure out where we took wrong turns, and forge ahead in the right direction as […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island UNHRC in session (file photo) During the 57th Session of the UNHRC, Sri Lanka restated its opposition to HRC Resolution 51/1; a carryover of Resolution 46/1. These Resolutions were consistently rejected” on grounds that the evidence gathering mechanism within the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is […]

Prof. Hudson McLean At least and at last President Anura Kumara Dissanayake is Getting the Stick Out! The Sri Lankan Ambassadors & High Commissioners have been a Joke ! Most of these “His Excellencies” were enjoying High Life in their “Castles” overseas, pretending to be like jumped-up “Kings” at the expense of the country. One […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Linkedin – In the second half of 2023, over 46 million fake accounts that were removed from LinkedIn Facebook-; Estimates that 4-5% of those accounts are fake, meaning there may be as many as 150 million fake accounts.7 Feb 2024 Google-;  Prevented over 170 million policy-violating reviews and removed 12 million fake business profiles X – Twitter-; 20 […]

Declassified UK It comes as Keir Starmer suspended some arms exports to Israel last week, which the government said was partly due to credible claims of the mistreatment of detainees”. However Royal Air Force (RAF) surveillance flights continue almost daily over Gaza to help Israel locate hostages held by Hamas. Campaigners fear the flight paths […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Though the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Sri Lanka as a country free of measles, the country has been hit by cases once again since 2023, prompting the health authorities to declare a special vaccination week from November 4 to 9, according to a press release from the Health Promotion Bureau […]