News
The Elections Commission has given the Police Rs. 75 million to recruit people to help in the removal of posters and cutouts. The posters are…
The Financial Crimes Investigation Department (FCID) is probing some 2,000…
Sports
Literally it’s a dead rubber. After nine long years, a completely new look Pakistani team walked all over the Lankans and stomped them to a…
Friday night was never meant to be forgotten for some,…
Business Times
The beginning of the end of the Golden Key (GK) depositors’ tearful saga dawned at the BMICH in Colombo on Friday with the launch of…
In a rare move for family-controlled companies, Janashakthi Insurance this…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
In most born-again democracies — countries which have escaped from the grip of long totalitarian rule –in Eastern Europe a few decades ago, some in Africa and more recently in West Asia, voters at their first elections would display their index finger to show the indelible ink painted on it…
Columns
Former President becomes key issue in polls campaign, while Sirisena appoints loyalists as electoral organisers UNF proposes State Assembly comprising civil society activists instead of CC; JVP convention…
I thought I must write to you to find out how you are faring as you go about the business of campaigning for next month’s elections. I am…
Whoever forms the next government would have to face daunting economic problems. However, most of the 21 political parties that are vying to form a government may not…
If Sri Lanka’s political and legal history since independence demonstrates one fact, it is the fundamental dishonesty of those whom we elect to serve us. Even the rare…
The tried and tested bevy of drummers lined up to do their Rajakariya, or feudal duties, this year at the Rajapaksa perehera have already started beating their drums…
Unlike the Bourbons of France who learnt nothing and forgot nothing, British Prime Minister David Cameron has learnt a lot which he strives to forget hoping others will…
Plus
Deepal Sooriyaarachchi, Chairman of the panel of judges of the Ray Award remembers first spying Ray Wijewardene across the room with a sense of nostalgia. Sooriyaarachchi was delivering…
Chatting over post-dinner drinks and an enthralling performance by performers of the traditional martial arts – Agampora – at the Cinnamon Bey at Beruwela on Monday night, Nigel…
Not cricket, not civil, not nice… I know someone who, when Sri Lanka plays India, always supports India. I know someone else who, when Sri Lanka plays Australia,…
A wet nose pokes out from behind red metal mesh. The magi board stuck on the doorframe tells us the curious white Pomeranian peeking out at visitors is…
Magazine
It’s night time, maybe it’s even raining. A tuk tuk tattooed “kolamba putha” whizzes toward the build up of traffic which is no surprise for…
Sunday Times 2
Sri Lanka’s first degree programme in film and television, touching the hi-tech and digital dimensions, is…
Mirror Magazine
Are you into geometrical shapes and monochrome with splashes of colour? If you are, Monai is…
TV Times
Veteran filmmaker Chandran Rutnam’s newest play “May Wage Adarayak” (A love like this) is now being…