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Coming home

Descending the steps leading to the Cinnamon Grand garden terrace is someone who is clearly a…

Painting the pangs of Partition

Among the Zoroastrians, a small community united in their faith in the God Ahura Mazda, it…

Meemure: Stepping into the dim mists of time

There is much excitement in the sleepy little village of Meemure nestling amongst the foothills of…

It’s the turn of the widows to wage their war

‘Widows’ begins with a group of peasant women washing their laundry by the river, behind them…

Ambassador of dance

In the wake of nATANDA’s mainstream success and critically acclaimed performances, Founder and Artistic Director Kapila…

Project 2 Electtronika goes live

The all electronic techno/house band – ‘Project 2 Electtronika’ that specialises in genres such as trance,…

Dance takes centre stage

Eliana Usma Brownlie – Eli for short – loves to dance. It’s the perfect way to…

Danielle performs at Lighthouse

Danielle de Niese, Australian-born lyric soprano will perform at the Jetwing Lighthouse Hotel in Galle on…

Eranga, Herath send Kiwis into hiding

New Zealand failed to take the advantage of good batting conditions after skipper Ross Taylor won…

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Indian vehicle imports curbed

By By Chris Kamalendran

More vehicles from Japan; China sets up car plants here

Prohibitive duties may edge out Indian vehicles from Sri Lanka’s market while exemptions to those coming from Japan will give them an added advantage in…

World Bank MD offers fillip to private sector

The World Bank is keen to increase its support for…

Mangala upbraided for vilifying Rajapaksa administration

Kottegoda Oration to be delivered by Prof. Anoja Fernando

PSC rejects CJ’s plea for more time

Demo in Jaffna against India’s nuke plant

Sapugaskanda leak: Probe on possible sabotage

Trace of arsenic in kohila curry for MPs

Anusha wins gold and bids adieu

By By M. Shamil Amit

Tunisia International Boxing Championship

Sri Lanka’s most experienced women pugilist Anusha Kodituwakku bid adieu to boxing by grabbing a gold medal at the Eight Nation Women’s International Boxing Championship…

Hawkins bouncer and the catches we have grassed

When cricket was driving peacefully along the street, Ed Hawkins…

Holding says modern pace would bowl him

Referee respect down to rugby ‘tradition’

School is where soccer should begin

Is football a second citizen’s sport

Andy, Sampath fireworks gives MAS Active victory

Three J’s in harmony for Petes

Subhadra Boradeniya felicitated

SEC says to continue old and new investigations ‘to the very end’

By By Duruthu Edirimuni Chandrasekera

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has seen a ‘few’ stock market offences during the past three months, its new chairman Dr Nalaka Godahewa now…

Will racing cars overtake Marutis?

The government has controversially reduced duties on racing cars while…

Made in Sri Lanka expensive for international retailers

SEC says NSB-TFC deal referred to AG

67 % of Sri Lankan females against 25 % in South Asia have bank accounts – World Bank survey reveals

Strong, public support for BT-RCB polls

Ethics and morality over greed

Corporate Citizen Awards: SL firms realise that money and profit are not everything

Budget serves capitalist business interests : CFL

Lankan builders welcome budget

Ransalu exhibition expands to attract more sectors

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

Scrap 13 A, give credible alternative

In the midst of the excitement over the impeachment motion against the Chief Justice, the Government seems to have taken a decisive step on the matter of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The 13th Amendment (13A) has never come to be totally accepted in Sri Lanka. The circumstances in…

Columns

Political Column
Petrie report: Diplomatic blunder projects Sri Lanka as a Rwanda

It was a week of more challenges for the UPFA Government both in Sri Lanka and abroad.�In Colombo, the official process to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake began…
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The Economic Analysis
Fiscal targets commendable, achievement difficult

The Budget Speech reiterated that this year’s fiscal deficit target of 6.2 per cent of GDP would be achieved and that the government expects to reduce it to…
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Lobby
The Budget was also debated

The Budget debate should be more about economics and less about politics, but as the debate on the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill drew to an end,…
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Focus on Rights
Drawing back from a ruinous precipice

It did not take much prescience to foretell that parliamentary privilege would be formally wielded to prohibit public discussion of the PSC process with the commencement of the…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
MR’s quip: Weli to save weli

Last Wednesday’s weekly Cabinet meeting saw some humorous moments after ministers discussed illegal sand mining. Most of them spoke in Sinhala and referred to sand as weli. They…
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From the sidelines
Budget blues and Galle Face Green

Mrs. Anumaana has been on the phone these days talking to her friends about a most unlikely subject. This is in the hope of getting them to shed…
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Coming home

Descending the steps leading to the Cinnamon Grand garden terrace is someone who is clearly a visitor. Accompanied by two Sri Lankans who are showing her the way,…

Letters to the Editor

Bread and circuses Rome with bread and circus-shows, Distracted citizens from their woes. Our rulers employ the ploys…

Appreciations

She brought sunshine to the lives of differently-abled children Ramya (Cargo akka) Salwatura Affectionately referred to as ‘Cargo’ from childhood, I happened to know Ramya for more than…

Taking Sri Lanka to a nano future

Prof. Gehan Amaratunga is fond of quoting the Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke in his classes at Cambridge University: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who…

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