Ports Chief wants container backlog cleared, warns of fine from May 7
Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Chairman Daya Ratnayake has urged importers to clear their containers at…
How Buddha’s Jewel Discourse rid plague terrors from Vaishali
VESAK WEEK’S SUNDAY PUNCH SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE TALISMAN OF PROTECTION Some two thousand five hundred…
Animal activists heed starving dogs’ SOS
Several animal rights organisations have joined in solidarity to feed stray dogs that are going hungry…
Showers, heat spread across island
Different regions of Sri Lanka are experiencing vastly contrasting weather conditions. The Department of Meteorology claimed…
The dawn of a lockdown Vesak
With the COVID-19 outbreak yet to be contained, this year’s Vesak celebrations will be notable for…
Sri Lanka’s economy to ‘decelerate’ by 1.5% in 2020-CB
Sri Lanka’s economic (GDP) growth in Sri Lanka is expected to ‘decelerate’ by around 1.5 per…
Govt. to boost food production, alternative revenue channels
The government has tasked all key state agencies involved in food production to increase supply and…
Most jobs in a company cannot be performed from home
While organisations are trying to implement the ‘work from home’ rule amongst its employees during the…
They are young and they want to make a difference
Although their smiles were hidden by masks, you could see the joy in their eyes as…
Supreme Chef Returns with a Brand New Season to Showcase Culinary Arts and Cooking Skills of Sri Lanka
Off the back of its 2019 success, Supreme Chef with its judges’ Chef Ben Fernando and…
News
No noisy rallies but these workers portrayed May Day
While there were no big rallies or processions to mark May Day on Friday, this workers’ day was portrayed significantly by poor Natamies unloading gunny…
Queries over Health Ministry purchase of 300 air-purification systems
Controversy surrounds an alleged deal by the Health Ministry to…
Cabinet approves borrowing of Rs. 31.7bn to kick start first stage of Central Expressway
EC considers holding polls on staggered basis
SJB, JVP to boycott meeting called by PM
Were nominations valid? AG’s advice sought
Unprecedented cash-flow calamity looms amidst COVID-19 crisis
State revenue collection drops by Rs. 120bn in six weeks
Virus risk at crowded worker lodgings bothers tea and garments sectors
Inventors in haste get help to lock in patent rights against theft
Nuwara Eliya weather shines for apples
Backup plans if COVID-19 cases increase in WP and Puttalam district
Private Pharmacy Owners Association requests PCR testing for pharmacy staff
Farmers resist call to wean off fertilisers and return to nature
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SLC look for 5-star exit strategy
Contingency plan includes a residential training camp amid restrictions
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) needs an exit strategy to get the national team back into physical training hampered for nearly six weeks by curfews imposed…
Motorsport calendar may have less events than planned – SLAS
A considerable amount of motorcar and motorbike events lined up…
Deadline to hold AGMs or Elections extended
Four Pakistan cricketers stranded for over a month
Sports Ministry forms three national committees
Amit wows to unite factions in Referees Society
Slicers await green light to complete tournament schedule
Sri Lanka Society snubs Wekadapola’s offer
I-CERT produces sanitizing machine
Business Times
Delivery of letters
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Labour Department keeps tabs on private establishments
Sri Lanka’s private sector establishments affected by the COVID-19 crisis…
Sri Lanka’s clothing companies sought for PPE
COVID-19 drives urgent innovation in healthcare
Stock market to reopen soon
Apparel industry gets no relief
World of work
Typewriters and computers
Sri Lanka’s IT-BPM: Beacon of resilience amidst COVID-19
Dilemmas of development post COVID-19
Standard Chartered SL steps up to help clients affected by COVID-19 pandemic
Dialog Axiata pledges Rs. 200 mln to enhance Sri Lanka’s ICU units
Sri Lanka harnesses digital technologies to sustain the economy
Small and medium scale garment exporters seek relief from financial blow
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Editorial
Constitutional governance: Clarity required
If the Opposition is right in what it says, then the first of the unconstitutional acts by the Government is now in motion, i.e. the Vote on Account that allowed state funds to be utilised lapsed on April 30 (last Thursday). There is no provision in law for the Government…
Columns
- Political Commentary
Amid Covid-19, divisions over parliamentary polls
PM calls meeting of all former MPs, but several opposition parties unlikely to attend Uncomfortable Polls Chief explains commission’s view on date of elections; June 20 date may…
- 5th Column
A lot going on behind the scenes
My dear Maco, Professor Hoole and Nalin, I thought I must write to you this week as there appears to be a lot of discussion about the general…
- The Economic Analysis
Containing the coronavirus and reviving the economy
Economies cannot function normally until COVID-19 is contained, nor can people survive without the economy functioning. This is the paradoxical predicament the world is in. Sri Lanka too…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Deshapriya spells out plans to cope with pandemic-hit polls
The facemask he wore covered his pepper and salt beard. Yet, Mahinda Deshapriya who marks his 65th birthday next month, is an embodiment of seriousness, humour, and a…
- Focus on Rights
Fighting a supervirus with an automatic weapon
Identification of more than two hundred navymen attached to the Welisara navy camp as superspreaders of the coronavirus after being allowed to go to their villages on leave…
- Sunday Punch
How Buddha’s Jewel Discourse rid plague terrors from Vaishali
VESAK WEEK’S SUNDAY PUNCH SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE TALISMAN OF PROTECTION Some two thousand five hundred years ago in the far off plains of Northern India, the thrice…
- Thoughts from London
When politics downplays pandemic
Last Sunday when this column looked at political developments — both local and foreign — against the backdrop of a global pandemic, it did not expect to come…
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Prof with an eye for temple art that captures the essence of Vesak
As Vesak, the birth, enlightenment and parinibbana of Buddha, the gentle philosopher who spread the message of maithriya draws close, many are the paintings down…
A time to practise metta for oneself and the whole world
Letters to the Editor
APPRECIATIONS
Celebrating Vesak: Marking the dawn of a new era
The deadly epidemic of 1587 which changed the history of Sri Lanka
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Debut Sinhala rock song from Salvage to liven up your lockdown days
Although there are plans to ease the curfew restrictions tomorrow (May 4), given the situation in the country, staging a public concert this year still…
They are young and they want to make a difference
Pioneers of ‘whodunit’
‘MelaNota’: The beginning sound of music
Richard Quest and Panelist of FOT from Transcend Drive
Supreme Chef Returns with a Brand New Season to Showcase Culinary Arts and Cooking Skills of Sri Lanka
Rakuten Viber is doubling the maximum number of group call to 10 participants at once in the wake of coronavirusin Sri Lanka
Randy Chriz makes waves with Godzilla video
Delving into the iPhone SE 2020
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75 years of Russia’s victory: Revisiting barbarities during WWII
The coronavirus pandemic compelled Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to postpone the nation’s celebrations marking the 75th…
Parliamentary elections 2020: A Point of View
Arms race amid Covid war: China & India ranked world’s biggest military spenders trailing US
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Disabilities not a barrier for good O/L results
Students Gangadharan Bahwadharani and Madialagan Vidurshika were victims of the prolonged conflict in the north. Both of…
Emergency planning, virus control measures to be included in school syllabus
Reopening universities this month an ‘invitation for disaster’
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Debut Sinhala rock song from Salvage to liven up your lockdown days
Although there are plans to ease the curfew restrictions tomorrow (May 4), given the situation in…