Sri Lanka’s Indigenous People
Meet Dinusha, a little ten year old girl. She is just like you. She goes to…
Craftalive lights up local touch
The National Craft Council’s dynamic Chairman Buddhi Keerthisena and Colombo Fashion Week’s ever-innovative Ajai Vir Singh…
Floating back to an older, gentler time
If the words ‘floating market’ bring to your mind images of boats laden with produce and…
Colours of Kenya that took her on an artistic journey
Kishani Wikramanayake’s home is full of interesting objects. Papier Mache masks smile at you from the…
Thisara proves a point
Sri Lanka led by that mercurial allrounder Thisara Perera completely destroyed Pakistan in the deciding third…
High on Heels has everyone on their feet
When the ladies of High on Heels walk through the Kingsbury there are murmurs all around,…
Stars dazzle at the 2014
The 2014 Viacom Inc-owned MTV Video Music Awards held at the newly-renovated Forum Theater in Inglewood,…
Mayadunne, Peiris, Adikari, Jeewantha, Premaratne dazzle at Uda Walawe
The 4th Walawe Supercross which was held at the Walawe race track saw one of Sri…
Unusual Maldives culinary competition: Soups and cakes brought in boats
MALE – Imagine delicately balancing a bowl of soup or steadying a cake perched on a…
News
OPD turns into a doghouse
A dog rests blissfully while there are no patients in the Puttalam Base Hospital OPD because of the strike by pharmacists, medical laboratory technicians and…
More power for China in Norochcholai
China is to play a bigger role in Sri Lanka’s…
New land transfer laws may affect CSE-listed companies
Govt. to invest Rs. 230 b more in crisis- ridden CPC
Fishing talks fail as Lanka rejects Indian proposals
After NGOs, Foundations to come under watch
Nurses attached to skin clinic had no training
KMC seeks police probe on ‘saffron water’ barrier
Judgment on asylum seekers tomorrow
6 injured, 2 hospitalised as cricket fans clash to enter Dambulla stadium
Prospects dim for fully commissioned Norochcholai as 2 units take another break
Traditional crafts -A dying art
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Lame duck Lanka for World Cup 2015
While watching the second One-Day International between Sri Lanka and Pakistan, many thoughts were reverberating in my mind. There is no argument, Sri Lanka won…
Thisara proves a point
Sri Lanka led by that mercurial allrounder Thisara Perera completely…
Clamouring to give advice
Dark Continent sorceries dominate CFC win
Young world-beaters
Lankans can take a cue from surprise ridden Korea
SSC in line to clinch title
Crucial SLC Exco meeting tomorrow
MCA tier ‘B’ T20 from Sep 5
Saracens SC 254, Panadura SC 39/2
Asian Youth Games moved from Hambantota to Doha
Ayomali and Eshan crowned as single champs
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Community participation in fighting forest fires
By Wg. Cdr. C.A.O. DirckzeThe rains have come at last and the drought is over. The drought has been the cause of many forest fires in the recent past.…
Sri Lanka-China FTA deal during Chinese President’s visit next month
Sri Lanka will be launching its Free Trade Agreement (FTA)…
Hoping for a million bucks
Local firms put int’l funding in backburner: Domestic borrowing cheaper
Army launches Operation Kandy city development
TPG says to acquire maximum 70% in Union Bank
Touchwood former directors to be held liable
Lankan citizens need better treatment when taxed by the State
Absurd … then refreshing
Hayleys Agriculture cultivates seaweed in the Mannar Basin
Over 100 foreign buyers at this year’s FACETS Sri Lanka trade show
Global unions slam visa refusal by Aussie authorities to trade union leader Marcus and two others
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Editorial
TNA must engage Lankan leaders, not Indian
Last week’s ‘pilgrimage to India’ by the delegation of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leaders had an element of subservience shrouded in subterfuge. Details of the visit were hard to extract though our Political Editor managed to ferret out most. The TNA issued no statement, and the Indian Prime Minister’s Office…
Columns
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Political Column
Rajapaksa can fight his foes, God save him from his friends
A few hundred metres away from one of New Delhi’s best known addresses – No 7, Race Course Road – security men stopped a three-vehicle convoy. The occupants…
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5th Column
It’s ice bucket, stupid!
My Dear ‘Ice Bucket’ victims, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you are being showered with buckets of ice water, for the worthy…
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The Economic Analysis
Reduction in large trade deficit strengthens balance of payments
The reduction of the trade deficit by 20 per cent in the first half of this year is likely to result in a significant balance of payments surplus.…
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Focus on Rights
A provincial poll that is more of a battlefield
Is there any country in the world where the ruling administration castigates the Department of the Police, (gripped tightly in the iron fist of its own politicians), for…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Sajith as deputy leader: Will Ranil give green light soon? In twenty days from now, the Uva Provincial Council goes to polls in what is easily a litmus…
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Sunday Punch
For Lanka’s good, zip it Mr. Avdhash
Even before making his first appearance at the crease, the Indian member appointed by the President to the international panel of six eminent advisers, Avdhash Kaushal is batting…
Plus
My Grandpa who ‘ran away to sea’
One day, around noon, two schoolboys were walking home from school. It must have been about 1883, and the boys were from S. Thomas’ College at Mutwal. Mutwal…
Letters
Study in contrasts: Kadirgamar and our present-day envoys The recent Sunday Times article on late Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar is both timely and thought provoking. It is timely, not…
For folly, ice is also great, and would suffice to treat
There isn’t a cat who hasn’t caught the ice-bucket action on social media of late. The thing has gone so viral that you could even say it was…
Craftalive lights up local touch
The National Craft Council’s dynamic Chairman Buddhi Keerthisena and Colombo Fashion Week’s ever-innovative Ajai Vir Singh have a good thing going in their collaboration to highlight local crafts…
Magazine
Want to try some gourmet eccentricities?
There are 120 dishes on the menu at Kami Maki – it’s a huge variety for a small restaurant, but owner Thoshan Ediriwira wouldn’t have…
‘Sonic’ sets journey through
High on Heels has everyone on their feet
Cliff back on stage
A fiery challenge to help a heart
How we use time
Nimal’s ‘Ran Tharu’ shines on Friday
Imagination
Stars dazzle at the 2014
A historical feat in country’s cinema
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’: An uneasy alliance with ET misfits
French cinema at AF Colombo
“Gutikaamata Niyamithai” A Play on losing identity
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Beauties and the feast
Bringing out the elephants in place of the red carpet, Cinnamon Lodge Habarana welcomed the top…
Redefining an ancient concept
Launch of Sinhala translation of “Origins of Love”
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A fiery challenge to help a heart
You’ve heard of the #IceBucketChallenge, the Indian #RiceBucketChallenge, the Nepali #FillTheBucket challenge, but would you dare…
Imagination
Stars dazzle at the 2014
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‘Sonic’ sets journey through
The band ‘Sonic’, though they are three years old in the music scene, is comparatively much…
Cliff back on stage
How we use time
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A look inside the Veddah Museum
The mud clad building in the middle of the village is one of the most important…