News
With the drought continuing, sea water is polluting the Kelani Ganga, which is the main source of water to the city and suburbs. Water Board…
The Government is drafting legislation to grant a ‘certificate of…
Sports
Though it was always expected and even we too had spoken about it, when I saw the six faces placed in-a-row in our sister paper…
It was only the other day, a senior spokesman of…
Business Times
It is inevitable. A majority of Sri Lankans believe a US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka at this month’s UN Human Rights sessions in Geneva on…
A cancer patient, a member of the CIFL Depositors Association…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Slowly but surely, the dreaded United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions have stealthily crept up. A resolution against Sri Lanka — sponsored by the US and promoted by Britain and India — is on the cards this month. With the solitary backing of China from among the big and…
Columns
“If you cannot stay in the Government, you can get out,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa warned Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem at Friday’s re-scheduled meeting of…
My Dear Navi Pillay, I am writing to you because you had announced this week that you would like to conduct an international inquiry into what happened during…
The prospect of reducing the trade deficit to about US$ 6 billion this year presents an opportunity to generate an overall balance of payments surplus that could increase…
Last week’s judgment by a Divisional Bench of Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court affirming that parliamentary processes relating to the impeachment of superior court judges cannot be judicially reviewed…
The mood could be likened to the launch of a spaceship by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from one of its facilities in Houston though…
UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay’s report to the 25th session of the Human Rights Council was made public on Feb 24, 2014. It calls for the UNHRC…
On Monday, Lanka’s second largest monastic order for Buddhist monks, the Amarapura Maha Nikaya, banned all monks belonging to its Chapter from engaging in any form of political…
Plus
In ancient times, messages and orders were communicated from one village to another by an ingenious method. Royal artisans would create a transportable replica of the king and…
Herbert Stanley Anthony A dedicated Lion, he contributed much My association with Stanley Anthony started with Lionism. Lion Stanley was a Charter Member of the Lions Club of…
Deborah Philip and I are discussing energy drinks. In particular, the one that kept her awake till 3 a.m. preparing for her Colomboscope presentation on the Grand Oriental…
A lesson for all parents I am writing this letter after considerable thought as I felt it our duty to share an experience that may well benefit other…
Magazine
You might die from cancer, but never let it kill you. It changes your lifestyle, but it cannot change you – Panduke Jayawardane These were…
Sunday Times 2
When Mr. Modi was named the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) prime ministerial candidate in September, it…
Mirror Magazine
Unity Mission Trust (UMT) held their fifth reunion leadership programme in Kandy last month. Youth leaders…
TV Times
‘Galle Music Festival 2014’, the sister event of the Jaffna Music Festival, will come alive for…
Funday Times
February 15, the members of the British Council Art Club conducted their first exhibition and awards…