-Ananda translated an දිවයින editorial into English
(Lanka-e-News -02.June.2022, 3.30PM) Steve Hankey, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, is an economist with a special interest in inflation. Hanke's inflation index is now well known around the world. According to his observatio Read more >>
-Sunanda Deshapriya reveals
(Lanka-e-News -30.June.2022, 11.30PM) The people of the South were able to see a shadow of… Read more >>
- Asaba reveals
(Lanka-e-News -18.June.2022, 5.20PM) Various nations have been at war for centuries to gain trade domination… Read more >>
-Medamulana LeN Reporter writes
(Lanka-e-News -16.June.2022, 4.30PM) Although not shown on the outside, Mahinda Rajapaksa is now suffering from severe mental and physical distress. Many people who have known Mahinda for many years know that Mahinda Rajapaksa, as.... Read more >>
- Chandrapradeep writes
(Lanka-e-News -05.June.2022, 6.25PM) The modern house called “Basil's Malwana Palace” and 16 acres coconut land situated at No. 111/3, Gangabada Road, Mahawatta, Malwana was valued at Rs. 1900 lakhs in 2016. In relation to this, Basil Rajapaksha, and Niru Read more >>
- A staff reporter writes
(Lanka-e-News -02.June.2022, 4.30PM) The Supreme Court has revoked a presidential pardon granted by the President for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court Tueday (May 31) ordered to suspend the 'presidential Read more >>
-Anubhavananda writes
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2022, 5.40PM) The Rajapaksa family are the founders of the rural lumpen loutish politics that exists in Sri Lanka today. It was the Rajapaksas who created the lumpen political thugs at the level of Pradeshiya Sabhas, Urban Councils, Read more >>
-Deshabandu Karu Jayasuriya
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2022, 5.45PM) May 28 marks the 50th day of the struggle for democracy launched by the country’s youth and its people at the Galle Face Green in Colombo. It is a struggle as never seen before in Sri Lanka where the people have arisen Read more >>
-Chandrapradeep writes
(Lanka-e-News -21.May.2022, 10.35 AM) Polonnaruwa District MP Amaraweera Athukorala was caught in the 9/5 civil unrest and died in Nittambuwa. White-collar thieves in Parliament are spreading the misconception that it was more inhumane than the murder of Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2022, 6.25PM) The political criticism leveled against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is that he has resigned, causing serious damage to the country. On May 9, we saw how Sri Lanka paid a heavy price not only with blood and tears bu Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.May.2022, 11.00PM) Clashes broke out in Sri Lanka on May 9, 2022 after government supporters attacked peaceful anti-government protest sites in Colombo, the capital, and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should uph Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.May.2022, 6.20PM) The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has moved away from the stance of both SJB and Jathika Jana Balawegaya (NPP) that they will not support an interim government as long as President Gotabhaya is in office, and... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News-30.April.2022, 11.30 pm) A youth struggle began on the Galle face green to overthrow the ignorant and rogue Rajapaksa family rule that turned a wonderful country into a bankrupt country within 30 months. One of its turning points was the "Go Read more >>
-Prof. Praneeth Abhayasundara writes
(Lanka-e-News-29.March.2022, 10.25 pm) ‘Love’ is a word that can convey different meanings. But in practice love is often used to describe the psycho-physical relationships that occur between men and women. Libido… This scope is scientifically defined as Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Feb.2021, 7.00PM) Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) , a Regional Human Rights Organization, having seriously observed and studied the manner in which the Contempt of Court law and the way it is practised in Sri Lanka, wish to express Read more >>
-Joint INGO Statement
(Lanka-e-News -14.Feb.2021, 3.00PM)) The Sri Lankan government’s statement after a human rights lawyer, Ambika Satkunanathan, spoke before the European Parliament about the human rights situation in Sri Lanka amounts to harassment and intimidation, eight Read more >>
-Lanka e News Editorial Board writes
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2022, 10.00AM) Fort Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage 9th of February ordered the release of LankaeNews security and political analyst Keerthi Ratnayake, who had been imprisoned by the Rajapaksa regime over a period of 8 months on absurd Read more >>
-By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2022, 11.00AM) In two occasions, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) held in two separate cases decided by the Sri Lankan Supreme Court related to contempt of court that the punishment imposed by the Court amounted to d Read more >>
-A report of LeN Internal Information Service reveals
(Lanka-e-News -16.Jan.2022, 11.00AM) Following the revelation of the mystery of Saharan's T-56 firearm, strong evidence that reveals how military intelligence worked with Saharan has emerged. At the same time, the connection between Sarah Jasmine and the Read more >>
-A staff reporter writes
(Lanka-e-News -10.Jan.2022, 11.20PM) A tragic suicide reported yesterday (9) reflects the economic abyss where the people of the country have been plunged by the stupid Rajapaksas of Medamulana and the cruel mentality of the people of the country who brou Read more >>
-A reporter of LeN Judicial Internal Information Service reveals
(Lanka-e-News -08.Jan.2021, 8.45am) A conspiracy to oust Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya from the post of Chief Justice and appoint Supreme Court Judge Priyantha Jayawardena who is notorious as a henchman of Basil Rajapaksa's is in full swing. A serious Read more >>
-Special revelation
(Lanka-e-News -31.Dec.2021, 11.40 am) The present severe public pressure in Sri Lanka, which was bankrupted by the Rajapaksas, erupted for the first time yesterday (30) at near the Prime Minister's office in Colombo 7. That was a gas robbery... Read more >>
-LeN Temple Trees Correspondent writes
(Lanka-e-News, 23.Dec.2021, 9.45 pm) Many of the leading manufacturers in the Sri Lankan apparel industry manufacture for international labels. Many world famous outfits like Tommy, Gap, Polo, Nike, Levi's, Victoria's Secret are made in Sri Lanka. Our cou Read more >>
-Chandrapradeep reveals
(Lanka-e-News -19.Dec.2021, 7.35PM) Lanka-e-News has received more evidence that the treasonous, illegal agreement to sell Yugadanavi Power Plant to America, which was signed misleading the Cabinet and secretly to the Parliament and the People is nothing Read more >>
-By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News - 14.Dec.2021, 11.25PM) The discussion on the making of a new constitution through an intensely participatory process, as against underhand methods, is now on. These are a few thoughts as a response to some questions that are being discussed Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.Nov.2021, 4.10PM) Lanka e News journalist Keerthi Rathnayake, who has been detained within the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) under the Draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act of Sri Lanka, through his lawyers submitted a Fundamen Read more >>
-Secret files reveal Rajapaksa ruling family member and husband used secret companies to stash riches around the world -By Scilla Alecci
(Lanka-e-News -05.Oct.2021, 8.40AM) In early 2018, workers in a London warehouse carefully loaded an oil painting of Lakshmi, the Hindu deity of wealth, onto a van bound for Switzerland. The painting, by 19th-century Indian master Raja Ravi... Read more >>
-By a SJB Front Line Member
(Lanka-e-News -03.Oct.2021, 9.45PM) In an unusual development, Badulla District Samagi Janabala Wegaya (SJB) Member of Parliament Chaminda Wijesiri openly criticized his leader Sajith Premadasa while speaking to the media recently. Here is the top-secret. Read more >>
-Champika Ranawaka MP
(Lanka-e-News -29.Sep.2021, 11.30PM) We have to stand against the attempts to surrender our autonomy in power and energy sector to the United States of America. Speaking at a press briefing, MP Patali Champika Ranawaka said that the “Yugadanavi” power Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -12.Sep.2021, 3.30AM) While Sri Lanka is faced with many crises, the President has acquired the powers to act under the National Security Law by taking emergency powers into his hands. Will that contribute to Sri Lanka’s ever deepening crise Read more >>
By Sunanda Deshapriya
(Lanka-e-News -04.Sep.2021, 5.45PM) IGP C.D. Wickramaratne made a special statement about the investigation on Easter Sunday attack a few days ago. His story is full of accusations against the police... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.Aug.2021, 8.10PM) Police in Sri Lanka should immediately release journalist Keerthi Ratnayake and halt further investigations into him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today(27). Ratnayake, a former army intelligence officer an Read more >>
By Concerned Sri Lankan Airlines Cabin Crew Members.
(Lanka-e-News -26.Aug.2021, 4.15AM) This is to disclose and bring COVID-19 related abuses at Sri Lankan Airlines in to attention so that a responsible party made available to this information could take corrective action on behalf of those affected, being Read more >>
By Sandaruwan Senadheera - Editor in chief
(Lanka-e-News -14.Aug.2021, 4.40AM) Keerthi Ratnayake, security and political analyst of Lanka e News, has been summoned by IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon to the Kollupitiya Police Station at 10 am today (14) for questioning. Despite Keerthi agreeing to this.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2021, 4.15AM) Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa is preparing to present a cabinet paper Monday 9th on the sale of stadiums under the Ministry of Sports and all stadiums maintained by the Municipal Councils and... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -05.Aug.2021, 11.45 AM) This note is being written at a time when the fourth wave of "unofficial" Covid is sweeping our entire country. The adjective 'unofficial' has to be used because the seriousness of this is not given to the people... Read more >>
-Amnesty International Report
(Lanka-e-News -05.Aug.2021, 9.35AM) The Sri Lankan Attorney General’s Department today decided not to proceed with charges against Wasantha Karannagoda, a former Navy commander, over his alleged role in the abduction of 11 Tamil, Muslim and... Read more >>
Keerthi Tennakoon writes about the country’s economic catastrophe.
(Lanka-e-News -01.Aug.2021, 9.30PM) The buyers have not come forward to purchase 31% of the $ 120 billion worth of Treasury bonds which was handled by the Central Bank. The highest amount of money printed in a single day on... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 27.July.2021, 6.45PM) In the wake of the “Pegasus Project” revelation that nearly 200 journalists around the world have been Pegasus spyware targets, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled recommendations for... Read more >>
A report on the slight withdrawal of Gota’s military dream.
(Lanka-e-News -19.July.2021, 2.45PM) A group of 31 people including Joseph Stalin, the secretary of the Ceylon Teacher’s Union, and Duminda Nagamuwa and group of six from Frontline Party who was forcibly detained after.. Read more >>
-Karu Jayasuriya
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2021, 10.30PM) Today we are holding this press conference at a time when we as a country are moving in a very dark direction. The process of repression of the people has already begun. The country's economy... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.July.2021, 11.00PM) Even though the terrible Medamulana government is suffering without cash to unload the the fuel which was brought to the port is still spreading the dictatorial. That is why the teacher’s union leader... Read more >>
-Former Finance Minister warns of impending doom
(Lanka-e-News -10.July.2021, 3.15PM) It is reported that most major banks in Sri Lanka have stopped issuing Letters of Credit for the importation of goods. According to reports while commercial banks accept applications for letters of credit, their issuan Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 06.July.2021, 4.00PM) Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is publishing a gallery of grim portraits, those of 37 heads of state or government who crack down massively on press freedom. Some of these “predators of press freedom” have... Read more >>
Chadrapradeep writes
(Lanka-e-News -30.June.2021,3.00PM) Arumadura Romelo Duminda Silva alias 'Kudu Duminda' who was a mass murderer as well as a drug kingpin of Sri Lankan drug trafficking was released from prison unconditionally and sent home. Lanka e news is reported.. Read more >>
Chandrapradeep writes
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2021, 6.35PM) Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who has been pointed the finger as the mastermind of the Easter attack, has completely abused his presidency and gave presidential pardon to Arumadura Romelo Silva alias Kudu Duminnda... Read more >>
By Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -24.June.2021, 11.30PM) Lanka e News opposed the killings of the suspects in police custody by DIG Deshabandu. But there was a group which justified the killings of the underworld. Stepping up the rule of the law is characteristic of a mafia Read more >>
By Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2021, 8.15PM) Inevitably, a legal framework for crime will emerge in a country ruled by a group of rulers whose philosophy of life is theft and slander. In addition, a culture of praising crime is emerging. That is the tragedy... Read more >>
-104 Agriculture Professionals signed
(Lanka-e-News- 13.June.2021, 2.35PM) We, hereby, vehemently condemn the derogatory and misleading remarks made by Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya - who seems to be a consummate politician and is a medical trade union leader... Read more >>
Chandrapradeep exposes
(Lanka-e-News -08.June.2021, 11.30PM) One year after Gota's inauguration, a public opinion was formed that Gota had failed. It was not socialized by anyone for money. Nor was it merely an opposition slogan. The “Gota failed” social ideology was sparked by Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News - 05.June.2021, 11.30PM) Dappula de Livera retired as Attorney General on May 25th and President's Counsel Sanjay Rajaratnam was sworn in as the new Attorney General. Nishara Jayaratne, who was appointed as the Coordinating Secretary to the Read more >>
Keerthi Rathnayake exposes
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2021, 5.20AM) China uses a completely different approach to the Western model in lending to foreign countries. The West looks to many factors, such as human rights, democracy, and labour law, in lending, but China does not... Read more >>
-Chandrapradeep exposes
(Lanka-e-News - 2021.May.25, 11.30PM) Lanka e News has received evidence that Dr. Padeniya’s GMOA doctors Association has been involved in a serious Kovid vaccine corruption. This is not only heinous corruption but also serious misconduct... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 21.May.2021, 11.00AM) The Colombo Port City Economic Commission Bill, betraying the heart of the motherland to the Chinese imperialists on May 20, 2021, similar to the Kandyan Pact that betrayed the kanda udarata to the British... Read more >>
By Professor Malik Peiris & Professor Kamini Mendis
(Lanka-e-News -19.May.2021, 3.00AM) ⋆ The current covid-19 situation in Sri Lanka is grave, and needs swift and strategic intervention ⋆ The strategies of small-area isolation, preventing inter-provincial travel, short and intermittent lockdowns and mild Read more >>
-Association of Medical Specialists
(Lanka-e-News -11.May.2021, 6.45PM) As medical specialists serving in the frontline of the fight against Covid-19, we strongly believe that Sri Lanka is at a critical stage. Number of new cases keep rising continuously. During last week, the daily number Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -05.May.2021, 6.30PM) Rishad Bathiudeen, a Member of Parliament who was detained by the CID on a detention order under the Prevention of Terrorism Act on false charges, was not allowed to enter Parliament yesterday. The same thing happened.. Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -29.April.2021, 6.00 PM) The criminal investigation department has informed the courts that SJB national list parliamentarian Dayana Gamage alais 'Cannabis Diana' has only British Citizenship, that she don’t have... Read more >>
(Includes video of Rishard's last speech depriving Gota regime) -Chandrapradeep writes
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2021, 3.25 PM) Former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother Riaj Bathiudeen were arrested by the CID yesterday 24th morning for questioning in connection with the Easter attack. Despite the Presidential Commission of Inquiry r Read more >>
An exposure made by Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -24.April.2021, 7.10PM) The Easter attack massacre turned Sri Lankan politics upside down. Before the blood stains became dry Gotabaya Rajapaksa without the consent of Pohottuwa stated that he would contest the 2019 presidential... Read more >>
(Dr) Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel
(Lanka-e-News -18.April.2021, 10.45PM) The Colombo Port Economic Commission Bill was presented in Parliament on 08 April 2021, while the country was getting ready to celebrate the traditional New Year. With the intervening... Read more >>
By Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News -14.April.2021, 5.55AM) It is almost two years since the brutal Easter Sunday terrorist attack detonated. An acceptable further investigation into the attack to punish the perpetrators is sluggish. It is ridiculous that the government... Read more >>
Sunanda Deshapriya reports from Geneva
(Lanka-e-News -28.March.2021, 8.00PM) The Rajapakse government inflicted further defeats on Sri Lanka internationally. As long as the Rajapaksa governments lasted, the Sri Lankan government suffered defeats at the UN Human Rights Council in 2012, 2013 and Read more >>
Keerthi Rathnayake reports
(Lanka-e-News- 24.March.2021, 6.30PM) The loss of leaders including late president Premadasa, Lalith and Gamini caused irreparable damage to the UNP. The damage was so large that a UNP president could not be elected after Premadasa until today. That is,.. Read more >>
Lanka e News Special Agent from Geneva
(Lanka-e-News- 24.March.2021, 6.00PM) Resolution 40/1 on Human Rights, Reconciliation and Accountability in Sri Lanka' submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council about Sri Lanka, which allows anyone to be prosecuted in any country for war crimes Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.March.2021, 10.25AM) President Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapakse posted a veiled threat to the media at the Gama samaga pilisandara drama held at Walapane on the 19th. He said that the information revealed by the... Read more >>
By Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News -10.March.2021, 4.15AM) The current government is deliberately covering up the Easter Sunday attacks on April 21, 2019, the deadliest massacre in Sri Lanka in the last decade. Meanwhile, both the respondents and the plaintiffs are attacking Read more >>
By Prof. D. A. Basnayaka
(Lanka-e-News -09.March.2021, 5.30PM) Foreign Secretory Jayanath Colombage in Jan 2021, commenting on the impending resolution against Sri Lanka in 46th Session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), said that: “SL doesn’t want strategic military Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -03.March.2021, 11.00PM) An opportunity has risen for henchmen of the presidential commission Upali Abeyratne alias' Pissu Pusa ', Daya Chandrasiri Jayatilleke the corrupt pensioner judge, and Chandra Fernando, the most corrupt.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 25.Feb.2021, 8.10AM) President's Counsel Saliya Peiris won a record majority of votes in yesterday's election to elect the 26th President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, with a majority close to the total number of votes obtained by.. Read more >>
By Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News - 18.Feb.2021, 8.10AM) On April 21, Easter Sunday, about 300 unarmed people were brutally killed in a suicide attack targeting Catholic churches and tourist hotels in Sri Lanka. The report of the Presidential Commission appointed to look... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2021, 11.30PM) The junta government of the Gotabaya-Mahinda Rajapaksa-led Rajapaksa family, which came to power swearing not to sell the country, has made all arrangements to sell 21 state-owned tea estates to China, reports Lanka e Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Feb.2021, 8.00PM) Reports reaching Lanka e news conforms the patriotic Gota government has completed the sale of three islands in the North Sea, including Delft Island, the largest island in Sri Lanka, to China for three power projects.. Read more >>
Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News- 31.Jan.2021, 10.30 PM) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in her latest report on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next month would urge the world leaders to call for an imposition of targeted sanction Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -26.Jan.2021, 6.55PM) UN human rights experts yesterday (25) urged the Sri Lankan Government to end its policy of forced cremation of the COVID-19 deceased, saying it ran contrary to the beliefs of Muslims and other minorities in the country Read more >>
A question from a citizen of little Rome
(Lanka-e-News- 17.Jan.2021, 9.35AM) "Cardinal, if you do not act conscientiously, sincerely, sincere before God, without being partial, with courage, to reveal the whole truth of the mystery as well as those responsible for the Easter attack, I kindly but Read more >>
Wimal Dheerasekere writes
(Lanka-e-News- 10.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) President Nandasena who was frowned by the action of opposition MP Harin Fernando at the parliament, posed a public threat that he is an executor that he would kill Harin as a dog as he killed Prabakaran. It is a wild Read more >>
By Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News -01.Jan.2021, 8.45PM) People in the country are terrified of the deaths due to the countrywide Kovid 19 epidemic. At present, there are close to 200 deaths and 50,000 Kovid infected victims. As a result, the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government has Read more >>
An exposure by Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News - 25.Dec.2020, 9.15 AM) Reports reaching Lanka e news confirms the then head of state, Pallewatta Gamaralage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena has received USD one million (Rs. 190 million) by a foreign force to facilitate the detonation of the East Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 24.Dec.2020, 10.00PM) It is with great sympathy and patriotism we report following one year of presidency Gotabaya Rajapaksa the 'working hero' who came to power claiming to bring prosperity to the country, for the first time in history, Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Dec.2020, 11.30PM) On the 9th of December Gampaha high court judge Nimal Ranaweera rejected the bail application filed by the former director of CID Shani Abeysekara who was remaded unjustly, and the sub inspector Sugath Mendis who refu Read more >>
By Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -12.Dec.2020, 12.05PM) Internal conflicts within the party was the major factor in the defeat of the Rajapaksa government before. Meanwhile, the assassination of Bharatha Lakshman and the Aluthgama riots were decisive. Gota was the creator o Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 05.Dec.2020, 4.45PM) The current government is being severely criticized and despised by the world community for its state terrorism for torturing and brutally murdering a group of prisoners in Mahara Prison in Sri Lanka who were protesting Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Dec.2020, 12.30PM) Deshamandya Karu Jayasuriya, chairman of the National Movement for a Just Society, warned the government not to insult the intelligence of the people and not to mistake the silence of the people as cowardice as the gov Read more >>
By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News, 01.Dec.2020, 10.45AM) According to the reports, 29th Nov 8 prison inmates at Mahara prison were shot dead and 71 were seriously injured when the prison guards and elite police opened fire indiscriminately at the unarmed inmates protesting Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.Nov.2020,2.00PM) Rajapaksa government, who are infamous for killing prisoners, has killed nine inmates and injured 105 others in a long-running shooting at the Mahara prison. (The death toll is said to be higher) An unrest among the pri Read more >>
Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -25.Nov.2020, 11.30PM) The Court of Appeal of Sabri-Nawaz, which is currently hearing criminal cases in Sri Lanka on a daily basis, issued a writ order on the 20th dismissing the indictment filed by the Attorney General in the Kandy High Cou Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 23.Nov.2020, 9.15PM) Desperate to try and stop the exposure of his crooked deal to bring Covid-19 test kits to Sri Lanka and sell them for a thundering profit, Derana TV’s Dilith Jayaweera went to the Colombo District Court to get an order Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -13.Nov.2020, 11.30PM) Lanka e news have to report with intense sympathy that people of the country are burning to death in the middle of the roads due to the mismanagement of the kovid epidemic and the resulting famine made by the Rajapaks Read more >>
By Prasanna Pathiraja, AAL
(Lanka-e-News -03.Nov.2020, 11.30PM) China is criticized globally for luring developing countries to borrow money and then controlling over them. This is being identified by the economists as ‘debt traps’ launched by the China. Much of the lending is do Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.Oct.2020, 11.30PM) US Secretary of State Mr. Pompeo slaps China during a joint press conference in Colombo today. He response to the Chinese ambassador to Sri Lanka issuing statement against the United States even before his arrival in S Read more >>
By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.Oct.2020, 8.00AM) The government is asking us to believe that they did not murder Makandure Madush. We will believe that the same day we believe they did not arrest Rishad Bathiudeen to pass the 20th Amendment. Madush was arrested in F Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 26.Oct.2020, 6.00AM) On the night of October 22nd Chaoxiang in Shanghai was overjoyed when the rules were changed to allow Sri Lankan dual citizens to enter parliament. He wondered if his mother knew the future when she named him. The name Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News - 26.Oct.2020, 6.20AM) The Sri Lankan government has passed the second reading of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution by a two-thirds majority yesterday 22nd creating a constitutional dictatorship, despite the fact that the entire world i Read more >>
S. V. KIRUPAharan, France
(Lanka-e-News -23.Oct.2020, 10.30PM) In the UN General Assembly in New York, on 13th October, elections were held for fifteen vacancies for members of the UN Human Rights Council - HRC for the period 2021 to 2023. Some countries with records of gross hum Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News- 21.Oct.2020.8.00PM) Samarasinghe Arachchige Madhush Lakshitha alias Makandure Madhush, a suspect in a number of crimes in Sri Lanka, was arrested by Abu Dhabi police in February 2019 and handed over to the Sri Lankan government in 2019 May. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.Oct.2020, 10.30PM) Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed his son Lieutenant Commander Yoshitha Kanishka Rajapaksa as the new Chief of Staff of the prime ministers office. Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over the appointment letter yest Read more >>
By Wimal Dheerasekera
(Lanka-e-News -12.Oct.2020, 7.15AM) Five panel judges verdict of the 39 petitions filed in the Supreme Court against the 20th Amendment has reached the people through devious sources. Article 121 (3) of the Constitution states, decision of such cases is g Read more >>
By Special Correspondent for LeN Internal Information Service
(Lanka-e-News -11.Oct.2020, 10.00AM) A Chinese delegation has come to Sri Lanka. When questioned in the parliament are they complying with the quarantine laws? The health minister says they are coming to the island following a PCR and we are also doing a Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -08.Oct.2020, 8.00PM) It is suspected that the Corona cluster found at the Brandix garment factory in Minuwangoda was started from a flight which came from Visakapattannam India to Mattala on the 22nd of September carrying a group of Indian Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -06.Oct.2020, 7.30AM) Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith showed his displeasure before the media when Medamulana Rajapaksas exposed Satan’s ass to him. That was none other than Riaj Bathiudeen, the brother of the former minister Rishad Bathiudeen, who Read more >>
Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel
(Lanka-e-News -14.Sep.2020, 3.50AM) The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution Bill (20A) has been published. If I were to describe it in one sentence—20A seeks to take the country backwards to the 2010-2015 period. The only features introduced by the Ni Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Sep.2020, 11.30PM) The appeal court of Sri Lanka issued an interim order today to the prisons commissioner general Thushara Upuldeniya, superintendent of the Welikada prisons and the secretary of the parliament to take Halkandaliya Leka Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 04.Sep.2020, 8.45PM) The 20th amendment which makes the premier a beggar, parliament, the judicial services commission and ministers a puppet, thus giving more powers to the presidency than JR did has been released removing the 19th amendme Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 27.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) All 14 petitions filed against Lanka e News editor Sandaruwan Senadheera in the Supreme Court for contempt of court were withdrawn by petitioner Ovitigalage Madura Vithana (current PJP MP) when the case was called on Read more >>
An exposure by Jailor Podda
(Lanka-e-News -19.Aug.2020, 8.00PM) On the 17th of this month CID Chief Inspector Sagara Nilantha Karasingharachchi arrested the chief editor of Tiran Alles’s Mawbima newspaper Prasad Abeywickrama following the exposure made by Jailor Podda of Lanka e New Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Aug.2020, 3.00AM) Dear Ranil Wickremesinghe, In this article, I would like to draw your attention to the "socio-political devastation" inflicted on the UNP during last 5th Wednesday's general elections and the reasons for the request mad Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.Aug.2020, 3.45PM) The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) congratulates the election officials, all winning and losing candidates, as well as all citizens of the country for having been part of a relatively peaceful election process, even in the mi Read more >>
By a special correspondent
(Lanka-e-News- 04.Aug.2020, 3.40PM) Former Director of the CID Shani Abeysekera has been remanded. It is based on an allegation that the evidence in a case proved in 2013 was fabricated. It is said that several CID officers have also given evidence in thi Read more >>
Reported by Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -31.July.2020,11.00PM) Former CID director Shani Abeysekera, known as Sherlock Holmes in Sri Lanka, has been arrested by the CCD this morning, citing a reason not material in any other country on the planet. Shani's arrest is based on alleg Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News -25.July.2020, 11.30PM) The Kandakadu Cluster and Abductive Quarantine - Between 10th July and 17th July, over 1,250 positive test results were recorded, of which just over 800 are associated with the new Kandakadu cluster. Public Health Ins Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 12.July.8.45 PM) As it was reported this morning, the risk of spreading Covid-19 pandemic has risen that, according to specialists, it can become a national catastrophe. I would like to remind the people of Sri Lanka that it is highly impo Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News -30.June.2020, 11.30PM) With the general election now scheduled for 5th August, the government has banned the reporting of new positive COVID-19 tests except under exceptional circumstances. Daily testing is largely limited to returnees, an Read more >>
-Chandrapradeep reveals
(Lanka-e-News -14.June.2022, 2.30PM) The treacherous Rajapaksa family, who has been robbing the country of its national wealth for decades, are now planning to buy another new island from the Maldives, even though the country does not have a single dollar Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News-03.June.2022, 7.15 pm) A fundamental rights case has been filed today against former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, former finance minister Ali Sabri and 26 former cabinet ministers have been accu Read more >>
(Lanka-e-news-02.June.2022, 4.30 PM) The murderer convicted of four murders, Kudu Duminda, was arrested by the CID at 3.30 pm yesterday (01) while he was a resident at the Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, according to a Supreme Court order.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.May.2022, 10.40AM) The Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) wishes to raise serious concerns about various repressive measures the government has initiated against social activists involved in the ongoing peoples struggle Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.May.2022, 6.35PM) High Commissioner Gopal Baglay handed over a large consignment of humanitarian assistance worth more than SLR 2 billion from the people of India to Hon’ble Foreign Minister Prof. G.L Peiris in Colombo on 22 May 2022. Th Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -21.May.2022, 10.30 AM) IGP C. D. Wickramaratna has revealed in writing with proofs the devastation inflicted on the Sri Lanka Police in the first 11 months of 2021 alone, after the President and his brother Mara, the ignorant scoundrels... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.May.2022, 6.45PM) As the national trade union representing university academics, which has stood firmly behind the ongoing people’s struggle for democracy and economic stability, the Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News-2022.May.04, 7.25 pm) The trade unions and civil society organizations are all set to launch a 24-hour hartal day after tomorrow (May 06) demanding the government, including the President, to step down. If the government does not respond... Read more >>
-Sunanda Deshapriya writes
(Lanka-e-News -30.April.2022, 10.15PM) It was still raining heavily. We only had massive trees for shelter. That was 51 years ago in the month of April in the year 1971. We were in the mountainous jungle between Walapane and Kivulakele, adjoining the Bad Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.April.2022, 9.00PM) The Rajapaksa government yesterday appointed a new cabinet and appointed Kanchana Wijesekera, the son of a notorious assassin, as energy minister. His first task was to raise fuel prices to an unaffordable level. The Read more >>
-By a staff reporter
(Lanka-e-News - 16.April.2022, 5.45PM About a few of hours ago, LankaeNews revealed the plan of former Sri Lanka Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa to flee the country tomorrow (17). It has now been confirmed to LankaeNews that Basil had fled the country so Read more >>
- An open letter from Hyder Ali to Ali Sabri
(Lanka-e-News -12.april.2022, 11.00PM) People in this country think of Ali Sabry as a great legal scholar, intellectual, and gentlemen. But people may not know your cruel face behind you. You are primarily responsible for all the problems facing this co Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.April.2022, 9.00AM) It is reported that the rats in the wrecked Rajapaksas’ vessel have started fleeing one by one. While the innocent people of the country are being starved, the mouths of the Rajapaksa bastards who robbed the people o Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -06.April.2022, 5.20 AM) Following a recent decision by the Cabinet of Ministers, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has initiated action to temporarily close down the Sri Lanka Embassy in Oslo, the Kingdom of Norway; the Sri Lanka Embassy in.. Read more >>
-NetBlocks observers say
(Lanka-e-News- 03.April.2022, 5.45AM) NetBlocks metrics confirm the restriction of multiple social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Viber and YouTube in Sri Lanka after midnight on Sunday 3 April 2022 local timeReal-time network data Read more >>
-Writes a Special Security Correspondent
(Lanka-e-news -03.April.2022, 6.30 am) Senior security observers say that it is confirmed that the vehicles were set on fire by the Army Intelligence after the troops arrived and disembarked during the Mirihana mass struggle. From those videos it is clea Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 02.April.2022, 9.25AM) An investigation led by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Washington, D.C. field office led to a guilty plea by a former Sri Lankan ambassador to the U.S. today fo Read more >>
-Sunanda Deshapriya suggests
(Lanka-e-News-25.March.2022, 9.25 pm) Gota go home! (#GotaGoHome) – it is the day-by-day increasing public outcry, and such thing was not happened against any of previous executive president in the country. Can this noise and expectation turn to be a rea Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News-25.March.2022, 8.35 pm) President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has agreed to set up a multi-billion dollar fund from the Tamil Diaspora for development in the North and East. The fund is not for repaying loans in Sri Lanka but only for development ac Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 19.March.2022, 10.45 pm) A 71-year-old grandfather who was starving, drenched in rain and waiting in line for a long time in a kerosene queue has died. The deceased has been identified as a resident of Wattegama, Udathalawinna, Kandy. After Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News-18.March.2022, 3.25 am) According to China's foreign financial sector information, it is reported that Sri Lanka has not been able to repay the foreign loan due to China. Sri Lanka owes $ 53.596 million to China Development Bank, $ 17 millio Read more >>
-Dr. Harsha de Silva
(Lanka-e-News-18.March.2022, 4.20 am) Earlier this week, a senior IMF official visited Sri Lanka to brief the government on the IMF’s assessment of the crisis-hit economy. The IMF Asia and Pacific Department Director Changyong Rhee held meetings with the Read more >>
-Anubhawananda explains..
(Lanka-e-News -16.March.2022, 11.30PM) Wimal Weerawansa is one of the main figures who is directly responsible for the unfortunate situation of Sri Lanka today. During the last three decades of his involvement in politics, he contributed to the political, Read more >>
- Russell Hewawasam writes
(Lanka-e-News- 21.Feb.2021, 11.30AM) Special court today gave a good example to prove that the Easter Sunday massacre case was merely a ploy by Gota’s government to kill time. Colombo Special High Court Friday (February 18) acquitted former IGP Pujith Jay Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Feb.2021, 9.300PM) In a comprehensive interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Arundhati Roy says the present situation in the country is “extremely depressing” but she believes there are signs that the Indian people are climbing out of Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Feb.2022, 10.40AM) It has been reported to LankaeNews that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the trade banks are jointly stealing the dollars sent to Sri Lanka by Sri Lankans who are working very hard abroad. The victim of this fraud is Read more >>
-By Claudio Francavilla
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2022, 10.20AM) Sri Lanka’s government has recently unveiled a bill to amend its abusive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Foreign Ministry hailing it as a “most progressive step” towards bringing the notorious law in line with “ Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Jan.2022, 4.45PM) Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar held a virtual meeting with Finance Minister of Sri Lanka H.E. Basil Rajapaksa on January 15, 2022. This interaction follows Mr. Rajapaksa’s visit to India last month. Read more >>
-By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -07.Jan.2021, 9.50pm) A man of about 50 years, walks to a vegetable shop in Savithripura, Anuradhapura, and in front of a few others who also have come to buy some vegetables, he asked the small shop owner whether he could borrow two raw pap Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.Dec.2021, 6.45PM) Tamils for Biden have sent a letter to U.S. President Joseph Biden to ask him to restore the sovereignty of the Tamil homeland, in order to help prevent the Chinese from their incursion into north-east, Sri Lanka under Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 17.Dec.2021, 8.45PM) Sri Lanka is in the midst of many crises. The trajectory it is heading – increasing authoritarianism and militarised governance; further marginalisation of Tamil, Muslim, Hindu, and Christian communities; and the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 14.Dec.2021, 11.45PM) Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka has been downgraded to B status by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), a United Nations Institute of National Human Rights Organisation... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 09.Dec.2021, 7.40 pm) The International Network for Sri Lanka’s Democracy (INSD) calls on the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) to stop exploiting the expatriate working community by maintaining state-controlled, unrealistic pseudo-exchange ra Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.Nov.2021, 10.15AM) The recent appointment by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of a Presidential Task Force for ‘One Country, One Law’ under the leadership of Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero is a deeply worrying development.... Read more >>
-A statement on enforced disappearances by Asian Human Rights Commission
(Lanka-e-News -28.Oct.2021, 3.00PM) Every year, on the 27th of October, there is a commemoration of the persons who have been made to disappear by force. The day is called ‘the day of commemoration of the enforced disappearances. On this day, many issues. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.Oct.2021, 1.10 PM) Professor G.L. Peiris has announced that the drafting process of the Constitution is over and that the text is ready. He said that it was to be presented to the Parliament in January next year. President Gotabaya Rajap Read more >>
-FUTA Secretary Dr. Rohan Laksiri writes
(Lanka-e-News -23.Oct.2021, 3.15 PM) The government of Sri Lanka recently imported liquid Nano-Nitrogen fertilizer from Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd. (IFFCO). From an initial order of 3.1 million liters, 45,000 liters... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.Oct.2021, 10.30PM) The beleaguered Sri Lankan economy faces substantial credit risk, with default 'a real possibility', Singapore-based Fitch Ratings said on Tuesday. The rating agency also revised Sri Lanka's growth forecast... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Oct.2021, 2.30PM) Foreign Secretary of India, Shri Harsh Vardhan Shringla visited Sri Lanka for a 3-day Official visit from 02-05 October 2021. This was his first visit to Sri Lanka in his current capacity. During the visit, Foreign Secr Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -05.Oct.2021, 5.15AM) Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have all gone down in a major outage. Such problems – especially after they have been ongoing for hours – likely indicates there is a major problem... Read more >>
-By Daniel Alphonsus
(Lanka-e-News -29.Sep.2021, 11.45PM) “This is not a Sinhala-Buddhist country”. This war cry, triumphantly proclaimed in the deepest South after the Easter Bombings, were probably Mangala’s most famous words. And rightly so, for they captured the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -29.Sep.2021, 11.00PM) Marking the completion of five years of the first Right to Information Commission of Sri Lanka and in line with international information day (28th September 2021) an awareness program was held in the Central province. Read more >>
-Human Rights Watch
(Lanka-e-News -10.Sep.2021, 8.45PM) The United Nations Human Rights Council should maintain its rigorous scrutiny of Sri Lanka’s worsening human rights situation and press for genuine improvements, Human Rights Watch said today(10). At the Council’s upcom Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Aug.2021, 11.30AM) The International Network for Sri Lanka’s Democracy (INSD) vehemently condemns the action of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 30 August 2021 to declare a state of emergency in Sri Lanka when there is clearly... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Aug.2021, 10.45AM) The state Minister of Finance and the Secretary to the finance Ministry are out boasting about the increase of Dollar reserves from 2.8 billion at the end of July to 4 billion. This was solely due to Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.Aug.2021, 9.30PM) The Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) condemns the continued detention of several student leaders and trade union activists since the first week of August. The only reason these activists are... Read more >>
-International Federation of journalists
(Lanka-e-News -26.Aug.2021, 9.05PM) Keerthi Ratnayake, a journalist affiliated with Lanka e News, was arrested on August 14 by Sri Lanka’s government and accused of providing intelligence information to the Indian embassy in Sri Lanka. He was charged.. Read more >>
-Lanka e News Editorial Board
(Lanka-e-News -20.Aug.2021, 11.00PM) Keerthi Ratnayake, a defense and political analyst at Lanka e News, has been arrested by the Rajapakse family government following personal warning information given on loyalty to the Indian embassy in... Read more >>
-Deshabandhu Karu Jayasuriya
(Lanka-e-News -19.Aug.2021, 11.00PM) We are paying close attention to the arrest of Lanka e News journalist Keerthi Ratnayake by the police. According to his lawyers, the police have not specified anything that led to the arrest of Keerthi Ratnayake. But Read more >>
-The Bar Association of Sri Lanka writes to the IGP and the Human Rights Commission
(Lanka-e-News -15.Aug.2021, 9.30PM) Attorney-at-Law Upul Kumarapperuma, has written a letter to the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Salliya Peirisyesterday that the infamous CCD who took Keerthi Rathnayake Lanka e News journalist... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Aug.2021, 1.40PM) Journalist Keerthi Ratnayake, a defense and political analyst at Lanka e News, has been arrested by the Colombo Criminal Investigation Division (CCD) It is reported that the suspects who raided his residence are current Read more >>
Chandrapradeep expose
(Lanka-e-News -13.Aug.2021, 11.45PM) The traitorous Rajapaksa family government has decided to give one of the main sources of income for the Port of Colombo, with 13 acres of valuable land in the Port of Colombo for a marginal amount to the Chinese... Read more >>
-Chandrapradeep exposes
(Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2021, 11.00PM) With the outbreak of the Delta variant of the Covid virus, the number of patients has become so high that national hospitals are no longer able to cope. The government also introduced a new hotline number.. Read more >>
-Human Rights Watch from New York
(Lanka-e-News -06.Aug.2021, 7.40PM) Sri Lanka’s police are increasingly killing and abusing people under cover of the Covid-19 pandemic measures and an anti-drug campaign, Human Rights Watch said today. Recent police abuses... Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -05.Aug.2021, 3.45PM) As the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is reaching its first year of governance, which some may call non governance, the question that may be in the minds of many is where is it going? That is... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Aug.2021, 5.10AM) The most uneducated finance minister in the world and the brainless man is preparing to issue duty free vehicle import licenses to 1000 government officials and 80 shameless monks ahead of the upcoming... Read more >>
-Keerthi Ratnayake writes.
(Lanka-e-News -28.July.2021, 8.00PM) A court has ruled that GMOA chairman Anuruddha Padenuya and his team, who have been in a dictatorial frenzy for more than ten years, are no longer fit to hold office in the Government Medical Officers Association. The Read more >>
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon writes
(Lanka-e-News -23.July.2021,7.25 p.m.) The gas crisis is as follows in simple English. Sri Lanka needs dollars to import gas. If Laugh continues to supply gas to consumers, it will have to import $7 million worth... Read more >>
-An announcement by the Editorial Board of LeN
(Lanka-e-News -16.July.2021, 12.40 PM) A website called Sri Lanka Fact Crescendo a propaganda tool of the Podujana Peramuna and Iraj’s website (Iraj who wears dresses) publishing distorted news through social media networks. This has been started after.. Read more >>
-LeN Internal Information Service Report
(Lanka-e-News - 15.July. 2021, 5.10 p.m) Searching of accuses who have been involved in 15 years old girl’s case has stopped immediately. This decision has taken by Senior IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon, a senior police officer revealed to LeN Internal.. Read more >>
-Says Trade Unions Collective
(Lanka-e-News -11.July.2021, 2.45PM) For the second time too at the Court’s premises itself, police rounded up protesters who were released on bail by the Magistrate and took them away for forced quarantine. Those so taken away were protesters who... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.July.2021, 4.00PM) A ship carrying fuel to Sri Lanka has been stranded outside the Port of Colombo for 6 days without unloading, due to a shortage of dollar reserves created by the uncivilized family government in... Read more >>
By Mangala Samaraweera
(Lanka-e-News- 02.July.2021, 2.15PM) “Reflect continually on the fact that all things as happen now, also happened before, and on the fact that they will happen again. The whole dramas and the comparable scenes…from history of the past….All these... Read more >>
Repeal Prevention of Terrorism Act to Meet International Commitments
(Lanka-e-News -29.June.2021, 11.50AM)The Sri Lankan government’s pardon of 16 prisoners convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), however welcome, does not address the urgent need to repeal the draconian law, Human Rights Watch said.. Read more >>
An exposure by Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -27.June.2021, 12.05PM) On June 18th a sub-inspector was arrested with 52 kilograms of heroin. I police history 52 kg heroin raid is a small quantity. Loads of powder containers have been seized in the past. But at no time did the senior DIG Read more >>
By JR Mallawarachchige (Part 1)
(Lanka-e-News -26.June.2021, 8.10AM) Ranil Wickremesinghe was a 28-year-old young handsome man when he first appeared in politics from the Biyagama electorate in the parliamentary elections in 1977. Today, he has completed 72 years of his life... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.June.2021, 6.45PM) The attention of the Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has been drawn to a pardon given by His Excellency the President to Duminda Silva, a prisoner who was convicted for... Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -19.June.2021, 11.45PM) Sri Lanka's most outstanding detective and the former director of CID Shani Abeysekere known as Sherlock Holmes, who was arrested and kept in remand custody on false charges... Read more >>
-54 organizations, 72 intellectuals are calling
(Lanka-e-News -12.June.2021, 11.30PM) We, the undersigned organizations, trade unions, networks and individuals from across Sri Lanka express serious concern about the escalating pandemic and continuing rights violations and deterioration... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.June.2021, 11.30PM) There is discussion and a board paper is ongoing proposing millions of Rupees increase for Managers and above categories at Peoples Insurance.... Read more >>
By a Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 06.June.2021, 11.30PM) A fraud of five million dollars has been committed in bringing the Sinopharm vaccine to Sri Lanka. This fraud has been done through the State Pharmaceutical Corporation with the direct knowledge of... Read more >>
We are in fear of death..! The soldiers in hiding write to the Secretary of Defense and the Army Commander
(Lanka-e-News -03.June.2021, 8.00AM) Colonel Shammi Kumararatne, the then Commanding Officer of the Giritale Army Camp, who was charged by the High Court as the first respondent in the abduction and murder of... Read more >>
-By a special correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2021, 5.40AM) Sri Lanka is on the verge of a catastrophe in the face of the corona epidemic. Fear of death has come close to every citizen. More than 700,000 people have lost their jobs. Farmers are unable to sell... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 23.May.2021, 6.00PM) Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and his wife Jalani Premadasa have both been hospitalized with corona infections due to disregard of quarantine laws, and many of his MPs, including... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.May.2021, 3.00PM) Similar to the Kandyan agreement that betrayed the country, many clauses of this agreement, that the Gotabhaya Rajapaksa government betraying the country to China are unconstitutional, The Supreme Court has ruled... Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News- 14.May.2021, 7.05PM) As revealed by Lanka e News 12th evening, Dharmakeerthi Tharaka Perera Wijesekera alias Kosgoda Tharaka, who was in police custody last morning 13th, has been killed by police assassins.. Read more >>
-Strict announcement from FUTA
(Lanka-e-News-07.May.2021, 4.35 PM) In the name of national security, a bill called 'Kotalawela National Defense University Bill' is to be introduced with the aim of militarizing universities and higher education. Explaining its danger,... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -06.May.2021, 9.45PM) A message from Dr Olivia Nieveras, the Officer-In-Charge, WHO Sri Lanka... Read more >>
An exposure by Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -02.May.2021, 6.30PM) The Gota regime which has claimed falsehood as its religion, trying to win covid by applying deceptions is moving the country Read more >>
(Lanka-e-news -28.April.2021, 6.00PM) Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Feng arrived in Sri Lanka from the Katunayake International Airport yesterday 27th. During the two-day visit of the Chinese Defense Minister, Gotabhaya's government presented... Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2021, 8.30 PM) Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith presided over the 21st of April commemoration with the participation of other religious leaders. Talking about the issue, he has said that the problem is not just about Catholics,... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2021, 9.35PM) ''We are horrified and outraged at the ongoing moves to arrest a parliamentarian for exercising his parliamentary privilege of speaking on the floor of the House.'' The National Movement for a Social Justice has... Read more >>
On the second anniversary of the Easter attack
(Lanka-e-News -24.April.2021, 5.20PM) Manusha Nanayakkara, Member of Parliament for the Galle District of the Samagi Jana Balawege, said in Parliament yesterday 20th that it was the responsibility of all of us to find out the mastermind behind the Easter. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News-19.April.2021, 6.45 PM) His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith yesterday 18th said for the first time that the series of attacks detonated on Easter Sunday was not a religious extremism but a group used... Read more >>
By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News- 18.April.2021, 4.00PM) During a special operation launched by the South Indian security forces on March 25th three Sri Lankan fishing trollers and 19 smugglers were arrested found transporting 200 kilograms of heroin,... Read more >>
By Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -04.April.2021, 9.00PM) It has been two weeks since Azath Sally was arrested. The statement "We will not change the Muslim law no matter who changes it" appeared to be the immediate reason for Azath Sally's arrest. Minister of Police... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 31.March.2021, 11.00PM) It is reported to Lanka e News that for the first time in the history of Sri Lanka, the Department of Examinations is going to be privatized. The move taken to privatize is a highly secretive and sensitive section o Read more >>
(Lanka-e-news-March 31, 2021, 4.45 pm) The Association of Medical Specialists has strongly objected to the illegal approval of the Chinese corona vaccine 'Sinopharm', which is unsafe and ineffective. The full text of the official statement... Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News- 31.March.2021, 1.00PM) A brutal attack by Police Officers caught on a video tape has gone viral on social media. It has caused expressions of public dismay about the levels of violence that Sri Lankan Police practice. The video shows how a Read more >>
-United Nation's official News
(Lanka-e-News- 24.March.2021, 10.20PM) The United Nations Human Rights Council has been given a mandate to collect and preserve information and evidence of crimes related to Sri Lanka's 37-year long civil war that ended in 2009. The 47-member council on Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News- 24.March.2021, 9.00PM) The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution “Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka” was adopted with 22 members of the council voting in favour of the resolution, 11 members voting Read more >>
An exposure by Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News -18.March.2021, 2.25PM) The Black Sunday protest held on March 7th against the current government's failure to bring justice to the perpetrators of the April 21 Easter attacks were somewhat successful. The Sri Lankan Catholic community, as.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.March.2021, 4.15PM) Sri Lanka’s government should immediately withdraw an order that allows two-years of detention without trial for causing “religious, racial, or communal disharmony,” Human Rights Watch said today. The Prevention of Te Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -13-March-2021, 2.00PM) The finance ministry of the Gotabaa government which says the largest sugar tax fraud done in Asia in broad day light under the Rajapaksa government by conspiring deceiving gazettes... Read more >>
An Autobiographical Account by Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -11.March.2021, 5.20AM) I have tried to draw from experiences of the descent into barbaric forms of violence in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Nepal and several other countries in Asia in order develop new insights into... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 08.March.2021, 11.00AM) While the soldiers of the main Katunayake air force camp in Sri Lanka was not given the kovid vaccination, despite many kovid infected people are found island wide, the government is... Read more >>
By Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News- 02.March.2021, 11.00PM) The Presidential Commission appointed in November 2019 to investigate the Islamic extremist attack on Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, April 21, concluded its work last January 27th. The commission... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.Feb.2021, 7.45AM) UN human rights experts* have urged the Sri Lankan authorities to stop rolling back hard fought progress made in recent years on rebuilding democratic institutions, and to press for accountability for... Read more >>
Anubawananda writes
(Lanka-e-News -04.Feb.2021, 11.30PM) If Mahinda Rajapaksa would have won the presidential election, the imposition of international sanctions on Sri Lanka was a necessary step. If so it was the logical end of years of Rajapaksa rule. Fortunately,... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04,Feb.2021, 11.30PM) Mr. Karu Jayasuriya, chairman of the National Movement for a Just Society, said that the recommendations of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Political Revenge had not been made by King Kekille and... Read more >>
UN Human Rights Council Should Pursue Accountability
(Lanka-e-News -02.Feb.2021, 1.45PM) Sri Lanka’s government is aggressively attacking efforts to hold officials to account for past grave abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday(01). The 93-page report, “Open Wounds and... Read more >>
An exposure by Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News- 01.Feb.2021, 8.15 PM) The series of horrific suicide bombings that took place in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, April 21st 2019, went down in history as the most serious and brutal attack happened in recent days in a country... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 29.Jan.2021, 10.30AM) A new UN report published on Wednesday (27) warns that the failure of Sri Lanka to address past violations has significantly heightened the risk of human rights violations being repeated. It highlights worrying trends Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) A burnt body of a man who allegedly set himself on fire has been found at a mosque in Ratmalayaya, Mohammedia Masjid in Puttalam on 20th afternoon According to the reporter, the deceased was a 27-year-old man... Read more >>
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
(Lanka-e-News- 17.Jan.2021, 9.AM) A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka found S. V. R. P. P. A. R. L. S. Alphonsu, known also as Ranjan Ramanayake, as guilty of having committed the offence of contempt of court and sentenced him to four ye Read more >>
A Statement by Human Rights Watch
(Lanka-e-News -13.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) Sri Lanka’s human rights situation has seriously deteriorated under the administration of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. Government security forces have increase Read more >>
An exposure by keerthi Rathayake
(Lanka-e-News - 06.Jan.2021, 11.00PM) "One country, one law" was an attractive slogan in Gotabaya's election campaign. But like other election promises made by Gotabaya, the 'One Country, One Law' pledge was blown away. There is no ruler in recent history Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 06.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) A dweller monk has been abducted, brutally murdered and burned following Gotabaya Rajapaksa becoming the president. This is the third mysterious assassination of a monk in less than a year since Gotabaya became the pr Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 03.Jan.2021, 8.30AM) President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has appointed 25 Army officers above the government agent and District Chief Medical Officers who have no education or experience in medical or administration covering 25 districts of the Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.Dec.2020, 9.20PM) “The ongoing ‘forced cremation’ policy by the Sri Lankan Government of COVID-19 deceased has included a 20-day old baby and over 100 Muslims according to a reliable source. In response to this, the Muslim Council of Bri Read more >>
By - Prof. D. A. Basnayaka
(Lanka-e-News -27.Dec.2020, 10.30PM) Recently Mr. Fonseka unwittingly found himself in a heated argument with Mr. Weerasekara in the parliament over a social media post, in which Mr. Weerasekara’s son can be seen saluting his father, who was recently offe Read more >>
An exposure by Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News - 25.Dec.2020, 4.25 AM) With the connivance of the present government, the most fraudulent procrastination and the slow progress of the investigations of the brutal Easter attack has revived a new discourse within the masses following the e Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.Dec.2020, 11.40AM) All Supreme Court Judges, including the Chief Justice, the Minister of Justice, the Attorney General himself and the upper echelons of the Attorney General's Department, are now at risk of contracting corona due to the Read more >>
Dharmawijaya writes
(Lanka-e-News -13.Dec.2020, 5.15PM) President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called on the people to rally against corruption and fraud. He is the only powerful head of state in the world today. He came to power on the pretext of eradicating corruption, fraud and Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Dec.2020, 5.30PM) If the Secretary to the President can repeal important bills passed in Parliament, why maintain a Parliament? Such incidents have never been reported in the history of Parliament. This is an insult to Parliament. Theref Read more >>
Eyewitness report by a special correspondent
(Lanka-e-News 06.Dec.2020, 9.25PM) “Where is my son, where is my brother?” was the constant refrain of about 50 people gathered outside the Mahara prison on December 5, six days after the prison massacre that left 11 dead and more than 100 injured. Most o Read more >>
S. V. KIRUPAharan, France
(Lanka-e-News 05.Dec.2020, 5.15PM) Ever since the independence of then Ceylon from the British in 1948, the people of Tamil Eelam, whose homeland is the North East, have never succeeded in winning their political rights. No one can deny that the armed s Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Dec.2020, 12.40PM) The Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the suicide attack on several tourist hotels, including Catholic churches in Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, is examining evidence from various parties and indiv Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -01.Dec.2020, 6.00PM) It has now been confirmed that Kovid-19 infected prisoners were shot inside the Mahara Prison on the orders of the government. This has been confirmed by the PCR tests done for the 105 inmates who were hospitalized afte Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2020, 2.00PM) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has ordered to transfer the former CID director SSP Shani Abeysekera, to a quarantine camp run by the army, preventing to get entered to a hospital, when Shani was waiting to receive a second report Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 25.Nov.2020, 7.15PM) Dozens of journalists have been killed, abducted or have disappeared in the past two decades in Sri Lanka, with 2005-2010 being the most dangerous. According to Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) 44 journalis Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Nov.2020,11.30PM) Sri Lanka judiciary gave an improbable verdict which completely destroyed the holding of free ad fair elections in future who it ruled out there is nothing wrong in giving bribe for voters on public money. The judgemen Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Nov.2020, 11.30PM) Ahmed Junaideen Fatima Nilusha, 83, a resident of 32 Borupana Road, Walagamba Mawatha, Ratmalana, died suddenly on Sunday, November 15th As soon the neighbours heard the news of her death it was informed to the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -16.Nov.2020, 6.00PM) Gota's government is forcibly plundering acres of land belonging to the Colombo University. The Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) has issued a statement against it. It is in full below. FUTA Press R Read more >>
By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2020, 3.55AM) In the history of Sri Lanka, has a President or Prime Minister been taken by surprise with the CID or the police arresting powerful people? When was the first time it happened? It was on the morning in February 2018 tha Read more >>
Investigative Journalist Forum
(Lanka-e-News - 30.Oct.2020, 1.30AM) This investigative article says why WD Lakshman (WDL) considers as No.1 Robber, Criminal and deal maker, therefore, has to save SANASA campus from his hands before he destroys it (it already family and henchmen tree) a Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 28.Oct.2020, 10.30PM) US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo landed in Sri Lanka last night. He left today after meeting the President Gotabhaya and Foreign Minister Dinesh of Sri Lanka. During this tight tour, he gave an interview only t Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 28.Oct.2020, 11.00PM) When a friend comes to a person's house, it is a serious offense for others in the house to disrespect the friend. The Chinese Embassy in Colombo had made such a serious mistake by issuing the following statement when Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 26.Oct.2020.11.30PM) Lanka e News revealed that Diana Gomage, the National List MP who voted for the dictatorial 20, was a dual citizen when she was elected to Parliament, betraying the mandate of the people who voted for the Samagi Jana B Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -21.Oct.2020, 9.40PM) The attempt to reform the constitution to make it possible for those holding citizenship in other countries to make law and run the administration in Sri Lanka is deplorable. No person who is concerned about the securi Read more >>
-Sri Lankan airlines crew
(Lanka-e-News -21.Oct.2020, 10.00PM) This email is to address the directives imposed on Sri Lankan airlines crew by the ministry of health in Sri Lanka, civil aviation authority of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan airlines itself and difficulties faced by the crew a Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -19.Oct.2020, 11.30PM) Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the National Health Service (NHS-UK), delighting the entire world announced, the vaccine against the Kovid 19 virus will be available to the public after Chr Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -12.Oct.2020, 11.30PM) The Chief Incumbent of the Sri Lanka Amarapura - Ramanna Samagari Joint Sangha Sabha, which has 20,000 monks in 6,000 temples across the country, said at a media briefing today, thhe government must immediately repeal Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Oct.2020, 10.30AM) First and foremost, work towards a non-divisive, all-party, integrated program to combat the corona virus. For that, it is not a constitutional amendment that divides the people, but first get the support of all partie Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Oct.2020, 9.35AM) The Foreign Ministry has decided to suspend all services offered by the Consular Affairs Division of the Ministry until further notice, to restrict the congregation of the general public and thereby to prevent the sprea Read more >>
By Dr Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News -28-Sep.2020, 9.20PM) The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution Bill introduced in Parliament early this week has drawn unprecedented opposition from various concerned citizens, intellectuals and civil society organisations. Even members a Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Sep.2020, 9.30PM) The majority of the people in the country were devastated by the traffic congestion created by a strange new lane track law introduced by the Rajapaksa family government which made stupid destruction to its policy of tu Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.Sep.2020, 7.30PM) The UK's International Ambassador for Human Rights, Rita French, delivered this statement on behalf of Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Montenegro and the UK, the Core Group on Sri Lanka.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Sep.2020, 9.30PM) ⋆ Operationality of RTI at risk ⋆ Removal of Audit Commission impairs monitoring of public spending ⋆ CIABOC’s investigative powers compromised Read more >>
By A President Counselor
(Lanka-e-News- 04.Sep.2020, 9.25PM) ⋆ Basically, brings back 18A, except the reduction of the terms of President and parliament to five years, 2-term limit for the President and right to information ⋆ President appoints Ministers and deputies; not req Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Sep.2020, 10.45PM) Since Gotabhaya took over the presidency, about seven people linked to the underworld and the drug mafia has been taken to the police station to show the infamous weapons and shot dead by unknown gunmen. Only God knows Read more >>
Dr Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) Sri Lanka is already deeply enmeshed with a crony economic system. As a consequence, businesses thrive not by managing risks, but by returns accumulated through nexus between the business and political classes. This is Read more >>
Discussed by Shalika Wimalasena
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2020, 9.45PM) Once again there is no Defense Minister in the country. During and after the appointment of the Cabinet, the official government media reported that the defense ministry would be held by the President. But the gazette n Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 23.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) It is my pleasure to send good wishes to the 9th Parliament that was declared open yesterday (August 20th). The new Parliament embodies the strong mandate given to the government. It is also welcome that more than a th Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.Aug.2020, 8.20PM) Lanka e news internal information service learns the 8-hour power outage that swept across the island on the 17th was the result of a sabotage operation. The sabotage has taken place in the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.Aug.2020, 3.50PM) The people of Sri Lanka are amazing ! When we see the result of this election, we feel a fear of the future of Sri Lanka and the aspirations of the people. I wonder if the people... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) The final official results of the parliamentary elections have been released. Accordingly, the People's Alliance alone has won the vast majority of 145 seats in the next Parliament, including the national list seats. T Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 07.Aug.2020, 11.00PM As of 06 August 2020, noon the number of injured Sri Lankans in the explosions in Beirut has increased to 10 persons whereas the total number injured has exceeded 5000 persons. The death toll has increased... Read more >>
By Wishwamithra Deshabandu
(Lanka-e-News- 03.Aug.2020, 11.00PM) The entire good governance is fully responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of Shani Abeysekera by the Rajapaksa regime, which has begun its vicious cycle of revenge and witch hunt. In particular, Ranil Wickremesin Read more >>
By Dr Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News- 03.Aug.2020, 11.20PM) Since independence in 1948, all Sri Lankan governments have presided over ever-increasing corrupt practices, failing to deliver a vibrant economy or a fair and just society. They have failed to improve the standard of Read more >>
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