News

Tightrope for Champika

Move to transform EPF, ETF into pension funds

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

Come the rains, come the scourge of dengue

UDA losses since 2006 total Rs. 1,230 million: Auditor General

Deadly leptospirosis not spread exclusively by rats

A town with no bus halt

Eight-year-old dies in freak accident

Natural, clean bottled water – no it’s not, raid shows

UDA gobbles up more prime land in Colombo

New Police Unit from tomorrow to prevent religious disturbances

New leader, another May Day

Only a quarter of parched fields will yield rice

Political parties, TUs on their marks and getting set for May Day

Elephant dance cancellation allegedly due to TB drives visitors from the Zoo

Captive elephants helpless against TB spread

Tackling kidney disease in NCP

Malaysian air disaster: Sri Lanka needs a crash course

Rapidly increasing rat population could spread leptospirosis: Colombo Chief MOH

Hard drug use grows, new committee to act

The arena of written questions dominated by a few gladiators

Editorial

Don’t gamble with Sri Lanka

Columns

Casino crisis: First major revolt within Rajapaksa regime

From the Mayor to Mervyn: The toy gun trick

Stoned UNP wolf down Southern brunch

Projections, prospects and prerequisites for growth

Learning from a court across the Palk Strait

No tattoos please, we’re Buddhists — but casinos no problem

Govt. plays name game to present wolves in sheep’s clothing

Sports

Coach in a circus: Lessons from Farbrace files

Lanka’s tour of discovery

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

Defiant Hussain deny host Sri Lanka victory

Randev Pathirana regains top slot pushing Lahiru to second place

South Korea outclass Sri Lanka

Punch with a foreign flavour to be served tomorrow

An unforgettable cricketer and a character – Neil Chanmugam

Hotel carrom on April 30

CMSC to host FIA

An Ode to our cricketers

Karate training session by International Instructors at Matara

Bharthi Airtel joins hands with MCA

The Sunquick Atlantus

Unsung cricketing heroes

Asia’s showpiece 15s tournament prepares for change in format

AFC President’s cup in Colombo

Father and son dazzle at N’Eliya Road Races

Plus

Discovering the magic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Taking a challenge by its wheels

Letters

Appreciations

Trying to break free

Imbuing the passion for dance in generations to come

Human body in a different frame

Students of Narthana Asapuwa set for big day

To win the rat race and ‘reverse culture shock’

How do you solve the problem of failures in mathematics?

Ensuring a rounded education with newspaper reading

All that’s spicy and fruity at Rosyth Estate House

In the doghouse!

Go back in time to country living

Away from the magical nanny with the umbrella

Creating a super-rich wildlife destination

All in the family

How T.K. won an Air Force jungle survival training course

Events

Business Times

Sri Lanka’s newest bank

Treasury re-activates old tax revenue circulars

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

JAT’s product range backed by state-of-the-art tech centres

Sanctions on SL ‘not currently an issue on the table’, British envoy says

Galadari profits up at Rs.286 mln, but room revenue down

Controversy and Decision-making

Sri Lanka Telecom in $415 mln ICT investment agreement with BOI

Virtusa named top UK employer for 4th consecutive year

IMF welcomes launch of Statistical Centre in GCC countries

Sri Lankan foreign reserves boosted by borrowed cash

SriLankan signs maintenance deal with Indian airline

More benefits for frequent flyers with FlySmiLes- Aitken Spence partnership

Emirates cuts flights to 41 destinations for 80-day period, set to lose $270 mln in revenue

Veteran Australian executive chef suggests blending Sri Lankan cuisine with western culinary art

Hameedia links with Sri Lankan cricket since winning 1996 World Cup

Standard Chartered Colombo secures recognition from Asian Banker

Mobitel signs on to automate Excise Dept.

Union Bank installs new core banking system

Melsta Regal Finance expands across Sri Lanka

Munchee wins at inaugural National Chamber Business Excellence Summit

SL shortlisted for Outsourcing Destination of the Year for Europe

SL gets Avurudu gift from international hackers

Mobile Internet growth in SL far outpaces PC – statcounter.com

Women make up only 29% of local IT workforce

Samsung Galaxy S5 ready to go on shelves in ‘most Asian markets’

Getting ready for the ‘Internet of Things’

Bollywood’s Salman Khan in clothing chain tie-up in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s trade unions demand the government to deport foreign workers

SAP announces unified comprehensive cloud portfolio for Sri Lanka

Maldives investment forum in Singapore

More taxes on imported goods to raise revenue

MCSL debenture issue withdrawn

Sunday Times 2

How India is split over Narendra Modi

India’s Singh wasn’t king, Modi could be

Little book of royal recipes

Lecture: ‘Reading and Writing Novels Across Cultures’

China to outlaw eating of protected animal species

Janet Yellen, Miley Cyrus odd bedfellows in list of 100 most influential

Keeping malaria away- the work is not over yet

Avurudu sports festival

Leo Burnett team celebrates New Year

In India, show the finger after voting, get cheaper gas and food

Islamic Women’s Day seminar

Top brass responsible for police apathy

Putin calls Internet ‘CIA project’

Costa Rican ‘miracle’ woman was key to John Paul’s sainthood

Revamp international law to save planet

New sanctions to target prominent Russians as Kiev warns of ‘world war’

Body recovery from sunken S. Korean ferry suspended

Obama expresses support on MH370: Malaysia

Afghan preliminary election results due as run-off looms

Claims of good governance and the ground reality

Wild obsession

Alarm bells in Asia

US-dependent Pacific Island defies nuke powers

Magazine

Let the music come to you

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

Macaw family’s adventure in Amazon

‘Miridiya’ stands tall in Anuradhapura

Palm Beach on East coast

Funday Times

The Stone Cutter

Puppet Museum

Kids world

Little kids Avurudu Festival

Avurudu Mihira