The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Five businessmen barred from travel over ransom-linked killing

By Damith Wickremasekara Businessman Mohamed Sulaiman, 29, made his final call to his wife last Sunday…

Toiling under the sun in their sunset years

Many Sri Lankans aged 60 years and over are forced to work daily for meagre earnings…

Pick of the Pix

Photos by Nilan Maligaspe, Anurada Bandara, Amila Gamage, Kanchana Kumara Ariyadasa and Krishan Jeewaka Jayaruk…

The Dialog Sri Lanka Cricket Awards 2016,

The Dialog Sri Lanka Cricket Awards 2016, the pinnacle of achievement on Sri Lanka’s domestic and…

The makings of a Mandela

It was the Golden Jubilee of LAWASIA. For four days in August this august body consisting…

SLFP split at hand;Sirisena holds urgent talks with CBK and party seniors

Former President Rajapaksa says his loyalists unhappy to attend next Sunday’s party convention in Kurunegala, but…

Lankan born singer performs in Melbourne

Young singer Jude Jay mesmerised the crowd with his performance of two hits of Engelbert Humperdinck…

Baton in hand, Louis will take you on an European tour

By Joshua Surendraraj Conducting music is an art, whether orchestral or choral. Thus with the task…

“Burgeoning debt trap exacerbated by ‘Dragon-debt trap’

The Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development is extremely surprised and disappointed at the gross inaccuracies…

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The Art of Diplomacy

With political and economic ties between Sri Lanka and China reaching the highest levels, important cultural links also began with the first joint art exhibition…

Rajapaksa loyalists to form new party with Mahinda at the helm

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) dissidents are to form their…

Leaked emails: Probe to begin on President’s request to AG

SLFP takes soft line on dissidents

Hambantota bunkering: Two big loss- making ventures also in the running

UN Chief non-committal on international judges for war crimes probe here

SLADA to scientifically test ayurveda medicines given to sportsmen

SriLankan pilots, management run into turbulence

SriLankan Chairman says pilots issues are “internal problems”

No legal bar to proceed in case against Tiran Alles allegedly misappropriating State funds: ASG

Army willing to adjust camp boundaries to expedite closure of IDP camps

Special Task Force to expedite resettlement

936 families with 3,260 people in 31 camps in

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Sports

Dilshan farewell on a tricky wicket

By S.R. Pathiravithana

Aussies fast-track Boland and Hastings

For the first time in the series, Lankans find themselves in a must win situation. The significance is that it would be farewell to a…

“I would not have done what Smith did,” says Mathews

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said that if it was…

Australia lends former SL athlete Anula to train Paralympic athletes

Over 25,000 participants at National School Games

Younger Footballers to benefit from YKK-Real Madrid collaboration

Are we really investing in Sevens Rugby!

Ford’s take on Two-Tier Cricket and the real heroes

Olympics for Official(s)’ FOC jaunt, while Athletes ‘also ran’

SAFF 8-team Inter-Club competition on the cards

Channa dug his grave long before digging others’

Shamal Dissanayake steals the limelight

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Business Times

Taxing Sri Lankans is essential but questions over proper use, BT-RCB poll shows

While there were strong views expressed on taxation and its ineffectiveness in a joint BT-RCB poll this week, a cross-section of respondents agreed that taxes…

Ananda Atukorala takes over as Chairman NDB

Senior banker Ananda Atukorala has been appointed an independent non-executive…

Netherlands, Chinese for BIA runway overlay

“Burgeoning debt trap exacerbated by ‘Dragon-debt trap’

Sri Lanka’s tourism promo campaign from Nov 2016

Foreign investment necessary to wipe out poverty, economist says

Japfa opts to sell off more Grain stock

CodeGen International introduces Cloud Smart School at EDEX Expo 2016

Quarrel amongst court-appointed directors of failed F&G

‘Toast of the Town’ Lakmini ready for a new challenge

BASF opens first plant in Sri Lanka to meet demand for construction chemicals

Coca-Cola partners with NWSDB to support communities affected with chronic kidney disease

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

Hail and farewell with UNanswered questions

The United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) Ban Ki-moon visits Sri Lanka on Wednesday for what is a virtual farewell call as he completes his term of office at the helm of the 193- nation world body. According to unconfirmed reports he is now a possible contender for the Presidency of…

Columns

Political Column
SLFP split at hand;Sirisena holds urgent talks with CBK and party seniors

Former President Rajapaksa says his loyalists unhappy to attend next Sunday’s party convention in Kurunegala, but large crowds to be transported SLFP ministers insist on major changes to…
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5th Column
Lucky we didn’t dance to your tune

My dear Ban Ki Moon, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you would be visiting us again this week after seven long years,…
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The Economic Analysis
Government’s first year political achievements and economic disappointments

Assessments of the new government that came to power a little over a year ago have been mostly those of disappointment and disillusionment. However a balanced assessment of…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Envoy offers ‘spending money’ to two VIP politicians

One would have thought it was only the rich Arab sheikhs who distributed hundred dollar bills to the needy when in Sri Lanka. Much the same way political…
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Focus on Rights
Cheers in Colombo, apathy in Jaffna

The contradiction was clear if not absurd. Even at the very moment in time that I was being sent unsolicited messages by Colombo’s non-governmental ‘twitterati’ delighting in self-congratulatory…
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Sunday Punch
JO rebels impaled upon the Swords of Secrets

Maithripala unsheathes his Excalibur to counter Mahinda’s Damocles NOVEMBER 2014. In that winter of his reign as Lanka’s self-acclaimed king, Mahinda Rajapaksa felt the first harsh gust of…
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Podi Hamuduruwo Gangaramaya
Cultivation of good qualities, the need of the hour

We sometimes are led to believe that the behaviour of people living under planetary influence is the cause of bad events that take place. Recently there were reports…
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Thoughts from London
The makings of a Mandela

It was the Golden Jubilee of LAWASIA. For four days in August this august body consisting of some of Asia’s legal glitterati met at the BMICH to celebrate…
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Lobby
House unites on ‘Missing Persons’ Bill facilitating ‘Certificates of Absence’

By Chandani Kirinde- Lobby Correspondent The Government this week moved a step further in its efforts to provide relief to loved ones of thousands of persons reported missing…
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In the beginning is a picture

Take a literary stroll with Adilah Ismail as she talks to two Lankan writers whose books will be released next month; the 2015 Gratiaen winner Thiagaraja Arasanayagam and…

The individual matters in a macro canvas

When we met with Anuk Arudpragasam in Colombo two weeks ago to discuss his literary debut, there’s a children’s party going on at the Dutch Burgher Union. From…

Letters to the Editor

Lost In translation Railway Avenue has an entrance from High Level Road (adjoining the NSBM building and Water Tech) and from Stanley Thilakaratne Mawatha, Nugegoda (adjoining Arpico Showroom).…

One dream fulfilled, another to begin

Sarinda Unamboowe and Nathan Sivagananathan who walked from south to north in 2011 and raised funds to build a cancer unit in Jaffna hospital are now set to…

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