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 […]