(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, 3.50PM) The people of Sri Lanka are amazing ! When we see the… Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) The final official results of the parliamentary elections have been released. Accordingly,… 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 >>
The border affray is a sign of worrying military escalation between Asia’s giants
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2020, 3.00PM) The two armies each had guns, artillery and tanks to the rear. But they wielded only sticks and stones at the front, as night fell on June 15th. That was deadly enough. When the brawl ended, and the final rocks had bee Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 12.June.2020, 10.30PM) The Cinnamon garden police claims, the body found with gunshot injuries at the independence square today 12th morning is a suicide. The deceased was identified as Rajeewa Jayaweera, a resident of Park Road Rajagiriya. Read more >>
An analysis by Wimal Dheerasekera
(Lanka-e-News- 4.June.2020, 10.45PM) The Fundamental Rights petitions filed in the Supreme Court for the holding of the general election on June 20th was dismissed day before yesterday (02), without a reason. The media reported in this regard was distorte Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2020, 11.30PM) 1. Official Figures of the COVID patients - Gross Underestimation.. According to the government, the number of detected patients as at 24th May was 1,141. This is gross and deliberate underreporting. Health Servi Read more >>
-People for Human Rights and Equality Inc. (PHRE)
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2020, 2.30AM) Lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah was arrested on 14 April 2020. Media reports, police announcements and the habeas corpus application filed by Mr. Hizbullah’s father Neina Mohamed Hizbullah in the Supreme Court strongly suggest Read more >>
-The South Asia Media Defenders Network (SAMDEN)
(Lanka-e-News -27.May.2020, 11.30PM) The South Asia Media Defenders Network (SAMDEN) today cited detention of media professionals in Bangladesh, attacks on journalists in the Punjab, and the dismissal of a pregnant reporter in Assam state as part of a pat Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 24.May.2020, 4.30PM) The impotent government of the Rajapaksas has highly increased its taxes for the essential foods to the public who is already lost their livelihood and source of income due to the Corona epidemic.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 22.May.2020, 8.25PM) President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa today announced that Sri Lanka will withdraw from the membership of international organizations that oppress war heroes. He made this statement at the 11th anniversary of commemorating the Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.May.2020, 11.30PM) Colombo Chief Magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayaratne ordered former health minister Rajitha Senarathne who exposed an unscrupulous white van media conference, just few days before the presidential election to be remanded till Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.May.2020.11.45PM) Now we are planned to open the country but have we combated the virus? The answer is simple, look at the chart taken at 12 midnight on the ninth. The virus is continuing to grow.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.May.2020, 11.00PM) Reports reaching Lanka e news confirms, the government which officially stated on the 5th that the ninth person deceased at Colombo 15 Modera was due to Corona was not affected by Corona, but the government well awar Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 03.May.2020,8.00AM) A continuous hacker attack was propelled at Lanka e News on the 30th of April and broke its webpage. However latest updates were found at our official facebook page. An artificial traffic was generated to the website by Read more >>
By Yashovijaya
(Lanka-e-News -27.April.2020, 10.35 PM) Gotabhaya Rajapakse became president by a theft. His dual citizenship was not resolved as his proper citizenship of Sri Lanka had questions. In addition, many criminal charges were pending in courts against him. He Read more >>
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray
(Lanka-e-News -21.April.2020, 10.00 PM) As it swept the globe starting in 1918 through the end of 1919, the deadly virus afflicted 500 million people, and left 50 million dead. Among the dead were royalty and world leaders, like Louis Botha, the first Pri Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 16.April.2020, 5.30 AM) The Sri Lankan legal community and people who value freedom are deeply shocked by the arrests of Hijaz Hisbullah, an outstanding lawyer ever produced by Sri Lanka who appears for civil and criminal cases under the Pr Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News- 15.April.2020, 6.40 AM) Testing has become the main challenge for Sri Lanka. The government has consciously erected several roadblocks to minimise testing and obfuscate the spread of Covid-19 in Sri Lanka. Despite significant domestic test Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News- 05.April.2020, 6.00 AM) The professional health service in Sri Lanka has managed to overcome the initial pandemic challenges, posed by the Covid-19 coronavirus. The public support for the health response of the government is immense. All po Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 02.April.2020, 4.30PM) This refers to the much-highlighted news item in mainstream electronic media on the first proposal by onetime Governor of the Central Bank... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.March.2020, 845PM) Following statements by Members of Parliament and civil society activists, the Secretary to the Treasury published the Pre-Election Budgetary Position Report last Monday. Publication of this report prior to elections i Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.March.2020, 12.45PM) The Sri Lankan president has been criticized by the United Nations for abruptly releasing an army officer who was sentenced to death by the courts. Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights... Read more >>
-Mangala Samaraweera
(Lanka-e-News- 26.March.2020, 9.15PM) Sri Lankans have lived through countless crises. Civil wars, insurgencies, constitutional coups droughts and famines are but a few examples. Yet, even for the most seasoned among us, these are testing times. The entir Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News -20.March.202, 7.20PM) Sri Lanka boasts one of the most robust public healthcare systems in the world, with free comprehensive primary, surgical and pharmaceutical care available to all citizens almost completely free of charge. Although the Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News, 16.March.2020, 8.30 pm) Eight Army personals including Two army officers and six soldiers have contracted the coronavirus, according to military sources. They were working at the Kandakadu Quarantine Camp and the Katunayake Airport.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.March.2020, 10.30 pm) Saman Wagaarachchi, a veteran journalist and Media freedom fighter came from the left movements, passed away this morning. Diagnosed with leukemia recently and passed away... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News, 14.March.2020, 6.30 pm) A Foreign Ministry lady official from Sweden has contracted the coronavirus. The government has kept it concealed from the public. It is suspected that a large number of her ministry members as well as Foreign Minist Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) Former Sri Lankan ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeraduwa who was an accused of the notorious MIG scam, the mysterious murder of a man named Noel Ranaweera, and the sale of tens of thousands of kilos of arms and ammuni Read more >>
An exposure by the Jailor Podda
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) President Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa visited the Colombo prison recently. It would be great if he didn't go with the pre-planned cameras. However, it is our duty to expose him and to the public of the country the da Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.Feb.2020, 9.30PM) Nielsen Company is an active research institute in Sri Lanka. It is not a social service organization but a racket that is hidden from the eyes of the people. They are the ones who label most popular companies and popul Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 10.Feb.2020, 5.45AM) President Nandasena Gotabaya using his executive powers has issued an order to the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and State Ministers, with the signature of his secretary, Jayasundera as soon Prime Minister Mahinda Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Feb.2020, 7.20PM) Reports reaching Lanka e news confirms that it was the former president Pallewatta Gamarala who has twice rescued the mastermind of the Easter attack Saharan. One happened in 2017 and the other happened in 2018.... Read more >>
By Keerthi Rathnayake - Former army intelligence officer
(Lanka-e-News -03.Feb.2020, 6.40PM) Kili Maharajah has a secret life like Prabakaran. Though he is called as Maharjah he is a Kallathoni. In Thamil “Kalla” means thieves and “Thoni” means boat. People who came to Sri Lanka by boat was named Kallathoni wa Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -29.Jan.2020, 6.45 PM) Nandasena Gotabaya who has no experience to abide by the law except practicing lawlessness, fearing people has disposed the laws to dogs for the 6.9 million people who brought him making terror as a weapon on his gover Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 26.Jan.2020, 5.55 PM) The Cabinet of Ministers, which met on Thursday(14), has approved a new bill titled 'State Intelligence Act' to provide legal immunity to intelligence officers. The bill has not been discussed in the cabinet and is bei Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 25.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) Forensic audit report done by the COPE committee reveals that the central bank bond losses during the Mahinda era is Rs. 10470 million and Rs. 689 million during the Ranil era. Rs. 1200 million belong to the Perpetual Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 24.Jan.2020, 3.40 PM) The witch hunt started by Gotabaya’s hunting government from Champika Ranawaka, opposition politicos has spread up to the hunting of judges who gave verdicts against the Rajapaksa’s. It was Gihan Pilapitiya who locked Read more >>
By Lawyer Dulan Dasanayake
(Lanka-e-News -22.Jan.2020, 3.15PM) A poster captioned “Arrest the murderous Judge Padmini Ranawaka immediately” was seen around the Colombo city today 21st. Padmini ranawaka is a judge working in the judiciary for many years. We do not know any murders s Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -20.Jan.2020, 9.30PM) The theft of vegetables and onions, which began on June 16th at Baddegama, has been reported from several other parts of the country. Vegetable and onion thefts have been reported from Hambantota, Kegalle, Gampaha and D Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 15-Jan-2020, 7.30AM) Drama legend of the era and greatest artist, Natya Keerthi, Dr. Jayalath Manoratne alias Keselgaspe Manatunga Jayalath Manoratne alias 'Mano' passed away at his residence at Abeyratne Mawatha in Boralesgamuwa 12th morn Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 10.Jan.2020, 11.45PM) President Nandasena Gotabaya has appointed a corrupt, three member special presidential commission yesterday to investigate any political revenge taken by the actions of the good governance, during the decade of Rajapa Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 09-Jan-2020, 12.15PM) Lanka e news confirms,, the opposition is planning to bring an impeachment against the current Attorney General Dappula De Livera for his illegal influence to the parliament. Attorney General Dappula De Livera has reco Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 08.Jan.2020, 8.30PM) The Police Commission has commenced investigations against the suspected SSP Shani Abeysekera, who is a valuable detective due to the stupid deception of Ranjan Ramanayake. The secretary of the national police commissio Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 05.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) Former minister Ranjan Ramanayake who was arrested yesterday for possessing a firearm which was given to him by the government which its license has expired, was produced before the Nugegoda magistrate today and was re Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.Dec.2019. 11.35 PM) Nandasena Gotabaya's witch hunt government operated by three major mafia’s (doctors mafia, pharmaceutical mafia and tobacco mafia) who has done nothing to the people of this country from the day it came to power is ma Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.Dec.2019. 11.35 PM) Gota's impotent government unable to bring down prices of essential foods hunted the former health minister Rajitha Senarathna by remanding him until 30th of this month, ordered the Colombo additional magistrate Shala Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -24.Dec.2019. 8.05 PM) According to Lanka e news, Former president is likely to be arrested for not preventing the Easter day bombing despite information’s received prior to the bombing. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -24.Dec.2019. 8.10 PM) Former minister Dr. Rajitha is be arrested. Colombo additional magistrate R.B. Nelumdeniya issued a warrant today 24th to arrest Rajitha and produce before the courts. The CID has urged this request from the courts on Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Dec.2019. 4.30PM) Gotabhaya's extremist government is preparing to hunt down another two former ministers of the previous government, whom severely criticized the Rajapaksa family, reports say. Former ministers... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -20.Dec.2019, 11.00 PM) Gotabhaya's extremist government, has started to compile a comprehensive report on all the judges' secrets through the State Intelligence Service (SIS) The list includes all Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges, Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.Dec.2019, 10.00 PM) Patali Chamika Ranawaka who was arrested yesterday was remanded till today and once again he was produced before the the courts today and remanded till 24th of this month. The order was issued by... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Dec.2019, 10.00 PM) Former minister Champika Ranawaka was arrested today at 7.30pm by the Colombo crimes division. The arrest ordered was given by the attorney general Dappula De Livera to the senior DIG Colombo... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -16.Dec.2019, 11.50 PM) Colombo chief magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayarathna under the section 120 and 190 of the penal code, ordered Swiss embassy staff Gania Banister Francis to be remanded till 30th December for stating false information and emb Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Dec.2019, 10.30PM) Former Director of the Digital and Innovative media division of Lake House and the founder of “Journalist” social media network Maduka Thaksala Fernando, has been brutally assaulted and threatened to kill by the chair Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Dec.2019, 8.30PM) Attorney-at-Law Nishara Jayaratne who is a spokeswoman and woman of jewel of attorney general Dappula De Livera has been assigned to the Presidential Secretariat to work part-time as an Additional Secretary to the Presi Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.Dec.2019, 11.30PM) Pointing out the disasters if a dictator comes to power in a third world country what happens to the independent commissions, has proven with the recommendations of the national police commission, the Assistant Superi Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 30.Nov.2019, 11.00 PM) Lanka e news reveal with responsibility that Gotabaya Rajapaksas visit to India is to deceive India and to join hands with China and to put the country in an irreparable nuclear danger. Gotabhaya has entered a confid Read more >>
A Swiss Embassy employee is abducted and asked about asylum applications and investigators are banned from leaving just days after Gotabaya Rajapaksa is elected.
(Lanka-e-News- 28.Nov.2019, 9.00 PM) Fears of a potential crackdown on critics of the newly returned Rajapaksa political dynasty in Sri Lanka are rising just days after the election, as officials and journalists who investigated the Rajapaksas for human r Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.Nov.2019, 11.00PM) Another male journalist and a female journalist has been brought to the notorious 4th floor of the CID under the ICCPR Act today, after Gotabhaya's administration launched a media crackdown on the Rajapaksas, which bro Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.Nov.2019. 11.30PM) The Sri Lanka Youth Journalists Association has made a written request from the National Police Commission to suspend the transfer of SSP Shani Abeysekara, Director of the CID... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2019. 9.30PM) Gotabaya Rajapaksa who vociferated that he would create a disciplinary country which promotes rule of law, following becoming the president has demoted an efficient senior deputy inspector general Shani Abeysekara who w Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2019. 9.00PM) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa's cabinet was sworn in today. There were 16 members, including three Rajapaksa brothers, Gotabhaya Mahinda and Chamal. There is no Muslim representation first time in history. The new Cabinet Ministe Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 20.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe officially announced a short while ago that he has decided to step down as Prime Minister, despite a majority in parliament honoring the new mandate. He made this decision after a... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 18.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) Gotabaya Rajapaksa sworn in as the seventh executive president of the country at the Ruwan weli Seya court yard before the chief justice Jayantha Jayasuriya. The current president secretary Udaya R Senevirathne too part Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 17.Nov.2019, 5.30PM) Issuing a statement Sajith Premadasa said that he has decided to resign from his party deputy leadership with immediate effect. Before the release of the final results Sajith Premadasa accepted his defeat, bowed down to Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 13.Nov.2019, 9.45PM) Millionaire businessman Alawdeen (owner of Alawdeen Jewelers), the father-in-law of the Easter day suicide bomber at the Shangri-La hotel, Mohammed Ibrahim Ilham Ahmed who gave copper to the Easter day suicide bombers, Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 10.Nov.2019, 9.45PM) While the California District Court of the United States has declared that Gotabhaya Rajapakse is an American citizen where a confusion remains about his current US citizenship whereas his name is not listed in the 2019 Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 08.Nov.2019, 9.45PM) I condemn in the strongest possible terms your desperate attempt to drag the Venerable Mahanayake Theras of the Three Nikayas into your fearmongering election campaign. On Wednesday, you publicly appealed to these Vene Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.Oct.2019, 5.35PM) At a Press Conference on 15 October 2019, Presidential Candidate of the SLPP, Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, dismissed Sri Lanka’s commitments to our citizens on human rights, rule of law, and processes for truth-seeking, repa Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.Oct.2019 -1.30PM) Reports reaching Lanka e news confirms with facts that Gotabaya was already aware of the decision made by the chairman of the appeal court judge Yasantha Kodagodda including other two judges of the court of appeal whic Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 02.Oct.2019, 11.00PM) When the appeal court took the case today 2nd October of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa whether he is a legal citizen of Sri Lanka or not the deputy solicitor general Nerin Pulle who appeared on behalf of Immigration and Emigrat Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 30.Sep.2019, 5.00AM) 1. Starting the white van abduction culture and kidnapping, abducting and enforce disappearing journalists, reporters and political dissidents 2. Sending a SL airline to Switzerland to bring a puppy dog to h Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 29.Sep.2019, 8.15AM) My attention has been drawn to media reports on the decision of the United Left Front in regard to the Presidential elections. While the Central Committee decided to support Comrade Anura Dissanayake of the Jathika Jan Read more >>
Mangala Samaraweera
(Lanka-e-News – 10.Sep.2019, 11.30PM) Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s so-called ‘Economic Blue Print’ is anything but a plan. The 82 slides, released on Sunday, pump aspiration and dump implementation. A blue print is supposed to be a roadmap for how to achieve an Read more >>
By A former intelligence officer
(Lanka-e-News -04.Sep.2019, 3.20PM) 2014 was a time when the election heat was at its peak. Uva provincial council election was held in middle of the year and presidential election later in the year. There was a news about a police officer was shot dead Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 24.Aug.2019, 3.30PM) The appointment of Shavendra Silva (Silva) as the new Commander of the Sri Lankan army is a deeply troubling development. For the Tamil community, this signals the end of the road for reconciliation efforts from the Sri Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2019, 11.45PM) A senior U.S. State Department official warned on Tuesday that Sri Lanka’s appointment of a war veteran accused of serious human rights violations as head of its army could affect U.S. military cooperation and investme Read more >>
(Lanka e News -14.Aug.2019, 11.00AM) As soon as you came to power, your priorities changed. When I met you at Temple Trees in February 2015 to appeal for your support in making sure my father’s killers saw justice, you told me that there were “other prio Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -12.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) Earlier today, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced the presidential candidate for his family’s new political party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). For weeks he refused to confirm the circulating rumou Read more >>
By a Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -05.Aug.2019, 6.30PM) Questions have been raised as to how Gotabaya Rajapaksa obtained a passport from the Department of Immigration and Emigration in May omitting an endorsement of his dual-citizen status. Rajapaksa told reporters last wee Read more >>
Ethno-politics since independence delayed Sri Lanka’s progress
(Lanka-e-News -30.July.2019, 7.30PM) For the first time, the enigma behind Sri Lankan Muslim MPs’ evasion and resisting of their portfolios were revealed on July 30. “I discussed with members of our party ACMC as to whether I should stay out of this port Read more >>
S. V. KIRUBAharan, France
(Lanka-e-News -25.July.2019, 5.30PM) Before the 2010 Presidential Election in Sri Lanka, I predicted many issues in one of the Colombo print media (The Sunday Leader) and I was proved right. Even my predication about the winning candidate was correct. Unf Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 16.July.2019, 11.50AM) In the Sri Lankan mind, politicians are thought to be engaged in the destruction of the lives of the people and the foundations of the nation. In the subconscious or unconscious, this has gone... Read more >>
Authorities Should Act Against Incitement by Buddhist Nationalists
(Lanka-e-News - 15.July.2019, 9.30AM) Authorities in Sri Lanka should end arbitrary arrests and other abuses against Muslims and appropriately protect the community from violence, Human Rights Watch said by press release. Since the Easter Sunday bombings Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 02.July;2019, 11.30PM) The Sri Lanka government should halt plans to resume executions and restore its de facto 43-year moratorium on the use of the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena s Read more >>
Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne PC MP
(Lanka e News -01.July.2019. 7.00AM) President Sirisena’s decision to resume the death penalty has met with wide disapproval. The main parties in the Government and the Opposition - United National Front, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, Tamil Nationalist Al Read more >>
Dr. Wickramabahu Karunarathna
(Lanka e News - 24.June.2019, 6.10PM) In today’s world, television and movies made by giants in the industry dominate and have taken the centre stage. Images and stories are inevitably exaggerated, caricatured or fantasized far from what actually exists. Read more >>
By George Braine
(Lanka-e-News -11.June.2019, 11.30PM) In 1985, when I was a graduate student in Washington DC, I came to know a group of Cambodian refugees. A few had been classical dancers at the Cambodian royal palace. From them, I heard first-hand accounts of the shoc Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 06.June.2019, 7.45AM) Make Declaration that actions of H.E. the President and/or the 3A to 3J Respondents to exclude the Petitioner from office without recourse to the proper procedure and/or any steps to remove the Petitioner from office Read more >>
- By Mangala Samaraweera
(Lanka-e-News - 05.June.2019, 11.00PM) For as long as Sri Lanka has been an independent and sovereign nation, our people have been torn between two opposing political forces. This is the battle between the politics of unity and politics of division. To un Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 22.May.2019, 8.15PM) The criminal investigation department yesterday confirmed the death of Mohamed Saharan of the Easter day bombing at Shangrila Hotel by producing the DNA report to the courts. Before the DNA test the... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 18.May.2019,11.45PM) Following the easter Sunday attack a group of few Buddhist sinhalese mobs started a racial violence in many areas of the country targeting the Muslim community. During this gruesome attack the owner of Fawas Restauren Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -13.May.2019, 7.30PM) Although there were allegations against Minister Rishard Bathiudeen for supplying tons of copper to the millionaire businessmen Inshaf Ahmad’s factory Closures Pvt Limited at Wellampitiya, who detonated a suicide bomb a Read more >>
For the attention of the Civil Societies and progressive Media:
(Lanka-e-News -07.May.2019, 7.30PM) The Eastham Forum organized by the Independent Civil Society for Unity, attended by researchers, activists and representatives of all Sri Lankan communities in the United Kingdom, held at Trinity Centre, Eastham, London Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -01.May.2019, 9.00PM) ) Thowheed Jamath, BBS both funded by single secret account’ Featured in a report last week. It further explained that Intelligence authorities have now established that during the Rajapaksa regime, a secret account of Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 24.April.2019, 10.40PM) This is a decisive moment of our motherland. The present terror situation we face in our country is a sophisticated terror network linked internationally and is completely different than the 30 year war we faced. Th Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 23.April.2019, 11.45PM) Health and nutritious minister Rajitha Snarathna said, an international intelligence agency has made awareness to the Sri Lanka defense ministry two days and ten minutes before the bomb explosion in Sri Lanka (Did p Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 22.April.2019, 11.30PM) Now it is confirmed that president Pallewatta gamarala was well aware about the suicide attack before and got out of the country without taking any measures to prevent the catastrophe. On the 4th of April State inte Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 20.April.2019, 1.30AM) Lanka e News has able to expose President Sirisenas blatant lie about his anti narcotics campaign and leading the country free of drugs, when he organized a swearing in ceremony during the Sinhala Awurudda, wasting m Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 10.April.2019, 7.25PM) The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), in partnership with the international law firm Hausfeld and human rights lawyer Scott Gilmore, have filed a civil damages case in California against former Sri Lan Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 06.April.2019, 11.30PM) In a special event held on April 6, 2019, at Indola Estate in Matara, High Commissioner of India H.E. Mr. Taranjit Singh Sandhu along with Minister of Finance Hon. Mangala Samaraweera and Minister for Hill country N Read more >>
By Mangala Samaraweera
(Lanka-e-News -01.April.2019, 11.30PM) During the past few weeks, I have been watching the many headlines, debates, misinformation, misrepresentation of facts as well as self-congratulatory statements by some members of the delegation that went to Geneva Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 30.March.2019, 3.35PM) The Committee on High Posts of the Parliament of Sri Lanka to examine the suitability of persons nominated/ appointed to the state services and the state corporations (High Posts Committee) on Wednesday 27 March appr Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 16.March.2019, 8.25PM) Four senior lawyers in the island yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition against the President Pallawatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena, who had violated the constitution and had violated.... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 05.March.2019, 10.30PM) The Government’s fifth Budget presented in Parliament by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera today. Here are some of the most important budget proposals in his speech. * ‘Gamperaliya’ will focus on the infrastruc Read more >>
(Lanka e News -02.March.2019, 11.30PM) Speech made by Radhika Coomaraswamy at the Shibley Aziz Commemoration today. I want to thank the organizers for having invited us here today to pay tribute to this great man. I want to... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 25.Feb.2019, 8.45PM) Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) notes, with grave concern that President Maithripala Sirisena plans to execute at least 13 death row prisoners. By lifting a 43-year moratorium on the death penalty, the President will do g Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 20.Feb.2019, 11.30PM) President Maithripala Sirisena and senior members of the opposition including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa have harshly criticized the Constitutional Council and the Human Rights Commission. Their accusations Read more >>
“Contents of the telecast/ broadcast published by you maliciously”- Rishad’s Attorney - Claims Rs One Billon in damages by Letter of Demand
(Lanka e News -15.Feb.2019, 11.00PM) The Minister of Industry and Commerce has claimed Rs One Billion compensation with regard to a statement broadcast on a local TV channel that allegedly damaged his image, reputation and good will. In a letter of dema Read more >>
(Lanka e News -09.Feb.2019, 10.00PM) Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) is gravely concerned with the current constitutional impasse created due to the delay in appointing the President of the Court of Appeal. The process of appointment of judges set out in the Read more >>
(Lanka e News -31.Jan.2019, 5.25PM) Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) is concerned by reports indicating a possible grant of presidential pardon to Rev. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara, who is well known for his aggressive conduct and inciting of violence, particula Read more >>
By Dr Lionel Bopage
(Lanka e News – 29.Jan.2019, 1.20PM) Comrade Gamini Muthukumarana in his article ‘A Response to Comrade Bopage on The Frozen Fire’ (ගින්නෙන් උපන් සීතල ගැන බෝපගේ සහෝදරයාට පිළිතුරක්) has raised a number of important issues regarding the article I wrote: 'T Read more >>
(Lanka e News -29.Jam.2019, 9.00AM) In special events held on January 28, 2019, at Navatkuli and Chavakachcheri Jaffna District, two new school buildings constructed with Indian assistance were handed over to the People of Sri Lanka. The school buildings Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 28.Jan.2019, 1.20PM) The Australian Government gifted three Port class Stabicraft vessels to the Sri Lanka Coast Guard on 25 January, reinforcing Sri Lanka’s civil maritime security capabilities and fulfilling a promise made by then Austra Read more >>
(Lanka e News -20.Jan.2019, 6.30PM) In a special ceremony held on January 20, 2019, at Dayagama West Estate in Nuwara Eliya District, 150 houses built under the Indian Housing Project were handed over to the beneficiaries jointly by Hon. Palani Digambara Read more >>
(Lanka e News -16.Jan.2019, 10.00AM) After the coup, Ranil Wickremesinghe has created a government, but it will collapse by the end of 2019, and the full time of the government will not be able to come to an end. The Podu Jana Peramuna will be won in a pa Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 07.Jan.2019, 11.00PM)) Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) is disappointed to learn of the decision made by the Presidential Secretariat to appeal against the order issued by the Right to Information Commission (RTIC), directing th Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 04 Dec 2018, 11.00AM) Lawyers for Democracy expresses its serious concern on the attempt by Mahinda Rajapakse, MP for Kurunegala District, to mislead the country by issuing an unusual statement on the matter of the dissolution of Parliam Read more >>
(Lanka e News -26.Nov.2018, 12.45PM) President Maithripala Sirisena, at a meeting with the Foreign Correspondents Association in Colombo has yet again tried to justify the illegal removal of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on the 26th of October 2018 Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 23.Nov.2018, 9.45PM) Defend Democracy in Sri Lanka Movement in Melbourne - comprised of Politicians, Professionals and Australian Community Leaders from diverse backgrounds hold a protest meeting on last Sunday 18th November 2018 against Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 20.Nov.2018, 9.00PM) Australia remains committed to protecting its borders, stamping out people smuggling, and preventing people from risking their lives at sea. The Australian High Commission... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 12.Nov.2018, 11.00PM) Summary of submissions and hearing which took place today in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka with regard to the alleged dissolving of the Parliament. FR Petitions on dissolution just being taken up by court. AGs dept Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 09.Nov.2018, 4.20PM) There is speculation that Parliament will be dissolved. Arguments have been made for and against the right of the President to dissolve Parliament at will, at any time. It is a golden rule that in interpreting a Const Read more >>
(Lanka e News -07.Nov.2018, 5.30PM) Parliamentary general secretary Dhammika Dassanayake after receiving a bribe of Rs. 100 million from the MARA –SIRA junta is following illegal orders and even not answering the Speaker’s phone calls , based on reports r Read more >>
(Lanka e News -04.Nov.2018, 11.30PM) As a result of the illegal and unconstitutional coup, led by President Maithripala Sirisena, Sri Lanka’s economy has been placed in great peril. The uncertainty created has triggered an immediate negative impact at a t Read more >>
statement by professionals on constitutional crisis
(Lanka e News – 02.Nov.2018, 12.20PM Recent actions of President Maithripala Sirisena purporting to remove Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe from office as the Prime Minister and the purported appointment of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place have caused a constit Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 01.Nov.2018. 11.30PM) The Attorney General (AG)has evaded giving an opinion on the most controversial and unconstitutional action of SIRA-MARA junta. The honorable speaker in connection with this grave violation wrote a letter to the AG. Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 28.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) Against the backdrop of multiple constitutional arguments that have been made for and against President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to appoint Mahinda Rajapaksa MP to the office of Prime Minister, Transparency Int Read more >>
(Lanka e News -27.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) Envoys of 25 countries who assembled at temple Trees said in one voice , they will lend all the support to safeguard Democracy when they met prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. When the Envoys of 25 leading countries Read more >>
(Lanka e News -26.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) SLFP the constituent party (whose chief is president Pallewatte Gamarala) of the UNF led consensual government some moments ago informed it is resigning from the consensual government. The secretary of SLFP Mahinda Ama Read more >>
By Former officer of State intelligence service of the forces
(Lanka e News -25.Oct.2018, 4.10PM) The suspect Maseli Thomas the Indian national who was arrested in connection with the conspiracy to murder Sirisena and Gotabaya , made a written submission running into 20 pages when he was produced before the Fort mag Read more >>
(Lanka e News -24.Oct.2018, 12.45PM) It is by now a well and widely known fact president Pallewatte Gamralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena while being the leader of the ruling government has all along been playing deceitful games shamelessly to the detrime Read more >>
By former officer of Intelligence division of the Forces..
(Lanka e News -22.Oct.2018, 11.45PM) It was Lanka e News which is first with news and best with the views that first revealed with evidence the assassination conspiracy against the president is a concocted fairy tale . Truly it was nothing except an offsh Read more >>
(Lanka e News -19.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) Yet another of president Gamarala’s colossal illicit commission collection to line his pockets has reached the inside information division of Lanka e News. This is the ‘Hercules’ illicit commission scam . commission p Read more >>
(Lanka e News 18.Oct.2018, 11.00PM) President Pallewatte Gamaralage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena who was made the president of the country by the Swan party , led by the UNF has brazenly and most unashamedly broken his promises and undertakings by unilateral Read more >>
-Analysis of a former officer of the Intelligence division of the forces.
(Lanka e News - 17.Oct.2018, 11.55PM) Throughout civilization espionage services had raged. During the stone age when people went on hunting they too spied on the movement of the animals. It was because of the spy service of the pundits the aggressors who Read more >>
(Lanka e News -15.Oct.2018, 4.45AM) Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunge and currently minister of Petroleum committed sexual molestation on her , alleged an Indian airline stewardess. She made this startling revelation to a television channe Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 14.Oct.2018, 1,45AM) Justice Priyasad Dep a most reputed chief justice who maintained his professional honor and dignity throughout his career ,delivered a historic judgment just a day before his going on retirement against the three accus Read more >>
(Lanka e News -13.Oct.2018, 6.30 AM) The death sentence passed on four suspects including Duminda R . Silva alias kudu Duminda by the high court in connection with the murder of five individuals including Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra committed during th Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 12.Oct.2018, 6.15AM) By now the fun and frolic indulged in by the family and families of president Gamarala, who roamed the streets of America during the recent New York junket of the president wasting tax payers monies are slowly but sure Read more >>
Wimal Dheerasekera
(Lanka e News - 10.Oct.2018, 8.10PM) It is now confirmed that president Pallewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Yapa Sirisena the leader of the cabinet of ministers and the state leader had conspired to scuttle the government with a view to bring it to its kn Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 08.Oct.2018, 6.00AM) ‘IGP Poojtha Jayasundara is a joker and because of his conduct he had to face grave embarrassment ,’ said president Pallewatte Gamarala after his return to SrI Lanka .The president who returned after his New York junke Read more >>
(Lanka e News -06.Oct.2018, 4.00AM) The appeal filed by Gnanassara the notorious robed rowdy monk in the supreme court (SC) against the earlier verdict delivered by the appeal court sentencing him to 18 years rigorous imprisonment suspended to six years R Read more >>
(Lanka e News -05.Oct.2018, 8.15PM) A group including general manager Alex Marshal of the anti corruption Unit of the ICC that investigated the corruption relating to Sri Lanka (SL) cricket ,recently forwarded its investigation report to the president and Read more >>
(Lanka e News -03.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) The incumbent President Palewatte Gamaralalage Maithripala Sirisena has made an official request to the UNP to extend its support to him to field as the common candidate at the 2020 presidential elections , based on re Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 02.Oct.2018, 10.15PM) President Pallewatte Gamarala who left for New York to attend the UN annual general assembly returned to the Island . But his brood comprising his family , and families of his family who also went with him for mirth a Read more >>
-Lanka e news special report plus photograph
(Lanka e News -30.Sep.2018, 10.00PM) May we recall the assassination conspiracy against president Maithripala Sirisena which was splashed across the newspapers during the last several days was exposed by us as another melodrama orchestrated by the preside Read more >>
-Corruption tainted cabinet paper ….
(Lanka e News -28.Sep.2018, 11.30PM) Like how a devil when it knows it is going to be chased away inflicts the maximum damage before its exit , our venally inclined president Pallewatte Gamarala too who is now precariously clinging on to a 4 % popularity Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 26.Sep.2018, 10.45PM) Sri Lanka ‘s notoriously corrupt president Pallewatte Gamarala who never forgets to boast about his simplicity has made his tour of New York to attend the UN conference a junket full of fun and frolic for his entire b Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 23.Sep.2018, 2.52PM) Here is a most shocking revelation which would shake the entire country to its foundation ! Because of the avarice for illicit commission of rascally traitorous politicians a massive investment project which would earn Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 22.Sep.2018, 11.30PM) An officer of the Sri Lanka’s foreign service was arrested on the 15 th at Malpenza airport , Milano ,Italy when he tried to smuggle into Italy four youths ( 2 males and 2 females) from Sri Lanka , it was reported. Th Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 20.Sep.2018, 5.10AM) It is an incontrovertible fact that President Gamarala since the day he became president has been breaking every promise he made to the people , antagonizing those who propelled him to power, befriending the very enemi Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 18.Sep.2018, 7.05PM) It is a pity President Gamarala has become the butt of everybody’s joke locally and internationally after his announcement that the food supply of the National Aviation service is fit only for the dogs , and his dement Read more >>
(Lanka e News -17.Sep.2018, 11.45PM) Following the exposures based on a number of tape recordings collected from a two penny half penny worth double agent police informant by the opposition heroin peddlers for a fee , DIG Nalaka Silva in charge of the TID Read more >>
(Lanka e News -17.Sep.2018, 4.35AM) Capitalizing on a tape recording purported to be of one Namal Kumara Warakapola who was working as a police informant some time ago, a group of heroin peddlers and rogues of the opposition party ( it was during the Mahi Read more >>
-Wimal Dheerasekera
(Lanka e News - 15.Sep.2018, 9.45PM) In the multiple murder of 11 individuals , while the police were searching for a prime suspect in that connection , if any individual is to harbor , hide , protect and assist that suspect to flee the country after givi Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 2018.Sep.13, 9.10PM) It was just yesterday (12) Mahinda Rajapakse announced while he was in India that if he cannot contest at the next presidential election , it will be one of his brothers who will be the presidential candidate. However Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 13.Sep.2018, 7.35PM) Sri Lanka repeatedly tops the ranks in South Asia when it comes to hunger. It in fact has mostly sat with the much better doings middle-income countries in global hunger indexes. Not any more despite the fact that it w Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 12.Sep.2018, 6.45PM) Indians are well noted for fattening on others’ deaths and despair. They will eat, drink and rejoice even right in the midst of ‘three deaths ’ . It is a well known fact that there exists an endless conflict over India Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 10.Sep.2018, 10.15PM) Former Navy commander and present chief of staff Ravindra Wijegunaratne who is incriminated in the ghastly murder of 11 innocent individuals including students after extorting payments had fled the country on the sly Read more >>
(Lanka e News -10.Sep.2018, 7.15PM) The case filed against the seven accused including former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse based on charges of misappropriation of state funds when constructing the mausoleum of late D.R. Rajapakse at Weeraketiya , Read more >>
By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka e News - 07.Sep.2018, 4.15PM) The so called ‘Jana bala’ protest staged on September 5 th by the corrupt and crooked Rajapkse family with a view to ‘baptize’ Namal Rajapkse as the future leader , as well as to frighten the judges who are hearing t Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 14.Dec.2017, 11.45PM) A discussion was held between Lanka e news editor Sandaruwan Senadheera and Kalpa Palliyaguru of Sinhala broadcasting channel that is operating from Sheffield, Britain. The video footage... 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 >>
(Lanka-e-News- 03.Aug.2020, 11.10PM) Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) today informed the election commission that the Muslim Service of SLBC had been violating election laws during the silent period... Read more >>
Keerthi Rathnayake
(Lanka-e-News -25.July.2020, 11.30PM) There is a saying that the most dangerous phenomenal in the world is violent ignorance and ignorant conscience. This story is recalled as a prelude for today’s story. About 100,000 Sri Lankans workers in the Middle Ea Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 18.July.2020, 11.00PM) It is reported with great national sympathy we report that “patriotic” Mahinda Rajapaksa and his gang who came to power visiting temples, swearing allegiance protecting country’s national heritages have bulldozed the Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2020, 3.10AM) After lengthy debate, confrontations and legal challenges, Sri Lanka’s 16th parliamentary election is set for August 5, 2020. Many are waiting with excitement to exercise their democratic right to elect the legislatur Read more >>
By Dr Lionel Bopage with Michael Colin Cooke
(Lanka-e-News- 21.June.2020, 3.30PM) The Scene - The morning of July the 25th 1983 is etched in my brain. I saw a group of people running or walking very fast away from the environs of Colombo. On enquiring I found they had shut up their shops and were es Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2020, 8.00PM) Sunil Jayawardene was a representative for three-wheele drivers. He who went to make a representation to a finance company on behalf of one of the vehicle owners, whose three-wheeler had been taken by agents of that co Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 14.June.2020, 6.40PM) The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Rome and the Consulate General Office in Milan have arranged facilities to cater to over 10,000 Sri Lankans who would seek consular assistance in the process of regularising their visa statu Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 11.June.2020, 3.45PM) The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) unreservedly condemns the attack by the police on a peaceful protest in Colombo on the 9th of June 2020. This protest was in response to the killing of George Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -09.June.2020, 6.00PM) Mangala Samaraweera informs the people of Matara who had courageously provided him protection and placed their confidence in him for three decades that from today (09 June 2020), he steps down from the politics of bein Read more >>
Compiled by INFORM
(Lanka-e-News -31.May.2020, 12.45PM) This report records 95 incidents that had been reported during the 90 days period. The average number of incidents per day reported prior to the covid-19 curfew is slightly higher than the number of incidents reported Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -29.May.2020, 11.30PM) On the 22nd of this month Archbishop Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said that a powerful person in the country is trying to weaken the investigation even though it seems that investigations are underway. However he did not s Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.May.2020, 10.30PM) Hundreds of Corona infectors have increased when the two month curfew was lifted yesterday. On the 26th 137 positive cases were reported and yesterday 27th 134 positive people were found. Therefore the official figure Read more >>
An exposure by a special correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.May.2020, 7.00PM) The people living in the naval base in Welisara, is in a fear of expressing their views on the spread of Kovid 19 virus. In spite of marines’ declaration the actual situation in the camp, they do so with great dismay. Read more >>
Thilak Dematalpitiya questions
(Lanka-e-News- 23.May.2020, 9.25PM) When you see the performance of the elections commissioner before the media, he deserves the best actor award for 2020. In the meeting held with the election commission and the secretaries of political parties, many pa Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 16.May.2020, 6.35PM) The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) and Lanka Electricity Company Private Limited (LECO) have taken steps to ensure fairness for electricity consumers in issuing monthly Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.May.2020, 11.30PM) Secretary to the Ministry of Health Bhadrani Jayawardene has been removed from her post and the Commanding Officer of the Army Medical Corps and the Director General of the Army Health Service, Major General Sanjeewa M Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 11.May.2020, 4.45PM) WHO, in partnership with DFAT donates 800,000 USD worth of essential items to support the Government of Sri Lanka’s efforts to combat and control COVID-19; including personal protection equipment, hospital equipment, an Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -09.May.2020, 11.00 PM) Even with the spread of COVID-19 becoming increasingly evident and the World Health Organisation declaring a global emergency, Sri Lanka’s president dissolved the parliament on March 2 -the earliest possible date he c Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04.May.2020, 11.30PM) Despite pro government faction denies the exposure made by Lanka e News that Corona has spread throughout the country with facts were false, today the country has plunged to a situation that corona infected soldiers fa Read more >>
By The Alliance of Independent Professionals
(Lanka-e-News- 28.April.2020, 11.30 PM) Despite mounting pressure from public health experts, Sri Lanka’s pace of COVID-19 testing is one of the lowest of any country with an active outbreak. From the onset of the pandemic, health officials who called for Read more >>
Media Release By The Friday Forum
(Lanka-e-News- 28.April.2020, 11.45 PM) The Covid19 pandemic has impacted all our lives, across national spaces and oceans. Leadership from political authorities, the President and the Minister of Health, and the dedication and commitment of medical profe Read more >>
Government Critic, Lawyer Detained
(Lanka-e-News -25.April.2020, 6.45 PM) Sri Lankan authorities should uphold due process rights and ensure that recently detained Muslim figures have proper access to lawyers, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests, soon after the government adopted a Read more >>
By Pemil Peduru
(Lanka-e-News -19.April.2020, 10.45PM) Current COVID-19 viral pandemic has been the one terrible thing on all of our minds since the start of 2020. At the beginning it seemed like an isolated incident in China, but very quickly developed into a worldwide Read more >>
By Krishantha Prasad Cooray
(Lanka-e-News- 14.April.2020, 9.00 AM) Take a moment to reflect on how your life has changed since the covid-19 virus brought our world to a standstill. Our income and economic future have become uncertain. Those of us with children must look after them a Read more >>
By Meenakshi Ganguly
(Lanka-e-News- 03.April.2020, 11.30PM) Sri Lanka’s inspector general has ordered police to arrest those who “criticize” officials involved in the coronavirus response or share “fake” or “malicious” messages about the pandemic. According to the order, iss Read more >>
By Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
(Lanka-e-News- 03.April.2020, 11.30PM) The world has been attacked by the most widely spread pandemic the world has ever experienced. It has had seismic effects on the entire world – almost no country has been spared from its terrifying repercussions.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.March.2020, 11.30PM) The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly condemns Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa’s decision to pardon and release Sunil Ratnayake, an army officer on death row for killing eight internally displaced Tamil civilians, inc Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.March.2020, 12.25PM) Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s pardon of a soldier convicted of massacring eight civilians, including children, shows the administration’s disregard for justice for the worst abuses, Human Rights Watch sai Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 27.March.2020, 8.00PM) ‘Contact Sri Lanka’ an online portal jointly created by the Ministry of Foreign Relations and Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) for the benefit of Overseas Sri Lankans was launched yest Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.March.2020, 5.00PM) The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. Prince Charles, 71, is displaying mild symptoms "but otherwise remains in good health", a spokesman said, adding that the Duchess Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -21.March.2020, 8.40PM) - Four inmates of Anuradhapura Prison have been shot and killed as usual by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa system. The incident has been caused by the inmates of the prison fearing that an inmate who had been brought from outsi Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -20.March.202, 7.20PM) This attached infographic designed by CMEV Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -20.March.2020, 2.00PM) A curfew has been imposed from 6.00 pm today to 6.00 am Monday, 23rd of this month, the Presidential Secretariat said in a statement. Public transports and essential services can be... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.March.2020, 9.30PM) Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha has requested foreign governments to facilitate the appropriate extension of visas for Sri Lankans currently visiting their countries, and facing difficulty to return to Sri Lank Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.March.2020, 6.45 pm) A Foreign Ministry lady official from Sweden has contracted the corona virus and it has been concealed from the public. Lanka -e-News yesterday published an article entitled "Is Sri Lanka's foreign minister suffering Read more >>
-Former Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera
(Lanka-e-News- 22.March.2020, 7.00PM) Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who as the Minister of Finance, has the legal responsibility to release to the public a Pre-Election Budgetary position report containing information on the fiscal position of the cou Read more >>
Rights Activists, Journalists Facing Surveillance, Threats
(Lanka-e-News -04.March.2020,11.30PM) Sri Lankan security agencies are stepping up surveillance, harassment, and threats against human rights activists and journalists, Human Rights Watch said today. Since November 2019, when the government of President G Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 29.Feb.2020.11.45PM) I move to our update on Sri Lanka, HRC/43/19, assessing the progress made in implementing Human Rights Council resolution 30/1. I regret that the new Government has announced a very different approach to the commitmen Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 27.Feb.2020,3.55PM) While militarising entire law enforcement sector, Military Intelligence arm of the Nandasena Rajapakse government, removed original investigation files relating to 37 high profile sensitive from the CID. The most respect Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -24.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) The Nigerian Navy had intercepted a foreign vessel MT Zeebrugge in Nigerian waters while transporting 838 metric tons of crude oil on 12 December 2019 along with seven Sri Lankan crew members on board. Currently the Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Feb.2020,11.30PM) Notorious Political prostitute, the former president and the leader of Sri Lanka Freedom Party Maithripala Sirisena who bragged that if SLFP is divided and make new parties that he would allow to walk in the roads, by e Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 18.Feb.2020, 11.00PM) The president and the prime ministers cousin Udayanga Weerathunga who was arrested and remanded upon his arrival at the Katunayake airport on suspicious for the mig air craft deal, selling arms seized by the LTTE to Uk Read more >>
Another exposure by the Jailor Podda
(Lanka-e-News -17.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) Prison drug mafia and the media mafia in Sri Lanka have been stirred by the recent revelation of jailor Podda's news in Lanka e news about President Nandasena who did not meet Drug Kingpin Duminda and Dematagoda Chamin Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -16.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) An accused of Rs 260 million bribery charges currently inquired in a magistrate's court was appointed as the Judge of the Court of Appeal. Law-abiding people will surely question in which tribal country the rule of law Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) Commander of the Sri Lanka Army and Acting Chief of Defense Staff, Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva and his immediate family members have been barred to entering the United States. US state department's statement iss Read more >>
- By Dr SLM RIFAI
(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) How should we read, analyse and examine this natural calamity of coronavirus? As a Muslim community how should we respond to this natural disaster? How should we share our thoughts and ideas about this natural tragedy Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -12.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) Lawyers in Colombo staged a protest for the second time against Attorney General Dappula De Livera who has forgotten to prosecute Maithripala Sirisena who is directly responsible for the deaths of over 300 people who d Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.Feb.2020, 9.00PM) The Working Committee of the United National Party (UNP) met last evening and decided that the symbol of the United National Party (UNP) the alliance which is to contest the upcoming parliamentary election, should be th Read more >>
By Wimal Dheerasekere
(Lanka-e-News -10.Feb.2020, 11.30PM) The heartbeats of the general public was stopped for a moment from the response given by the chief government whip when a question raised by the JVP parliamentarian Dr. Nalin De Jayatissa. The good governance that cam Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -09.Feb.2020, 11.00AM) Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's first overseas visit to India after becoming Prime Minister and President twice again has become a hoax. Despite a five-day visit, the Indian leaders met the premier in two days and i Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -06.Feb.2020,11.30PM) Colombo magistrate Ranga Dissanayake yesterday 6th ordered to remand the former chief executive officer of Sri Lankan air line Kapila Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Neomali Wijenayake till the 19th of this month for Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -29.Jan.2020, 6.20PM) Kili Maharaja has told Sajith Premadasa that he should give nominations for four of his associates and another four of his men should be given national list entrance to at the next parliamentary election Kili Maharaja Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 28.Jan.2020, 7.30PM) Indian National Security Advisor Ajith Kumara Doval arrived in Sri Lanka on January 18th. He met both Mahinda and Gota. Gota's official media reported that Ajith Doval agreed to provide US $ 50 million to purchase equip Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 26.Jan.2020, 5.20PM) Kanishka Wijerathne who was appointed as the new director general of the Bribery and Corruption is a Rajapaksa fanatic who is a pro Rajapaksa associate famous for his sordid judgments. He is a relative to the Rajapaksa Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 24.Jan.2020, 1.30PM) Today is 10 years since the disappearance of journalist and cartoonist Prageeth Ekneligoda. It also marks 10 years of struggle for truth and justice by his wife, Sandya Ekneligoda and two young sons. Investigative repo Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 23.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) Dr. Jayampathy Wickramarathne who represented the Samasamaja party and became a mp from the united people’s alliance resigned from his parliamentary seat from the 20th of this month. The resignation letter was present Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 22.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) A medical student studying in the medical faculty of the Jaffna University has been killed by an army soldier. The medical student is a Sinhala student from in Beruwala. The incident has occurred near a garden located Read more >>
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(Lanka-e-News -21.Jan.2020, 3.30PM) It appears that the Sri Lanka cricket is day by day is going towards the pit but cannot see any improvement. Although Thilanga Sumathipala is no longer in the Sri Lanka cricket, which was once run by Thilanga Sumathipal Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 20.Jan.2020, 12.45PM) The Sri Lanka Chapter of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA-SL) condemns the recent attack by political thugs on senior provincial journalist and foreign correspondent Prasad Purnamal Jayamanne on January 17 Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) Sajith and his selfish gang without protesting to any of the witch hunt conducted against the opposition, the oppression against the media, the increase of cost of living, pruning reliefs, increase lawlessness and bri Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) Ranjan Ramanyake who was arrested 15th under the section 111 d (2) for influencing judges Padmini Ranawaka (retired), Gehan Pilapitiya and Dhammika Hemapala, was produced before the Nugegoda chief magistrate Wasantha Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 14.Jan.2020, 11.45PM) The attorney general has ordered the director of Colombo crimes to immediately arrest Ranjan Ramanayake and produce him before the courts for recording telephone calls and exposing them without the notice of the other Read more >>
By a former army intelligence officer
(Lanka-e-News- 14.Jan.2020, 11.45PM) From our previous letter we pointed out how the Indian soil has become a seed farm of the Islamic State. We said about the separation of Kashmir, the change of Muslim marriage and divorce act, transfer of Ayodhya to Hi Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 10.Jan.2020, 4.30PM) Law abiding police officers allege why Ranjan Ramanayake, who has become an idiot because of his voice, is not revealing the voice clips of previous high-ranking police officers, and the former justice minister, spoken Read more >>
‘Stop! It’s Anti-democratic; Danger of ‘end to reconciliation achieved from hard work’ -Rishad
(Lanka-e-News 09-Jan-2020, 2.45PM) The All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) warned that any constitutional amendments to remove minority parties from the Parliament are anti-democratic adding that ‘there’s a danger to end of reconciliation achieved by hard w Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 06.Jan.2020, 11.30PM) Lanka e news internal judicial news service reports, attorney general Dappula De Livera ignoring the traditions of the judiciary, has forced the chief justice to distort the case and rescue the 14 navy soldiers accused Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -31.Dec.2019. 11.35 PM) The accusation against the Swiss head of state by the state attorney general representing Sri Lanka is a serious matter, pointed Gania’s lawyer Upul Kumarapperuma to the Colombo chief magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayarathna d Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -30.Dec.2019. 11.35 PM) The government's decision to discontinue the singing of the national anthem in Tamil is another sign that the Tamil people are being treated as an ethnicity rejected by the Sri Lankan nationality, said TNA media spoke Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -29.Dec.2019. 11.35 PM) A bestial thug of Gotabaya has assaulted an innocent and broken his spinal cord and living without prosecution. The incident has happened in Kahagalle in the Katugasthota police division on the 15th. The thug is iden Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -26.Dec.2019. 11.35 PM) Dr. Rajitha Senarathna entered the cardiac unit of a private hospital in Colombo yesterday when impotent Gota’s government who is unable to bring down the prices of essential food, exploited a press conference convene Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.Dec.2019. 10.35 PM) People in the judiciary circle say that it is suspicious about the sudden death of the Supreme Court judge Prasanna Jayawardana. He was 63 years, sporty and a healthy person who gave righteous judgments in the Suprem Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -24.Dec.2019. 4.20PM) Colombo additional magistrate Kanchana Neranjala Silva ordered bail to Champika Ranawaka rejecting the insulting attempt taken by the police who remanded Champika under public property act without the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Dec.2019, 8.45 AM) There are many first ladies who abused political power. Lady Imelda Marcos of Philippine is one such. “I dodnt have 3000 shoe pairs, I only had 1060, Even if I win or lose I will go shopping” said Imelda Marcos in a pr Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Dec.2019, 8.30 AM) Athuruliye Rathana has once again started his religious and racial extremism aiming to win the coming general election. Accordingly, he has presented a bill to repeal the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -20.Dec.2019, 11.30 PM) Switzerland is continuing high-level talks with Sri Lanka to resolve the current crisis. Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis phoned his Sri Lankan counterpart, Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, on 18 December 2019 to Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -19.Dec.2019, 10.30 PM) When Maithripala Sirisena's was the president, his chief of staff I.H.K Mahanama and Timber Corporation Chairman Piyadasa Dissanayake were caught while accepting a Rs. 200 million bribe at hotel Taj Samudra Hotel car Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -18.Dec.2019, 11.00 PM) Supporters of Champika Ranawaka gathered before the CCD Dematagoda following his arrest and protested against the police for taking him to the magistrate. Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.Dec.2019, 10.00 PM) The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement on Monday criticizing the lack of due process in the case against a local worker at the Swiss embassy in Sri Lanka. Here is the full statement:.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -16.Dec.2019, 11.30 PM) Following Gotabaya Rajapaksa became the president, the country has plunged into a lawless state. Instead of taking Champika Ranawaka’s driver Dilum Thusitha Kumara, his mother, wife and his infant reported to have bee Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.Dec.2019, 11.30 PM) Colombo chief magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayarathna has ordered the CID to start an investigation against the sordid media and people, muddling against the Swiss embassy staff abducted and sexually harassed, the embassy an Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.Dec.2019, 11.00 PM) The extremist Gotabaya government is planning to hunt down two former ministers of the good governance and three lawyers who supported the good government, Lanka e News reports. Before the presidential election minis Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Dec.2019, 8.30 PM) The news published on the 12th by Lanka e news “Anarchy in the country ..! Ministry of Defense without a Defense Minister, Gota violates the constitution ..” has striked the attention of president Gotabaya and he plan Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -12.Dec.2019, 10.30 PM) The President has issued a special gazette notification covering the subjects and institutions of ministries belonging to the ministers of the government. Senior lawyers say Gotabhaya Rajapakse's administration is in Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.Dec.2019, 10.30PM) An incident was reported in December 2019 from India regarding the gang rape of a woman and what happened thereafter. The news of the gang rape stirred up a massive protest from many parts of India. Among those who wer Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Dec.2019, 9.30PM) On the 27th of July police special task force surrounded an illicit large kasippu production at Pinhena Aluthgama backed by politician Rohitha Abeygunawardana alias Raththaran and seized 20,000 liters of Goda and arrest Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -09.Dec.2019, 9.30PM) The Alliance for Economic Democracy (AED) is a concerned group of trade unionists, farmers, fishers, students, academics and activists who uphold the value of economic rights and justice in public policymaking. We wish Read more >>
S.V. Kirubaharan, France
(Lanka-e-News -07.Dec.2019, 10.00PM) “Don’t trust too much. Don’t love too much. Don’t hope too much. Because that too much can hurt you so much” – Gautama Buddha Dear Mr President Gotabaya Rajapaksa... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -06.Dec.2019, 12.30PM) Looming signs of the Rajapaksa administration have already begun to show. While starting from the demise of the former premier, leading to an international diplomatic crisis, landslides, and floods has finally ended up Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -05.Dec.2019, 7.30PM) UNP parliamentarians including Ranil Wickramasinghe have decided to give the opposition leadership to Sajith Premadasa. This decision was taken today 5th at Sirikotha party headquarters Ranil wickramasinghe would conti Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04.Dec.2019, 11.30PM) The national police commission abolished the police media spokesperson post of the police department held by police spokesperson SSP lawyer Ruwan Gunasekera and made him the director of police legal division on the 2th Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.Dec.2019, 11.30PM) President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has terminated the current term of parliament after midnight today, according to the powers vested to him by Article 70 of the Constitution. The new term of Parliament will be ceremonially Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.Nov.2019. 4.20PM) The first white van abduction has commenced with the abduction of a foreign diplomat in Sri Lanka, bringing back the white van terror of the decade. An officer of the visa section of the Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka has b Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2019. 11.30PM) Today 26th morning the Mirihana Police have broken into a News Web site called 'News Hub' claiming that the website has published defamatory news articles against Gotabaya. The police have shown a court-ordered for the Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.Nov.2019. 7.20PM) Gota has once again reaffirmed that his government policy is to mock the true law abiding police officers and to tame and meek police officers who did crimes and facing prosecutions during the Rajapaksa era. The Minist Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -24.Nov.2019. 11.30PM) People who were infuriated by religious fanatics and racism, following three days an American citizen whose criminal charges were investigated before the judiciary, was made an executive president of the country, the l Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -23.Nov.2019. 11.30PM) In accordance with the powers vested in the President by Article 12 of the Public Security Ordinance, all members of the Armed Forces have been summoned by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa with effect from November 22, 2019, to mai Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 21.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) Releasing another election result, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has been acquitted of all charges in the Madamulana Rajapaksa family grave tomb case filed by the special High Court today the 21st. The case was called today... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 19.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) Following the presidential election victory and the swearing in, a discussion was held with the speaker, prime minister, opposition and leader all political party leaders about how the current parliament should move for Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 18.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) Gotabaya Rajapaksa violated the constitution within a moment he sworn in as the president. Addressing the people he said that “I have met you all as the executive president of this country, commander of the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 17.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) The election commission a while ago officially informed informed Nadasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa who took a majority of 69,24225 votes obtaining 52.25% became the seventh president of Sri Lanka... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 17.Nov.2019, 5.30PM) Following the victory of Gotabaya Rajapaksa prime minister Ranil Wickramasinghe has decided to step down from his premiership and Finance minister... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.Nov.2019, 12.45PM) Gotabhaya Rajapaksas’s wife, Ioma Rajapaksa (nee Pieris) is the only daughter of Late Mr. Lucas Pieris and of Mrs. Padma Pieris. Ioma also has a brother. Gotabhaya and Ioma presently lives in Mrs. Padma Pieris’s hous Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 13.Nov.2019, 10.45PM) The following picture of an original passport confirm the so called president counsels Ali Sabry’s blatant lie of deceiving all Sri Lakans. Ali Sabri during a press conference yesterday showed the US passport of his cl Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 13.Nov.2019, 10.45PM) Ali Sabri, who is supposed to be a notorious president's lawyer who bum suck Gotabaya’s filthy lucre, has himself established that he is more a scammer than a thief. Few days ago, he posted an affidavit on his FB page Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 13.Nov.2019, 9.45PM) Retired Army Major Major Hasitha Siriwardena revealed a conspiracy of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who was conspiring to bring down an underworld leader to Sri Lanka while he was the Defense Secretary to assassinate three minist Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 12.Nov.2019, 9.45PM) Reports reaching us confirms that ugly Gota’s illegal military wing is planning two conspiracies on the end of the presidential election campaign tomorrow. The first bomb is scheduled to explore in an election rally in Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 10.Nov.2019, 10.45PM) See the November 2019 list of those who have been stripped of American citizenship The latest list issued every six months of American Citizenship Revocation... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 07.Nov.2019, 11.45PM) Sajith Premadasa, who is contesting on the swan mark, says that after he becomes president, a new prime minister with a majority of parliament will be appointed. Sajith Premadasa made a special statement to the nation Read more >>
Prepared by a number of university professors
(Lanka-e-News 07.Nov.2019, 5.30AM) Sri Lanka’s entire system of education, at pre-school, primary, secondary and tertiary levels, has been facing multiple crises. Attempts made in the recent past to address some aspects of these crises have either succeed Read more >>
An exposure by former Intelligence Officer Keerthi Ratnayake
(Lanka-e-News 03.Nov.2019, 11.30PM) Mahinda visited the prison recently and had a discussion with Pilleyan. Mahinda went to see Pillayan not look for his well being but to plan a conspiracy. Pohottuwa has already announced that Pillayan will be released o Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.Oct.2019, 4.15PM) Malaka Devapriya, the award-wining dramatist, radio playwright, film producer and director has been noticed by the Organized Crimes Prevention Division(OCPD) of Sri Lanka Police to be present there today (17 October) mo Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.Oct.2019, 4.15PM) Simply put, because of fear of a military coup (the reason described elsewhere) if the upcoming presidential election is “too close to call”. Last time the MR regime, so sure of winning, learned a bitter lesson for not Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -07.Oct.2019 -10.20PM) 35 candidates submitted their nominations to the Election Commission today 7th october. 41 people have placed their deposits, but six people have not filed nominations. Chamal Rajapaksa and Kumara Welgama were among th Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04.Oct.2019 -8.20PM) The court of appeal dismissed the petition filed by the Civil Society Collective stating that Gotabhaya Rajapakse had obtained his dual citizenship in 2005 in a systematic manner and was still an American citizen. Peti Read more >>
By Basil Fernando
(Lanka-e-News -04.Oct.2019, 2.35PM) The 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka is an outstanding example of how meaning can be manipulated through the weaponisation of ambiguity. It uses language that gives the appearance of a liberal democratic constitution of a Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04.Oct.2019, 1.30PM) Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, I am delighted by the prospect of having this opportunity of meeting all of you. Let me... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 29.Sep.2019, 7.45AM) I wish to address you Honorable Sirs, on a matter that may be insignificant to you, the candidates, nevertheless the principles if recognized and due attention is given, , would be far reaching and first step to stop t Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 25.Sep.2019, 2.20PM) The seniors of the UNP have decided to nominate Sajith Premadasa as the presidential candidate for the United National Alliance if the latter is complying to party’s conditions. Sajith Premadasa too has agreed to those Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 20.Sep.2019. 9.00AM) Karu Jayasuriya, who has remained silent on his candidature for the presidential election, has issued an official announcement after the request of the Maha Sangha and civilian leaders.... Read more >>
Sajith, Ravi, Akila, Harin, Navin, Gayantha, Haleem, Mano
(Lanka-e-News – 10.Sep.2019, 11.45 PM) Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) filed a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) today, citing information obtained through the Right to Information Act Read more >>
By Thushara Wanniarachchi
(Lanka-e-News- 09.Sep.2019, 11.45PM) In the dawn of another election season, fake Dutugamunus, Parakramabahus and Terminators are springing up like mushrooms. Along with them, their ages-old lame slogans and posters too have come out of the chests they we Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 30.Aug.2019, 2.30PM) Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna has nominated Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its candidate. There is lots of discussions and debate about his American citizenship in the political arena. But what many of us do not realize is that t Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) The upcoming presidential election is not just about electing the next president of Sri Lanka. What is at stake is democracy. Gotabaya Rajapakshe has already been nominated by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna as their p Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2019, 1.45PM) Reports reaching Lanka e news confirms if Karu Jayasuriya contest from the UNP lead national democratic alliance, the coalition for left and the civil societies has decided to cast their first preference to Karu and If Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) The appointment of Sri Lankan Lieutenant-General Shavendra Silva as Commander of the country’s army is deeply troubling, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement released on Monday (19), adding that Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) From the inception of Islam, each and every groups and sects of Islam has been threatening and oppressing the people who do not accept the conditions imposed by Islam. Still we can hear the war drums perpetrated during Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -10.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) A group of Sri Lankan descent American youth performed a traditional Kandyan Drums Orchestra at the 10th Annual Cultural Celebration organized by the South Asian American Employee Association of the U.S. Department of Read more >>
Reinvigorate Commitment to Justice for Civil War Atrocities
(Lanka-e-News -02.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) Sri Lankan authorities have failed to bring to justice those responsible for the execution-style killing of 17 aid workers 13 years ago, Human Right Watch said today. On August 4, 2006, alleged Sri Lankan security for Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) LAWASIA notes with deep concern a recent increase in the use of the death penalty for drug related offences, within the Asia Pacific region, which it considers to be a violation of international human rights law and st Read more >>
End of Mission Statement – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
(Lanka-e-News -29.July.2019, 11.30PM) The people of Sri Lanka must act together to secure democracy, human rights and the rule of law, says the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 21.July.2019, 3.45PM) Lanka e News internal information has received all information about a conspiracy of President Pallewatta Gamarala who is trying to renew his president murder drama II through another conspiracy trying to entangle pr Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 18.July.2019, 2.45PM) A delegation of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) today met with the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last evening (17th July) at Temple Trees. The PM assured the delegation that Government has not signed Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 16.July.2019, 9.20AM) The Shilpasena Exposition, the first in a series of expositions, being organized by the Ministry of Science Technology & Research, under the directions of Hon. Sujeewa Senasinghe, aimed at bridging the gap between Sc Read more >>
Tariq A. Al Maeena, Special to Gulf News
(Lanka-e-News - 15.July.2019, 9.15AM) When nine Sri Lankans blew themselves up in churches and luxury hotels and led to the deaths of more than 250 people, the ugly head of the Sinhala extremist group Bodu Bala Sena... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 15.July.2019, 10.30AM) A magistrate in the northeastern town of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, acquitted all 13 defendants in the execution of five ethnic Tamil students on January 2, 2006, known as the “Trinco Five” case, Human Rights Watch and Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 02.July;2019, 11.30PM) Resigned Muslim Ministers are not in any hurry to return to their latent Ministries. “Both the Prime Minister and President called us to return to our Ministries and take back our portfolios” said ACMC Leader Rishad. Read more >>
By George Braine
(Lanka e News -16.June.2019, 5.40PM) Sri Lanka’s first Cardinal, Thomas Cooray, passed away in 1988, and for decades, he was not replaced. In 2007, President Rajapakse and his wife Shiranthi, a Catholic, visited the then Pope, who asked Rajapakse what he Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -17.June.2019, 1.45PM) We are reliably informed that the Organised Crime Division has petitioned the Colombo Magistrate Courts against journalist Kusal Perera who has written a political column in the Daily Mirror every Friday for many years Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News- 16.June.2019, 8.15PM) The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the attempts to pursue legal action under the provisions of the INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS (ICCPR) ACT No 56. of 2007 and urges all responsible stak Read more >>
(Lanka e News -15.June.2019, 6.35PM) The Organised Crime Division is reported to have moved Colombo Magistrate Courts against journalist Kusal Perera and the Daily Mirror to investigate a complaint against his article on 17 May in the Daily Mirror on deve Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News 10.June.2019, 11.30PM) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited St. Anthony's Shrine in Kochchikade - one of the sites of the horrific Easter Sunday attacks - soon after his arrival in... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 29.May.2019, 8.30AM) The attention of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has been drawn in the recent past to a series of incidents which appears to have a serious impact on the Rule of Law and the independence of the Judiciary. The Read more >>
(Lanka e News -19.May.2019, 11.45PM) What can a true Buddhist say about the following brutality which happened in the land where next Maithri Lord Buddha will given birth? This happened in Minuwangoda, is the police correct? Not only during the repression Read more >>
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
(Lanka-e-News -13.May.2019, 11.30PM) Although there was a two day parliamentary debate held to discuss the Easter Sunday carnage caused by the bombs that were exploded in three churches and several tourist hotels, no consensus has yet emerged as to the pr Read more >>
By A former army intelligence officer
(Lanka-e-News -11.May.2019,9.45PM) During the end of the world war one the Turkish Ottoman Empire was destroyed. The British intelligence did a decisive role during the war. They influenced the local leaders of the Arabian Gulf against the Turks. The movi Read more >>
In a special statement, Rishad says allegations are false, not supported
(Lanka-e-News- 10.May.2019, 4.35PM) In a special statement, Minister Rishad Bathiudeen and Leader of ACMC clarifies various allegations made against him, stressing that they are attempts to accuse him falsely. “I am ready to prove that I am correct” he a Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.May.2019, 11.55PM) Robert O. Blake was the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka from 2009 to 2013. He was the architect of initiating US action on Sri Lanka in the Human Rights Council in 2012. Since then, he has retired from US Government Servic Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.May.2019, 11.55PM) A commemorative event for the victims of the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka was held on Friday 03 May 2019 at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The event, to honor th Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 27.April.2019, 9.45PM) We are all still reeling from the shock and sorrow of the terrorist attack on Easter Sunday. The goal of the perpetrators behind this inhuman act was to start a bloodbath in our country. But Sri Lanka stood... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 24.April.2019, 3.30PM) People of Sri Lanka learns that president Sirisena’s fourth defense secretary Hemasiri Fernando should resign from his post and leave the country for giving an idiotic statement before a foreign media without taking Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 23.April.2019, 5.35PM) Isis has just claimed Sunday’s suicide attacks in Sri Lanka, claiming they were the work of “fighters of the Islamic State” via their AMAQ news... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 21.April.2019, 11.30PM) Suicide bombers who carried the bombs to the Negombo church and Hotel Shangrila has been identified from their blown head from the CCTV footages. The suicide bomber of the Shangrila Hotel has been identified s one H Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 21.April.2019, 11.30PM) Sri Lanka faces adversity on Easter Sunday; explosions in nine places, More than 300 dead in churches and hotels in Colombo, 560 injured, All attacks done by suicide killers, a foreign Muslim Islamic terrorist group Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 17.April.2019, 2.20PM) Here is the case against Gotabhaya Rajapaksha, filed in the USA courts by the daughter of the Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was murdered in the High Security Zone in Colombo. Common questions rais Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 17.April.2019, 5.30PM)) Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera is representing Sri Lanka at the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Forum on Financing for Development (FfD) convened by the President of ECOSOC, Inga Rhonda King, at the Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 17.April.2019, 5.30PM) State Minister of Finance, Eran Wickramaratne, led the Sri Lankan delegation for IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC from 08th – 13th April 2019, accompanied by Secretary to the... Read more >>
(Lanka e News -12.April.2019, 8.35PM) As part of programmes under the theme ‘RATA WENUWEN EKATA SITIMU’, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conducted mobile consular services in the Batticaloa district from 10-11 April 2019. These mobile services... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 05.April.2019, 11.30PM) Minister of Science, Technology and Research, Sujeewa Senasinghe has appointed professor Rangika Halwathura as the new commissioner of the Sri Lanka inventors Commission. Mr. Halwathura is a Professor of Civil Engi Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 05.April.2019, 11.30PM) General Sevretary of the TULF Mr. V. Ananda Sangaree has written an open letter to the UNHRC. Here are the following... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 05.April.2019, 11.30PM) The Government of Pakistan through its High Commission has presented 15 computers and printers to newly established Peace Keeping Training Centre of Sri Lankan Army.... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 29.March.2019, 11.30PM) The past decade has seen the largest number of people forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence, or persecution since the Second World War. With most recent numbers reaching 68.5 million, the global refu Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 22.March.2019, 11.30PM) The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) acknowledges the passing of the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ (40/1) at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and thank all those who Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 09.March.2019, 4.15PM) V. Conclusions and recommendations 61. In 2015, by co-sponsoring Human Rights Council resolution 30/1, the Government of Sri Lanka recognized the need to address the past in order to build a brighter future, ground Read more >>
(Lanka e News -08.March.2019, 2.30PM) A Donor from abroad is very interested to construct an Olympic standard Aquatic Sports Complex and requested Policy Development Office of the Prime Minister’s Office to find the suitable location in Jaffna. Government Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 06.March.2019, 11.15AM) As per the pledge given by the Government to provide free Wi-Fi in public areas, currently 1176 public locations have been covered under this programme with the collaboration of the telecommunication service provide Read more >>
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(Lanka e News - 01.March. 11.30PM) A group of 5 members of parliament from across party lines came together today to publish their declarations of assets and liabilities in the public domain. The five MP’s who came forward to take this step towards chang Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 01.March.2019, 7.30AM) I am extraordinarily honored to be here today. It is wonderful to be back in Sri Lanka, for the first time since 2015, when I visited as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. Read more >>
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(Lanka e News - 21.Feb.2019, 7.00PM) This is the speech made by Minister of Finance and Media, Mangala Samaraweera in Parliament today (21), during the adjournment debate on the Constitutional Council. Hon. Speaker, If my memory serves me right, I can Read more >>
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(Lanka e News - 20.Feb.2019, 11.00PM) The prestigious Mahatma Gandhi Scholarships for 2017-18 were awarded to 150 Advanced Level school students from all 25 districts across Sri Lanka by Hon. Akila Viraj Kariyawasam, Minister of Education of Sri Lanka, H Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 15.Feb.2019, 6.30AM) Here is the speech made by Minister of Finance and Mass Media Mangala Samaraweera at the national programme for debt relief in the drought affected areas, held yesterday (14), under the patronage of... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 08.Feb.2019, 7.00PM) Statement Regarding the Activities of the Constitutional Council I made a statement before this August Assembly even on 25th January 2019 regarding the activities of the Constitutional Council. I informed on that oc Read more >>
(Lanka e News -29.Jam.2019, 9.40AM) For the first time in the history of Sri Lanka’s US $550 Mn footwear and leather sector, the industry has come forward to felicitate the Cabinet Minister in charge of it for “invaluable support and services” that he ren Read more >>
(Lanka e News -29.Jam.2019, 9.20AM) Perhaps one thing that was forgotten when Lord Dunmore gave Adult Franchise for all, and also when Sri Lanka became an independent nation, is the stability of the social structure of a country. This is what provides for Read more >>
(Lanka e News -27.Jan.2019, 2.40PM) President of Sri Lanka H.E. Maithripala Sirisena flagged off a new train, supplied by India, on 27 January, 2019. Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation of Sri Lanka Hon. Arjuna Ranatunga and High Commissioner of Ind Read more >>
(Lanka e News -18.Jan.2019, 4.00AM German authorities say they have arrested a suspected member of the Tamil Tigers alleged to have been involved in the 2005 assassination of Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Mr. Kadirgamer, reported by AP news Federal prosec Read more >>
(Lanka e News -16.Jan.2019, 9.30AM) Minister of Finance & Mass Media, Mangala Samaraweera and the delegation from Sri Lanka including Minister Harsha De Silva and the Governor of Central Bank Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy met with Ms. Christine Lagarde, Man Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 12.Jan.2019, 11.30PM) The recent appointment of Shavendra Silva (Silva) as the Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan army has sent shock waves through the Tamil community, and to all those interested in human rights and accountability in Sri La Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 01.Jan.2018, 11.30PM) Though the constitutional crisis that arose from the conspiracy hatched between the President and Mahinda Rajapakse which brought the country to the brink of civil war has ended due to the Supreme Court interpreting t Read more >>
(Lanka e News -16.Dec.2018, 9.00PM) It is a pleasure to me to address you once again as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. You all know that the basic law of our country is the Constitution. Now we have passed 87 years after we gained franchise. During thi Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 14.Dec.2018, 3.20PM) Historical verdict given by a seven-judge Supreme Court bench in Sri Lanka that the president had violated the constitution. Please read the full verdict... Read more >>
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(Lanka e News- 08.Dec.2018, 10.30PM) As per Article 33 (2) of the Constitution: In addition to the powers, duties and functions expressly conferred or imposed on, or assigned to the President by the Constitution or other written law, the President shall Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 08.Dec.2018, 10.00PM) Sri Lanka have been suffering its worst days ever in its long history (of over 3500 years) since the Organized Coup on 26th October 2018 where the Executive President Violated the Constitution (on which he took oath t Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 22.Nov.2018, 8.00PM) I H.M Gaffore alias Jeff who was in charge of the English translation for Lanka e news for the past ten years, passed away on 20th November in Colombo. At the time when Lanka e news was oppressed during the Rajapaksa Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 21.Nov.2018, 6.00PM) The Hon Speaker extends his heartfelt gratitude to all the religious leaders and Sri Lankans living within and outside Sri Lanka for the blessings invoked and the fathomless love extended on him over the commitment tow Read more >>
(Lanka e News -20.Nov.2018, 11.00PM) “ Make no mistake, Mr. President. If you try to stand in the way of justice for my father and other victims of brutality, you will fail.” Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of Lasantha Wickrematunge, writes a letter Read more >>
(Lanka e News -20.Nov.2018, 11.30PM) This letter faxed to the President Sirisena. It has been written according to the decision taken at a meeting organised by the Independent Civil Society for Unity, held in... Read more >>
(Lanka e News -20.Nov.2018, 8.00PM) Just 9 days prior to the presentation of the 2019 budget, the Sirisena-Rajapaksa “coup” ousting the legitimate and lawful Prime Minister and cabinet has thrown the country and citizens into an unprecedented crisis. The Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 12.Nov.2018, 9.00PM) The illegal regime has created political turmoil by changing a government without an election, and compounded matters by announcing unsustainable, populist policy measures at a time of global economic turbulence. As a Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 09.Nov.2018, 4.30) The Delegation of the European Union issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission as well as the Ambassadors of Norway and Switzerland resident in Colombo... Read more >>
(Lanka e News -07.Nov.2018, 5.30PM) The Hon.speaker Karu Jayasuriya has once again issued a strict and stern order under the laws via a communique that the controversial changes which were effected in Parliament during the recent past are all outrageously Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 04.Nov.2018, 4.30AM) What no leader who ruled the country so far did to destroy the economy , peace , laws and the constitution on a scale that would never allow the country to be retrieved is being done by unpatriotic power greedy preside Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 03.Nov.2018, The party leaders and MPs who met at the parliamentary complex yesterday at the invitation of the speaker defeated the anti- state traitorous conspiracy of MARA –SIRA as not official , thereby confirming the MARA –SIRA junta c Read more >>
(Lanka e News -03.Nov.2018, 5.00PM) Believe it or not , the MARA –SIRA unconstitutional junta has appointed Hemasiri Fernando a notorious earner of illicit income who had close dealings with the most leading heroin magnates as their new defense secretary. Read more >>
(Lanka e News -02.Nov.2018, 11.30PM) The grave violation of constitution committed by MARA –SIRA junta by creating two prime ministerial posts without showing any concern for the laws of the country , economy and country’s future has precipitated an unpre Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 02.Nov.2018, 10.55 AM) QUESTION: Right. I want to start on something that I don’t usually start on here, Sri Lanka. What is your understanding of the situation with the prime minister and the government there? Do you consider the former p Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 01.Oct.2018, 4.15PM) President Pallewatte Gamarala who violated the constitution , and hitherto only proved throughout his tenure of office as a biggest cut throat cum buffoon of a leader the world has ever produced said before the UPFA gr Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 28.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) We are a group of Sri Lankan students currently pursuing our education overseas. We write today to express our deep concern about Sri Lanka’s ongoing constitutional and political crisis. Since 1931... Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 28.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) In the wake of the conflict that has been created between the two major parties in the country, in respect of the Prime Minister’s post, the Free Media Movement insists that relevant authorities should take immediate Read more >>
(Lanka e News -27.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) If a majority of the party leaders are for it , the speaker can convene parliament , said prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe when speaking to Lanka e news. The P.M. went on to comment further as follows... Read more >>
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(Lanka e News -26.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) The president while inaugurating a program against frauds ,profligacy and corruption made a request to the public to expose those crimes. In compliance with his own request Lanka e news deems it is its duty to give her Read more >>
(Lanka e News -26.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) The appointment of Mahinda Rajapakse as the prime minister is unconstitutional , and Ranil Wickremesinghe is still the P.M. and he will not be resigning , a spokesman for P.M.’s office revealed to Lanka e news. Under Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 25.Oct.2018, 2.40PM) A briefing session on the Sri Lanka ‘Boat Show and Boating Festival 2018’ was held at the Sri Lanka Consulate in Mumbai on 05 October 2018 to create awareness among the Indian business community on the upcoming Boat Sh Read more >>
Christian west demands justice while Muslims worldwide, display their hypocrisy, with their silence and indifference.
(Lanka e News - 25.Oct.2018, 4.50AM) While the entire Christian West-governments, civil societies and the media-continue to highlight the gruesome chopping to death of highly connected Saudi dissident-in-exile Jamal Khashoggi, Muslims worldwide remain sil Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 23.Oct.2018, 5.00AM) The High Commission of Sri Lanka in the United Kingdom along with the British High Commission in Colombo facilitated an investment promotion event under the auspices of the Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Read more >>
(Lanka e News – 22.Oct.2018, 11.30PM) The illegal directive issued by the president disbanding the boards of directors(including chairpersons) of two state banks as well as the Board of Investment owing to his ignorance of the powers vested in him followi Read more >>
(Lanka e News 18.Oct.2018, 11.00PM) Even as the president was making a statement during the cabinet meeting on the 16 th that the Indian RAW intelligence service is conspiring to assassinate him , his senior presidential advisor (NGO crook) Shiral Lakthil Read more >>
(Lanka e News - 17.Oct.2018, 11.50AM) President Pallewatte Gamarala at the cabinet meeting today (16) made a disclosure that shocked the entire cabinet of ministers. He said , the RAW (intelligence service) informants of India are engaged in activities to Read more >>
(Lanka e News -16.Oct.2018, 2.30PM) Asgiriya chapter Mahanayake Ven. Warakagoda Sri Gnanaratne Thera of the Siyam nikaya summoned president Pallewatte Gamarala and Kurunegala M.P. Mahinda Rajapakse (MR) and held secret discussions in his Aawasa mandiraya Read more >>
