News
The laying of the ‘Chuda Manikkaya’ at the historic Nagadeepa Rajamaha Viharaya took place on Friday coinciding with the Poson celebrations. Chief incumbent Ven. Nawandagala…
Police and Armed Forces have been given new directions by…
Sports
By S.R. Pathiravithana Come Tuesday Lankan cricket may face another drawback prior to the first One-day International at Tent Bridge as medium pacer Shaminda Eranga…
37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the…
Business Times
Twenty organisations, including top personalities who led a civil society campaign to oust former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, this week turned the guns on under-fire Central…
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority’s (SLPA) stake in the East…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The fire at the Salawa ammunition dump on June 5 was the most serious man-made disaster to occur in Sri Lanka since the end of the war in 2009. The raging inferno triggered off hours of explosions and heavy ammunition rained down on human settlements in mindboggling quantities. The damage…
Columns
Cabinet approves PM’s proposals to raise syndicated loans of US$ 3 billion through a coalition of foreign banks; Attorney General expresses concern over contract UNP-SLFP ministerial council to…
My dear Thonda, I wanted to write to you because you are in the news once again after a long period of silence when we didn’t even know…
I have been asked the intriguing question as to how we could ever repay our foreign debt that is a high proportion of our GDP. The simple answer…
Has a company associated with a United National Front cabinet minister been awarded contracts for two road rehabilitation projects which will cost the taxpayer Rs 3.6 billion? Insiders…
In 2002, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka declared in a fairly run of the mill case that “the state is responsible for the law. The law is…
Exactly a full moon ago on the night of Vesak just before the break of dawn, a lone Sri Lankan woman was on the verge of realising the…
We believe in good and evil. While enjoying happiness some forget from where it originated. When they are in trouble and sickness, they go behind soothsayers. Those who…
Glory be. So it came to pass that in the year of our lord two thousand and sixteen three wise people came from the east. They did not…
Plus
From Vesak Full Moon Poya day which fell on May 20 this year until Poson Poya (today), the Malwatte and Asgiriya Maha Vihara have been conducting Upasampada ceremonies …
I had only had a passing glimpse of the Thanthirimale area in 1974, when an elderly friend of mine, Nichulus Aiya and I got the idea of doing…
On Saturday, the 29th of June 1929, the third page of the Ceylon Daily News was dominated by a picture of the Governor, Sir Herbert Stanley at the…
“Monks are we, O great King, disciples of the King of Truth. Out of compassion for you have we come from Jambudipa” Thus spake Thera Mahinda to the…
Magazine
Have you ever heard of an ear cuff? A piece of jewellery which looks like an earring but snakes around the ear, ear cuffs are…
Sunday Times 2
London Buddhist Vihara, the oldest Buddhist temple in the UK held a special blessings ceremony to…
MediScene
Leading Psychiatrist Prof. Malcolm Hopwood from Australia warns of the possible rise of mental illness as…
TV Times
Chandani Hettiarchchi’s C & C which has been in the industry for about ten years as…
Funday Times
Rivini Cooray (8 years) Bishop’s College My father’s name is Muditha. He lives in Horana. He…