The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Estate workers see red over bogus rice

Upcountry estate workers are being enticed by traders to buy glossy “polished red rice” unaware that…

President calls for unity and brotherhood

Sri Lanka’s 68th Independence Day was celebrated on Thursday with a simple but colourful ceremony at…

S. Thomas’ home for lunch, crush Nalanda by innings

S. Thomas’ were home for lunch when they crushed Nalanda by an innings and 78 runs…

RTC takes charge of the stables

Sri Lanka’s second governing body for horse racing had been launched under the name of Royal…

Airports and more airports

Recently I read in the Sunday Times that four domestic airports currently under the Airforce management…

Open double deck tour expands fleet and travels

The Ebert Silva operated Colombo City Tour is looking at expanding its open deck double decker…

Young thespians at Colombo International School take on ‘Skellig’

Science and spirituality, two subjects that usually don’t mix, come together in ‘Skellig,’ a production by…

Letting the music take control

Tanya Ekanayaka, Sri Lanka’s linguist-musicologist-pianist-composer based in Edinburgh is getting great reviews for and made it…

Alpine Hotel : Creating Colonial era

Nuwara Eliya is one of the leading travel destinations of Sri Lanka for both local and…

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News

Leaping to a single bugle, marching to a single drum

Sri Lanka’s armed forces which defeated the ruthless LTTE terrorists in 2009 put up a spectacular display at the Independence Day ceremony at the Galle…

Geneva issue: Govt. earmarks 11-member Task Force

UN Special Rapporteur coming here to help in the consultation…

Zika explosion: BIA on alert, pregnant women advised against travel

Blowtorch turned on Sathosa over 32m kg of rotting rice

Estate workers see red over bogus rice

Poaching crisis: India admits strain on relations with Lanka

Tax Appeals Commission defunct; Govt. may lose billions

President yet to nominate new AG

Pakistani nabbed with 1kg heroin

India ready to invest in IT sector here, says Indian FM

And now for the other independence

Board coming up to oversee payment of welfare benefits

Ex-Colombo HC lawyers’ chief also in fray for BASL post

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Sports

Pettah United – a modest football club that reached great heights

By Subhani Hassimdeen – former national football captain and national coach.

In these days when local club football values and standards have declined and there is so much of bluff and bluster passing off as real…

Rainbow power SAG swimming

Rainbow Aquatics is one of the leading swim clubs in…

Sponsorship cheque to the S Thomas’ College Warden handed over

Golf of high quality witnessed at the Links

Vallibel Finance and Kanrich Finance ‘B’ unbeaten

Girls’ cricket semi-finalists found

Mithila propels Sampath Bank to win over Nations Trust ‘A’

McLarens and three banks in semis

SLPA’s Sirisoma the undisputed champ bags his 24th title

Faslan re-elected president of Beruwela FL 2016/17

Lankan U-19 cricketers meet disabled students in Bangladesh

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Business Times

Apparel industry to draw up 5-year plan

By Sunimalee Dias

The apparel industry is currently in the process of drawing up its third five year plan that is being discussed among key stakeholders. With preparations underway…

Revenue Bills delay and Tax Revision trigger a cash flow problem

The Government is facing an immediate cashflow problem owing to…

Stockbrokers’ risk based capital adequacy ratio to be implemented

Sri Lanka asks for IMF bail out

Capital outflows from Sri Lanka on the rise, but remedial policies are yet to come

Neglected and derelict public property, fraud and corruption

When SL professionals are ignored …

Lean management to replace feudal model on tea estates to improve revenues

TJ associates to create awareness on current challenges on organic farming

Hemas Holdings PLC opens trading at the CSE

Reggee Edirisinghe wins two Sri Lankan Entrepreneur of the year awards

Facebook and Google to enter Sri Lanka in June this year

Treasury Secretary spells out ill effects in bailing out failing financial institutions

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

The address by the Head of State on Independence Day is a much looked forward to occasion, for it outlines the Government’s road-map for the ensuing year. Our Political Editor gives some detail of the diplomatic and political activity that took place as President Maithripala Sirisena prepared the text of…

Columns

Political Column
President defends FCID even though SLFP ministers call for its disbanding

Green light for arrests in major cases; PM stresses need for collective responsibility within the Cabinet More stunning revelations about Yoshitha’s CSN operations; Rajapaksa loyalists have no option…
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5th Column
Will Sonny come home?

My dear Mahinda maama, I am writing to you because I know this is a difficult time for you and despite leading the nation for ten years and…
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The Economic Analysis
Sixty eight years after independence: “A tale of missed opportunities”?

The celebration of 68 years of independence three days ago had an additional significance. It was also a celebration of regaining democracy, the rule of law and freedom…
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Focus on Rights
Meeting a deepening challenge of credibility

The 20th century essayist and philosopher George Santayana’s caustic observation that ‘those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’ may well have been specifically tailored…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
If Sushma won’t go to Mangala he will go to her

Like on the previous occasion there were no lassies in rows, attired in reddai-hettai holding coconut oil lamps and gyrating to the beat of drums at the entrance…
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Sunday Punch
The question the Rajapaksas ask the nation: ‘Is it YP to arrest a 28-year-old ‘small child’ on a Rs. 365m money laundering charge?’

Pass the wet hanky, folks. These are not the best of times for the Rajapaksa Family after having lived it up for a decade or more in the…
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Sunday Punch
The question the Rajapaksas ask the nation: ‘Is it YP to arrest a 28-year-old ‘small child’ on a Rs. 365m money laundering charge?’

Pass the wet hanky, folks. These are not the best of times for the Rajapaksa Family after having lived it up for a decade or more in the…
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THOUGHTS FROM LONDON
And now for the other independence

Another independence day – the 68th since we gave the British the brush off or so some say – has come and gone. The bugles are silenced. The…
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Colombo soon to see indigo

HSBC Colombo Fashion Week is to paint Colombo blue later this month. Indigo is this year’s inspired theme as the country’s largest fashion festival returns to the ramp…

Lakme launches Reinvent

British Cosmetics celebrated its appointment as the sole distributor of Lakmé in Sri Lanka presenting Lakmé’s premium range Lakmé Absolute and Lakmé 9 to 5 at a glamorous…

Colours of India

It was a colourful gathering on the sprawling lawn of India House as Indian High Commissioner Y.K. Sinha and Mrs Sinha hosted a reception to celebrate India’s Republic…

The ultimate challenge

Imagine this. It’s 1 a.m, the moonlight is playing with your surroundings, and all is quiet. All you can see is sprawling countryside speckled with the sheen of…

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