-By Tharindu Uduwaragedara
(Lanka-e-News -28.Nov.2025, 11.10 PM) For all the political noise that inevitably accompanies moments of national crisis, the unfolding disaster has exposed a telling divide: while floodwaters rise, power lines fall and families seek shelter... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka, once again, is under water. Floods ravaging all 25… Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -27.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) When Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath stepped before the press… Read more >>
47 Dead, 21 Missing; Cyclone ‘Ditwah’ Intensifies Crisis as President Convenes All-Party Emergency Meeting
(Lanka-e-News -27.Nov.2025, 10.35 PM) Sri Lanka has been plunged into one of the worst natural disasters in its modern history, after more than 300mm of rainfall swept across the island between the 26th and 27th of November—its highest-ever recorded... Read more >>
-By a Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2025, 9.35 PM) Sri Lanka’s Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has once again issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the government, vowing to escalate what it calls “trade union action” – a campaign that has... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2025, 9.25 PM) A news report published today (26) in a daily newspaper – and now circulating widely on social media – carries the headline “No issue with eye drops imported during Keheliya’s tenure – Health Ministry says.”... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) By any measure, Sri Lankan cricket has reached a crisis point. Not the cyclical slump of a generation turning over, nor the temporary dip associated with transition — but an unprecedented... Read more >>
NPP Investigators Turn Spotlight on a Forgotten Scandal
(Lanka-e-News -23.Nov.2025, 9.20 PM) Two decades after Sri Lanka’s infamous early-2000s VAT scam—once described as one of the largest tax frauds in South and Southeast Asia... Read more >>
-By LeN Geopolitical Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) When Sri Lankan citizens queue for months, often years, for a visa appointment at the United States Embassy in Colombo, many leave feeling like second-class applicants—interviewed briefly, rejected briskly... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2025, 10.30 PM) In a speech that blended confidence with careful diplomacy, the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka outlined Beijing’s latest development agenda as a “new opportunity for the world,” during a packed briefing at... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2025, 11.20 PM) Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva is set to address members of the Sri Lankan community in London this weekend, marking a rare high-profile engagement by a senior figure... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Editor
(Lanka-e-News -21.Nov.2025, 10.30 PM) The rally in Nugegoda on Friday — hastily branded a “national rescue movement” by its organisers — was, in reality, a familiar gathering of Sri Lanka’s most strident... Read more >>
Union Actions Contradict Public Statements as Doctors’ Demands Come Under Scrutiny
(Lanka-e-News -21.Nov.2025, 10.10 PM) The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA), long accused by its critics of behaving more like an obstinate political pressure group than a professional medical union, has once again plunged... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Desk
(Lanka-ew-Nes -20.Nov.2025, 9.00 PM) Australian immigration authorities are reportedly examining the residency status of the family of a prominent Sri Lankan business magnate, whose rapid rise in wealth and sprawling corporate acquisitions have... Read more >>
Exclusive: Files from Colombo and London suggest the former first son’s education was financed by public money—and his degree may not even exist.
(Lanka-ew-Nes -19.Nov.2025, 8.50 PM) In a revelation that adds yet another chapter to the long, murky saga of the Rajapaksa family’s entanglement with state resources, an extensive investigation by The Sunday Times has uncovered fresh evidence... Read more >>
Sri Lanka’s judiciary faces another test as legal experts demand review of Maithripala Sirisena’s controversial 2019 amnesty to hardline monkdent
(Lanka-e-News -19.Nov.2025, 8.30 PM) In the spring of 2019, as Sri Lanka reeled from the shock of the Easter Sunday attacks, the country’s political leadership quietly made a decision that would ignite a new chapter of controversy.... Read more >>
-The Five-Day “SECRECT Mission ” To Verify A Letter
(Lanka-e-News -18.Nov.2025, 8.35 PM) In the latest episode of Sri Lanka’s political tragicomedy—part thriller, part circus—the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has reportedly packed their suitcases, polished their shoes, secured their per.... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) The latest intervention by the Legal Officers’ Association of the Attorney General’s Department, opposing the creation of an independent Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has raised more questions... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.Nov.2025, 11.20 PM) If anyone tuned into the Sri Lankan Parliament this week expecting democracy, they were instead treated to a live, unscripted tele-drama starring none other than Dr. Ramanathan Arjuna MP... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigative desk
(Lanka-e-News -15.Nov.2025, 11.20 PM) The Home Office has launched a sweeping investigation into nearly 4,900 Sri Lankan nationals suspected of obtaining UK Health and Care Worker visas using forged qualifications, fabricated employment... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Investigations Desk
(Lanka-e-News -14.Nov.2025, 11.20 PM) In what may be the most consequential revelation in the post–war political history of Sri Lanka, President **Anura Kumara Dissanayake** has now publicly confirmed what whistle-blowers, victims’ families, and.. Read more >>
-By a Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) Concerns about malpractice at the University of Peradeniya’s Faculty of Arts have long circulated in academic circles. Only weeks ago, we reported on allegations surrounding its Dean, Prof. Prabath Ekanayake,... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) When the son of a former president calls an anti-government rally and no one significant turns up, it is not a protest — it is a public obituary. On *21 November, Namal Rajapaksa, heir to the once-mighty Rajapaksa dyn Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.Nov.2025, 5.45 AM) In what may be the most confusing academic project since a Sri Lankan brankrupted political party tried to teach ethics to politicians, the United National Party (UNP) has announced a new programme... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.Nov.2025, 4.45 PM) For years, Colombo’s motorists have endured the city’s slowest stretch of road — the impossible traffic knot that begins at Galle Face and ends at the Lotus Roundabout. Every day, drivers inch forward... Read more >>
-By Prof. Desmond Mallikarchchi (rtd) - University of Peradeniya
(Lanka-e-News -08.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) On the 31st of September, 2024, the bipartisan Government in Sri Lanka of the elite / privileged classes came to an end, by the mandate given by 68 million Sri Lankan voters when... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -08.Nov.2025, 11.15 PM) Inside the BOI headquarters in Colombo , files tell their own story. Many permit files show incomplete transfer papers. Some are missing signatures. Others carry hand-written notes such as... Read more >>
-LeN Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake rose before Parliament to deliver his first full-year budget, the atmosphere was less theatrical than historic. For the first time in decades,... Read more >>
By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) It was a confession that should have made national headlines — not whispered rumours in the corridors of Colombo. Tiran Alles, a seasoned politician, former minister, and media mogul.. Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent - Colombo & Paris
(Lanka-e-News -04.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) It begins, as all Sri Lankan political dramas do, with a “medical visit.” And it may well end, as all Sri Lankan political dramas do, in Paris. Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent | New Delhi & Colombo
(Lanka-e-News -04.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) In a city obsessed with diplomatic choreography, the optics were impossible to ignore. At New Delhi’s stately Hyderabad House last week, Sri Lanka’s opposition leader... Read more >>
-By LeN Business Analyst
(Lanka-e-News -03.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) -The Engine Stalls - Sri Lanka’s vehicle market—long known for its volatility, currency-linked chaos, and consumer impatience—is finally slamming on the brakes. After nearly two years of import restrictions being part Read more >>
-By LeN Political correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.Nov.2025, 11.10 PM) Colombo’s think-tank circuit can, at times, resemble a cocktail party for policy hobbyists rather than a crucible of economic thought. Last week’s “Policy Changes in Globalisation” Q&A session hosted by... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.Nov.2025, 11.40 PM) It was a dark Saturday evening — October 22, 1988 — when three young men, returning from a Student–Parent Association meeting in Ratnapura, vanished into the shadows... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) Colombo Fort Magistrate Isuru Neththi Kumara last Wednessday (26) ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to conclude,.. Read more >>
-By LeN Investigative Desk
(Lanka-e-News - 24.Oct.2025, 6.45 AM) It is one of the most unspoken financial scandals in Sri Lanka’s recent history - a quiet, calculated haemorrhage of public wealth that has drained nearly $2 billion from the state’s coffers and left taxpayers footing Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 22.Oct.2025, 8.20 AM) Singer (Sri Lanka) PLC, one of the country’s most recognizable consumer brands, is facing mounting allegations of unethical overcharging and financial manipulation in its dealings with major... Read more >>
-By Lanka-e-News Investigations Desk
(Lanka-e-News - 21.Oct.2025, 5.35 AM) For a country that desperately needs foreign investment to escape its debt trap, Sri Lanka has built one of the most investor-unfriendly bureaucracies in South Asia. The Board of Investment (BOI), the supposed.. Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Desk
(Lanka-e-News - 21.Oct.2025, 6.10 AM) It was the scandal that shook Sri Lanka’s post-war economy—a financial heist cloaked in technical jargon and executed at the heart of the Central Bank under the watch of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 19.Oct.2025, 7.40 AM) In a week marked by delicate diplomatic balancing, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuri met with both Chinese and Indian leaders, underscoring Colombo’s intent to maintain strategic ... Read more >>
-By Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Oct.2025, 10.45 PM) In a major step towards reviving Sri Lanka’s position as a regional energy and logistics hub, Chinese energy conglomerate Sinopec has pledged to accelerate the long-delayed $3.7 billion Hambantota oil refinery... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 15.Oct.2025, 6.25 AM) For years, the “White Flag case” has lingered like a ghost over Sri Lanka’s modern political history — a mixture of vengeance, secrecy, and betrayal. It was the case that silenced the nation’s most decorated soldier. Read more >>
-By LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 13.Oct.2025, 11.00 PM) A disturbing confrontation inside the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court has sparked outrage across Sri Lanka and among international policing bodies after a serving police constable was allegedly verbally abused,... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 12.Oct.2025, 9.40 PM) It began, like many tales of Sri Lankan legal arrogance, with something small and procedural — a police officer doing his job. On an otherwise unremarkable morning at the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court Complex.., Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 10.Oct.2025, 11.00 PM) When Ali Sabry, legal representative to Gotabaya Rajapaksa, strode into a packed press room in November 2019 clutching a blue-bound American passport, the message was clear and theatrical.... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 09.Oct.2025, 11.00 PM) A flagship education initiative once touted as a beacon of digital progress in Sri Lankan classrooms has become mired in allegations of financial misconduct, inflated quotations, and corporate manipulation.... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 07.Oct.2025, 11.00 PM) On a humid afternoon in Batticaloa, a young man scrolls through TikTok videos on his phone. Amidst the dances and beauty hacks, one clip stands out: a smiling agent sitting in an air-conditioned office,... Read more >>
-By Lanka-e-News Investigations Desk - In collaboration with the International Fraud Detection Network (IFDN)
(Lanka-e-News - 06.Oct.2025, 10.45 PM) When investigators in Singapore first stumbled upon a string of suspicious bank accounts linked to a former Sri Lankan diplomat , they never imagined it would unravel into one of the largest offshore asset scandals i Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 03.Oct.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka’s battle against corruption took an unusual twist this week when the Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC), Justice Ranga Dissanayake, found Read more >>
By -Special investigation for Lanka-e-News
(Lanka-e-News - 02.Oct.2025, 11.20 PM) Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s long-serving foreign minister, is often described by colleagues and rivals alike as a diplomat forged in detail: quick to read the room, fluent in several languages and comfortable... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Investigation
(Lanka-e-News - 02.Oct.2025, 11.30 PM) On 27 February 2015 a routine government debt auction went badly, conspicuously wrong — and a national controversy was born. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), under newly appointed Governor... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 01.Oct.2025, 11.25 PM) - A Profession in Disrepute - In Sri Lanka, justice is supposed to be blind. But walk outside any court complex in Colombo, Kandy, or Jaffna, and you will see a different reality: lawyers crowding bus stops, approach Read more >>
-By Aanubhawananda
(Lanka-e-News - 29.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) September has always been a peculiar month in Sri Lanka’s political calendar. For nearly a decade, it was the month when the self-styled “Maharaja” Mahinda Rajapaksa would jet off to New York,... Read more >>
-By Staff Correspondent (LankaeNews – Investigations Desk)
(Lanka-e-News - 28.Sep.2025, 11.50 PM) A Map, a Mystery, and a Man Called Baskaran - When visitors first arrive at the gates of Reecha Theme Park in northern Sri Lanka, they are greeted not by rollercoasters or smiling mascots, but by a giant carved map Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 27.Sep.2025, 11.50 PM) When Ceylon ceased to be a colony of the British Crown in 1972 and became the Republic of Sri Lanka, the wigs and gowns of its legal profession survived the transition, but the title of Queen’s Counsel (QC) did not.. Read more >>
-By Dr. Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News - 26.Sep.2025, 8.40 PM) The proposal to grant digital voting rights to Sri Lankan expatriates has provoked fierce opposition from some quarters. In “South Asian Spring: Why Expats Should Not Get Digital Vote in Sri Lanka” the author argues t Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Editor
(Lanka-e-News - 26.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) The Chinese Embassy in Colombo turned the Cinnamon Life Hotel into a stage of pageantry, diplomacy, and political theatre last night, as Beijing marked the 76th anniversary of the founding of the... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 25.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) New York, United Nations –In his maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake urged the international community to confront what he... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 24.Sep.2025, 11.20 PM) The Supreme Court yesterday (23) handed down a three-year prison term, with hard labour, to former Controller of Immigration and Emigration Harsha Ilukpitiya, after he admitted to contempt of court... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 23.Sep.2025, 10.00 PM) Sri Lankans of Sinhala, Tamil, and Muslim heritage gathered in their thousands in London on 21 September to mark the first anniversary of the National People’s Power (NPP) government.... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 22.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) The Anniversary Scene - It is a peculiar form of political theatre when the host of the party is also its sole surviving guest. At the 79th anniversary of the United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremesinghe took to Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent - (for the first anniversary of 'Anurella')
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) The Rise of Anura Kumara and the NPP Presidency - On 14 September 2024, as Sri Lanka’s presidential campaign entered its feverish final week, few could have predicted the scale of what was to come.... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) When Colombo’s Cinnamon Grand played host to the grand launch of the South Asia Sustainability & Security Research Institute (SASSRI), it was pitched as nothing short of a historic moment. Diplomats mingled... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent - (for the first anniversary of 'Anurella')
(Lanka-e-News - 19.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) - A July experiment that changed the political landscape - On a humid afternoon in Colombo, 13 July 2019, a small crowd gathered in a hall not far from Parliament. It was not the usual JVP rally — no red flags, no fi Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent - (for the first anniversary of 'Anurella')
(Lanka-e-News - 18.Sep.2025, 10.25 PM) - The Election of Screens - Sri Lanka’s 2024 presidential election was historic not only for its result but also for how it was fought. For decades, elections in the island nation were defined by posters plastered on Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent - (for the first anniversary of 'Anurella')
(Lanka-e-News - 17.Sep.2025, 11.10 PM) When Sri Lanka looks back on its 2024 presidential election, one campaign will stand apart—not simply for its victory, but for the way it redefined politics on the island. The rise of... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent - (for the first anniversary of 'Anurella')
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) A Revolution by Vote - When the National People’s Power (NPP) swept to victory in Sri Lanka’s September 2024 presidential election, many observers framed it as a historic upset. For the party faithful... Read more >>
-By Captain-10 writes
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Sep.2025, 7.30 PM) What is this RADA case? - The Attorney General had filed an indictment in the High Court in 2016 under the Public Property Act against the former chairman of RADA, Tiran Alles, former chief operating officer of RADA,. Read more >>
-By LeN Financial Corrospondent
(Lanka-e-News - 13.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) On 4th May 2011, Lanka Oryx Finance Company Ltd., a licensed finance company and a publicly listed entity, approved a loan of Rs 50 million to Carlton Sport Network (CSN), a little-known media outfit... Read more >>
-By A LeN investigative Journalist
(Lanka-e-News - 12.Sep.2025, 10.40 PM) For years, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has insisted that he owns no residence in Colombo. He repeated the claim so often that it began to sound like fact. But newly uncovered documents and testimony... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News - 11.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is packing his bags. Not for another glittering foreign visit, not for another taxpayer-funded retreat, but for a quieter life back in Medamulana, Hambantota. Why? Read more >>
-By Professor Pathibha Mahanama
(Lanka-e-News - 11.Sep.2025, 10.45 PM) One of the most striking developments in Sri Lankan society over recent decades has been the visible rise of organised crime in the aftermath of terrorism’s defeat. What began as an undercurrent has now grown... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) -Geneva and Colombo - At the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week, China issued a pointed reminder to the international community: Sri Lanka’s future, including its approach to... Read more >>
-By LeN Judicial Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.Sep.2025, 10.45 PM) It sounds like a parody, but it isn’t: Sri Lanka’s judiciary has yet again been rocked by revelations of another scandal-tainted judge — this time a sitting High Court judge in Ampara, accused of corruption, misconduc Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.Sep.2025, 8.15 PM) A single tweet has ignited a storm between Colombo and Malé. Sri Lankan authorities are investigating a social media threat directed at President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, believed to have originated from... Read more >>
-By LeN Religious correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy—arguably Sri Lanka’s most revered Buddhist shrine—has long stood as a symbol of faith, tradition, and national identity. But its latest appointment to the post... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -03.Sep.2025, 10.45 PM) China delivered a carefully staged message to the world yesterday, rolling tanks and missile launchers through Tiananmen Square in a grand display of military power designed to underline Beijing’s growing... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Sep.2025, 10.00 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has appointed 18 new High Court judges in what legal observers described as one of the most significant judicial appointments in recent years.... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) Tianjin, China – The 25th Head of State Council Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), held in Tianjin from 31 August to 1 September, was more than a diplomatic gathering. For Beijing,... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.Sep.2025, 10.00 PM) Jaffna - On a humid Monday afternoon in Jaffna, Sri Lanka’s northern capital, President Anura Kumara mounted the stage before a sea of expectant faces. Fishermen in white sarongs, Catholic priests in cassocks,... Read more >>
-By Sam Dharmapala
(Lanka-e-News -01.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) Former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, once hailed as the consummate political survivor, finds himself facing one of the gravest crises of his career. Accused of misappropriating public funds during... Read more >>
-By A LeN Investigative Journalist
(Lanka-e-News -30.Aug.2025, 10.00 PM) It began with a curious anomaly in the shipping records: luxury vehicles leaving Japanese ports, their documentation in order, their papers stamped with apparent authenticity. Yet when they arrived in Sri Lanka.. Read more >>
EU Family Members Penalised in British Nationality Applications Despite Withdrawal Agreement Guarantees
(Lanka-e-News -29.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) When the United Kingdom concluded its divorce from the European Union, ministers repeatedly reassured nervous communities that the rights of EU citizens and their families would be protected. The EU–UK Withdrawal... Read more >>
-By Sunil Gamini Jayalathge
(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2025, 11.15 PM) The strike by Sri Lanka’s postal and telecommunications officers, which began on 17 August at 4 p.m. and concluded on the night of 25 August after a meeting with the Minister, has already entered the annals... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2025, 10.50 PM) In a dramatic international sting, Sri Lankan law enforcement agencies, working hand in hand with Interpol and the Indonesian Metropolitan Police, have captured several notorious organised crime leaders... Read more >>
-By Anubavananda
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2025, 11.30 PM) A dark reminder from 1983 - It was International Women’s Day, 8 March 1983. At the head of a peaceful march to the US Embassy in Kollupitiya was Vivienne Goonewardene, the formidable leader of the... Read more >>
-By an Investigative Journalist for Lanka-e-News
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2025,6.45 PM) When Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s six-time Prime Minister and now embattled President, flew to the United Kingdom last September, the official narrative presented to the public was one of scholarly honour... Read more >>
-By Virgil
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2025, 7.15 PM) “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” ~T S Eliot - A journey of infinite promise and predictable heights that Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.Aug.2025,11.30 PM) Sri Lankans are used to bitter divisions in their politics: left against right, dynastic clans against reformists, Colombo elites against rural populists. But what unfolded last week outside the Criminal Investigation. Read more >>
-By LeN Parliamentary and Judicial Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.Aug.2025, 9.50 PM) In the twilight of his long and controversial career, Ranil Wickremesinghe has come to embody the paradox of Sri Lankan politics: a statesman once hailed as the arch-technocrat, now reduced to a defendant in court... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.Aug.2025, 8.25 PM) Sri Lanka’s political theatre took a dramatic turn last week as former President Ranil Wickremesinghe was remanded until 26 August on charges of criminal misappropriation and breach of trust under... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -25.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka’s Hiru Media Network, long dogged by controversy over its standards, has once again been accused of publishing a reckless and calculated falsehood—this time targeting Prime Minister... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) In September 2023, while Sri Lanka’s battered economy teetered on the edge of collapse, former President Ranil Wickremesinghe quietly boarded a flight to Britain. His destination was not Downing Street, Buckingham Pal Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) When a lawyer reaches for sympathy rather than substance, the courtroom tends to notice. When that lawyer is a President’s Counsel, the world does. Anuja Premaratne PC, representing former president Ranil... Read more >>
-By a Special Correspondent, Colombo
(Lanka-e-News -22.Aug.2025, 10.40 PM) For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, a former president has been taken into police custody. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the country’s eighth executive president, was today ordered by Colombo Fort Magistrate... Read more >>
By A Staff Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) Why has the administration of Sri Jayewardenepura University remained in deep slumber for months despite written complaints of grave financial misconduct and examination fraud involving a professor,.. Read more >>
-By Eng.Sooriasegaram
(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2025, 9.45 PM) Things were bad for Sinhalese, Tamils as well as Muslims under the colonial masters but they became progressively worse under local masters. Things were bad under colonial rule but... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigative Journalist
(Lanka-e-News -19.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) It is the scandal that no one in Sri Lanka’s corridors of power wants to discuss, but one that demands urgent reckoning. Behind the glass towers of corporate boardrooms and the grandiose offices of political elites... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -17.Aug.2025, 5.05 PM) Milinda Moragoda, founder of the Pathfinder Foundation and a perennial commentator on Sri Lanka’s “youth crisis,” appears to have forgotten a rather inconvenient detail of his own past: Mercantile Credit,... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.Aug.2025, 6.45 PM) When Lohan Ratwatte died earlier this month, some Sri Lankans breathed easier. For them, his passing was less a tragedy than a belated form of justice — a man who for decades appeared untouchable.. Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.Aug.2025, 4.40 AM) Singapore’s X-Press Feeders has launched an extraordinary attack on Sri Lanka’s highest court after it ordered the company to pay $1 billion in interim compensation within a year for the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -14.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) On the very day that newly appointed Inspector General of Police Priyantha Weerasooriya formally assumed duties at Police Headquarters, a senior officer from another headquarters was taken into custody... Read more >>
-By LeN Defence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.Aug.2025, 9.00 PM) Lanka e News has confirmed that the Government of India has issued passports to members of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) — a militant group proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the United States.... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Business & Crime Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2025, 11.40 PM) It had all the makings of a B-grade political thriller — a glass-fronted building in the heart of Colombo known simply as “The Iceland Building,” a powerful shipping company nursing... Read more >>
By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2025, 11.30 PM) They could have been dodging tear gas on the main road. Instead, a group of jobless graduates, soaked by rain, staged their protest first outside the Isurupaya Ministry of Education, then outside the... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) The Ministry of Defence has issued a warning to Sri Lankans seeking overseas employment after reports that human traffickers are luring victims into forced labour at “cyber scam centres” operating... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.Aug.2025, 11.30 PM) Almost a year into the tenure of Sri Lanka’s first National People’s Power (NPP) administration, a discreet survey commissioned by a Western diplomatic mission has painted a strikingly positive picture... Read more >>
-By LeN Political and Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) The title of Presidential Counsel — a ceremonial honour under Article 33 of Sri Lanka’s Constitution — was conceived as a dignified continuation of the old Queen’s Counsel designation after the country became a republ Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Editor
(Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) The public spat over whether SupremeSAT’s satellite is “making millions” or “missing entirely” is a sideshow. The numbers — and the timing — tell a far more compelling story.... Read more >>
-By Anubhavanananda
(Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2025, 11.05 PM) Dr Harinie Amarasuriya, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister, has long been regarded as a symbol of the country’s deepening education crisis. Her performance in Parliament last Wednesday (6th) confirmed that... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -08.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has issued a stark warning to political opponents and would-be agitators, declaring in Parliament yesterday that any conspiracy against the state will be met with the full force.. Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor in Colombo -Special Investigative & Humorous Feature
(Lanka-e-News -08.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) It is said that old generals never die, they simply fade away. But Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lanka’s enduring political chameleon, seems determined to rewrite that script — preferably while wearing someone else’s belt Read more >>
-By A LeN Investigations Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.Aug.2025, 11.30 PM) For nearly five decades, a silent exodus has continued from the villages of Sri Lanka. Women—mothers, daughters, wives—board flights bound for the oil-rich capitals of the Middle East. Their destination: private homes Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) In the labyrinth of modern geopolitics, diplomacy is often forged in quiet corridors, not loud campaign rallies. But when Donald J. Trump re-entered the White House in January 2025, the old rules of engagement were t Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -06.Aug.2025, 7.15 PM) The Colombo Magistrate's Court has ordered that former State Minister Shashindra Rajapaksa, who was arrested by the Bribery Commission this morning (06) at a house in Nugegoda, be remanded until the 19th... Read more >>
-By Eng. Sooriasegaram
(Lanka-e-News -06.Aug.2025, 8.00 PM) Dr. Jayampathy is an expert in Constitutional Law and a Presidential Counsel in Sri Lanka. He was also an old LSSP Central Committee member. Being a lifelong communist from school days, I knew him for a long time. Prof Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -05.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) In accordance with Section 17 of the Removal of Officers (Procedure) Act, No. 5 of 2002, the Resolution presented for the removal of T.M.W. Deshabandu Tennakoon from the post of Inspector-General of Police was passed Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2025, 6.20 PM) London, 25 November 2025 - In a modest but carefully arranged meeting room in London on Tuesday afternoon, a delegation of prominent Tamil community leaders sat across the table from... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2025, 9.30 PM) In a significant gesture towards national reconciliation, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has called on all communities to support the creation of a Sri Lanka where every citizen can live freely,... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -24.Nov.2025, 10.00 PM) Alperton, London - Sunday 23rd - In a packed school hall in Alperton on a grey London afternoon, the chants of “Jayawewa!” briefly drowned out the drizzle outside as hundreds of Sri Lankans... Read more >>
Digitised archives, political pressure, and concerns over forged documents reignite scrutiny of decades-old refugee applications
(Lanka-e-News -23.Nov.2025, 9.30 PM) A politically sensitive storm is brewing over Britain’s Sri Lankan asylum system, as several MPs, legal groups, and immigration analysts call on the Home Office to reopen and reassess tens of thousands... Read more >>
-By Dr. Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News -22.Nov.2025, 11.10 PM) Comrade Rohana Wijeweera, the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), was arrested and subsequently murdered 36 years ago on November 13. His disappearance in 1989 symbolised the turbulent... Read more >>
Inside the Allegations, the Editorial Storm, and the Questions Sri Lanka Cannot Ignore
(Lanka-e-News -21.Nov.2025, 9.45 PM) In Colombo’s tightly-knit media circles, few names carry the influence and reputation of Jamila Hussain, the long-serving Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Mirror, a newspaper often praised as the island’s “liberal conscien Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -20.Nov.2025, 9.10 PM) The Criminal Investigation Department’s long-running inquiry into former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has reached its final phase and is now expected to proceed to the High Court,... Read more >>
A New Windrush-Style Scandal Brewing in the Shadows of Brexit
(Lanka-ew-Nes -19.Nov.2025, 8.40 PM) When Britain left the European Union, Home Office officials promised that no citizen of an EU family household living legally in the UK would be left behind. The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) was presented... Read more >>
-Is the Script Already Written for Namal Rajapaksa’s 21 November Rally in Nugegoda..?
(Lanka-e-News -18.Nov.2025, 8.25 PM) A simmering land dispute in the eastern port city of Trincomalee has become the latest flashpoint in Sri Lanka’s long-fractured political landscape, prompting allegations that the controversy is being... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -16.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) A new 34-storey office tower, to be named Colombo Gateway Tower One, is set to be developed within Colombo Port City, introducing a suite of state-of-the-art corporate and commercial facilities.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -15.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) Lalith Pathinayake, who served as the head of Administration at Sri Lanka Police Headquarters, has been removed from his post following disciplinary action.... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -14.Nov.2025, 11.40 PM) The second reading of the 2026 Budget, presented recently in Parliament by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in his capacity as Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, was taken up... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Affairs correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) When corruption becomes a culture, it ceases to shock. In Sri Lanka’s energy sector, allegations of gross mismanagement and concealed profiteering have grown so routine that many now take them as part of the... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.Nov.2025, 6.00 AM) In a country where journalism has long walked a tightrope between truth and survival, few names have sparked as much debate in recent years as Azzam Ameen. Once celebrated as a promising journalist... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigations Editor
(Lanka-e-News -10.Nov.2025, 4.00 PM) Sri Lanka’s alcohol importation business, long cloaked in political favouritism and bureaucratic opacity, appears once again to be tangled in a web of privilege and selective enforcement. Records obtained by... Read more >>
-By LeN External Affairs Correspondent in New Delhi
(Lanka-e-News -08.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) On 4 November 2025, at the venerable halls of the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) in Sapru House, New Delhi, a seasoned soldier delivered more than a speech — he delivered a challenge.... Read more >>
-By Lanka e News Investigations Desk
(Lanka-e-News -07.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) A New Currency Mafia Emerging in Broad Daylight - In the name of “international practice,” a quiet financial crime is taking place at Sri Lanka’s ports — one that directly violates... Read more >>
Councillor Disna Neranjala is a relative of notorious drug trafficker “Kosgoda Sujee”
(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) A school principal, married to a Malima Municipal Councillor, has been detained until November 12 after being caught with a stock of heroin weighing over one kilogram in a hotel he owns in Eppawala, Anuradhapura... Read more >>
-By Eng. Sooriasegaram
(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2025, 3.10 PM) The NPP/JVP government has quite rightly prioritized education, preschool education in particular, to tap the hidden creative and intellectual potential of our children and youth in order to... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -03.Nov.2025, 11.30 PM) When former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Ali Sabry proudly declared that he had been officially invited by Cambridge University to deliver an address at the prestigious Cambridge Union in January 2024... Read more >>
Keynote Speech at Global Dialogue on “Innovation·openness·Shared Development” Sri Lanka Session, by H.E. Qi Zhenhong, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka
(Lanka-e-News -02.Nov.2025, 11.20 PM) Your Honourable Anil Fernando, Minister of Labor, and Deputy Minister of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development,... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.Nov.2025, 11.00 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has issued a firm declaration against Sri Lanka’s drug menace, calling for the entire nation to unite in an urgent national mission to eradicate... Read more >>
-By LeN South Asia Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 22.Oct.2025, 8.10 AM) More than three decades after one of the darkest chapters of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, a Tamil survivor of the 1989 Valvettithurai (VVT) massacre has formally called for an international inquiry into the... Read more >>
-By a Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 21.Oct.2025, 6.00 AM) A scandal is brewing at one of Sri Lanka’s most respected universities — the University of Peradeniya — where allegations of unlawful admissions, favouritism, and administrative manipulation have tainted... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Oct.2025, 10.50 PM) The UK Committee of the National People’s Power (NPP) hosted a high-level meeting between Sri Lanka’s Deputy Minister for Environment, MP Anton Jayakody, and a group of UK-based environmental... Read more >>
-By Special investigation for Lanka-e-News
(Lanka-e-News - 15.Oct.2025, 6.40 AM) -The Diplomat Who Never Left the Battlefield - When most diplomats retire after a decade of serving under one president, Sergei Lavrov simply rewrites the rules of the game. The man who has served as Russia’s... Read more >>
-By LeN Sports Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 12.Oct.2025, 7.25 AM) FIFA’s decision to appoint Sri Lanka’s football boss, Jaswer Umar, to lead a new initiative aimed at uplifting grassroots and amateur football has sparked outrage among sporting officials and... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 07.Oct.2025, 11.10 PM) It was one of the largest financial scandals in Southeast Asia, a case that rocked Sri Lanka’s treasury, brought down officials, and left billions of rupees missing from public accounts. Two decades later,... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 03.Oct.2025, 11.10 PM) Neville Wanniarchchi, a retired Lieutenant Colonel and long-time chief aide to Medamulana Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa – better known as former President Mahinda Rajapaksa – has been taken... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Investigation
(Lanka-e-News - 02.Oct.2025, 11.00 PM) Fresh evidence has surfaced suggesting that Aruna Vidana Gamage, widely known as Kajja, may have been closely monitoring Muslim- Rugby Player -Tajuddin in the months leading up to his assassination in 2012... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 01.Oct.2025, 10.50 PM) - A Cold Wake-Up Call in Colombo - On the evening of September 25th, the grand ballroom of Cinnamon Life was lit in red and gold, festooned with lanterns and banners celebrating the 76th anniversary of the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 30.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka and Japan released a joint statement on Sunday, underlining their shared commitment to strengthening bilateral relations and deepening cooperation across economic, security, and... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News - 29.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) The Sri Lankan government’s recent amendment to laws governing the punishment of children has sparked a wider social debate, with Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya insisting that discipline can and must be.. Read more >>
-By Sunil Gamini Jayalathge
(Lanka-e-News - 27.Sep.2025, 11.30 PM) When the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions embarked on an “illness strike” on 4 September, few anticipated the storm that would follow. By 24 September, they had prepared to paralyse the country with... Read more >>
-By LeN Defence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 26.Sep.2025, 9.10 PM) - A Navy Hall Transformed into a Global Stage - On a humid September morning in Welisara, the Wave’ n- Lake Navy Hall was transformed from a military auditorium into the stage of international maritime... Read more >>
-By LeN Defence and Asia-Pacific Editor
(Lanka-e-News - 24.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) It was only a matter of time. On Monday(22), in what military analysts regard as a defining moment in the transformation of naval power in Asia, China’s navy announced that its newest aircraft carrier, the CNS Fujian Read more >>
-By LeN Security Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 22.Sep.2025, 11.10 PM) Hambantota and Tangalle — long considered the Rajapaksas’ political fiefdom — have now been confirmed as a central hub in Sri Lanka’s narcotics trade. Police in Tangalle today (22) seized more than 600 kilos... Read more >>
-By Russel Hewawasam
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Sep.2025, 11.20 PM) Seventy-seven months have passed since the Easter Sunday massacres, yet the pursuit of justice has been a stumbling, uneven journey. The coordinated bombings were never the work of “lone extremists” alone.... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Sep.2025, 11.10 PM) A court in Sri Lanka has ordered the excavation of a site in the Eastern Province believed to be a mass grave containing the remains of more than 150 Muslims killed over three decades ago.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 18.Sep.2025, 10.00 PM) It was on 21 September 2024 that Sri Lanka delivered a political shockwave to the world. In a small town called Thambuttegama, a young man cast his ballot in what seemed like an ordinary act. Yet that ordinary... Read more >>
-By Latheef Farook
(Lanka-e-News - 16.Sep.2025, 9.30 PM) On Tuesday 9 September 2025 Israel, the fascist settler colonial killing machine, planted by US-UK and Europe on Palestinian lands to destabilise the Muslim Middle East, attacked Qatar which serves as... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 15.Sep.2025, 10.50 PM) The long-awaited renovation of Colombo’s Central Bus Terminal was officially launched this morning (15 September) under the leadership of President Anura Dissanayake, marking a significant step... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News - 15.Sep.2025, 10.45 PM) The historic Maradana Railway Station in Colombo is set for a major facelift as part of the government’s flagship Clean Sri Lanka programme, coupled with the Dream Destination initiative.... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News - 11.Sep.2025, 11.40 PM) For decades, glossy tourist brochures have painted Sri Lanka as a land of paradise — golden beaches, warm hospitality, luxury hotels, and world-class resorts. Yet, behind the postcard images lies a harsher reality: . Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomat Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.Sep.2025, 8.30 PM) -Geneva- Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath delivered a wide-ranging and impassioned address to the 60th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on today(08), pledging that... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic correspondent
Lanka-e-News -07.Sep.2025, 11.00 PM) A Dawn Departure for Geneva - Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, Vijitha Herath, boarded an early morning flight to Geneva on Saturday, carrying with him a weight that goes far beyond the polished diplomatic folders and.. Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Sep.2025, 8.10 PM) Sri Lanka’s foreign minister, Vijitha Herath, has sought to reassure diplomats and United Nations agencies that the country is committed to upholding human rights, repealing outdated security laws and ensuring the... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -03.Sep.2025, 8.10 PM) -Cambridge, UK- Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, Executive Director of the South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN), under the Millennium Project in Washington, D.C., addressed the 42nd International Symposium... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.Sep.2025, 11.15 PM) When the dust of Sri Lanka’s civil war finally settled in May 2009, the headlines around the world focused largely on human rights, humanitarian access, and the fate of the Tamil population. But in Washington,... Read more >>
-By A Staff Reporter
(Lanka-e-News -01.Sep.2025, 10.30 PM) The campaign to root out bribery and corruption appears to have been given fresh breath. The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, long accused of slumber, has in recent weeks... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -31.Aug.2025, 10.30 PM) The All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU), the foremost religious authority for Sri Lanka’s Muslim community, has re-elected Rizvi Mufti as President and Akram Noor Mufti as General Secretary. The announcement carries.. Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -29.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) It was the kind of leak that in any functioning democracy would have triggered parliamentary questions, regulatory probes, and a full-scale inquiry into the ethics of journalism... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) A social media storm has erupted following a mock-statement circulating online that lampoons the Unified Opposition (UW) for its reaction to the arrest of Kehelbaddara Padme and several associates.... Read more >>
-By -Eng.Sooriasegaram
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2025, 7.30 PM) The commitment of the NPP Government to ensure independence of the judiciary from political interference and to ensure every citizen in Sri Lanka, irrespective of his or her status and position, receives impartial... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2025, 8.30 PM) In a solemn reception at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong delivered a forceful yet reflective speech... Read more >>
- By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.Aug.2025,11.20 PM) In a solemn reception at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (BMICH), His Excellency Qi Zhenhong, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Sri Lanka... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -25.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) When former Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe was led from the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into a Colombo courtroom, it was the culmination of a scandal that had been... Read more >>
-By Chandrapradeep
(Lanka-e-News -23.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) In the elite drawing rooms of Colombo, it was once unthinkable that Ranil Wickremesinghe—the man who crowned himself “Mr Clean”—would ever taste prison food. Yet yesterday, history shattered that illusion... Read more >>
-By LeN Senior Political correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -22.Aug.2025, 10.30 PM) For a man who once styled himself as the steadying hand of Sri Lankan democracy, the sight of Ranil Wickremesinghe being escorted into the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court today... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2025, 11.30 PM) The former Inspector General of Police, Deshbandu Tennakoon, was yesterday (20) taken into custody by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and produced before the... Read more >>
-By Sunil Gamini Jayalathge
(Lanka-e-News -21.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) On 17 August, postal and telecommunications trade unions launched an island-wide strike, withdrawing from service from 4 p.m. onwards. By midnight, the action extended across all 653 post offices... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -19.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) Sri Lanka’s garment industry has been handed a lifeline in the form of duty-free access to the United Kingdom, under trade rules unveiled in Colombo on July 10. The move comes just as the United States prepares... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -18.Aug.2025, 7.45 PM) The much-publicised hartal in Sri Lanka’s Northern and Eastern provinces, called in protest over the death of a youth in Mullaitivu’s Muththayankattu area, has largely collapsed into a damp squib,... Read more >>
-By LeN Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.Aug.2025, 7.30 PM) It seems that Susil Premajayantha, the former Minister of Education, was not idle during the last presidential election season. Instead, he authorised one of the most extraordinary procurement scandals in recent... Read more >>
UN Human Rights Council Should Adopt Resolution that Promotes Accountability
(Lanka-e-News -16.Aug.2025, 5.00 PM)- Geneva, August 15, 2025- The United Nations Human Rights Office’s report on Sri Lanka details entrenched and systemic rights violations—including arbitrary detention, torture, and deaths in custody... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.Aug.2025, 4.50 AM) A group of National People’s Power (NPP) supporters living in the United Kingdom have donated Rs 6 million to the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) to improve rest facilities for bus drivers,... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) D.K. Renuka Ekanayake, a member of Sri Lanka’s National Police Commission and wife of former presidential secretary Saman Ekanayake, has tendered her resignation from the post. Her letter of resignation... Read more >>
-By LeN Legal Correspondent in Colombo
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) A political storm has erupted in Colombo after Sri Lanka’s former presidents — or at least their political allies — moved to challenge a government bill aimed at stripping them of state-funded perks.... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2025, 10.15 AM) Last Friday(08), Karma Fight League (KFL) 005 packed out Cinnamon Life at City of Dreams with over 1,000 fans, including international guests, celebrities, and athletes from across the region.... Read more >>
-By Dr. Lionel Bopage
(Lanka-e-News -10.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) Introduction - Reading Dr. Punsara Amarasinghe’s article Creeping Rise of Anti-Semitism is Dangerous for Sri Lanka prompted this response. Dr. Amarasinghe’s central claim is... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2025, 10.55 PM) The Pathfinder Foundation, one of Sri Lanka’s most visible policy think tanks, has made a career of commenting on South Asian geopolitics — from the arc of India’s maritime ambitions to the depths of Sri Lanka’s... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -08.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) Sri Lanka’s new Chief Justice, Preethi Padman Surasena, has moved swiftly to assert authority over the bench, with the Judicial Service Commission suspending five judges in just one week... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -07.Aug.2025, 11.10 PM) The United States government is reportedly preparing to increase scrutiny on a web of oil exports from Indian state-run and private oil firms—most notably the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)—amid growing concerns that Ru Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -06.Aug.2025, 8.00 PM) The People’s Republic of China has donated a consignment of disaster relief equipment worth over Rs. 400 million to Sri Lanka at a formal handover ceremony held today (Aug 5) at the Disaster Management Division in Colo Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.Aug.2025, 11.20 PM) LONDON, In a diplomatic overture underscoring the strength of Sri Lanka’s ties with its expatriate communities in the United Kingdom, His Excellency Mr. Nimal Senadheera, the newly appointed High Commissioner of Sri Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -04.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) In a powerful statement from Beijing, Tilvin Silva, General Secretary of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), declared that Sri Lanka must strive to become a nation where people no longer live in fear of tomorrow. Spe Read more >>
-Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya
(Lanka-e-News -03.Aug.2025, 11.00 PM) The Minister of Education, Higher Education, and Vocational Education, Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that under the new education reforms, no child will fail, and all children will have the opportunity Read more >>
-By LeN Economics Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.Aug.2025, 10.10 PM) Sri Lanka has secured a key breakthrough in its international trade negotiations, with the United States agreeing to reduce its previously imposed tariff to 20%, a move Treasury Secretary Dr Harshana Suriyapperuma has Read more >>
-By Karu Jayasuriya
(Lanka-e-News -02.Aug.2025, 6.00 PM) The fact that US President Donald Trump has reduced the export tariff rate on Sri Lanka to 20% can be considered a form of concession in view of the challenges we face as a country, but we would like to emphasise the n Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -02.Aug.2025, 6.30 PM) Despite the launch of initiatives like Clean Sri Lanka, the country continues to suffer from a dangerous disconnect between policy and enforcement. The streets remain chaotic, the public uninformed, and the government. Read more >>
-By Eng. Sooriasegaram
(Lanka-e-News -01.Aug.2025, 8.30 PM) Government’s proposed education reforms are long overdue. I whole heartedly welcome them. They need widespread consultation with all stakeholders including... Read more >>
-By LeN Defence and Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -31.July.2025, 9.20 PM) The Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka marked the 98th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) with a grand reception at Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo on Wednesday(30) evening, attended by a high-pro Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -30.July.2025, 11.20 PM) In the shimmering candlelight of Colombo’s diplomatic quarter, what should have been an inconspicuous dinner became political theatre. Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe — once Sri Lanka’s evergreen statesman... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -28.July.2025, 11.10 PM) President Anura, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath and a group of diplomatic officials arrived at the Velana International Airport this morning (28), commencing the state visit of Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Diss Read more >>
-By Latheef Farook
(Lanka-e-News -28.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Arab dictators’ facilitated the more than 22 month old on going US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians supported by UK, France and Germany. These dictators, depending on US - Israel for their political survival, won the Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -26.July.2025, 9.45 PM) Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake held an unscheduled virtual meeting with senior officials from the United States on Thursday evening, amid growing concern over a proposed 30% tariff on key Sri Lankan exp Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -25.July.2025, 9.10 PM) Welcoming the New Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK His Excellency Mr Nimal Senadheera Read more >>
-By LeN legal correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -24.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Sri Lanka’s Constitutional Council has unanimously approved the appointment of Justice Preethi Padman Surasena as the nation’s next Chief Justice, following a formal nomination by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake e Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -23.July.2025, 11.00 PM) In a landmark ruling that underscores the legal limits of executive authority, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has determined that the emergency regulations imposed by then-Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Jul Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -20.July.2025, 8.05 PM) In an extraordinary move that is likely to have far-reaching implications for Sri Lanka’s security establishment and the credibility of its law enforcement apparatus, the National Police Commission (NPC) has formally Read more >>
-By LeN Foreign Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -18.July.2025, 11.20 PM) The Pottuvil Divisional Development Committee (DDC) has ordered the closure of the Chabad House operating in the popular tourist town of Arugam Bay, citing its lack of legal authorisation... Read more >>
-By LeN Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.July.2025, 11.10 PM) In a significant development in the long-running investigation into the disappearance and suspected murder of LeN journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, Sri Lanka’s Director of Criminal Investigation, Shani Abeysekara... Read more >>
-By Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -17.July.2025, 11.00 PM) China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, pledged unwavering support to the island nation, reaffirming Beijing’s commitment to act as both a “trusted brother and a reliable partner” whenever Sri Lanka is in need. Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -16.July.2025, 10.40 PM) In an extraordinary and deeply troubling development, Ariyananda Dombagahawatta, the controversial editor-in-chief of the struggling Monara newspaper, has been accused of verbally abusing and attempting to physically Read more >>
-By LeN Political Editor
(Lanka-e-News -15.July.2025, 11.00 PM) In what was meant to be a strategic political broadside, Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Dayasiri Jayasekara’s recent press conference has instead triggered an unexpected blowback—one that has drawn the ire of the Rajapaks Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -15.July.2025, 10.45 PM) President Anura Kumara Dissanayake held high-level talks yesterday with Sultan A. Al-Marshad, Chief Executive Officer of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), to assess the progress of ongoing projects... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.July.2025, 11.20 PM) Hirunika Premachandra, the outspoken former MP and loyalist of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), has made a rather unexpected admission: that she once sought confidential political advice from none other than Dr. Raj Read more >>
Judicial Review -By LeN Legal Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -14.July.2025, 11.00 PM) The Court of Appeal today (14) dismissed, without leave for further examination, a series of writ petitions that sought to prevent the holding of secret ballots to elect the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson of severa Read more >>
-By LeN Special Health Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2025, 11.30 PM) In what could become the most staggering corruption scandal in Sri Lanka’s public healthcare system in recent memory, over Rs. 2.5 billion worth of questionable chemical reagent purchases... Read more >>
-By LeN Southern Province Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -13.July.2025, 11.20 PM) A mystery shrouded in chrome, horsepower, and political whispers has gripped Sri Lanka’s south after authorities uncovered a secret stash of 21 ultra-high-capacity motorcycles—brands like Harley-Davidson and... Read more >>
-By LeN Economic Affairs Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2025, 11.30 PM) The Sri Lankan government has announced that it will undertake a vigorous three-week-long campaign aimed at negotiating further reductions to export tariffs imposed by the United States,.. Read more >>
Transparency International calls for urgent appointment as public trust and anti-corruption efforts hang in the balance
(Lanka-e-News -12.July.2025, 11.00 PM) As of July 9, 2025, Sri Lanka’s Right to Information (RTI) Commission remains without a Chairperson—a critical vacancy that civil society watchdogs warn is threatening the integrity and... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.July.2025, 11.20 PM) In a meeting held at the Ministry of Fisheries, Aquatic and Marine Resources, Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar met with the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Andrew Patrick,... Read more >>
-By LeN Political Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -10.July.2025, 11.10 PM) Nishantha Jayawira, a former Additional Secretary to the President and veteran tax administrator, was sworn in yesterday(09) as a Member of Parliament representing the National People’s Power... Read more >>
-By LeN Intelligence Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -09.July.2025, 9.10 PM) The Invitation - The summons was unexpected but unmistakably cordial. It came on crisp government stationery, bearing the emblem of the Ministry of Public Security. Sarath Weerasekera, newly sworn in as the Minister.. Read more >>
-By LeN Political Colombo Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.July.2025, 9.45 PM) In a heartfelt and powerfully-worded speech, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Justice and National Integration, Harshana Nanayakkara, declared that depriving individuals of the right to express themselves or to be... Read more >>
-By LeN Investigative Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -08.July.2025, 9.35 PM) In a dramatic development that may reopen old wounds from Sri Lanka’s turbulent post-war years, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has taken into custody a close associate of Sivanesathurai... Read more >>
-By Michael Joachim
(Lanka-e-News -07.July.2025, 7.45 PM) The recent speech by the Commissioner General of the Bribery Commission in a public on Bribery to the extend it has seeped into the society caught the attention of the Public and the Government servants.... Read more >>
-By Iqbal Latif - From Bangladesh -An Aeronautical engineer from CAE G-1
(Lanka-e-News -07.July.2025, 7.20 PM) Power, when untested, is sacred. But when flaunted without necessity, it risks revealing its limits. This is the fundamental rule of deterrence: a strong leader should never swing the stick... Read more >>
-By A Staff Writer
(Lanka-e-News -05.July.2025, 11.10 PM) Rural Development, Social Empowerment and Social Security Minister Dr. Upali Pannilage has firmly stated that any serious discussion on poverty—whether in Sri Lanka or globally—must begin with... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -05.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Recently, the Dalai group has been speculating on the issue of the 14th Dalai Lama’s reincarnation, and spreading such false claims as “reincarnation will be decided by the Dalai Lama himself”,,,, Read more >>
By Sunil Gamini Jayalathge
(Lanka-e-News -04.July.2025, 11.00 PM) In the grand machinery of state, few components are as powerful—or as potentially destructive—as the public service. This vast bureaucratic organism is entrusted with steering the country’s economic... Read more >>
-By LeN Diplomatic Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -04.July.2025, 11.10 PM) In a significant diplomatic engagement underscoring strengthening bilateral ties, the Deputy Governor of China’s Jiangsu Province, Mr. Chen Zhongwei, held a formal meeting yesterday... Read more >>
Moscow’s Quiet Offer of Protection to the Maverick Billionaire Fuels Global Speculation
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.45 PM) In what could be a defining moment in the increasingly fraught intersection of tech, politics and geopolitics, Russian officials have hinted at offering political asylum to one of the most controversial.... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent in Colombo
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.30 PM) At a time when Sri Lanka is fighting to restore public trust in state institutions, an audacious experiment is playing out quietly in the drawing rooms of Colombo’s diplomatic elite. It’s not a formal department... Read more >>
(Lanka-e-News -02.July.2025, 11.00 PM) Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), on 26 June 2025, released an independent Civil Society Report assessing Sri Lanka’s progress in fulfilling its commitments under the United Nations Convention Against... Read more >>
-By A Special Correspondent
(Lanka-e-News -01.July.2025, 8.30 PM) Some truths cannot be suppressed forever. They rise — not through tribunals, not through thunderous speeches — but slowly, inexorably, through the cracks of time, through earth that refuses... Read more >>
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