News
Minister and Jathika Hela Urumaya Secretary Champika Ranawaka — involved in a casnio tug o’ war with the government leadership — taking part yesterday in…
Amidst reports of ‘losses’ in investments made in the stock…
Sports
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…
In the aftermath of the T-20 euphoria and the player/management…
Business Times
Cargills Bank, the newest commercial bank in Sri Lanka, at its main Kollupitiya head office, after a soft-opening. Pic by Athula Devapriya…
The Treasury, short of cash for development projects and immediate…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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,…
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
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…
Sunday Times 2
This is probably the first time that a general election in India is centred around one…
Mirror Magazine
Game of Thrones season 4 is already underway and with the release of the episode titles…
TV Times
They’ve been singing with each other for so long that it’s a thing of instinct now…
Funday Times
There was once a stone cutter who was dissatisfied with himself and with his position in…