News
Police, Army and Air Force personnel have now been deployed to work with security staff of hospitals where COVID-19 infected patients are under treatment. Accordingly,…
Sri Lankan political candidates have spent up to US$ 234,692…
Sports
An average swimmer during his school days at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo, Shehaan Dias chose swimming as a career and has become a productive coach.…
The second match of the Mercantile Cricket Association’s (MCA) 17th…
Business Times
Colombo port workers carried out a week-long ‘black flag’ protest against plans to hand over the East Container Terminal (ECT) to foreign interests, saying it…
The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) has embarked on a mission…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
A “Manifesto” (from the Latin manifestum – a list of facts) is a sine qua non for every Sri Lankan political party to make public before any national election. Back in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels drew up ‘The Communist Manifesto’ which changed the world. It was not an…
Columns
Varying predictions and expectations, but voter turnout likely to be low mainly due to COVID-19 pandemic SLPP leaders confident but two-thirds majority impossible due to the PR system…
My dear Navin, I thought I should write to you, even in these busy days of campaigning, when I heard that you had suddenly offered to lead the…
The extravagant election promises of many parties are inconsistent with the inadequate resources that are available. They do not reflect a recognition of the severity of economic problems…
With COVID-19 raging worldwide, Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has embarked on a new drive – video conferences with heads of Sri Lanka’s diplomatic missions overseas. They…
There is a measure of dreadfully coincidental irony in President Gotabaya Rajapaksa determining this week that Sri Lanka’s pre-colonial Antiquities Ordinance must be amended in order to reverse…
It should have been a simple open and shut case. A 13th century historical site, considered an archaeological reserve and protected under the Antiquities Ordinance of 1940, had…
When the month of July comes around there are many reflections on the incidents of July 1983 and the pogrom that targeted the Tamil community. The incidents of…
That is all we wanted. All these months the Sri Lanka people have suffered from this global menace called the coronavirus. Most often they have been confined to…
Plus
It is rare for an architect to have a signature style that could be recognized immediately. Geoffrey Bawa had it, as did Minnette de Silva…
Magazine
Can you imagine a falooda kimbula or a pol sambol and egg kimbula? Shamini Galagedera has not just imagined, but created them too. Twisted baked…
Sunday Times 2
The Redemptorist Congregation of priests and brothers in Sri Lanka, celebrated a new missionary presence and…
Education
The Southern Provincial Council has begun a programme to develop 45 rural schools. The project aims…
Magazine
Can you imagine a falooda kimbula or a pol sambol and egg kimbula? Shamini Galagedera has…
Funday Times
Assam, India Children walk past cattle on an embankment in a flooded area in Morigaon district.…