The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Sooriyawewa off: Still no venues ready for Bangladesh tour

Hardly a month left for the series By S.R. Pathiravithana It is almost certain that there…

Photo focus: Dengue spreads

With the spread in the number of dengue patients, especially in the Western Province, Public Health…

Scorched earth: Farmer misery worsens

Hundered of farmer families have abandoned their lands seeking refuge in dirt camps, their financial debts…

Recipe for accidents: Too many vehicles, too little public awareness

Too many vehicles on our roads–1, 400 cars, vans, three-wheelers and motorcycles being registered on average…

State sector manpower workers in limbo

Despite political promises during elections and continuing protests and strikes, issues related to Manpower Workers (MW)…

Save Kirala Kele, a cry from environmentalists

With World Wetland Day being celebrated on Thursday (February 2) bird lovers here have called to…

Look out for the bad ally within – the match-fixing conundrum

“One Team One Nation”– that is the brand that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has placed its…

Wearing off

Under the flyover in Dehiwala right next to the bus stop sits Michael Savarimuttu in his…

From colony to call for freedom

Independence is an opportune time to look back on the glorious days of Sri Lanka. As…

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News

Two faces of the STF

The Police Special Task Force’s newly formed riot squad members wearing full face masks shielding them from tear gas are seen here in different modes.…

Rs. 161 b expressway: It’s China again

Another massive unsolicited project; loan coming from Exim Bank By…

Cabinet clash over vehicle factory

RTI in force now, get information for free

Karu, first Lankan to be honoured with ‘Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun’

Freedom bogged down in toilets

No Lankan travellers held at any US airport: Foreign Ministry

Lankan envoy hospitalised after cardiac arrest

Breathing space for moonshine makers through legal loophole

Would the Park Club be Kandy’s Waterloo?

Goodwill pigeons take wing from the north to the south

E-motoring: Vehicle registration fully online

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Sports

Woeful Lankans capitulate once again as Proteas win the series

Champika Fernando at the Wanderers Cricket Stadium All too familiar batting collapse left Sri Lankan cricket think-tank searching for answers as South Africa massacred woeful…

Sooriyawewa off: Still no venues ready for Bangladesh tour

Hardly a month left for the series By S.R. Pathiravithana …

Sanga launches the Sunday Times – Dialog Schoolboy Cricketer Awards

Two teams selected for Asian Beach VB tournament

Women’s club football and Dialog Super Eight will commence next week

18th Asian Junior Squash team C’ships 2017- Hong Kong

Royal — A bold reply after Pete’s twin fifties

Army ahead in this battle of wits

Look out for the bad ally within – the match-fixing conundrum

‘AO’- Glory of Serena and Federer

Kandy-Havelocks the real battle

Official apathy towards a National Plan

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RTC back in the saddle and galloping from Feb.25

Business Times

Labouring a point!

Panellists (from left) – Dinesh Weerakkody, Chairman of the National Human Resource Development Council of Sri Lanka; Samantha Ranatunga, Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of…

Request to appoint ‘outsider’ as CB Deputy Governor

The Central Bank’s Monetary Board recently fielded a request from…

Conflicting views on SriLankan Airlines’ intended partners

A330 air bus deal sends SriLankan Airlines into a tailspin

Touchwood investors to vote on two options

Bleak outlook for what was once the ‘granary of the East’

Using AI for software development effort estimation

First Graphite promotes Sri Lanka’s vein graphite for energy saving gadgets

Six parties eye SLPA’s 3 acre land in Colombo Port

27th J.E Jayasuriya Memorial Lecture

Sri Lanka ranked 12th in the world by IBM for BPO

National strategy for exports being prepared

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St. Regis helps save trees with new SLS-certified tea sack

Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

Independence or debt-dependence

As the Jayamangala Gaatha and Sri Lanka Maatha in both Sinhala and Tamil were sung, the spit and polish of the military parade, parachute jumps, the fly-pasts and fireworks display celebrating the 69th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Independence concluded, it is time to sober up and face up to the…

Columns

Political Column
Bond issue: Only fact-finding role for Commission of Inquiry

Serious misconceptions within Government circles, COI can’t impose any punishment PM proposes state of emergency to deal with drought, but situation eases By Our Political Editor The warrant…
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5th Column
Phoney baloney

My dear Ranjan, I am writing to you because everyone is talking about you these days, although I am not sure it is for the right reasons. I…
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The Economic Analysis
Policy prerequisites for rapid development from the 70th year after Independence

Sri Lanka’s economic and social development in the 70th year after regaining independence and after would depend much on the adoption and effective implementation of pragmatic policies based…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Police promotion and pension for state minister

Policeman-turned-politician Palitha Range Bandara has had many a brush with the law since he switched professions. The state minister is now in for some good news – the…
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Focus on Rights
The government needs to be constructive rather than combative

Is the essentially combative tone adopted by the Government to the Juan Mendez report finding that a “culture of torture” is still being practised in Sri Lanka quite…
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Sunday Punch
Rambo Ranjan gets mauled for exposing soil mining scandal

Anti-corruption crusader damned for temper outburst against govt. servant but critics ignore JO’s coconut curses on President Every man has his strengths; every man, his weaknesses.And in the…
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Podi Hamuduruwo Gangaramaya
Let us live in a simple way and thus be free!

Those tied down by any affiliation cannot be free. Since Sri Lanka was subjugated by various colonial powers, a struggle was necessary for our independence. We who were…
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Thoughts from London
Marching backward into the future

Just last week an interview with the Minister of Higher Education was carried in a local newspaper under the headline “We are marching forward”. That was nice to…
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Pride and tragedy

During the much abhorred mathematics period in the Wewala Government School, seven-year-old Egodahage George Wilfred Alwis Samarakoon took refuge in his own lyrics. Preferring the river which flowed…

Wearing off

Under the flyover in Dehiwala right next to the bus stop sits Michael Savarimuttu in his striped blue T-shirt and shorts, busily mending a cobalt blue umbrella with…

What happened to the good old rice ‘n’ curry?

“Uncle! Will you serve yourself some rice!” commanded Samanmalee (The Sam), my loud-mouthed-but-nice and long-legged and short-skirted niece, at a recent home ‘dinner party’. “Where is it, Dahling?”…

Make way for bamboo, the plant for the future

Bamboo with its graceful form has been an inspiration to artists and poets in many eastern countries. It is considered to bring good luck and prosperity to those…

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