Commodity traders bemoan sales slump
With the Avurudu season in the offing and the tabling of the budget in Parliament not…
Into the ‘Beast’ they went, to shine a light on its ‘treasures’
Perpetual darkness and absolute stillness! Into these big voids under the earth, never-ever speared by sunlight,…
SLFP-SLPP joint committee to discuss common alliance
There will be no joint May Day rally but SLPP will go it alone Dispute over…
Ambitious bid to save Lanka’s remaining ‘untouched’ reefs
“It was no different to a fish tank — clean and colourful,” is how Oceanographer Dr.…
How Karunaratne changed the DNA of Sri Lanka team
Another series loss and the prospects of a thrashing by the mighty South Africans in their…
European tomato and American water
One of my students – Shalini did her undergraduate research work a few years ago under…
Finnish Group to transform garbage to energy in Sri Lanka
Two senior officials from Fortum Oy of Finland, which is responsible for 60 per cent of…
On the road for Rosie May
A year after their daughter’s death, the Storries found themselves confronting a tsunami. Having gone on…
Devapathiraja Rathgama defend title
Devapathiraja College, Rathgama lasses defended the Singer Sri Lanka Schools Under-19 Girls Cricket Championship title for…
Life in the arts: Saying it in song
A young girl stands in a corporate office – she is the representation of every artistic…
Homemade gourmet treats for the four-legged kind
Our dogs are our best friends, and we need to treat them like they are. That’s…
News
Women, come join the workforce
With the female work force dropping from 46 percent in 2006 to 36 percent last year, the Government is expected to provide a host of…
Lanka to co-sponsor fresh resolution at UNHRC
Sri Lanka, along with the Britain-led ‘core group’, will co-sponsor…
Attractive relief package in Tuesday’s Budget
Heroin suspects: Detention likely for 14 days
High Court trial-at-bar for former Navy Commander
Korean LNG project: Deadline extended again for counter proposals
PM: Maha Sivaratri offers hope of peace and unity
NJC urges President to withdraw from UNHRC Resolution
Death certificate remark draws retort from lawyer representing parents of missing youths
Rathgama custodial killings: No show by five cops after transfers to Colombo
Two students killed in rail track tragedy
PET scanner brings peace building award for Hilir
Lalkantha remanded till March 14
Commodity traders bemoan sales slump
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Revitalised Sri Lanka seek encore after Test triumph
Sri Lanka were blanked in their last ODI series in South Africa, but this time, the force is with them ahead of the first ODI…
Battle for top position begins
Indications of a battle for the top position of the…
13 Member team for Youth Athletics Championships in Hong Kong
Hambantota regional junior open golf C’ship tees off today
RTC to kick off horseracing season from March
29th Royal-Thomian Past Cricketers Annual Dinner
Patana, power, pace too much for Antonians
Opener Avishka hits ton, as Nalanda gain control
CR edge-out CH 38-33 in a thriller
Soldiers rule Diyawanna waters
Ranaweera tour leader in AF Cycle Race
Unimpressive yet Royal record 10 tries over Devans
Trinity in hard-fought win over Zahira
Siri Piyaratana MMV dominate drawn game
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“Planning for retirement” discussion
Panellists – Hemaka Amarasuriya, former Vice President of Singer International and former Chairman Singer Sri Lanka (right); Manjula de Silva, Chairman of the National Insurance…
Firms venturing overseas due to economic instability
Several firms, both new and more established are gearing to…
More women on corporate boards
Smallholders eye million rupee subsidy
ECT at seashore of proposals
Shangri-la land deal jigsaw puzzle becomes mind- boggling
No pain, no gain
European tomato and American water
Liberal economy the way forward, says Razeen Sally
Brandix secures highest LEED Platinum Rating in Sri Lanka
NKAR scores big at the Sri Lanka Tourism Awards
Dimbula season down on Kenyan surplus
IMF agrees to extend Sri Lanka Fund Facility
Amidst challenging year RIL to consolidate business lines
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Editorial
Budget: Sri Lanka confronts looming rollover crisis
The 2019 Budget that the Government postponed due to last October’s attempted palace coup will finally see the light of day on Tuesday. Annual Budgets are no longer awaited with bated breath like some decades ago because price revisions, always upward through dreaded midnight Gazettes, mid-term, have devalued the significance…
Columns
- Political Commentary
SLFP-SLPP joint committee to discuss common alliance
There will be no joint May Day rally but SLPP will go it alone Dispute over ETI deal may explode like the CB bond scandal as CB and…
- 5th Column
An epic fall from grace
My dear Sanath, I thought I must write to you when I heard the worrying news that you had been suspended from all forms of cricket for the…
- The Economic Analysis
Fiscal outcome of 2019 Budget important for economic stability and growth
The final financial out-turn of the 2019 Budget will have a significant bearing on economic stability and growth. It is not the budgetary figures that will be presented…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
ICJ ruling on Diego Garcia: Boost for Lanka’s Indian Ocean Peace Zone plan
Last week Sri Lanka’s longstanding, much-touted UN proposal for an Indian Ocean Zone of Peace (IOPZ) got a much-needed boost as Mauritius’s claims over the decolonisation of the…
- Focus on Rights
That ‘political hot potato’ of the CTA
Verbal gymnastics indulged in by Sri Lankan politicians in respect of the draft Counter Terrorism Act (CTA), now before Parliament awaiting amendments from the sectoral oversight committee, are…
- Sunday Punch
Crime’s a crime in Diyawanna House or in Wanathamulla’s ghetto grime
If clear evidence was wanting, if further proof was required, as to the impudent manner Lanka’s members of parliament hold themselves as sacred cows above the law of…
- Thoughts from London
The terrible mess that politics makes
Somebody — I cannot quite remember who — once said that hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. The more I read the…
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Emerging flair
Opening Colombo Fashion Week 2019 was the ‘Emerging Designer Showcase’ that provided a platform for Sri Lanka’s new generation. Taking place at the Hilton Colombo…
Girl power vision of Lankan whiz kid
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
Rukshan’s back with a song for humanity, as always
Art to make a change
When Green Path was once again adorned with art
The songs she writes and sings
Celebrating Anne the journalist and writer
‘Crystalline’ wonder of 40,000 plastic bottles
On the road for Rosie May
Tapping a sweet heritage
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Life in the arts: Saying it in song
A young girl stands in a corporate office – she is the representation of every artistic person who dreams of having a career in the…
Two diverse takes of CFW
Homemade gourmet treats for the four-legged kind
Juggling email accounts and apps with ‘Shift’
Power and prowess of females in cinema
‘Hundred Years at Mount’: CD back for Battle of The Blues 140
Journey of the Masters
Win more movie tickets at Scope-CCC
Fate of clairvoyant who predicted Hitler’s election victory
MGR Film Festival in Lanka
‘Sinhabahu’ on the boards
Tandoor: Indian Cuisine at Cinnamon Bey
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New book captures broken promises and failures of Maithri-Ranil Govt.
Hopes Shattered, a book by Senior Journalist Latheef Farook, impartially documents in 495 pages the promises…
Ambitious bid to save Lanka’s remaining ‘untouched’ reefs
Anne Frank touring exhibition in Jaffna for peace building
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Scholarships for children of naval families
The second phase of awarding scholarships to naval family children who passed the Grade 5 scholarship…
Schools with less than 50 students to be shut down
Teachers transferred without consent of Transfer Board: CTU
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Power and prowess of females in cinema
Celebrating the International Women’s Day this year, a collection of acclaimed national and international movies are…
‘Hundred Years at Mount’: CD back for Battle of The Blues 140
Journey of the Masters
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Gangarama Navam Perahera 2019
Young participants at the Gangarama Navam Perahera 2019. Pix by Sameera Weerasekara…