News
The recent floods and landslides while causing deaths and devastation among thousands of people have also exposed the slipshod job in the carpeting of roads.…
The Government is to spend more than Rs. 1.3 billion…
Sports
Sri Lanka off-spinner Sachithra Senanayake who was reported for a suspected illegal bowling action during his side’s seven-run victory over England in the fourth One-Day…
Finally, the moment of truth has arrived. After weeks of…
Business Times
Touchwood Investments investors were given the opportunity to get their monies back on Thursday when the Colombo Commercial High Court agreed to appoint a liquidator…
The Treasury is preparing a mini budget (vote on account)…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
With the monsoons have come the deluge – and the dengue. Flooding has become a perennial problem; however much we say we have faced it before, we do not seem competent to meet the challenge. In just a week of the clouds opening up after a heat-wave in April and…
Columns
A mixed bag of political developments this week forced the UPFA leadership to go into high gear. After the weekly ministerial meeting last Thursday, President Mahinda Rajapaksa asked members…
Dear Alistair Cook and the English cricket team, I thought I must write to you after watching the cricket matches in England last week, where you were defeated…
The new directions in policy of the Indian Government provide valuable lessons for Sri Lanka. The declared policies and initial initiatives of the new Indian government offer useful…
External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris did not mince his words in Parliament on Wednesday, when he categorically stated that the devolution of police powers to Provincial Councils was…
Even the most stubborn among us would concede that the complete subordination of Sri Lanka’s police establishment to political command is now uncontestable. A Law and Order Ministry…
There are 72,000 private sector employees who have so far contributed around Rs. 165 billion to the Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF). Yet, the Minister of Labour and Labour Relations…
India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sprung yet another surprise on the foreign policy establishment by announcing that his first trip abroad will be, not to any…
Like releasing trussed parrots in captive cages to appease the rage of heaven and placate the gods, the Lankan Government has now resorted to releasing Indian fishermen captured…
Plus
As they have done for the past ten years, Wijeya Newspapers Ltd.(WNL) is gearing up to illuminate the Thantirimale temple this Poson Full Moon Day. Organised for the 11th consecutive…
Sitting cross-legged on the bed, the little trailblazer is engrossed in a cartoon on TV, oblivious to the change that is about to take place in his life…
A step in the wrong direction: Walkers on the cycle track The renovated and beautified Viharamahadevi Park is undoubtedly one of the best things that have happened to…
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL TERRENCE GUNAWARDENA This was a born leader Terrence cut a distinctive figure as a tall, well-built teenager at school. He commanded much respect as the…
Magazine
They begin with Sweet Child of Mine; the unanimous favourite of pretty much everyone here and clearly for good reason. When these girls sing you…
Sunday Times 2
NEW DELHI, June 07 (AFP) – The first reactor of India’s largest nuclear plant — dogged…
Mirror Magazine
Over their lifetime the Brothers Grimm penned 209 fantastical fairy tales, each with their own grisly…
TV Times
Popular singer Ruwan Hettiarachchi won the Most Popular Video (Gold) Award for his hit ‘Rawatunu Tharam’…