News
After UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and the party’s Hambantota District MP Sajith Premadasa struck a unity deal on Friday with the latter being assured…
Government’s legal advisors are formulating a new draft Constitution for…
Sports
Sri Lanka Cricket is launching a Rs 100 million programme to upgrade its facilities for training and practices for national cricketers of all grades. The…
This is like walking in circles. Wherever you go, you…
Business Times
Most Sri Lankans say budgets don’t benefit the people while inflation and cost of living is still high contrary to Government pronouncements, a pre-budget poll…
Sri Lanka’s tourism industry hopes of finding a solution to…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The passing away of Samson Senapala Samarakoon Wijesinha last Sunday at the age of 93, for many Sri Lankans signalled also the end of an epoch. He was Crown Counsel when the Attorney General’s Department was ‘autonomous’ and Secretary General of Parliament when it was ‘supreme’. His was an era…
Columns
After weeks of hemming and hawing, Sajith Premadasa will now become the Deputy Leader of the main opposition United National Party (UNP). Their leader Ranil Wickremesinghe told a…
My Dear Sampanthan seeya, I thought of writing to you when I heard that you — and a delegation from your party — had rushed to New Delhi…
The Sri Lankan economy is increasingly becoming a remittance dependent import-export economy. In the first half of this year remittances amounted to US$ 3.36 billion — a 10.6 per…
A common point of agreement across differing views on the role of the Sri Lankan State is that the State (‘authoritarian’ or ‘Sinhala-Buddhist’ as the case may be),…
Otto Von Bismarck once remarked that politics is the art of the possible. This is the story of a battle of wits between two Sri Lankan politicians who have…
With the 27th session of the UN Human Rights Council scheduled to start tomorrow, a team of representatives from two heavyweights in Sri Lanka’s NGO sector is in…
As if seated by the banks of the Diyawanna Oya with a much thumbed copy of the Lankan Constitution beside him and watching over the goings on of…
Plus
One of the privileges of being a journalist is the chance we get to interact with people from all walks of life and have them share their lives’…
Rid this country of the ‘culture’ of suicide where there is acceptance of harming oneself as a way of sorting out the problems that life throws at us.…
Got a question about U.S. visas? The U.S. Embassy in Colombo, in collaboration with The Sunday Times is launching a fortnightly column “Ask the Consul” for all those…
Stars from the silver screen and the film fraternity were present at the opening dinner of the International Film Festival of Colombo, on Tuesday at the Kingsbury Hotel.…
Magazine
It was a Friday. A very boring Friday. Well, at least I think it was a Friday… Either way, it was a dull day. I…
Sunday Times 2
HASAYAN, India (Reuters) – Fired up and full of vitriol, Hindu activist Rajeshwar Singh is on…
Mirror Magazine
As a young boy, Suranga Nanayakkara would watch his mother-an electrical engineer-tinkering around the house with…
TV Times
‘Step Up: All In’ the latest Hollywood 3D dance film–a story about dancing groups battling for…
Funday Times
Cargills along with its most loved food brands ‘Magic’, ‘Kotmale’, ‘Kist’ and ‘Sams’ sausages took 200…