News
With Pettah still struggling to restore its bustling image as Sri Lanka’s main shopping centre, many traders have been forced to slash prices by as…
The prospects of Provincial Council elections ahead of this year’s…
Sports
There’s no India, no Australia —two teams that have shared the last five titles but England and New Zealand—one of whom will wear the silverware…
England are going into today’s ICC World Cup final full…
Business Times
A mother takes her daughter after school on a neatly paved road under an ADB-funded project in southern Sri Lanka. Pic by M.A. Pushpa Kumara…
The Government is going ahead with a new unified employment…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
At a time when there’s nothing very much going right in the country, the recent news from the World Health Organisation is a silver lining in an otherwise pervasive cloud of gloom and pessimism. On July 1, Sri Lanka was declared by the WHO as having eliminated endemic measles after…
Columns
Supreme Court determination in 2018 debars it Still room for Provincial Council elections Polls tempo rises among political parties Speaker says he will pay Kariyawasam from Parliament funds…
My dear Green Man, Sajith and Karu, I thought of writing to you because your names are being suggested as possible candidates for the next big election. Everyone…
Non-economic conditions have been the determining factors in Sri Lanka’s below-potential post-Independence economic development. The preconditions for rapid economic development have been missing and successive governments have been…
Sri Lanka eventually has got a proper ambassador in one of the world’s most important capitals — Washington DC. This week, senior career diplomat Eluppiti Mudiyanselage Rodney Manoranjan…
There is a tragic disconnect between what Sri Lanka’s leaders say to the public and the patent disbelief with which these words are received. This will eventually have…
What is going on in good old Sri Lanka — that paradise isle in which the loquacious Trump is trying to plant his military boot print? More and…
Plus
Pretty 31-year-old Kamala* from Negombo hugs her tiny newborn close, while awaiting discharge from the De Soysa Teaching Hospital for Women in Colombo. The baby…
Magazine
From being a photographer and artist, to a licensed diver and amateur kite-surfer, Santhush Weerakoon is somewhat of a thrill-seeker. Having an adventurous spirit, this…
Sunday Times 2
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has expressed confidence that Sri Lanka is well placed to promote and sustain…
Education
Unrest at the University of Ruhuna disrupted student activities in 5 Faculties with students clashing with…
TV Times
Cricket fever is in the air! and regardless of the outcome in the World Cup, Sri…
Funday Times
The red panda is dwarfed by the black-and-white giant that shares its name. The red panda…