Sustaining export performance and curbing imports, imperative
Given a bleak trade performance in the first half of this year, even a modest improvement…
Japan’s luxury fruit masters grow money on trees
TOKYO (AFP)- With melons that sell for the price of a new car and grapes that…
‘State Tvs violating viewers rights’
Award winning teledrama director, former president of Tele Makers Guild and activist campaigning for quality teledrama…
108 and the ‘Grande Dame’ stands tall
The ‘Lady in Red and White’ is not a slip of a girl sitting shyly and…
Top surfer Villaran surprised by Sri Lankan talent
Top international surfer Gabriel Villaran, who is presently at the Sri Lankan surf hotspot of Arugam…
Sports Ministry’s munificent grant to SLC to uplift rural cricket
The Sports Ministry for the first time will make a financial allocation to Sri Lanka Cricket,…
An apple a day in Sri Lanka may not keep the doctor away
The premier organisation representing the largest volume of doctors in the country, the Government Medical Officers’…
Odyssey to our Kachchativu
Sri Lanka Navy’s fast attack craft moves out of the Northern Naval Area Headquarters in Kankesanthurai…
CHOGM 2013 preparations meet with official optimism and some public scepticism
With little over a month left before the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting begins in…
News
Infighting turns into street battles
Matara town looked like a battleground yesterday as rival groups of UNP members moved in with poles, bottles and other missiles and clashes erupted between…
Poaching crisis: Lanka will complain to EU
The Government will take up with the European Union the…
Five die, three missing in double boat tragedy at Mannar sea
Court calls for Minutes of Board Meeting and production of Share Registry
Pak firm gets huge city contract
Police hunt for two suspects, finger prints at crime scene
President Rajapaksa to present Budget 2014 on Nov. 21
Relief for drought-hit families
CCD records Colombo Mayor’s statement on burning of CMC files
Late for class
Business as usual at Colombo’s U.S. embassy despite its govt.’s shutdown
Two-day debate on COPE report this week
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Sports ministry to spend Rs. 300 million in two years
By S.R. PathiravithanaMinister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage has decided to allocate Rs. 300 million spread over two years to give a fillip to the sports fraternity in…
HSBC conducts GTRF Sixes
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation conducted the Global Trade…
Lawyers to Delhi world cup
No results in three school encounters
The SLSCA, the MICs and school cricket’s egg theory
Kalutara MV surprise the rest while defending champs DSS bow out
Top surfer Villaran surprised by Sri Lankan talent
Watch out! Colombo Marathon today
Junior Squash Nationals takes off
Ladies’ College through
Eight more records tumble on fourth day
GRFC passes sixth mile post
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CHOGM not just expensive risk, but rare opportunity – former Foreign Secretary
By Jagdish HathiramaniThe upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), to be held in Sri Lanka for the first time in November 2013, is not just an…
BUDGET: Sri Lanka faces fiscal crisis of its own
Sri Lanka is facing a fiscal crisis of its own,…
Duminda and Dad advisors to Touchwood board
Krrish project now confronted with environmental issues
Designer clothes, designer shoes … what next? Why not designer eggs!
Questioning the role of finance and state authorities
Trade union calls for radical change in taxation policy in 2014 budget
CHOGM: A dignified welcome
SLIC unions resort to strikes, protest to the President over irregularities
Bharti Airtel Lanka, Principal sponsor of the CHOGM Business Forum
Revived GKCC makes third phase repayment to over 1200 depositors
Pan Asia Bank raises $20 mln in foreign funds
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Editorial
Vital agenda for India’s EAM
The Indian Minister of External Affairs is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow (Oct. 7); and every such visit is of significance given the twists and turns in the bi-lateral relations between the two South Asian neighbours. A former President of Sri Lanka on touching down at New Delhi’s…
Columns
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5th Column
From rhetoric to reality
My Dear Wigneswaran, I thought I must write to you again because congratulations are in order after you were elected as the Chief Minister of the Northern Province…
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Political Column
After the polls, Rajapaksa consolidates his position
Ten new deputy ministerial posts for MPs who worked hard for UPFA victory Wigneswaran to take oaths tomorrow before meeting Khurshid Govt. approves Sampur project despite warnings by…
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The Economic Analysis
Sustaining export performance and curbing imports, imperative
Given a bleak trade performance in the first half of this year, even a modest improvement in the trade deficit is a hopeful sign. While one swallow does…
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Focus on Rights
No tectonic shift in ‘state land being vested in the Republic’
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s repeated claim, (pronounced with appropriate gravitas most recently to Al Jazeera), is that Sri Lanka does not exhibit authoritarian or dictatorial tendencies as it holds…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Pieris’ galkatas in outer space
External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris appears to have taken the pursuit of the country’s foreign policy fast forward to new millennia. He perceives that perhaps sooner than later Sri…
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From the sidelines
What happened to the Muslim vote?
The most significant development in politics this week would seem to be the resolving of issues that had arisen over the swearing-in of Northern Provincial Council Chief Minister…
Plus
The stars of ’75
As enthusiastic crowds throng the Lionel Wendt for the newly-opened ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, there comes the ‘news flash’ wrapped up in nostalgia — this is not the first. Wind…
108 and the ‘Grande Dame’ stands tall
The ‘Lady in Red and White’ is not a slip of a girl sitting shyly and coyly any more but has taken her rightful place as the ‘Grande…
No one believes it, but everyone believes that someone believes!
When your old, long-in-the-tooth scribe (yes, dear, a glory has passed!) was a mere toddler, the terror of the town – a pickpocket and also a break-in artist…
Spice and all that’s nice
Fifty or sixty years ago curries were a labour of love. Spices were hunted down and painstakingly rolled till they formed a smooth paste, which a housewife would…
Magazine
‘Hit by ‘Paraya’
Sachini Perera: Mind Adventures is one of the few reasons (another being Ruwanthie De Chickera’s Stages Theatre Group) I still patronise English language theatre productions…
Mirroring beauty from the past
Of hopscotch, underwater jungles and adventures in faraway places
‘LitEx’ showcasing the creative streak of Jaffna University’s literature students
‘Via Veneto’- Chords for a cause
Big challenges for small robots
Reveal 2013 – to feature some of the best graduate design talent
Alston at LA Music Awards
‘Sebs Nite 2013’ : Rhythm is gonna get you….
Moratuwa YMCA conducts United Christian singing
Italian culture on show
Home Grown Awards 2013
‘70’s Show’ goes Down South
‘State Tvs violating viewers rights’
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Sports
Sports ministry to spend Rs. 300 million in two years
Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage has decided to allocate Rs. 300 million spread over two years…
HSBC conducts GTRF Sixes
Lawyers to Delhi world cup
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An adult at 18? Not any more
Adolescence no longer ends when people hit 18, according to updated guidelines being given to child…
Japan’s luxury fruit masters grow money on trees
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CHOGM not just expensive risk, but rare opportunity – former Foreign Secretary
The upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), to be held in Sri Lanka for the…