News
A lighter side of the much publicised reopening of the new Jaffna railway station was this scene. Pallai railway policeman Sumith was insisting that the…
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, has sought President…
Sports
Sri Lanka Cricket will look to maximally use the opportunity that has come their way by obliging India to play the five One Day Internationals…
Rain on a Saturday morning was a spoiler at the…
Business Times
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will hold a snap presidential election in early January, was the view of a majority of people in a Business Times (BT)…
Sri Lanka’s Transport Ministry is seeking an additional sum of…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The importance — and significance of the re-opening of the railway line up to Kankesanthurai this week — cannot be downplayed.Unfortunately, the whole exercise has been soured by seemingly valid claims that the cost overheads were nearly triple what they should have been, a common and frequent complaint about this…
Columns
JHU’s Rathana Thera issues ultimatum to Rajapaksa, demands major constitutional amendments before elections Prelate says many senior ministers extending their support to him, while opposition to MR’s policies…
My dear General, I thought I must write to you because you are in the news again, although for the wrong reasons: they tell me that they have…
The potential for developing the Eastern Province’s varied resources is immense. As in the North, a political solution to the ethnic discontent is an essential precondition for sustainable…
Piquantly enough, this seems to be the week of apologies and confessions for Sri Lanka. First, we witnessed the nationalist Jathika Hela Urumaya parliamentarian Rathana Thera’s confession in…
The External Affairs Ministry (EAM) evidently needs a crash course in the European justice system. A media statement issued on Thursday said the Government of Sri Lanka had…
It is not so much a few Tamil Nadu fishermen poaching in the Palk Straits that Lanka will have to worry about but rather the resurrection this week…
Plus
Though all the media hype was on the inaugural Yal Devi, the first train to officially arrive at the Jaffna Railway Station after 24 years on October 13…
Young and old, we gather around a table strewn with pictures clipped from magazines. The instructions to each one are soft but clear. “Take a silhouette board and…
Greg Snell – Australia’s “Best Jobs in the World” winner, visited The Music Project”, to gather research for his next potential project – a documentary travel series “Travel…
Arriving on the site of his new assignment in a tractor, Architect Jayanath Silva knew this one would be a challenge. Remote and wildly beautiful, the location was…
Magazine
Kavindu Siavraj from Kandy, a school going photographer recently shared these long exposure photographs with the Mirror Magazine. Kavindu says, “These photos were captured in Kandy town…
Sunday Times 2
Swinging high and low, laughing and gulping the salty air blowing in from the sea, two…
Mirror Magazine
Kavindu Siavraj from Kandy, a school going photographer recently shared these long exposure photographs with the Mirror Magazine.…
TV Times
The popular band ‘Magic Box Mixup’ is on our cover this week for the very first…
Funday Times
Children’s Day at Asian International Montessori School, Battaramulla Pix by Mangala Weerasekera…