The Sundaytimes Sri Lanka

Making a bold statement

“What is your dream?” Startled and amused, Donald Byrd looked at the little Bangladeshi boy, an…

A place ‘Jane and Tarzan’ would call their home

Kumudini Hettiarachchi enjoys nature’s blessings at an eco-friendly hideaway by the flowing Dehigaha-ela Not down a…

Live Auditions on Sirasa Super Star

Sirasa TV, pioneer of reality television in Sri Lanka since 2006, TV has introduced another path…

Cinnamon honeymoon experience

The Cinnamon Honeymoon is the newest concept of Cinnamon, which is an exclusive honeymoon package offering…

Dilshan guides Sri Lanka to emphatic win

By M. Shamil Amit Reporting from Sooriyawewa T.M. Dilshan slammed an unbeaten 113 to guide Sri…

MRIA opens in the middle of nowhere to empty skies

A day out at Mattala, in sweltering heat, to witness the unveiling of a new airport.…

The blueprint for soccer excellence

By Subhani Hassimdeen – It’s almost a tradition in this country to burst into bouts of…

Iraq War: Make it impossible to inflict such barbarism again

The US and Britain not only bathed Iraq in blood, they promoted a sectarian war that…

Ranjani spells out the status quo in sports elections

By Naushad Amit The Director General for the Ministry of Sports, Ms Ranjani Jayakody, assured that…

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News

A friend indeed

Pakistan, which played a key role in canvassing support for Sri Lanka in the runup to the vote on a US-sponsored resoltuion at the United…

Lanka may pull out of Tamil Nadu

Deputy High Commissioner’s office likely to be shifted to Trivandrum…

Compulsory medical tests for school athletes in strenuous sports

Govt. finalises plans for northern polls

Rev. Fr. Perniola to be honoured for his scholarly work

Shocking hikes from next month, but CEB will remain in debt trap

Controversy over laundry at Perahera Mawatha

C’wealth values, Latimer House principles govern Ottawa’s participation at CHOGM

CJ 43 Bandaranayake’s lawyers see flaws in Bribery Com. probe

Indo-Lanka heroin smugglers brought to trial

CEB proposes to give huge shocks to those who can least bear it

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Sports

There is a lesson for everyone in Sangakkara’s professionalism

He had completed his century. Former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara looked down at the crease and took his guard once more. The sweltering heat…

Dilshan guides Sri Lanka to emphatic win

By M. Shamil Amit Reporting from Sooriyawewa T.M. Dilshan slammed…

St. Peter’s trounce Joes to retain Basil Wiratunga Memorial Shield

Richmond unlucky as Mahinda escapes defeat

SLC on cloud nine with Rs. 1.3 billion bonanza

Trinity contain giant killers Science for close win

Royal scramble through to down Kingswood

Shifting from Washington to Beijing consensus – have we got it right?

By Eran Wickramaratne The Sri Lankan economy grew at an average of about 5 per cent over the past two decades. However it achieved a…

Economic fallout from Geneva could worsen this year

Religious intrusion for the first time in the marketplace� By…

Gota to head panel on dual citizenship

More females get high in Sri Lanka

Geneva and SL’s ‘great’ resource grab

Raj Rajaratnam’s brother charged with insider trading

And � then they came for the deposits

Sri Lankan migrant workers to get houses within six months

Platinum 1 strategy of selling luxury apartments after completing the super structure sees success

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

LLRC Sri Lanka’s answer to circus in UNHRC, India

The dust is yet to quite settle on the anti-Sri Lanka resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Thursday. The reverberations have been felt, ironically enough, in neighbouring India even more than in Sri Lanka. There is much to be vicariously amused about successive Indian…

Columns

5th Column
Et tu, India?

My Dear Manmohan, I thought I must write to you when I heard that your country has voted against Sri Lanka at the United Nations again, while your…
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Political Column
If resolution is not implemented, US may push for punitive action

Geneva drama shakes Indian government also; it tried to toughen the draft to please the DMK, but failed Pakistan works hard to win the support of Islamic countries…
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The Economic Analysis
Economic growth: Puzzles and paradoxes over pluses

For quite some time the country’s economic growth statistic has been greeted with scepticism. There have been inconsistencies and contradictions that have made it difficult to accept the…
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Lobby
Live telecast of expunged unparliamentary conduct and iPad, laptop use in House contested

Speaker faults Finance Ministry officials for delay in submitting related Bills of 2013 Budget proposals By Chandani Kirinde, Our Lobby Correspondent Whether Parliamentary proceedings should be telecast Live…
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Focus on Rights
Towards international isolation, old Myanmar style

When the world loses respect for Sri Lanka, certain consequences follow. Some may be minute and some graver but all are relatively unprecedented when assessed against the manner…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
‘Acting’ President Priyankara on cloud nine

The opening of the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) last Monday made him so ecstatic.� At the nationally televised event, Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne said the Bandaranaike International…
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From the sidelines
US has its way in a divided Human Rights Council

The vote on the US-led resolution on Sri Lanka at the 22nd session of the Human Rights Council produced a predictable outcome, not very different in terms of…
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Making their mark

Four new designers who will be on the ramp for the first time at the HSBC Colombo Fashion Week, share their excitement with Tharooshie Mahahewage The buzz has…

A house built for fun stands tall

Surprised to have been included in the prestigious Phaidon Atlas of ‘20th Century World Architecture’, for one of his well-known early creations, the Lagoon House, Anura Ratnavibhushana, one…

Appreciations

M.B. ABEYKOON He was such a family man It is with a heavy heart I pen these words about the demise of a stalwart of our family. M.B.…

Letters to the Editor

The collapse of academic autonomy in our Universities I was emboldened to write some views on the above subject having read an� illuminating� account by Professor Savithri Gunasekera,…

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