News
Public health services were paralysed yesterday as nurses continued their strike and doctors accused them of hiding drugs to impose further hardships on patients. More…
A Cabinet decision to revoke licences for the import and…
Sports
The laws of cricket tell the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality – Neville Cardus Nevertheless this…
The hotly debated national cricket coach’s position in Sri Lanka…
Business Times
Lottery ticket sellers are up in arms over the latest Mahapola online lottery accusing the authorities of transferring earnings from the new lottery abroad. Seen…
Urgent consultations were held this week by casino magnate, Australian…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
May Day has come and gone and the working class will need to wait until next year to be commemorated again. In the intervening 364 days, the working people will face the overt threat of Police riot squads and water cannon if they take to the streets making demands, and…
Columns
The United States became the second country to ignore the UPFA Government’s prohibition order on 16 Tamil diaspora groups and 424 of their members on grounds that they…
My Dear James Packer, I thought I must write to you to congratulate you on what you did last week. I am not sure whether you are aware…
Good governance is good for the nation and people. Irrespective of any economic consequences of the Geneva resolutions, the country must ensure law and order and protect human…
In a conversation with two visiting Indian scholars this week in Colombo, the focus shifted to the seemingly easy manner in which the Bharathiya Janatha Party (BJP) Prime…
Politicians and public relations stunts are as close to each other as bat and ball would be to a cricketer. Some stunts draw attention whilst others end up in…
In recent times members of the Buddhist clergy have increasingly tended to make the front pages of newspapers and the TV headlines. This might suggest that they are…
Last Friday the Government staked all its winnings of goodwill on one turn of pitch-and-toss and came a cropper. It ran out of the good fortune that had…
Plus
It is no exaggeration to call the Galle Fort, one of the best day get-aways from Colombo. And it’s just a 45- minute drive away on the Southern…
Thambipillai Sathananthan That was Satha Thambipillai Sathananthan, a retired postmaster, popularly known as Satha to his close associates passed away on March 4. He was an epitome of…
Child-centred policy can clear the education mess With the Sunday Times reporting that mathematics is a stumbling block for 50 per cent of the GCE O/L student population…
The send-off was official and unusual. Just before sea-kayaker Sandy Robson paddled across the Palk Straits to the Indian coast from Talaimannar on May 1, to stamp the…
Magazine
Meet the Jayamannes. Dilshara started off as a copy-writer for an ad agency and studied some design. He is straight talking and laid back. Harshini…
Sunday Times 2
NEW DELHI – Next month, India will complete its marathon election. A new government is expected…
TV Times
‘Odyssey into the Wild’, an exhibition of creative works penned and illustrated by B. A. Mahipala…