News
The death toll in Friday’s landslide in a private tea estate at Ramboda in Kotmale increased to seven yesterday as the Disaster Management Centre (DMC)…
The Government has decided to impeach a Supreme Court judge…
Sports
Chairman of selectors, Sri Lanka Cricket Kapila Wijegunawardene feels that they could finalise during the next few days the combination to take on the visiting…
D.S. Senanayake was swatted aside by Trinity by an innings…
Business Times
Money Exchange dealers are now found to be depositing only the minimum amount payable required by the Central Bank per annum while allegedly selling the…
Sri Lankan authorities, tackling an acute case of depleting foreign…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
“The Americans eventually get it right – after they have exhausted all other alternatives,” said Winston Churchill. The British wartime Premier was disappointed that the US did not take part in the early years of World War II. When they finally entered the fray and saw to the war’s conclusion,…
Columns
Ranil and Mangala hold several rounds of talks with western envoys to finalise new resolution; Lanka’s Geneva envoy reprimanded Resolution encourages Commonwealth or foreign participation Sirisena says there cannot…
My dear Mangala, I thought I must write to you even though you are a busy man these days, shuttling between Colombo, Geneva and New York, trying to…
Enormous economic challenges confront the coalition government. Facing up to these economic problems after months of political preoccupations and electoral politics is no easy task. It is much…
The opposition within the Opposition got off to a fighting start in Parliament this week, staging a walkout in protest at the manner in which the Government introduced…
This Thursday’s consensus resolution tabled before the United Nations Human Rights Council in relation to Sri Lanka’s war time atrocities has provoked starkly divergent responses in its aftermath.…
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on a visit to Sri Lanka this week, did not know that a member of his entourage was going that extra mile to…
If the very thought of the ancient mythological Hanuman bridge connecting India with Lanka which enabled Rama to freely walk in and destroy Lanka’s Ravana was not enough…
Reading about the haps and mishaps in Mother Lanka over the last several weeks I was reminded of Othello’s words to Iago in Shakespeare’s tragic drama. It was…
Plus
The debate rages worldwide – is digital killing print media? Will this generation witness the extinction of the book? Whatever the case may be in other parts of…
Prof. Tariq Ramadan’s visit to Sri Lanka is curiously timely. Fifty years ago to the very day he was delivering the M.A. Bakeer Markar commemorative lecture (September 21),…
On August 29, around 40 cyclists took off from Independence Square on a ride they hope would save the life of at least one person. Fifteen of them…
The early migrants of Timor-Leste had links to Sri Lankans, says Kumudini Hettiarachchi as she discovers the many facets of a land that faces many challenges too. The…
Magazine
In the second in a series of interviews with the cast of Les Misérables, we hear from the actors playing the lead roles of Jean…
Sunday Times 2
In the last two decades, there has been a steady erosion of the provision of free…
Mirror
(Reuters) HBO shows “Game of Thrones” and “Veep” won the top prizes at the Emmy Awards…
TV Times
Celebrating World children day, a children’s drama festival and art competition have been organised by Creative…
Funday Times
The Sri Lanka – Denmark Friendship camp was held from August 2 – 10, at the…