-By LeN Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.July.2025, 10.30 PM) In a country battered by economic collapse, rampant inflation, and decades of political corruption, a question now haunts the corridors of Colombo’s power elite: How did Sri Lanka’s richest man... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.July.2025, 10.40 PM) In an extraordinary and deeply troubling development, Ariyananda Dombagahawatta, the controversial… Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -15.July.2025, 11.00 PM) In what was meant to be a strategic political broadside, Samagi… Read more >>
-By LeN Special Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.July.2025, 11.20 PM) The Kelani River snakes through the industrial heartlands of Sri Lanka’s Western Province, providing drinking water to millions and sustaining the livelihoods of entire communities. For years, villagers living along Read more >>
-By Religious Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.July.2025, 8.30 PM) In a deeply symbolic gesture blending diplomacy, religion, and history, India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, His Excellency Santosh Jha, undertook a visit on 11 July 2025 to the village of Vihāra Kallanchiya in Sri Read more >>
-By A Staff Reporter
(Lanka-e-News -14.July.2025, 11.10 PM) A damning recommendation from Sri Lanka’s Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has called for the legal restoration of the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) to the administration of the Mahapola Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2025, 11.10 PM) At a time when Sri Lanka’s fragile economy clings desperately to the lifeline of export earnings, the once-celebrated apparel sector has found itself embroiled in a storm of allegations, investigations,... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Kuala Lumpur–China has reaffirmed its commitment to deepen its strategic partnership with Sri Lanka, pledging to elevate bilateral cooperation to what it termed a “new high,” even as geopolitical... Read more >>
-By: A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2025, 11.10 PM) When the position of Basnayake Nilame—the lay custodian of a major Buddhist shrine—is up for election at Sri Lanka’s most sacred temple, the Temple of the Tooth (Sri Dalada Maligawa) in Kandy,... Read more >>
-By LeN Muslim Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2025, 11.20 PM) As the world pauses to mark the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide this July, honouring the memory of over 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys massacred in July 1995 during the Bosnian War... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.July.2025, 11.00 PM) In a curious turn of events, former minister and controversial political figure Wimal Weerawansa, often described as the “elder brother in arms” of SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa... Read more >>
-By LeN Judicial Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.July.2025, 9.20 PM) On a weekday morning, as traffic snarls around the congested heart of Colombo, a curious sight unfolds outside the hulking colonial façade of the Hulftsdorp Courts. A High Court judge—dressed in crisp.. Read more >>
-By LeN Parlimentary correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.July.2025, 8.55 PM) A bombshell exploded in the Sri Lankan Parliament today—not one of explosive material, but of damning revelations. MP Mujibur Rahman stood amid the din of debate... Read more >>
-By B.A.Kader
(Lanka-e-News -08.July.2025, 8.15 PM) [The Israel-Iran war is not an isolated or extraordinary occurrence; rather, it reflects the evolving global trends of our time. This article explores this trend from a historical viewpoint, supported by... Read more >>
-By LeN Muslim Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.July.2025, 9.25 PM) More than six years after the devastating Easter Sunday suicide bombings that shook Sri Lanka and killed 269 people, fresh demands for justice are echoing not only for the victims of the attack but... Read more >>
-By I Idrees
(Lanka-e-News -07.July.2025, 9.25 PM) Deshamanya Bradman Weerakoon, one of Sri Lanka’s most eminent and enduring civil servants—who served an extraordinary seven Prime Ministers and two Presidents—has passed away at the age of 94,.. Read more >>
-By B.A.Kader
(Lanka-e-News -05.July.2025, 11.30 PM) [The Israel-Iran war is not an isolated or extraordinary occurrence; rather, it reflects the evolving global trends of our time. This article explores this trend from a historical viewpoint, supported by credible evi Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -05.July.2025, 11.20 PM) Forty-two years on, the shadows of Black July still loom over Sri Lanka's turbulent political history. While mainstream narratives focus on the brutality of the mobs and the rise of Tamil militancy,... Read more >>
-By LeN South Asia Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.July.2025, 11.30 PM) Beneath the gentle palm-fringed skyline of Jaffna and the rain-soaked hills of Sri Lanka’s tea country, an old question lingers like the morning mist: Why do Tamil politicians still place their faith in New Delhi rat Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.July.2025, 11.20 PM) From rusting buses languishing in depots to once-proud corporations reduced to cronyism and debt, Sri Lanka’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) present a damning ledger of decades of political abuse... Read more >>
-By B.A.Kader
(Lanka-e-News -03.July.2025, 11.00 PM) [The Israel-Iran war is not an isolated or extraordinary occurrence; rather, it reflects the evolving global trends of our time. This article explores this trend from a historical viewpoint, supported by credible evi Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.10 PM) We, as Immigration and Emigration officers, have not inconvenienced air passengers with any professional action so far. It is not our intention to inconvenience the general public like health workers or railway emplo Read more >>
Anura Kumara Dissanayake pledges clean investment environment during high-level talks with Indian business leaders
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.20 PM) Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has declared an end to the “bitter experiences” previously encountered by foreign investors in Sri Lanka—particularly allegations of bribery and corruption... Read more >>
Three Remanded, as Anti-Corruption Commission Uncovers Deep Rot in Sri Lanka’s Department of Motor Traffic
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.15 PM) In a dramatic exposé that has rocked the Department of Motor Traffic, the former Commissioner General, Nishantha Anuruddha Weerasinghe, was taken into custody yesterday along with two accomplices... Read more >>
-By LeN Business Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.July.2025, 8.40 PM) In a development that underscores New Delhi’s sharpening focus on Sri Lanka’s strategic assets, India’s state-owned Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has sealed a $53 million investment to rescue... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -30.June.2025, 9.15 AM) In any functioning democracy, public servants are bound by a social contract: serve the public, earn a wage, and uphold the trust vested in them by the taxpayer. But in Sri Lanka—a country wrestling with economic coll Read more >>
Anura’s Biggest Foreign Direct Investment Faces Market Share Deadlock
(Lanka-e-News -28.June.2025, 10.55 PM) Six months after Sri Lanka’s left-leaning National People's Power (NPP) government trumpeted a landmark $3.7 billion investment deal with China’s oil giant Sinopec, the country’s largest-ever Foreign Direct Investmen Read more >>
-By LeN Business Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.June.2025, 11.05 PM) Sri Lanka’s once-resilient small and medium enterprise (SME) sector is on the verge of annihilation. Behind the glossy headlines of debt restructuring deals and IMF bailouts, an economic massacre is taking place... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.June.2025, 9.10 AM) While the nation struggled through economic austerity, political instability, and IMF-enforced belt-tightening, Sri Lanka’s former interim President Ranil Wickremesinghe quietly cultivated a... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2025, 5.55 AM) In a bold and potentially historic initiative, policymakers in Colombo and Malé are in quiet discussions over what may become the most transformative bilateral agreement in South Asian history:... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2025, 5.10 AM) In a remarkable twist that has prompted accusations of diplomatic duplicity, Ali Sabry PC, Sri Lanka’s former Foreign Minister, has come out strongly in favour of the U.N.-affiliated research vessel... Read more >>
-By LeN Foreign Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.June.2025, 4.15 AM) It began not with a bang, but a flicker on a radar screen. At 04:22 local time on June 13th, an Israeli F-35 squadron pierced Iranian airspace in what Israeli Defence Forces later described as a “covert operation targ Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.June.2025, 4.30 AM) A former vice president of Sri Lanka Cricket has petitioned the Supreme Court, alleging that the recent election of officials to the country's top cricket body was conducted in violation of both the law... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.June.2025, 11.20 PM) In the shady crevices of Sri Lanka’s political underworld, where business tycoons, rogue politicians and complicit professionals intertwine, there emerges a sordid tale of scandal, deceit and a judicial sleight... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -21.June.2025, 11.00 PM) The spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka announced that the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka will officially launch the "China Visa Online Application System" from June 30, 2025, and... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -20.June.2025, 11.00 PM) In a development that could prove seismic for Sri Lanka’s political establishment, 28 current and former political heavyweights, including sitting Members of Parliament and ex-ministers, are now under... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -19.June.2025, 11.10 PM) A Sri Lankan pharmaceutical scandal deepens as German lab confirms immunoglobulin drug was devoid of medicinal value – and dangerously contaminated... Read more >>
-By LeN Economical Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -18.June.2025, 11.20 PM) Once upon a time in Sri Lanka—roughly about the same era when bond scams, ghost apartments, and whisky diplomacy dominated the headlines—there existed a rather curious creature: the Casino License.... Read more >>
Why the Pearl of the Indian Ocean must swap its rusty sword for a digital spear
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2025, 11.20 PM) There comes a time in the life of every nation when it must stop polishing the rusted shields of the past and instead forge new weapons fit for the battles of the future. For Sri Lanka, an island that has... Read more >>
-By Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2025, 11.00 PM) In a dramatic twist to the Colombo Municipal Council saga, the National People's Power (NPP) candidate Vrai Kelly Balthazaar was elected as the new Mayor of Colombo yesterday, securing 61 votes... Read more >>
-By LeN Crime Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.June.2025, 10.40 PM) In a sweeping crackdown that signals a bold new front in Sri Lanka’s war on organised crime, narcotics trafficking, and financial corruption, police—acting on court orders—have frozen assets belonging to 88 individua Read more >>
-By LeN Foreign Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.June.2025, 5.00 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has concluded a pivotal three-day official visit to the Federal Republic of Germany—his first to Europe since assuming office—with a flurry of high-level bilateral... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.June.2025, 4.45 PM) Berlin - As Europe reassesses its strategic partnerships in the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions, Sri Lanka appears to be re-emerging on the global investment radar. With a newfound sense of political stability.. Read more >>
Army Chief Lt Gen BKGML Rodrigo’s visit to New Delhi reflects deepening bilateral defence cooperation and joint Indo-Pacific strategic interests
(Lanka-e-News -12.June.2025, 11.00 PM) In a strategic manoeuvre emblematic of a shifting Indian Ocean security architecture, India has stepped up its military diplomacy with Sri Lanka by hosting the island nation's Army Commander, Lieutenant General... Read more >>
-By Islamic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.June.2025, 11.10 PM) In an unassuming corner of northwest London, nestled within the Sri Lankan Muslim Cultural Centre in Harrow, a diverse crowd is expected to gather on 29th Sunday- June, for the UK launch of Muslim In the Dock,... Read more >>
As Geeta Gopinath and Krish Srinivasan arrive for rescue plan talks in Colombo, Sri Lankans ask: Where was the IMF when the loot was happening under their noses?
(Lanka-e-News -11.June.2025, 11.00 PM) When IMF Deputy Managing Director Geeta Gopinath and Asia-Pacific Director Krishnamurthy Srinivasan land in Colombo this week, one might expect polite welcomes, tight-lipped photo ops,... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.June.2025, 11.00 PM) It begins like a thriller scripted in Colombo’s political backrooms and polished in the penthouses of Dubai—a trail of shell companies, a Maldivian resort, and a figure whose last name once adorned... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -10.June.2025, 11.20 PM) In a rare immigration enforcement action, five foreign rabbis — including three Israelis — were arrested yesterday by Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration (DIE) for allegedly breaching the... Read more >>
Wednesday 11th could be the day history turns on its heels.
(Lanka-e-News -09.June.2025, 11.00 PM) In a country long sedated by scandal fatigue, the announcement that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to appear before the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this Wednesday is as close as... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.June.2025, 11.45 PM) In a scathing critique of Sri Lanka’s legislative dysfunction, one of the country’s most respected constitutional scholars, President’s Counsel Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne, has called for an immediate and... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.June.2025, 11.00 PM) In what may go down as the most creative use of parliamentary privilege since someone compared a fellow MP to a "malfunctioning washing machine", Archuna Ramanathan, the outspoken Tamil Member of Parliament... Read more >>
-By Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.June.2025, 9.20 PM) In a country famed for its miracles, the island of serendipity has outdone itself again this Vesak season. While thousands of devotees lit lanterns and recited sermons in remembrance of the Buddha’s enlightenment... Read more >>
-By Special Legal Affairs Correspondent, Lanka-e-News
(Lanka-e-News -06.June.2025, 10.40 PM) In a revelation that could send shockwaves through Sri Lanka’s legal and financial institutions, Lanka-e-News has uncovered that three major case files related to illegal pyramid schemes... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -06.June.2025, 10.10 PM) The sensational saga surrounding the staged shooting of Thushitha Haloluwa, former Director General of Public Relations to ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe, has taken yet another theatrical twist... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.June.2025, 11.40 PM) For years, the narrative surrounding the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka has been tightly controlled, diplomatically deflected, and politically sanitised. But now, five years later... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -03.June.2025, 10.30 PM) In what appears to be one of the most brazen manipulations of Sri Lanka’s stock market since the infamous bond scam, new revelations expose how businessman Dilith Jayaweera allegedly orchestrated... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -03.June.2025, 10.20 PM) In most democracies, the Auditor General’s Department is the venerated gatekeeper of fiscal accountability — a red-tape knight with a calculator in one hand and a copy of the constitution in the other.... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.June.2025, 11.10 PM) In a political plot thicker than roadside kadala soup, Colombo’s mayoral race has taken a sharp turn into the absurd. The latest drama stars Pradeep Charles, an outspoken SJB organiser in Colombo, activist from... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.June.2025, 11.00 PM) It was a sunny Monday in Jaffna, birds chirping, immigration forms being stamped, and somewhere between baggage claim and the duty-free chocolate rack at Palaly Airport, a 75-year-old Tamil returnee was arrested... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -31.May.2025, 11.20 PM) The City of Dreams Sri Lanka, a $1.2 billion integrated resort developed by John Keells Holdings (JKH) in partnership with Macau-based Melco Resorts & Entertainment, is slated to fully open in the third quarter... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -30.May.2025, 11.45 PM) When it comes to Sri Lanka’s legal profession, there’s a whiff of hypocrisy thick enough to cloud even the most air-conditioned chambers of Hulftsdorp. For a country with more lawyers per square kilometre... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -30.May.2025, 11.00 PM) Standing before the venerated Dhathu Mandiraya at Siri Samadhi Maha Viharaya in Galkiriyagama, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake made a solemn pledge not merely as a statesman but as a man... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.May.2025, 11.20 PM) As the docks of Colombo Harbour creaked under the weight of political scandal, yesterday’s proceedings before the Fixed High Court’s three-judge bench proved that, in Sri Lanka, justice is seldom swift but invariably Read more >>
-The Government of Canada and UNDP support the strengthening of the DNA laboratory and capacity building of the Government Analyst Department of Sri Lanka
(Lanka-e-News -29.May.2025, 8.40 PM) Rape remains the most frequently reported crime in Sri Lanka with 2,252 cases of sexual harassment and close to 130,000 cases of domestic violence in 2024 alone, a significant increase from... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2025, 11.10 PM) It’s often said in Colombo’s legal corridors that Sri Lanka’s political theatre doesn’t follow the Constitution—it occasionally just wings it and prays the judiciary is too polite to notice. But in an extraordinary t Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2025, 11.30 PM) When Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin stood before a crowd of beaming fishermen at the inauguration of the ₹272.70 crore Surai fishing port in Thiruvottiyur, he dispensed not only promises of modern harbours and. Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.May.2025, 12.10 PM) It began, as these things often do, with a whisper. A tip-off, an envelope, a hushed phone call, a reluctant confession in the back room of a smoky teashop in Borella. But on Friday, the whisper roared into a well-tim Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News -27.May.2025, 11.40 AM) In the world of diplomacy, visits are rarely what they seem. They are equal parts policy, pantomime, and public relations. And when Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, steps off the tarmac at Bandaranaike... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.May.2025, 11.30 PM) It began, as many absurdities do in the modern age, with a poster. Plastered across Instagram like a digital fatwa, the sign in question declared—loudly, officiously, and without a whiff of irony—that walking around A Read more >>
-By A LeN Staff Reporter
(Lanka-e-News -25.May.2025, 11.10 PM) In the age of social media demagoguery and political hyperbole, Sri Lanka has no shortage of firebrands. But every so often, one emerges not just shouting slogans into the void, but delivering coded whispers seemingly Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Editor
(Lanka-e-News -24.May.2025, 11.10 PM) Yesterday in the Matara courthouse, the absence of one of Sri Lanka’s most elusive political acrobats—Basil Rajapaksa—was more conspicuous than a red passport at Bandaranaike Airport... Read more >>
-By A Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In a city where political scandal is as common as traffic jams and temple elephants, the arrest of former minister Duminda Dissanayake this week was less a bombshell and more of a Broadway revival... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.May.2025, 11.10 PM) Sri Lanka’s largest and most ambitious tourism exhibition to date, aptly titled “Tourism Renaissance 2025”, was ceremoniously inaugurated today at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.May.2025, 11.10 PM) In the shadowy corridors of Sri Lanka’s bureaucratic machinery, a parallel economy has flourished. It’s an economy not governed by budgets or fiscal policy, but by envelopes slipped under desks,... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -22.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In a decisive move underscoring a renewed commitment to transparency and reform, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has directed the formation of a special committee, under the purview of the... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In the murky intersection of power, privilege, and profit, Sri Lanka's richest man, Dhammika Perera, is again under the spotlight. This time, it's not just about unchecked capital accumulation or the acquisition of pr Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -20.May.2025, 11.00 PM) For decades, the Sri Lankan public sector has resembled a bloated relic of a post-colonial state – ossified, inefficient, and riddled with corruption. Now, as the newly installed National People’s Power (NPP) governme Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -19.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In the annals of judicial scandal, there are tales of corrupt judges, disappearing files, bribery in courtrooms, and even the odd gavel going missing. But few cases have managed to achieve the holy trinity of public o Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News -19.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In the grand theatre of South Asian diplomacy, where debt is the currency of goodwill and handshakes come with sovereign guarantees, one tropical mishap is causing considerable squirming in Colombo and more than... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -19.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s recent local government elections, a resounding political truth emerged from the ballot boxes: the people spoke — and they spoke clearly. The National People’s Power (NPP), a left-wing. Read more >>
-By LeN South Asia Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -18.May.2025, 11.30 PM) If you ever find yourself meandering through Colombo’s suburban sprawl, or navigating the traffic-ridden arteries of Kandy, you’ll encounter a peculiar species of institution populating the landscape:... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2025, 11.15 PM) In what appears to be the most poorly-scripted act of political theatre in recent Sri Lankan memory, former Presidential Director General of Public Relations and shadowy political operative, Tusitha Halloluwa, has on Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2025, 9.40 PM) On Thursday, in the quiet chamber of the Colombo Magistrate’s Court, a gavel struck wood and twelve lives changed. Ten women and two men—Muslim suspects arrested in the murky aftermath of Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.May.2025, 11.10 PM) Next Monday, in the somber, oak-panelled halls of Committee Room No. 8 in Sri Lanka’s Parliament, a man who once commanded 85,000 police officers will find himself at the other end of a moral ledger.... Read more >>
-By Anubhawananda
(Lanka-e-News -15.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In an age where global influence increasingly hinges not on firepower but on factory output, the United States—once unchallenged in its economic hegemony—now finds itself staring down the barrel of a new kind of super Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.May.2025, 11.10 PM) It once adorned the annals of Sri Lanka’s political history as the party of independence, of the first Prime Minister, of liberal economic reform, and of the first Executive President. Today, the United National Party Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.May.2025, 11.00 PM) At the 60th anniversary celebration of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), now reborn in its avatar as the National People's Power (NPP), President Anura Kumara Dissanayake mounted the red-draped stage... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -13.May.2025, 11.45 PM) In a stunning political rupture that threatens to destabilise the very foundations of the opposition coalition, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), led by Sajith Premadasa, is facing an internal crisis of considerable m Read more >>
-By LeN South Asia Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.May.2025, 11.45 PM) Some stories hide in plain sight. Others are buried so deep beneath bureaucratic paper trails and ministerial handshakes that they begin to resemble corporate folklore. The saga of John Keells Holdings (JKH), its subs Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News -12.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In a landmark appointment, Sri Lankan academic and security expert Asanga Abeyagoonasekera has been named to the Board of Directors of the Millennium Project, a globally renowned think tank... Read more >>
-By LeN Foreign Affairs Editor
(Lanka-e-News -10.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In an international twist so surreal it might as well have been scripted by a Coca Cola–fuelled Netflix showrunner, U.S. President Donald J. Trump—flanked by a gold-plated Bible, a McDonald’s cheeseburger... Read more >>
-By Financial Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.May.2025, 11.15 PM) There are tycoons who make their billions with flamboyant flair, parading their wealth like overripe mangoes at a Colombo street market. Then there are the shadow mandarins... Read more >>
– Anubhawananda Analyses
(Lanka-e-News -09.May.2025, 11.30 PM) Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese Revolution, once said that falling into a pit can be beneficial to the mind. But as Mao explained, to benefit from such a fall,... Read more >>
-By LeN South Asian Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.May.2025, 11.30 PM) New Delhi - In the corridors of power in New Delhi, they are calling it “Sindoor ka Shraap” — the curse of Operation Sindoor. What was meant to be a swift, decisive aerial strike on Pakistani territory has turned into Read more >>
-By LeN Religious Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.May.2025, 11.05 PM) Vatican City, The chimneys of the Sistine Chapel billowed white smoke at precisely 5:03pm local time, the age-old symbol that the Catholic Church had chosen its new shepherd. Moments later, a jubilant Cardinal... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In what could only be described as a political remake of Yes Minister, the former Director General of Public Relations under ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe has recently emerged from the shadows of irrelevance... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -05.May.2025, 11.05 PM) In a city where protests are as routine as monsoon rains and slightly less effective than public transport, last week’s sudden gathering outside the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo raised more than a few diplomati Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Crime Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -05.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In a sweeping cross-border crackdown on organized crime, Sri Lankan authorities have revealed plans to repatriate 20 more high-profile criminal figures currently hiding abroad, signalling a new chapter in the country' Read more >>
-By LeN Defence & Strategic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.May.2025, 9.00 PM) If India were to go to war with Pakistan tomorrow, the South Asian strategic equation could be rewritten—not by Islamabad or New Delhi, but by a power sitting 6,000 miles away with a Brussels ZIP code... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04.May.2025, 9.45 PM) Making an official high-level visit aimed at enhancing diplomatic relations and defence collaborations the Japanese Minister of Defence Hon. Nakatani Gen arrived in Sri Lanka on Saturday (May 3).... Read more >>
-By A LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -03.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In the murky corridors of Colombo’s post-Rajapaksa political drama, there’s a well-known proverb: when the law comes knocking, scream ‘underworld!’ It appears Sri Lanka’s former Inspector General of Police, Deshaband Read more >>
-Dr. Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News -03.May.2025, 11.00 PM) On May 6, 2025, Sri Lanka will hold local government elections for 339 councils, engaging over 17 million voters. The elections come at a pivotal moment for the National People’s Power (NPP), which has.... Read more >>
-By Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.May.2025, 11.00 PM) It was May Day in Bogawantalawa — that misty emerald perch above the tea valleys — and as usual, it came with pageantry, slogans, and an outsized share of theatrical monologues. But this year, the most theatrical of t Read more >>
-By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -01.May.2025, 11.00 PM) "The march of history does not move in a straight line, but spirals upward through the dialectic of action and reaction—each contradiction resolved through synthesis, giving rise to more refined systems of understandi Read more >>
-By Defence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.May.2025, 11.20 PM) Islamabad, Pakistan – Sri Lanka and Pakistan reaffirmed their commitment to defence cooperation and regional stability during the 5th iteration of the Sri Lanka–Pakistan Bilateral Defence Dialogue,... Read more >>
Ten Years On, a Trail of Phone Calls, Political Shadows, and Unanswered Questions - Will Justice Finally Be Served?
(Lanka-e-News -30.April.2025, 11.20 PM) On a humid morning in May 2012, the charred remains of a young rugby player with a movie-star smile were found in a burned-out car near the Shalika Grounds in Colombo. The victim was 28-year-old Wasim Thajudeen... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.April.2025, 11.00 PM) In a development underscoring the strengthening ties between Beijing and Sri Lanka’s emerging leftist coalition, a high-level delegation from the Communist Party of China (CPC) met with Janatha Vimukthi... Read more >>
-By A LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.April.2025, 11.10 PM) There are few men in Sri Lanka who can utter a sentence with such smug certainty that the entire nation instinctively knows he’s bluffing. But then, there is only one Ranil Wickremesinghe.... Read more >>
-By A LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.April.2025, 11.40 PM) If there’s one thing former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has never lacked, it’s confidence—often misplaced, frequently unshaken by facts, and almost always delivered with a smirk.... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.April.2025, 11.00 PM) If Sri Lankan politics is the theatre of the absurd, then former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s media appearance today must surely rank as one of its greatest performances. Standing before the nation's cameras aft Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.April.2025, 11.05 PM) A former Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, now serving as Chief Secretary of the Uva Provincial Council, has been ordered into remand custody until May 5, following allegations.... Read more >>
-By LeN Defence and Foreign Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2025, 11.35 PM) In a chilling escalation of South Asia’s already volatile security situation, Pakistan’s Defence Minister this week issued a stark warning: any military action by India would be met with the deployment of Pakistan’s Read more >>
-By Chinese Ambassador in Sri Lanka H.E. Qi Zhenhong
(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka’s economy is forecast to grow by 3.5% this year, according to the World Bank’s latest report, holding steady against the backdrop of significant global challenges. Yet, mounting pressure from high U.S. tar Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.April.2025, 11.15 PM) It began, as these things often do, with the blood and horror of a Sunday morning. It has endured, as such things often must, in the form of whispers, allegations — and one remarkable man with a borrowed name... Read more >>
-By Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2025, 10.20 PM) In an extraordinary and deeply personal testimony, Kagusthan Ariaratnam — a former Tamil Tiger intelligence cadre turned Canadian citizen — has come forward to denounce Rohan Gunaratna,... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2025, 10.25 PM) Sri Lanka has successfully concluded high-level discussions with American officials concerning the newly imposed US tariff regime, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Labour, Dr. Anil Jayantha,... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.April.2025, 11.20 PM) When Gotabaya Rajapaksa left Sri Lanka aboard a military jet in July 2022, escaping like a man late for a dentist appointment he never intended to pay for, a great myth was shattered: the myth of the Strongman Presi Read more >>
-By Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.April.2025, 11.10 PM) In a political saga that reads more like a thriller than a parliamentary record,... Read more >>
-By Special Defence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2025, 11.20 PM) -New Delhi -The serene valleys of Pahalgam, a prime destination for Hindu pilgrims and international tourists alike, turned into a blood-soaked reminder of India’s unresolved internal security conundrum on Tuesday.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2025, 11.00 PM)A three-member committee has been appointed today (23) by Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramanayake to investigate the allegations leveled against Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon. Justice Priyantha Pa Read more >>
-By LeN special correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.April.2025, 11.00 PM) It is with absolutely no solemnity whatsoever that we report the demise of one Dan Priyasad — the self-declared guardian of Sinhalese nationalism, unofficial Sri Lankan Facebook vigilante, and part-time moonlighting Read more >>
-By B.A.Kader (Kader Master) Part 02
(Lanka-e-News -22.April.2025, 8.15 PM) This is the story of how Singapore Island, a small city-state with a population of about 5.8 million and a land area of only 719 square kilometres—roughly 1/9 the size of Sri Lanka and almost the size of the Colombo Read more >>
-By Staff Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.April.2025, 9.50 PM) There’s never a dull moment in Sri Lanka’s political circus — and if one ever dares approach the horizon of boredom, fear not: Gamman Pillai (also known as Udaya Gammanpila, but that’s far too serious a name for.... Read more >>
-By Financial Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.April.2025, 9.35 PM) Sri Lanka's economic crisis has brought to the forefront complex dynamics involving international financial institutions and major bilateral creditors. Central to this discourse is the role of the International Monet Read more >>
-By Special Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -20.April.2025, 11.20 PM) A potentially explosive revelation has emerged surrounding the still-haunting Easter Sunday attacks of 2019—one that threatens to entangle international non-governmental operations with the murky undercurrents... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -15.July.2025, 10.45 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake held high-level talks yesterday with Sultan A. Al-Marshad, Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), to assess the progress of ongoing projects... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.July.2025, 11.20 PM) Hirunika Premachandra, the outspoken former MP and loyalist of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), has made a rather unexpected admission: that she once sought confidential political advice from none other than Dr. Raj Read more >>
Judicial Review -By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.July.2025, 11.00 PM) The Court of Appeal today (14) dismissed, without leave for further examination, a series of writ petitions that sought to prevent the holding of secret ballots to elect the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of severa Read more >>
-By LeN Special Health Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2025, 11.30 PM) In what could become the most staggering corruption scandal in Sri Lanka’s public healthcare system in recent memory, over Rs. 2.5 billion worth of questionable chemical reagent purchases... Read more >>
-By LeN Southern Province Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2025, 11.20 PM) A mystery shrouded in chrome, horsepower, and political whispers has gripped Sri Lanka’s south after authorities uncovered a secret stash of 21 ultra-high-capacity motorcycles—brands like Harley-Davidson and... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2025, 11.30 PM) The Sri Lankan government has announced that it will undertake a vigorous three-week-long campaign aimed at negotiating further reductions to export tariffs imposed by the United States,.. Read more >>
Transparency International calls for urgent appointment as public trust and anti-corruption efforts hang in the balance
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2025, 11.00 PM) As of July 9, 2025, Sri Lanka’s Right to Information (RTI) Commission remains without a Chairperson—a critical vacancy that civil society watchdogs warn is threatening the integrity and... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.July.2025, 11.20 PM) In a meeting held at the Ministry of Fisheries, Aquatic and Marine Resources, Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar met with the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Andrew Patrick,... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.July.2025, 11.10 PM) Nishantha Jayawira, a former Additional Secretary to the President and veteran tax administrator, was sworn in yesterday(09) as a Member of Parliament representing the National People’s Power... Read more >>
-By LeN Intelligence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.July.2025, 9.10 PM) The Invitation - The summons was unexpected but unmistakably cordial. It came on crisp government stationery, bearing the emblem of the Ministry of Public Security. Sarath Weerasekera, newly sworn in as the Minister.. Read more >>
-By LeN Political Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.July.2025, 9.45 PM) In a heartfelt and powerfully-worded speech, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Justice and National Integration, Harshana Nanayakkara, declared that depriving individuals of the right to express themselves or to be... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.July.2025, 9.35 PM) In a dramatic development that may reopen old wounds from Sri Lanka’s turbulent post-war years, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has taken into custody a close associate of Sivanesathurai... Read more >>
-By Michael Joachim
(Lanka-e-News -07.July.2025, 7.45 PM) The recent speech by the Commissioner General of the Bribery Commission in a public on Bribery to the extend it has seeped into the society caught the attention of the Public and the Government servants.... Read more >>
-By Iqbal Latif - From Bangladesh -An Aeronautical engineer from CAE G-1
(Lanka-e-News -07.July.2025, 7.20 PM) Power, when untested, is sacred. But when flaunted without necessity, it risks revealing its limits. This is the fundamental rule of deterrence: a strong leader should never swing the stick... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -05.July.2025, 11.10 PM) Rural Development, Social Empowerment and Social Security Minister Dr. Upali Pannilage has firmly stated that any serious discussion on poverty—whether in Sri Lanka or globally—must begin with... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -05.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Recently, the Dalai group has been speculating on the issue of the 14th Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, and spreading such false claims as “reincarnation will be decided by the Dalai Lama himself”,,,, Read more >>
By Sunil Gamini Jayalathge
(Lanka-e-News -04.July.2025, 11.00 PM) In the grand machinery of state, few components are as powerful—or as potentially destructive—as the public service. This vast bureaucratic organism is entrusted with steering the country’s economic... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.July.2025, 11.10 PM) In a significant diplomatic engagement underscoring strengthening bilateral ties, the Deputy Governor of China’s Jiangsu Province, Mr. Chen Zhongwei, held a formal meeting yesterday... Read more >>
Moscow’s Quiet Offer of Protection to the Maverick Billionaire Fuels Global Speculation
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.45 PM) In what could be a defining moment in the increasingly fraught intersection of tech, politics and geopolitics, Russian officials have hinted at offering political asylum to one of the most controversial.... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent in Colombo
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.30 PM) At a time when Sri Lanka is fighting to restore public trust in state institutions, an audacious experiment is playing out quietly in the drawing rooms of Colombo’s diplomatic elite. It’s not a formal department... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), on 26 June 2025, released an independent Civil Society Report assessing Sri Lanka’s progress in fulfilling its commitments under the United Nations Convention Against... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.July.2025, 8.30 PM) Some truths cannot be suppressed forever. They rise — not through tribunals, not through thunderous speeches — but slowly, inexorably, through the cracks of time, through earth that refuses... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.July.2025, 8.20 PM) The Sri Lankan Department of Inland Revenue has launched fresh legal proceedings against the embattled directors of Mendis Company, alleging a colossal tax evasion scheme exceeding Rs. 1 billion... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.June.2025, 8.45 PM) On June 25th and 26th, Ambassador Qi Zhenhong led a group to three schools in Moratuwa, Galle and Matara to attend the "Culture and Care for Young Hearts, Together in Friendship" school supplies... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Editor
(Lanka-e-News -30.June.2025, 9.35 AM) In the hushed corridors of Sri Lanka’s presidential residence—once thought of as a sanctuary of diplomacy and governance—new and disturbing allegations have emerged that point to a culture of unchecked violence Read more >>
-By LeN Political Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.June.2025, 9.20 AM) In most functioning democracies, the civil service is expected to be the invisible engine of governance – quiet, competent, and dependable. In Sri Lanka, however, that engine appears to have backfired loudly... Read more >>
India’s top diplomat cites Emergency-era deal for Sri Lankan arrests, but critics accuse him of dodging responsibility over Katchatheevu island debacle
(Lanka-e-News -28.June.2025, 8.45 AM) India’s Foreign Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar, has once again stirred a political tempest—this time not by defending India’s controversial stance on Ukraine or lecturing the West on energy hypocrisy,... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News -28.June.2025, 8.55 AM) In a significant diplomatic overture reflecting growing solidarity among reformist movements across the Global South, former South African President Thabo Mbeki met today... Read more >>
-Official statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Lanka-e-News -27.June.2025, 8.00 AM) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk concluded a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka from 23 to 26 June 2025. During the visit, High Commissioner Türk called... Read more >>
-By LeN Foreign Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2025, 5.40 AM) In the gentle light of dawn, as the streets of Colombo barely stirred to life, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, boarded her flight bound for Vancouver, Canada.... Read more >>
-By A Court Reporter
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2025, 5.30 AM) A senior neurosurgeon at Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, Dr Maheshi Wijerathna, has been remanded once again by the Colombo Chief Magistrate, Tanuja Lakmali Jayatunga, in a widening scandal... Read more >>
-By LeN International Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2025, 5.20 AM) Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on 18th June delivered a blistering critique of the recent G7 communique on the escalating Israel–Iran confrontation, effectively assuming the mantle of Iran’s... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -24.June.2025, 4.45 AM) The Secretary-General of Sri Lanka’s Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), Ranjith Madduma Bandara, has reportedly fled the country after a string of crushing political defeats, including the humiliating collapse... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.June.2025, 4.40 AM) In a political culture long dominated by cronyism, career politicians, and dealmakers, the National People's Power (NPP) government has once again sent a powerful message: this is a new era... Read more >>
-By A LeN Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.June.2025, 11.40 PM) What began as an ambitious government plan to boost Sri Lanka’s milk production through the importation of thousands of Australian dairy cows has devolved into a multi-million-dollar fiasco, now mired in.... Read more >>
(Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, June 12, 2025)
(Lanka-e-News -21.June.2025, 11.10 PM) Hon. Sun Chunlan, Presidentof International Confucian Association, Hon. Chandana Abayarathna，Minister of State Administration, Provincial Councils, and Local Government, Distinguished Sinologists Read more >>
-By (Dr) Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel
(Lanka-e-News -20.June.2025, 6.20 AM) In a country where the Constitution is supreme, all conduct that is inconsistent with it is invalid. This includes parliamentary legislation, which may be reviewed by the judiciary, potentially resulting in inconsiste Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent, Colombo
(Lanka-e-News -19.June.2025, 11.00 PM) In scenes more reminiscent of a street brawl than a democratic council chamber, Sri Lanka’s main opposition alliance, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), is grappling with a widening internal crisis... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -18.June.2025, 11.00 PM) The political phoenix of Sri Lankan finance, Ravi Karunanayake, rose yesterday from the ashes of scandal and silence to cast a thunderbolt of criticism at the NPP-led government’s renewable energy strategy... Read more >>
-By LeN Health Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2025, 11.30 PM) In a case that has sent shockwaves through Sri Lanka’s medical establishment, three individuals – including a senior neurosurgeon at Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2025, 11.10 PM) With a backdrop of soft-lit chandeliers and tightly-scripted optimism, the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo played host to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath,... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.June.2025, 10.50 PM) For years, Daya Gamage stood as one of Sri Lanka’s most powerful industrial-political hybrids — a businessman turned politician, whose reach extended from linen shirts and apparel factories to... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -15.June.2025, 4.45 PM) A storm is brewing in Sri Lanka’s political teacup. But this isn’t your average parliamentary squabble or electioneering rhetoric. Civil society organisations and leading Buddhist clerical fronts are now... Read more >>
-By Sam Weerasuriya
(Lanka-e-News -14.June.2025, 5.10 PM) The halls of Sri Lanka’s Parliament are no stranger to raised voices or bureaucratic bluster. But when Thilaka Jayasundara, the Secretary to the Ministry of Industries, stormed into a recent COPE... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.June.2025, 4.50 PM) Nearly six years after coordinated bomb blasts ripped through churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 269 people and injuring more than 500, a case accusing one of the country's... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -12.June.2025, 11.20 PM) The Government of India has decided to further extend the financial assistance for another year to support the ongoing passenger ferry service between Nagapattinam and Kankesanthurai... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -11.June.2025, 11.30 PM) In the sweltering morning heat of Colombo’s Galle Face Green, where joggers, ministers, and stray dogs coexist in a rhythm uniquely Sri Lankan, one scene stood out in stark contrast yesterday: a tearful... Read more >>
Berlin Rolls Out the Red Carpet as Sri Lanka’s President Anura Receives Full Military Honours in Landmark Visit
(Lanka-e-News -11.June.2025, 11.15 PM) It was the kind of Teutonic pageantry usually reserved for European royals and visiting superpowers. But today, under the stoic gaze of Berlin’s Bellevue Palace, the spotlight belonged to a former revolutionary... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Affairs Editor
(Lanka-e-News -10.June.2025, 11.45 PM) In what reads like a script from a low-budget political thriller – complete with a Houdini act, bureaucratic sleight of hand, and a prison chief in handcuffs – Sri Lanka’s penal system has once again offered... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.June.2025, 11.30 PM) When the US Department of Justice decided to collaborate with Sri Lanka's Attorney General’s Department in Colombo, the intention appeared noble, necessary, and timely. A group of young prosecutors... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -09.June.2025, 11.30 PM) In the gilded halls of Sri Lankan politics, where theatrical oration often masquerades as conviction, and grandstanding substitutes for governance, there thrives one particularly flamboyant figure – the ever-entertai Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -09.June.2025, 11.15 PM) In a nation where corruption has long marinated itself into the sinews of public life—from tender boards to temple boards, classroom desks to cabinet desks—the emergence of a no-nonsense enforcer feels... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -08.June.2025, 11.30 PM) In a bustling queue at the Department of Motor Traffic, a man quietly slips a thousand-rupee note into a staffer’s diary. Nearby, a woman pays extra at the Land Registry Office to fast-track her title deed. A teacher Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -07.June.2025, 9.50 PM) At a glance, it might seem like the Sri Lankan Finance Ministry is still calling the shots. But dig just a little deeper — past the parliamentary press conferences, donor-funded seminars, and carefully worded Read more >>
-By Lanka-e-News Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -07.June.2025, 9.40 PM) In a land where policemen often swap badges for political brown-nosing and integrity is sometimes sold cheaper than a lottery ticket outside Fort Railway Station, there exists a rare breed of officer. Today, Lanka-e-N Read more >>
-By the Lanka-e-News Political Desk
(Lanka-e-News -06.June.2025, 10.20 PM) In the inaugural edition of our new Lanka e-News Political Debate series—where we tackle raw, relevant, and at times uncomfortable political questions of the day—we dive headfirst into a growing controversy... Read more >>
-By LeN Transport Correspondent (Who Was Late Because His Bus Never Came)
(Lanka-e-News -06.June.2025, 10.30 PM) Ladies and gentlemen, hold your tickets and brace yourselves: Lanka-e-News has officially launched its Award of the Day, and today, the conductor of this inaugural accolade is none other than the new Chairman... Read more >>
-By LeN Defence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.June.2025, 11.00 PM) A tense maritime confrontation unfolded off the coast of Trincomalee on Tuesday, as Sri Lanka Navy personnel clashed with a group of fishermen suspected of engaging in illegal poaching within restricted waters. The i Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.June.2025, 11.20 PM) In a quiet but consequential shift of tides, Sri Lanka has stepped forward into the deepening global effort to protect our planet’s most unregulated frontier — the high seas.... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -03.June.2025, 10.45 PM) In a development that could have significant political and legal repercussions, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka today (June 3) granted leave to proceed in two fundamental rights petitions filed against... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -03.June.2025, 10.40 PM) A prominent private news channel is under intense scrutiny after allegedly broadcasting a false report regarding the re-release of a suspended batch of Human Immunoglobulin (HIG) vaccines,... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -02.June.2025, 11.30 PM) In a landmark victory for Sri Lanka, Canada’s Supreme Court has decisively ruled that claims of a “Tamil genocide” cannot be included in provincial school curricula—striking a blow to years of pro-LTTE propaganda... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.June.2025, 11.20 PM) If diplomacy were judged solely by the number of jobs promised, the Maldives would be a humanitarian superpower by now. At least, that’s the impression one might get after hearing High Commissioner Masood... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -31.May.2025, 11.30 PM) Overpriced Import: -Sri Lanka imported nano-nitrogen fertilizer at USD 12.45 per 500ml—nearly four times the market rate (USD 3.23)—costing... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -31.May.2025, 11.00 PM) Chinese Commerce Minister- Wang Wentao leads largest-ever Chinese business delegation to Colombo, vows deeper trade, investment and supply chain cooperation under Belt and Road blueprint Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -30.May.2025, 11.30 PM) If you still think of Sri Lanka as the idyllic island of cinnamon and Ceylon tea, you haven’t been paying attention. These days, the most valuable exports aren’t aromatic spices or ancient relics—but Class A narcotic Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -30.May.2025, 11.15 PM) When most people think of Sri Lanka, they picture sandy beaches, stilt fishermen, and Ceylon tea. But if you follow the neon lights after midnight in Colombo, you’ll find a different kind of attraction lighting up... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In the marble corridors of the Presidential Secretariat, where portraits of past statesmen look on with unblinking eyes, Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake greeted China’s Commerce Minister,... Read more >>
-By LeN Sportsman
(Lanka-e-News -29.May.2025, 11.00 PM) While Sports Minister Sunil Kumara Gamage and former Test captain Sanath Jayasuriya made headlines this past week with their visit to Jaffna—scouting locations for a brand-new international cricket stadium... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -29.May.2025, 8.45 PM) High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, H.E. Santosh Jha and Minister of Urban Development, Construction and Housing, Hon. Anura Karunathilaka, jointly inaugurated and handed over Chandran Nagar... Read more >>
From rebellion to rule, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) celebrates 60 years in power and purpose
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2025, 11.20 PM) London – Beneath the modest rafters of Perivale Primary School’s lower hall in West London, a remarkable anniversary will unfold on May 31st. Buses will offload the faithful—immigrant workers, students, intellectuals. Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In yet another episode of Sri Lanka’s favourite political soap opera, Sajith Premadasa, Leader of the Opposition and full-time political damage controller, has fiercely denied claims that he begged Imtiaz Bakeer Marka Read more >>
-By LeN Political correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.May.2025, 12.05 PM) Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has vowed that his government will not allow any reversal of the steps taken towards social progress. Declaring an end to the grip of archaic traditions,... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.May.2025, 11.50 AM) The Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA), Sri Lanka’s most powerful trade union of state doctors, has once again taken centre stage—this time issuing a veiled ultimatum to the government,... Read more >>
-By: A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.May.2025, 11.00 PM) There’s a certain diplomatic grace in saying absolutely nothing of substance with an air of philosophical grandeur. Dr. S. Jaishankar, India’s eternally unflappable External Affairs Minister, has turned this art into Read more >>
Foreign Minister Herath Declares Legal Action Against “Historical Fabrications”
(Lanka-e-News -24.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In an unflinching reaffirmation of national sovereignty and the honour of the Sri Lankan armed forces, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath declared this week that the government will take firm legal action against... Read more >>
-By LeN Film Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.May.2025, 11.00 PM) It was just before dawn on the 24th of May when the final curtain fell on one of the grandest lives ever lived beneath the silver screen’s spotlight. Malani Fonseka — revered as the undisputed Queen of Sinhala Cinema. Read more >>
--By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.May.2025, 11.30 PM) If you’ve ever had the distinct pleasure of navigating the neon chaos of a Sri Lankan supermarket—or the altogether more primal experience of ducking into a corner kade (local grocery shop)... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.May.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka is set to dispatch a senior government delegation to Washington, D.C., for a fresh round of in-person negotiations with U.S. trade authorities, marking a pivotal moment in the island nation’s bid to.... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -22.May.2025, 11.20 PM) After months of turbulence, inefficiency, and internal distress, the Cabinet has finally disembarked Nilusha Balasooriya from the cockpit of the Department of Immigration and Emigration,... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.May.2025, 11.00 PM) They may wear wigs, speak in Latin, and quote dusty tomes of jurisprudence—but Sri Lanka’s lawyers are fast discovering that their biggest battle isn’t in court. It’s out in the real world,... Read more >>
-By LeN Religious Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In Sri Lanka, where sacred saffron holds more weight than silk ties, and monks wield influence that rivals politicians, the sight of a monk being publicly disciplined is not just rare — it is seismic. This week, the Read more >>
-By A LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.May.2025, 11.00 PM) There’s something both poetic and pointed about the elevation of Justice B.R. Gavai to the post of Chief Justice of India in 2025. He arrives not just swathed in judicial robes, but in the moral shawl of Buddha’s comp Read more >>
-By Dr. Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News -19.May.2025, 11.40 PM) Since the end of the 30-year-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka in May 2009, whether it should be celebrated as a victory or allowed to be mourned by the war victims has been a matter of debate almost every year... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -19.May.2025, 11.10 PM) When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) brokered a rescue package for bankrupt Sri Lanka last year, it came armed with its usual prescription of fiscal discipline, austerity, and structural reforms. Sri Lankans, we Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -18.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In a move that will surely bewilder historians, titillate political satirists, and send civil servants scrambling for protocol manuals not updated since the Falklands War, it is being whispered in the polished corrido Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.May.2025, 11.10 PM) In politics, there exists a peculiar affliction that stalks influential movements, popular parties, and charismatic leaders: the silent anticipation of succession, whispered as, “When will big brother die, and when wi Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2025, 10.00 PM) In the grand tradition of tropical white elephants, Sri Lanka has just added another oversized, overpriced, and under-delivered marvel to its growing menagerie—the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) Expansion Pr Read more >>
-By LeN South Asia Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2025, 10.15 PM) At first glance, the Sri Lankan shipping sector appears to be steaming ahead at full throttle. The Port of Colombo remains a preferred stop for major shipping lines in the Asia-Pacific corridor,... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2025, 9.50 PM) In a country where the corridors of power often intertwine with corridors of wealth, a decades-old incident involving a prominent Sri Lankan businessman has resurfaced, prompting renewed calls for justice and accountab Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In a display of quiet ambition and strategic resolve, Sinopec, marked its most visible footprint yet in Sri Lanka with the formal launch of its “Clean Sri Lanka”... Read more >>
-By LeN Financial Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.May.2025, 11.20 PM) In the theatre of post-default Sri Lankan politics, few performances have been more baffling—perhaps even tragicomic—than that of M.U.M. Ali Sabry, the portly President’s Counsel who wandered into the Ministry of Fina Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -15.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In the realm of national security, credibility is everything. Intelligence officers are trained to separate fact from fiction, identify planted stories, and verify the authenticity of every document and informant.... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.May.2025, 11.10 PM) It appears the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has graduated from being a lender of last resort to an unsolicited financial babysitter with delusions of empire. In its latest... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -13.May.2025, 11.45 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been presented with four nominations to fill two upcoming vacancies in Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.May.2025, 11.30 PM) When 22 lives were abruptly ended last week as a bus tumbled down a hillside near- Garandiella- Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lankans responded as they always do: with shock, candlelit vigils, and a brief spike Read more >>
-By A LeN Special Correspondent - Colombo and London
(Lanka-e-News -12.May.2025, 11.15 PM) The International Monetary Fund has stirred a geopolitical hornet’s nest in Sri Lanka -again. In the latest twist of its multi-billion-dollar financial rescue operation for the island nation... Read more >>
-Exposed by a fellow soldier
(Lanka-e-News -10.May.2025, 11.30 PM) In a shocking turn of events, Major Tushara Adhikari, a senior officer of the Sri Lanka Army’s General Services Corps, is under CID investigation following the gruesome murder of a soldier... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic editor
(Lanka-e-News -10.May.2025, 11.00 PM) In an economic climate still battered by sovereign default, just recovering exports, and IMF-mandated belt-tightening, one group continues to prop up Sri Lanka’s faltering state finances with silent devotion... Read more >>
Home Office draws red line under 'study now, asylum later' visa route, targets Lankan applicants as model test case
(Lanka-e-News -09.May.2025, 11.00 PM) The dream of sipping Earl Grey in a draughty Oxbridge library or pulling pints in a part-time job in Wolverhampton may soon be slipping from the grasp of thousands of Sri Lankan hopefuls... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -08.May.2025, 11.15 PM) In what is being hailed as a seismic shift in Sri Lanka’s political landscape, the National People's Power (NPP) has won a stunning 267 local government bodies in the long-delayed local authority elections held on Ma Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.May.2025, 11.00 PM) Marking another milestone in their longstanding partnership, the European Union and Sri Lanka convened the 8th Meeting of the Working Group on Governance, Rule of Law, and Human Rights under the... Read more >>
-By Lanka-e-News Hanoi bureaux
(Lanka-e-News -05.May.2025, 11.10 PM) In a diplomatic move underscoring Sri Lanka’s pivot towards Southeast Asia as a cornerstone of its foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday (May 4) held high-level discuss Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.May.2025, 9.30 PM) In the pale spring light of a post-election Britain, one name is being whispered with growing frequency in Westminster corridors: Mohammad Zia Yusuf. Until recently, he was the understated Chairman of the UK Reform Pa Read more >>
-By A LeN Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.May.2025, 8.45 PM) It began, as many such crises do, with an innocuous cough—though this time, not from a human, but from the engines of ships and cars suddenly sputtering to a halt across Sri Lanka. Thousands of irate motorists found th Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -03.May.2025, 11.20 PM) It was only a matter of time before Rohan Gunaratna’s reputation, built on a dizzying number of “terrorism expert” panels, TV appearances, and thinly-sourced paperbacks, began to collapse under the weight of its own i Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.May.2025, 11.10 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has departed Sri Lanka just moments ago, embarking on a state visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at the invitation of Vietnamese President Luong Cuong... Read more >>
-By Political Affairs Editor
(Lanka-e-News -02.May.2025, 10.45 PM) In a thunderous May Day rally on the Galle Face Green, Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), flanked by red flags and roaring crowds, struck a tone of resolute defiance.... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.May.2025, 10.40 PM) Colombo’s iconic Galle Face Green transformed into a roaring sea of red this May Day, as an estimated crowd of 300,000 to 400,000 converged to mark International Workers’ Day under the banner of the National People's Read more >>
-By Special Military Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.May.2025, 11.10 PM) Amid the golden glow of faith and tradition, the Sri Lankan Armed Forces demonstrated not only operational excellence but also profound spiritual sensitivity during the historic public exposition of the Sacred Tooth R Read more >>
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government hailed for governance reset as EU expresses confidence in trade partnership revival
(Lanka-e-News -30.April.2025, 11.40 PM) In a development poised to reshape Sri Lanka’s export-led recovery, the European Union has expressed a favourable position on granting continued access to the Generalized Scheme... Read more >>
Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath signals principled continuity in Colombo’s Middle East policy as Muslim civil society hails new era of inclusivity
(Lanka-e-News -30.April.2025, 11.30 PM) In the ornate conference chamber of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo, the air was thick not with ceremony but with sincerity. For a country often accused of retreating into parochialism or majoritarian rhe Read more >>
-By A LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.April.2025, 11.20 PM) Beruwala – In a rally more charged than a thunderstorm over Parliament, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s leftist firebrand-in-chief, took to the stage last week with a solemn pledge: the social contra Read more >>
-By LeN Foreign Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.April.2025, 11.00 PM) In a move symbolising the evolution of global leftist engagement, Sri Lanka's Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)—the island nation’s most prominent Marxist party—made a notable appearance at the recent political forum. Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.April.2025, 11.30 PM) When a lone foreign national strolled into the Russian Embassy in Colombo this afternoon, leaving behind an innocuous-looking parcel and an abundance of unanswered questions, the diplomatic quarter of the city... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -28.April.2025, 11.10 PM) In a series of public rallies across the Hambantota District yesterday (27th), Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya delivered a striking message: the era of political protection for corruption and crime is over.... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2025, 11.20 PM) Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s embattled former President, will face an unwelcome encore on Monday when he appears before the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC),... Read more >>
-By Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2025, 11.10 PM) In a move that could have significant ramifications for Sri Lanka’s upcoming local government elections, Rauff Hakeem, the leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and a sitting Member of Parliament, has publi Read more >>
-By A LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.April.2025, 11.00 PM) In an unusually forthright address to the media, the Director General of Sri Lanka’s Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), Mr. Ranga Dissanayake, issued a stern warning to politici Read more >>
-By A LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.April.2025, 10.45 PM) - Vatican City - Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Labour, and Tourism, Hon Vijitha Herath, travelled to the Vatican today to pay the nation’s final respects to His Holiness Pope Francis, who passed away earl Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -26.April.2025, 8.15 PM) Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Friends, Good morning! I am very glad to attend the "World Tai Chi Day". On behalf of the.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2025, 10.35 PM) President Anura Dissanayake emphasized that Sri Lanka is being transformed into a country capable of successfully facing any challenge that may continuously emerge on the global stage.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2025, 10.30 PM) Several documents linked to Sri Lanka have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.... Read more >>
-By LeN Financial Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.April.2025, 11.00 PM) In the world of Sri Lanka’s booming garment industry, Brandix has long stitched itself a reputation as the paragon of corporate responsibility—a flag-bearer of sustainable fashion, ethical manufacturing, and... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.April.2025, 10.50 PM) In a country where courtrooms see more drama than theatre stages, and where police chiefs moonlight as land brokers, the news that former Colombo Crime Division (CCD) Director Neville Silva had quietly surrendered.. Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2025, 11.30 PM) In the annals of Sri Lankan politics, the name Milinda Moragoda occasionally surfaces like an old yacht—rusting quietly in the shadow of the port he once gave away. Now, two decades later, the sea breeze carries... Read more >>
-By Jin Xuan, National Development and Reform Commission -China
(Lanka-e-News -23.April.2025, 11.10 PM) As the world’s largest developing country, China is a responsible major country that stands tall and just. Recently, as the US has recklessly wielded its tariff stick globally, China has resolutely stepped forward.. Read more >>
-By Staff Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.April.2025, 11.25 PM) In what could become one of the most diplomatically awkward entanglements between Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom since the end of the country’s civil war in 2009, former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.April.2025, 11.15 PM) There’s a particularly bitter irony in the latest accusations hurled at Fomer President Ranil Wickremesinghe — this time by M.A. Sumanthiran, a prominent Tamil former parliamentarian and senior lawyer. His charge is Read more >>
-By: Special Correspondent - Vatican Bureau
(Lanka-e-News -21.April.2025, 10.00 PM) The Catholic world is in mourning. White robes have been swapped for black, incense has turned from fragrant to funereal, and the mighty bells of St. Peter’s Basilica toll in a solemn rhythm.... Read more >>
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