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Covid-19 dictates terms for August 5 elections

The pandemic is far from over; 300 positive cases in a day at Kandakadu drug rehab…

Fire engulfs rare sanctuary

A fire that spread in the Annavilundawa Ramza sanctuary on Friday in the Puttalam district has…

The new normal for teachers and students

Teaching in progress under health authority guidelines, due to COVID-19 threat. A picture captured this week,…

Important insights into the hotel industry

As the incidence of COVID-19 begins to wane in our country and we gradually but surely…

DIMO Agribusinesses expands footprint in Sri Lanka with third Agri Techno Park

DIMO Agribusinesses, the agriculture arm of DIMO, recently officially unveiled its third Agri Techno Park in…

Management & Science Institute (MSI) 2020 Academic Excellence awards ceremony

Management and Science Institute (MSI), Colombo affiliated with Management Science University (MSU), Malaysia recently hosted the…

SLIIT Eduscope Lecture Video Management System Showcases Advanced Digital Learning Environment

The Covid -19 pandemic has resulted in educational institutions being compelled to harness and utilize available…

Illegal sand miners given licence to dig environmental grave

Suspending sand transport licences has paved the way for more environmental damage through illegal mining, which…

North turned off by party virus of nationalist politics

On Monday, a pocket meeting organised by local sympathisers of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in…

Exotic and expensive pods

Despite being considered the Queen of Spices, Cardamom cultivation is not being treated royally, as cultivators…

Onion cultivation leads to tears in Kalpitiya and Puttalam

Red onions cultivated in the Kalpitiya and Puttalam districts are being harvested these days, but many…

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News

COVID battle heats up after Kandakadu detection

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Military, state officers under EC scrutiny

For the first time during an election, state sector officials,…

BIA new terminal project takes off with loan from Japan

Kandakadu COVID cluster: Major contact-tracing ops underway

Norochcholai fourth unit: CEB engineers redlight contract to Chinese company

Amitabh Bachchan tests positive for COVID-19

Navy says COVID-hit Indian fisherfolk smuggling drugs

Unrest in Lunawa over police shooting of fisherman

Repatriation flights suspended

Some 700,000 public servants eligible to cast postal votes this week

Waves hit section of Galle Road

Presidential committee to review prisoner appeals for pardon

‘Sportspersons should maintain records of assets and accounts’

cricket

Days after match-fixing allegations rocked sporting circles, legal experts say sportspersons should maintain records of their assets and accounts to produce to investigators in the…

White elephant in the making as athletics body rejects high altitude training centre in Nuwara Eliya

The proposed multi-million dollar high altitude training centre in Nuwara…

Founder Clubs’ stance force SLR to defend

Navin de Silva new captain of RCGC, Mahela joins committee

Domestic cricket postponed again

I was ignored during my peak – Tharanga Paranavithana

Angelo Santiago – A beacon light in SL table tennis

Visakha swimmer Ganga keeps head above water to achieve results

Business Times

Interest rates further cut

The Central Bank (CB) this week further cut interest rates in a bid to stimulate Sri Lanka’s economy dented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the…

First time no budget in a fiscal year

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, a national…

More interest on loan repayments after moratorium ends

Government mulls unemployment benefits for private sector layoffs

Apparel factories face temporary closure

Preparing for foreign tourists

SEC sends proposal to CB on changes in KYC digitisation

Start-up Genome and ICTA launch 2020 Global Start-up Ecosystem Report

ComBank ‘Arunella’ brings multiple COVID-19 relief initiatives to customers

Fonterra team gathers in prayer, invokes blessings for everyone’s safety

World Bank downgrading of Sri Lanka status was ‘figurative’:CB Governor

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

Need for skilled diplomacy, not platform rhetoric

Last week we wrote about the emerging pitfalls in hurting, virtually antagonising an old donor friend in Japan in the economic development of this country. Further scenarios are playing out these days over the Colombo port involving India, and a grant from the United States. Successive Governments in recent times…

Columns

Political Commentary
Covid-19 dictates terms for August 5 elections

The pandemic is far from over; 300 positive cases in a day at Kandakadu drug rehab centre; reminder of the need to follow health guidelines at political rallies…
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5th Column
Policies and principles first, please

My dear Akila Viraj, I thought I must write to you after hearing some of your comments last week, saying that your party- the Greens party, contesting on…
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The Economic Analysis
Strengthening exports essential for economy

Increasing exports and foreign investment are vital for Sri Lanka’s trade dependent economy. An overreaction to the current global economic dislocation by adopting inward-looking economic policies would be suicidal…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
August 5 polls: Disruption plans go up in flames, bomb-maker killed

A onetime LTTE intelligence cadre planned to explode a bomb in a public area to drive fear and prevent voters from going to polling stations on August 5…
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Focus on Rights
The big, bad wolf of Lanka’s politico-police-military nexus

From a photojournalist being frogmarched by a suspect cop implicated in Sri Lanka’s 2012 Welikada prison massacre in the very premises of the High Court this Friday as…
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Sunday Punch
UNP and SJB take turns to dig their own graves

The die was cast many moons ago. And what we have witnessed in recent times has been the sorry spectacle of the march of events that had inexorably…
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Thoughts from London
Last rites for a once vibrant city

I had no intention of working in Hong Kong. But I was urged by family, friends and diplomats to leave Sri Lanka after the JVP then under the…
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