Pettah traders have struck back against alleged extortion by a pro-government vendors’ federation by forming a…
As the Nelu flower blooms once again, Shaveen Jeewandara speaks to conservationists and wildlife enthusiasts on…
There are striking parallels between Gandhi and Madiba, but at heart they were very different men.…
DELHI/MUMBAI – (Reuters) – Symbols of India’s emergence as an economic powerhouse line the four-lane highway…
With the aim of creating a better tomorrow for Sri Lanka’s small-time barbers, a special benevolent…
“There’s one; there’s one,” shouts an excited passenger, spotting a whale. That’s a cue for the…
Old rivals Havelock met CR&FC at Havelock Park last week and it was another occasion to…
Rupa Monerawela was a story teller before she was a writer. Her grandchildren would clamour for…
‘Rhythm of the Maroons’, a musical extravaganza organized for the eighth consecutive time this year by…
News
Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne, under pressure to resign over the controversial attempt by one of his secretaries to get duty concessions for a heroin smuggler,…
Assessment rates for properties in different local authority areas are…
Sports
There are people who could make an impression from what they try to portray in life. For instance, the late Henry Jayasena in his stage…
Old rivals Havelock met CR&FC at Havelock Park last week…
Business Times
Hundreds of people from all walks of life responded this week to a BT-RCB poll on the mega casino issue with a combined vote of…
Sri Lankan hoteliers are gearing for more cheer this December…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The legal fraternity, or at least most Colombo-based lawyers and judges, enjoyed a convivial evening on Friday at the annual Voet Lights Society dinner as the year draws to a close. Those present could reflect on the good humoured barbs, especially at the expense of the judiciary. They might be…
Columns
The United States, which moved two successive resolutions against Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva and the UPFA Government are both busy over the…
My Dear Di Moo, I thought I must write to you because, all of a sudden, you seem to be in the news, more so than even Mahinda…
On the eve of his departure, Dr. Koshy Mathai, the IMF Representative, warned that an import substitution strategy could hurt the country’s economic development. He advised the Government…
Usually a Parliamentary debate on the state of the media would have the Government on the back foot. But at the Committee Stage debate of the Ministry of…
Do those who vehemently and oftentimes quite hysterically rise to the defence of this Government’s self-aggrandizing post-war policies, pause to ask themselves as to why we are now…
A Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons has declared that he was paid around Sterling Pounds 3,412 to attend the Commonwealth Business…
These are definitely not the best of times for the 82-year-old Prime Minister Disanayaka Mudiyanselage Jayaratne. At the stage of life when other men of his age are…
Plus
As the Nelu flower blooms once again, Shaveen Jeewandara speaks to conservationists and wildlife enthusiasts on this rare phenomenon that occurs every 12 years A pink and purple…
Sri Lanka was the only country where the Bhikkuni Order was established outside the Indian subcontinent and the lineage of the Order, founded by Sanghamitta Theri in Sri…
In 1838, twenty men formed themselves into an association to extend and perpetuate the charitable work they engaged in at their annual family reunions, held on the Sunday…
Rupa Monerawela was a story teller before she was a writer. Her grandchildren would clamour for tales about the kabaragoya their grandmother had as a child – and…
Magazine
Award winning play “Man Diyawela” (I melt away) directed by Thanuja Wanniarachchi and written by Nipuna Balasooriya and two children plays directed by Yashodhara Sarachchandra…
Funday Times
This Sunday, we’re pleased to welcome award-winning children’s writer Prashani Rambukwella to the Funday Times. Just…
Sports
There are people who could make an impression from what they try to portray in life.…
Sunday Times 2
Among all the pens carried in to South Africa in the early 1980s was one that…
MediScene
Shapes are his specialty, especially the shapes of the head. This is the specialty, unavailable in Sri…
