News
One of the first eastern Tamil women recruits to the Army being given a warm kiss by her mother after the passing out parade at…
A shift in narcotics trafficking patterns from land-based routes across…
Sports
The SLC conundrum that erupted into a major administrative controversy last week, took a positive turn when its President Jayantha Dharmadasa decided to indefinitely postpone…
Sohaib Maqsood and Fawad Alam slammed match winning knocks to…
Business Times
With large scale development across the country, many coconut estates are up for grabs and partitioned into small blocks mostly for housing purposes as this…
The government is grappling with overspending for Commonwealth Heads of…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Sanctions are the necessary middle ground between war and words, said Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General. Today, sanctions are widely used as a political tool to impose the will of some countries upon others, without the commitment of troops or military hardware. The United States takes the lead. Its list…
Columns
Revelations in the Sunday Times in the past two weeks have prompted a review of mandatory information forwarded to the US Department of Justice by public relations (PR)…
My Dear Common Candidate, I thought I must write to you — whoever you are — because everyone is searching high and low for you these days. Despite…
An important objective of the Government is to achieve a trade surplus by 2020. This key objective, according to Treasury Secretary P.B. Jayasundera, is to be achieved through…
“People have been surfeited with sweetmeats and their digestion has been ruined: bitter medicines, sharp truths, are therefore necessary,” wrote Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov in his acclaimed book,…
A mere two years before a doomed United National Party administration staggering under accumulated burdens of long drawn out rule was destined to fall, opposition parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa…
Wamey inney Premadasa. Dakuney Inney Ranil or on the left is (Sajith Ranasinghe) Premadasa and on the right is Ranil (Wickremesinghe), guffawed President Mahinda Rajapaksa last Tuesday. It was…
The presentation by Dr Subramanian Swamy, chairman of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Committee on Strategic Action at the Defence Seminar 2014 this week brought no surprises in relation…
Despite the comforting assurances dished out liberally like holy ash by the new Indian Guru in town Subramanian Swamy to Lanka’s guardian deities of the divine benevolence radiating…
Plus
Namel Weeramuni lives atop his little theatre. Amid the clutter of small shops and heavy traffic in Borella, the building which houses the Punchi has always stood out,…
The first time they were here, almost a decade ago, India-based theatre company Poor Box Productions performed the Vagina Monologues to a curious, unsure audience, leaving them enlightened…
Agatha Christie’s bust isn’t that big. But everyone on the English Riviera will tell you where to find it. The bronze bust is on Cary Green near the…
Call me cynical or slightly reality-challenged. But for the life of me I could not see what the great big fuss was all about. The leadership turned up…
Magazine
It was a select gathering invited to sit back on the couches that lay scattered around the Colombo Hilton’s Grand Ballroom as four young ladies…
Sunday Times 2
Huge warning boards recently erected at the Matara end of the Southern Expressway carry an unusual…
Mirror Magazine
To beat the holiday blues we’ve put together a list of things you could be doing…
TV Times
The Popular Ladies Night is back on every Tuesday Night at Colombo’s most exciting rooftop bar…