13+ hour, 9+ min ago   (825+ words) -An Investigation by Ruwan Weerakoon In the early 1990s, a short, thin young man wearing torn T-shirts and slippers picked up garbage for the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council. Today, that former labourer, born on October 24, 1978, in Dehiwala, is known as Shiran…...

12+ hour, 49+ min ago   (66+ words) -By Dr. Lionel Bopage The position advanced here is unambiguous: capital punishment should be opposed in all circumstances and should not be imposed, whatever the crime and whoever the accused. 0 discussion on this news Collection of artcles written by Gerard…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (244+ words) -By Prof. Desmond Mallikarchchi (rtd) Habermas spent more than sixty years studying, criticizing, and developing many of Marx's ideas in new directions. With his death, the world lost one of the greatest philosophers and social thinkers of the late twentieth…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (474+ words) "Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." — Sun Tzu "Everyone sees what you appear to be, few know what you really are." — Machiavelli Note his opening gambit in the transcript: he does not rebut the legal argument…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (242+ words) The cost of that silence was paid at St. Sebastian's Church in Katuwapitiya and St. Anthony's Shrine in Kochchikade, both left without the protection the orders had called for. Pathinayake, as then-DIG Colombo, is accused of a narrower but no…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (309+ words) (Lanka-e-News -11.Aug.2026, 4.50 PM) “The delay in the administration of justice is the slow poison of our entire system of justice, and a key reason for the gradual deterioration of the public's faith in the country's justice system.” - Justice Yasantha Kodagoda,…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (461+ words) “All jungles are evil, but no jungle is more evil…” -Leonard Woolf, The Village in the Jungle (1913), the novel of Silindu’s Beddagama Why the government should proceed with judicial tenure reform, and why the Bar Association of Sri Lanka has…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (462+ words) -By Dr. Lionel Bopage (Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2026, 3.30 PM) Corruption is not new. It appears wherever people have power over scarce resources. No country, ideology or political system is immune. It is not a rare mistake that a “good leader” can simply…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (999+ words) There is a crime committed in Sri Lanka every single day, and no one is arrested for it. No indictment names it, no court punishes it. It has no fingerprints, no weapon, no single perpetrator — only a filing cabinet, a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (91+ words) The arrested suspect was remanded until 18 after being produced before the Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court. It is reported that during his tenure as the Minister of Education, Akila Viraj had recruited his party members for various lower-level positions in schools…...