New leader, another May Day
Jantha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) members are seen preparing for their first May Day rally under their…
Malaysian air disaster: Sri Lanka needs a crash course
Sri Lanka charges fees from aircraft entering its airspace to provide services that include search and…
Taking a challenge by its wheels
When Ajith Fernando decided to mark his 50th birthday in style he would never have imagined…
Imbuing the passion for dance in generations to come
More than 70 years ago, a young man with a burning passion for the dance blazed…
Ensuring a rounded education with newspaper reading
Young reader expert and consultant for WAN-IFRA based in Belgium, Gerard van der Weijden, who will…
Creating a super-rich wildlife destination
Imagine your goal was to create the perfect location for wildlife tourism. Sri Lanka would be…
Palm Beach on East coast
Palm Beach Resort in Nilaveli is the latest addition to Nilaveli’s luxury accommodation list. Located at…
Karate training session by International Instructors at Matara
Shihan Takashi Subiya (Black Belt 9th Dan) the Chief instructor of the International Japan Karathe Dojokai…
Father and son dazzle at N’Eliya Road Races
The father and son combination of Dhammika and Kushan Peiris dazzled at the Nuwara Eliya Road…
News
Tightrope for Champika
Minister and Jathika Hela Urumaya Secretary Champika Ranawaka — involved in a casnio tug o’ war with the government leadership — taking part yesterday in…
Move to transform EPF, ETF into pension funds
Amidst reports of ‘losses’ in investments made in the stock…
SL Tourism on damage control over Buddha-tattoo Naomi
CEB continues surcharge; President promised to withdraw it
Tax upon tax, now toilet tax
Sri Lankan’s Thai wife alleges abuse at airport
Unprotected pond a death trap at Dehiwala Zoo
Undergrads given ultimatum to attend lectures
Road accidents in top gear
Live telecast of Parliament proceedings to start next month: Speaker
Fear, frustration build up as holdups soar
Witch doctor proves bad medicine for barber, children escape by a hair’s breadth
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Coach in a circus: Lessons from Farbrace files
With Paul it was far from a brace for the Lankans. Just think back, it may be that the real hard yards towards that golden…
Lanka’s tour of discovery
In the aftermath of the T-20 euphoria and the player/management…
How Trinity built their own quagmire
Wawrinka’s wins Monte-Carlo 2014
All-Thai final at Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship
Ananda down Vidyartha in first leg of Gopallawa Shield
Pakistan appoints its biggest-ever selection team
Sachin, Chalitha, Kasun guide P. de S. Kularatne MV
Asanka ton as Kalutara TC takes lead
Over hundred events at the Junior Athletics Nationals
Ananda crush Jaffna Hindu by innings
DH passes away
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Sri Lanka’s newest bank
Cargills Bank, the newest commercial bank in Sri Lanka, at its main Kollupitiya head office, after a soft-opening. Pic by Athula Devapriya…
Treasury re-activates old tax revenue circulars
The Treasury, short of cash for development projects and immediate…
No ‘mercy’ for veteran actress from finance Cos.
Touchwood is “forever” but without an office, says Kiwlegedara
HR Guru Ulrich in Colombo on April 30
More transparency urged in share market investments
EPF says profits between 2009 to 2013 exceed Rs.558 bln
SL’s ‘this-way, that-way’ growth
EPF loses Rs. 11 bln on bad investments
Issues at the Registrar of Companies
Dwindling population trends in Sri Lanka
The much maligned cigarette
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Editorial
Don’t gamble with Sri Lanka
A rose by any other name smells as sweet, and as far as the Government is concerned, a casino by any other name is expected to rake in the shekels. This week, the Government passed in Parliament the Gazette notifications legalising casinos, all the while insisting that it was only…
Columns
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Political Column
Casino crisis: First major revolt within Rajapaksa regime
The UPFA Government this week cleared the last hurdle for what it calls three different ‘integrated resorts’ to be set up at a total cost of US$ 1.4…
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5th Column
From the Mayor to Mervyn: The toy gun trick
My Dear Lord Mayor of Hambantota, I thought I must write to you, though I hadn’t even heard of your existence before. Pardon my ignorance, I didn’t even…
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The Economic Analysis
Projections, prospects and prerequisites for growth
The Central Bank expects the economy to grow by 7.8 per cent this year. The IMF projects a lower growth of 7 per cent and the World Bank…
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Lobby
Govt. plays name game to present wolves in sheep’s clothing
The Government may have had its way by getting Parliamentary approval for three regulations made under the Strategic Development Projects Act, which the Opposition claims gives an open…
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Focus on Rights
Learning from a court across the Palk Strait
These are extraordinary times. Victory in a war that many thought unwinnable, the utter decimation of the traditional political opposition and the formation of an authoritarian family cabal…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
EAM media releases come in cart before horse It’s literally a case of placing the cart before the horse, as one witty External Affairs Ministry (EAM) official revealed…
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From the sidelines
No tattoos please, we’re Buddhists — but casinos no problem
A combination of events in the past week has brought into focus some home truths about the officially projected image of Sri Lanka as a country where Buddhism…
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Sunday Punch
Stoned UNP wolf down Southern brunch
Had the five UNP MPs who made a scheduled visit to view the Hambantota Port last week remembered to have stashed a rash of bacon or a string…
Plus
Discovering the magic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are books which finish on the last page and then there are books by Marquez. I first encountered Gabriel Garcia Marquez in a library in Delhi. I…
Taking a challenge by its wheels
When Ajith Fernando decided to mark his 50th birthday in style he would never have imagined the consequences. No sooner had he ambitiously decided that he would cycle…
Letters
From living hell to beautiful walkway A few months ago, I wrote in this same column, about the deplorable state of our road, known as the Millenium Drive,…
Appreciations
Beulah Perera (nee Dissanayake) Ammi, you continue to live in our hearts Writing an appreciation about your own mother subsequent to her death is both a relatively easy…
Magazine
Let the music come to you
They simply won’t let him leave. He returns to the stage three times, each time to an audience on its feet chanting his name and…
Let the games begin
… And all that’s nice
That Café in Colombo
Legacy of sisterhood
Await the play of Kes by CIS
Make others happy
‘Thanha Rathi Ranga’ Road Movie entered State’s film fest.
Prestantia Chorale premiers ‘Borrowed Tomb’ – Easter Cantata
Nihal to enter YouTube with a new song
Nathasha releases ‘Kurulu Kevilla’
‘Gutikemata Niyamithai’ goes to Gampaha
“Dhawala Bheeshana” back again
Nari Bana and Jasaya in Borella
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How India is split over Narendra Modi
This is probably the first time that a general election in India is centred around one…
India’s Singh wasn’t king, Modi could be
Little book of royal recipes
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Let the games begin
Game of Thrones season 4 is already underway and with the release of the episode titles…
… And all that’s nice
That Café in Colombo
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Legacy of sisterhood
They’ve been singing with each other for so long that it’s a thing of instinct now…
‘Thanha Rathi Ranga’ Road Movie entered State’s film fest.
Prestantia Chorale premiers ‘Borrowed Tomb’ – Easter Cantata
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The Stone Cutter
There was once a stone cutter who was dissatisfied with himself and with his position in…