Rajapaksa restores ties with Modi
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who returned to Colombo on Friday after a visit to India, told…
Arrest of military top brass: President irked by indefinite detentions pending trials
Sirisena calls emergency Cabinet meeting to express concern over plan to arrest former Navy Chief and…
A world burdened with petty leadership
In an age when the world needs intellectual giants and leaders of deep integrity, we are…
Spare a thought for the masters at turning old parts to new
Panchikawatte in downtown Colombo brings to mind the rows of motor spare parts shops that have…
Heaven’s death traps
The sight of kites flying high in the skies being joy to the beholder but runaway…
Memorandum of misunderstanding
Universities in Sri Lanka have the practice of entering into Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with foreign…
University of Moratuwa make clean sweep by 42-0
University of Moratuwa (UoM) had a clean sweep in the men’s sector with a 42-0 victory…
Athletes impress at Kuliyapitiya Road Races
Athletes from President College Ambagasdowa, Kuliyapitiya Central, Bandaranayake Maha Vidyalaya Payagala and Wekada Maha Vidyalaya impressed…
The Kiddies Show
The junior drama students of the Sashi Mendis Studio of Drama and Speech will be putting…
Giving love, care and support to their clients
The importance of memory screening is underscored over and over again by the Co-Founder and President…
News
Heartbreak instead of harvest for Puttalam farmers
Blow after blow: The Puttalam District’s Weherabandiweva devastated by a drought for two years had got some relief in May this year with some torrential…
Treasury to take over key role of Central Bank
In a significant move, the Central Bank is to be…
Sweeping changes in new Counter-Terrorism Act
Gazette issued to set up second Special High Court
AG to indict Vijayakala in Court of Appeal
Ambassador in Austria, staff recalled over President’s phone call
China to gift a PLAN missile frigate
Airport scuffle: Suspended jail terms for Kuwaiti couple
Ragging comes to the fore as CID takes over student suicide case
Too close yet too far
Key witness petitions HRCSL, claims Navy is victimising him
China company out, Indians coming to rebuild northern roads
Ravi K faces perjury charges
Forthcoming examination violates Homeopathy Act, charges GHPA
More NewsSports
Wounded Sri Lanka thrash Philippines to take third place
By Ranil Prematilake in Hong KongPlate honours for Sri Lanka women
Despite being hampered by injuries to three players in Adeesha Weeratunga (head), Gayan Weeraratne (hamstring) and Kavindu Perera (shoulder) during the game itself, a compact…
Malinga gets four, but, Lanka hit the bottom again
Lasith Malinga returned to international cricket with a bang claiming…
Inside story of the near miss at Sri Lanka Cricket
Broad expected to miss out on England’s winter tour of Sri Lanka
Sadeera, Angelo, Isuru, Charith shine
Wesley dominate proceedings at Campbell Park
Sri Lanka wins first game against Hong Kong
Royal prove that it is experience that counts
Maldives stuns India 2-1 to emerge SAFF Cup champs
Sri Lanka crash to Guam in AFC first game
Zheng, Segawa clinch Singles titles
Commercial Credit outclass MAS Silueta
Masters VIP on penalties
Sri Lanka to host Baseball international series at Diyagama
More SportsBusiness Times
Coconut prices ease
Coconut prices are easing with a rise in production. While in Colombo it’s selling for around Rs. 50-60, in some areas it’s selling as low…
Budget 2019: Subsidy-spending hike with eye on polls
Sri Lanka’s subsidy bill will balloon in the run-up to…
BT-Second Curve poll on strikes
Professionals clamour for people’s power
CB seeks info on ETI directors
CNN blitz for three more months
Bitter pills
Memorandum of misunderstanding
“Island Escapes” promo targets millennials in low season
Agony of the elders in Sri Lanka
Colombo International Book Fair returns to the city for milestone 20th year
Perpetual Treasuries can’t subscribe for NDB Rights Issue
AGM of the Sunday Times Business Club (STBC)
Nestlé initiative helps more than 6,000 young Sri Lankans become more employable
More Business TimesSunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
UNHRC: Sri Lanka – Yes; Yemen – No
The sword of Damocles continues to hang over Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. Despite the main co-sponsor of Resolution 30/1 pulling out of the Council on grounds of “political bias” against Israel, other Western countries, notably Britain and Germany have weighed in to continue…
Columns
- Political Commentary
Arrest of military top brass: President irked by indefinite detentions pending trials
Sirisena calls emergency Cabinet meeting to express concern over plan to arrest former Navy Chief and CDS JHU also opposed to arrest and long detention of security forces…
- 5th Column
The best laid plans of mice and men
My dear Green Man, I thought I would write to you because of what you recently said about the Greens, and also what Maithri appears to have said…
- The Economic Analysis
Fundamental weaknesses and vulnerabilities in external finances
The persistent and widening trade deficits, the large foreign debt, the heavy debt servicing obligations, the risks of capital outflows and uncertainties in remittances from workers in the…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Rajapaksa restores ties with Modi
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who returned to Colombo on Friday after a visit to India, told Opposition confidants that Premier Narendra Modi appeared to be well briefed on…
- Focus on Rights
Presidential outbursts and falling through the rabbit hole
It is difficult not to be exasperated by the constant bewailing of what is wrong about the functioning of Government institutions by leaders of the Government, no less.…
- Sunday Punch
Keeping the crown, the sceptre and the throne in the Mahinda family
This week in India, fond father Mahinda Rajapaksa declared for the first time the presidential ambitions he harbours in his heart of hearts for his eldest son Namal…
- Thoughts from London
Presidential ire and playing pandu with cricket
Well what do you know! Sri Lanka’s president with a penchant for legal lynching of convicted drug dealers and the corrupt many has gone nuts-metaphorically speaking — over…
Plus
Writing about a world he knows all too well
Close without touch. That was the only love permitted, though it was deeply felt among our own. We borrowed idioms and shopped American verses. In…
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
It’s the game that matters not the opponent
Sri Lankan currency under a different light
The last King in a tiny cell? Never
Memory makes us what we are as individuals as well as societies
On a 25-year journey with his colourful pen friends
Exhibition by young nature lovers
All that’s healthy in your own kitchen
Fun and laughter as LC’s red and white parade hits Route 66
A sing-along in aid of Apeksha Hospital, Maharagama
SURASA home needs a little help to make exhibition, concert a success
‘Sing something you love’
The many roles of a visionary General
It’s tonight: SOSL’s Pops concert
More PlusMagazine
Unwind with trendy minimalism
Is less more? Tharani Kumanayake certainly thinks so as she explores and captures the concept of “meaningful minimalism” with her debut collection “Metanoia”. A product…
Sweet and savoury: It’s strawberries all the way
Getting to know those everyday people of Our Town
‘What the faluda it is about!’
Colourful retelling of a Biblical classic
Spreading some green love one pedal at a time
Building confidence and self-esteem
Robotics on a global scale
Of strangers’ tales
Someone to watch over doggy
Film on Freddie Mercury to be released next month
‘Sokari’ in Kurunegala
Mamma Mia! in Colombo this December
Nilar launched ‘Sarasa Wasanthaya’
An Unforgettable evening of dance and culture
An adult who unites with the childhood joys
More MagazineSunday Times 2
Is coconut oil poison?
An interesting article titled ‘Apologise, or you’ll send Harvard into disrepute” in the Sunday Times 2…
Demo-crazy in Lanka
Drama at the High Posts Committee
More Sunday Times 2 >>MediScene
Struck down by dementia
It mainly ails the elderly and regrettably even in the developed world it is “poorly recognized”.…
Go purple
Facing adversity:Vital lessons from psychology
More MediScene >>TV Times
‘Sokari’ in Kurunegala
Two special shows of ‘Sokari’, shorter version of an old Sri Lankan folk drama which was…
Mamma Mia! in Colombo this December
Nilar launched ‘Sarasa Wasanthaya’
More TV Times >>Funday Times
The Kiddies Show
The junior drama students of the Sashi Mendis Studio of Drama and Speech will be putting…