News

Ranil moots body to monitor LLRC

Saudi Arabia hits back

Unfettered access for UN rapporteurs

3,000 drunk drivers lose points

Electricity tariff hikes of 25 pc likely

Journalist shot and seriously wounded for investigative article

Female visitors do not come here to be harassed

Britain mulls attendance at CHOGM: Burt

800 acres for huge projects in Hambantota

Lawyer dies in hit-and-run accident

Lankans of foreign citizenship can now buy land here

A song for the children from Country Roads

Hand-amputation incident: Charge sheets out soon

Eastern Province chiefs in spat over primary school

Trinity College board, manager quit over acting principal’s extension

BBSO challenges Mangala equating it to a terrorist outfit

Ranil demands inquiry into heckling during Jaffna protest

Hike in respiratory diseases among children due to heavily polluted air

Conflicting statements made as case comes up before Colombo Fort Magistrate tomorrow

Legal fraternity wants a leader with a cause

BASL mulls Court of Appeal refusal of its intervening petition

FR petition challenges risky investment of employees’ monies

Custom official’s counsel wants unfavourable ruling in FR case be referred to five-member Bench

Appeal Court decision nullifying PSC decision on CJ 43 challenged

Money, money, money, not so funny in poor parents’ world

Uma Oya project: Register your objections, urge environmentalists

Eateries food spiced with adulterated condiments: CMC health officials

Gypsies celebrate independence

Take heed of coughs, colds, fever; it could be ‘walking pneumonia’

Next vehicle census in Sinhala and Tamil: DIG Traffic

Open gem pits and pigs – main cause for spread of Japanese encephalitis

Baby vendors caught red-handed

How safe is Colombo?

Blood ivory is not for showcasing

Editorial

Diplomatic masochism for nationalistic support

Columns

Jetsetter GL gets high-flying advice in Brasilia

Crisis after crisis: C’wealth, Geneva and anti-Muslim campaign

Running away from politics, Angelo!

The games that these people play

It’s called diplomacy, stupid

IMF loan: Paradox of high reserves and further borrowing

Sports

Mission possible – 2013 version

CWW who? Drub Trinity lions

Robin sings for the Proteas

St. Anthony’s shot out for 35 as Joes cruise to victory

Tuan Dole heads CPRFU

Sylvestrians in a spot of bother

Ian and Udara in record 309 stand for Ragama CC

Murali back in action

34th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2013

Tournaments or traditional friendlies give better value?

Sunday Sports Guide

Can we outdo Singapore?

Effective shot base- unseen weapon of Tennis

Injury management and school rugby

Seneth beats Senuka to take Under 15 Boys Singles title

Weeping Pistorius denies girlfriend’s murder

2nd Ruhunu Maya game on February 22 and 23

Richmond continue winning spree

Army and NCC continue to dominate

Life and times of Cosmopolitan tennis

Thirty-one top umps return to ACUSL

All-Island Intermediate Novices TT tourney begins on March 16

Three synthetic tracks for universities

National Cross Country finals today

Degree for international sports stars

Polonowita bids adieu to his valentine wickets

Football’s lessons from the past

Abu Fuard – the perfect bowler

Wickets, but no place — (in retrospect)

Ja-ela Thunders to meet Kandana Young Stars in WYL soccer final

Hameed Al Husseinie emerge All Island football kings

Green House win Gampola International School sports meet

Dharmasoka paddlers steal TT show at Damso

Lyceum Nugegoda emerge U-15 soccer champs

Robert House run away with Holy Cross athletics title

Rotaract Club of Colombo win inter- Rotaract basketball title

DSS down STC 3-1

Two Mile Sea Swim’s leading ladies

Chalitha, Zaffar and Kriwatt steal limelight

Richmond wins it for second time in three years

Sithuya makes Union College Jaffna proud

Joes beat Gateway in U17 North Zone basketball final

School Hockey Colours Nite for the first time

Richmond emerge baseball champions

Lyceum seal U 15 badminton double

Plus

An indelible imprint

Letters to the editor

Appreciations

Yala really gone to the wilds!

Of great highs and lows

‘Better to see you my dear’

Tonight, the greatest country music show

Eshantha to conduct Concerto in D minor from the piano

Confident artiste behind the vulnerable songs

A rum thing, this

Tabla virtuoso in evening of raga, jazz and rock

Jaffna carnatic music maestro in Colombo

A decade of a ‘media phenomenon’

Gripped by the fear of losing a child to Gaucher’s disease

The other Queen of Kanda Uda Rata

Does it still hold pride of place?

People and events

Independence Day celebration in Indonesia

Plucking mercy from a fruitless justice tree…

Business Times

IMF says no to budget support due to timing issue

SL seeks other options to raise US$1 bln

Cabraal, EPF officials to be grilled again by COPA

Govt. powwow over GSP +

SLAITO focus on marketing Jaffna

Rising cost of living makes Government unpopular, BT-RCB poll reveals

Mystery as Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals rise amidst falling occupancy levels

What’s the real story over failed loan bid?

Death of local apparel manufacturing is nigh

Rs 64.7 bln spent on advertising in 2012, top ad official says

Australian grant to help 4 mln Sri Lankan students

Deccan airline renamed ‘Simplifly’

Piramal Glass revenue rises in 3Q 2012–13

Orient Finance lending rises despite drop in vehicle imports

Access gearing to begin construction on Access Tower 2

Revamping Liberty Plaza

Hayleys’ export sectors perform well for nine months despite challenges

Hemas’ third hospital at Thalawathugoda on schedule

Richard Pieris’s retail sector buys some goods at lower prices

Local hotel rates expensive compared to more mature tourist locations

India ousts Japan as largest vehicle supplier to Sri Lanka

Knowledge Process Outsourcing is the way forward, industry officials say

BBDO Lanka MD speaks at inaugural TEDx event in Mauritius

World Bank invests $75 mln in Combank

Dialog strengthens ties with young Lankan entrepreneurs

SLASSCOM hosts international compliance seminar for exporters

Flying a 100 years aboard Sri Lankan skies

Earnings from tourism top a billion dollars in 2012, Central Bank says

Visitors say Colombo city better than New York city : Defence Ministry official

Insurance industry amendments to introduce new method to measuring risk appetite

Once, run-down tea factory fetches top auction price for CTC tea line

Sarvodaya-Fusion founder recognised by FAO for e-agri contribution

NDB reports Rs 8.8 bln gain by divesting insurance arm

ISF welcomes pay hike for security professionals

Aitken Spence posts Rs 3.1 bln as profit

Gamini Senerath, new People’s Bank Chairman

Knowledge Conglomerate conducts workshop on financial issues

DFCC actively pursuing tax free budget proposals

Sunday Times 2

Sports Illustrated under fire for ‘racist’ photoshoot

A meteor hit and an asteroid near-miss on same day

Maldivian watchdog accuses India of ‘interfer

Blogger’s death rekindles anti-Islamist protests in Bangladesh

EU approves testing plan to halt horsemeat scandal

Facebook says it was a target of sophisticated hacking

The defining image of 2012: Stunning overall winner at the World Press Photo Awards

In uncharted retirement, Pope to live on at heart of Vatican

A penguin nursery, secretly filmed with cameras inside fake birds

Chubby Checker in a twist over phone app

Palestinian inmate sneaks sperm to wife

Meet “India’s blogging princess”

Luggage belonging to fashion designer washes up more than a month after his plane vanished

France suspends acne drug Diane 35 after four deaths

Alcohol is ‘responsible for 4% of cancer deaths’

Iraq at the brink: A decade after the

Keeping calm on North Korea

Magazine

Beat the heat with a cool tea

A young Lankan voice makes waves in British broadcasting awards

Straight out of Naples to Nugegoda

Elizabeth Moir take on the ‘Canterville Ghost’

Exploring the dangers of conformism

A friend in an insider’s city 

Competition is nigh and stakes are high

‘Namasthe’ the latest Indian Restaurant in town

‘Silver Room’ at the ‘Bayleaf’

‘The Silvas’ on their own

Songs of Praise on Silver jubilee in priesthood

Cinematic journey of GFU on show

SAARC focus on Iran

Dr. Pathiraja back

‘Dhawala Bheeshana’ from Delhi to Wendt

State Drama Festival now on

‘Tharumalee’ shows change of village

Funday Times

The unsuccessful Peace Treaty

Earth Watch

The months of the year

Kids’ World

Beijing

The ICRC is 150 years today

MediScene

Bloody stools? Don’t ignore

Sri Lanka, take note, don’t go the US way

Be prepared for sudden changes

With a little help from my friends

Rich red tomato is good for your heart

Women, listen to your body

Wash those germs away

Keep your grey cells ticking with a good old cuppa

Eczema: No cure but control

Diet fizzy drinks up diabetes risk