News

Dilan faces no-faith motion over Rizana execution

Customs officers threaten strike over new laws

No shortage of assurances, but shortage of action: UK MP

Discounts galore at Mattala

Crop tax to be levied from banks, insurance and finance firms

Kidney disease: WHO report goes to Cabinet; UNP alleges cover-up

Foreign reserves blown up on borrowed money

President off to Japan next week

Cops-turned robbers’ 10.2m heist unravels from within

Draft laws on ‘Free Ports’, related tax exemptions in the House

Hacking into Govt. websites prompts amending Computer Crimes Act 2007

Tax coming to cover crop damage

Policeman among 11 asylum seekers caught off Matara coast

SriLankan Cargo to undertake export cargo loading

To Singapore for jobs, forced into sex trade

Law conference to discuss legal challenges in a developing world

SC restrains for now clearing forests and planting gliricidia in place

SC tells Malay Street area residents to decide on their future

Hundreds displaced, livelihoods destroyed in Govt. land grab for development

A village sans basics

Term of office of Resettlement Authority extended

200 placements for SL students at South Asian University

CPC to cut losses with stricter credit lines to State sector

South Eastern varsity undergrads ‘homeless’

Magistrate refers case to mediation board at counsel’s request

Bail for Duminda to be considered tomorrow

Armed guards at hospital room door protect Duminda from germs

Turbulence in the cockpit as SriLankan management lowers qualifying mark

Women’s rights: Ministry lines up new programmes

Weni wel the local paracetamol in market hot water

Consumers shelved as VAT devalues supplier enthusiasm to stock supermarkets

Lanka urged to vote for sharks, manta rays

Catch confiscated, Indian fishermen remanded

Time for action to end violence against women

Editorial

Look after women who look after us

Columns

Premiership quips at wedding banquet

Price cut for New Year, but high price to pay in Geneva

Laws to clean up local sports bodies

From hero to zero, is he cricket’s Mervyn?

Trivialisation of law and justice

Fundamental structural weaknesses in trade

US resolution and the Indian fallout

Sports

Royal charge leaves ‘Thora’ black and blue

Outcome of the probe will be known early this week

Amden’s cricket dinner and other related matters

Avishka top scorer at drawn ‘Battle of Golds’

Maliyadeva crushes St. Anne’s by innings

Minhaj drives on top gear

Centuries galore in two days of Premier matches

Thirimanne, Chandimal maiden tons highlights of day two

Joes through by 38 runs

Dinuka shines in drawn match

Vidyartha-St. Sylvester’s drawn

Palihawardena’s 79 give Trinity first innings lead over St. Anthony’s

Nimsadi wins U-13 girl’s singles at Junior Carrom Nationals

England fight back with Cook, Compton centuries

Ashan Silva fastest at Eliyakanda for the fourth consecutive year

Rajiva at the helm of MTTA

Sawmya and Jayalath excel at Para Games

SLC justifies pay-cut for players

Cloud over schools rugby launch

Middle development – a ‘tight-rope-walk’

Lankan players are very talented says golf coach Chambers

Bandara wins in India and aims high

Battle among AAA candidates hots up

A tricky situation

Sunday Sports Guide

Boys will be boys ….but big match rivalry/revelry !

Eight outright wins recorded over the weekend

Matara clash is evenly balanced

Thilan smiles in his final drive – home

Achievers sweep Informatics Basketball Play-offs

Dias House are Visakha athletic champions

Zahira College sports-meet

Bultjens champion House at STC Matara sports meet

Lyceum Wattala bags title for sixth occasion

Maliyadeva and Vidyartha U19 division ‘A’ TT champs

It was the Wycherley swimming meet

Vijaya House win Kedala Sri Dheratanda MV sports-meet

Saman House emerge champions in Sangamitta sports-meet

Chanith takes Lakeside title on heels of Cosmos triumph

Nimshi steals show at Good Shepherd sports meet

Prince of Wales annual Sports-meet

Plus

Siddhartha: The making of a story, not a moral lecture

A fight for life in the waters

Midnight’s Children: Spotting the familiar places and faces

Letters to the editor

Appreciations

Zonta International says NO to violence against women

Scorpion invader from India

Farewell concert? No way

Filipino singer to star in charity concert

Come and graze at this buffet of art

Unheard people tell their untold stories

Contemporary art at Saskia Fernando Gallery Galle

Biography with loads of info but less care for presentation

Giving ear to a wonderful evening of sonata in motion

Gratiaen Prize short list to be unveiled at Colomboscope

Discussing Buddhist rituals over centuries

All set to bake and make

An evening of music that enriched my stay

Yala – ruined by its own popularity?

A visit to all the twelve Jothirlingams in one lifetime

Please help seven-year-old Mohamed

Singing away conflict at ‘Peace Music Festival 2013’

Rural life and Indian culture at art exhibition

University of Peradeniya Alumni Association AGM

CMF donates Rs one million to UNICEF project

Lions donate eye equipment to Base Hospital Tellipalai

Ethnic nationalism: What lies beneath…

Business Times

SL’s lack of innovation, markets limit export growth : Dr. Kelegama

Jolt for Sri Lanka’s condo market

US-based visitors for Mattala opening

Jetwing subsidiary with 4 hotels to go public

IFC, DEG invest in Cargills Bank

Browns’ Ragama hospital soon, also assembling vehicles

Lankan Captain to pilot inaugural BA flight to Colombo

Colombo Int’l Film Festival mooted by film maker Asoka Handagama

Regulating advertising

’2 more (cricket) years to go’ : Sanga

Politics and improper use of taxes among SL tea sector issues

LOLC to start building new 400-room hotel in March

Next Sourcing celebrates years of operation in Sri Lanka

Holcim (Lanka) Ltd to fund Moratuwa University’s cement and concrete research

Ford cashes in on environment conservation

‘Advantage Line’ from Bosch comes to Sri Lanka

Anti-corruption group exposes major fraud at SLIC

SL could cut 2020 carbon emissions by a fifth with green power options, says ADB

Atlas helps set up R&D Laboratory at Moratuwa University

DHL Express receives global ISO 9001:2008 certification

ACL Cables eyeing Rs 400 mln investment projects by mid this year

Will SL rubber prices decline in the future?

Jetwing Hotels close to doubling room stock

Eminent Lankan accountant climbs to the top of the public service ladder in Fiji

Ethnic conflict and economic development

Reduced red tape, more facilitation needed to boost investment in SL

Local SMEs defrauded by email-based fund transfer scams

Bileeta grows medium size client base by 200 per cent

Mobitel, Open Uni teach ‘financial services’ to 550 rural women

Huawei Media Pad 10 FHD tablet enters SL

IT headcount grew by 21 per cent annually, BPO by 14 per cent : report

SL lacks dedicated software industry policy : UNCTAD report

Do we need all these imports?

SL airmail, sea-mail services outsourced

IFC, DEG to support Cargills Bank

SL needs to lift its education levels for skilled jobs; CIM’s Sir Paul Judge

Access Engineering hands over completed projects at Mattala International Airport

Nestlé Lanka reports Rs 28.6 bln revenue for 2012

MTI appoints associate in Rwanda

Pan Asia Bank records post-tax profit of Rs.847 mln

SLIM and Nielsen Peoples Awards 2013 this month

Economist suggests new wage formula SL apparel workers

Mobitel subscriber base rises 14 % in 2012

Major obstacles towards ayurvedic medicinal exports

Sunday Times 2

China calls for calm over North Korea threats

Bunny ears at the ready? Kate Moss set to cover Playboy for 60th anniversary issue

U.S. agents tracked bin Laden’s son-in-law for years before arrest

Revealed: Duchess didn’t start to say ‘daughter’

Pakistan PM prays at 13th-century Muslim shrine in India

The Facebook Pope?

Maduro: Loyalist vowing to keep Chavez flame alive

Anger over attack on Hong Kong journalists in China

What if women ruled the world?

Women deserve bigger role in Church, says key cardinal

Vietnam capital to reassign rude traffic cops: paper

All hail King Bazza!

Date with a dictator

Mom hires strippers for son’s 16th party

‘Chief funster required’

Zinat Karzai, Afghanistan’s ‘invisible’ first lady

North Korean fashion: People must choose from officially sanctioned hairstyles

Deadly virus sweeping the globe

Conventional poverty-reduction policies have failed

Volkswagen unveils world’s ‘most fuel efficient car’

The men paying Facebook girl

How to use a cup of tea to charge your phone

LED eyelashes : Is this the face of the future?

It’s out of this world!

Chavez: Farewell to neoliberalism’s nemesis

Magazine

The story behind the photo

Sweet things of life

Miniature memories of our big neighbour

Dancing through the seasons

The gift of self

Would you wear these jeans?

The art of painting walls

A spot for lunch

‘Desire’ craving for dance music

Fifty years of Nihal Nelson on show

DJ Paul Mendez mixes Alston’s tracks in NY

Thisal Thulnith ‘Mouse’ star

‘Spandana’, Suneth Malinga’s latest direction

Musical Theatre for the Family in Tangalle

Movies in times of war at Russian Centre

Raigam Tele’es opens

Jaffna Music Festival 2013

Funday Times

Colombo District Girl Guides celebrate World Thinking Day 2013

Kids’ World

This week in history

History

Escape from Planet Earth

Eastern Diamond Back Rattlesnake

Earth Watch

Changes in Atmospheric Pressure

Ambitions

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