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SLC look for ‘positives’
The Lanka Premier League (LPL), which will kick-off in four days, turned out to be a…
Opposition MPs allege false statistics in Budget, but Govt. says lots of relief for poor people
The Opposition has slammed President Gotabaya Rajapaksa Government’s 2021 Budget as a “failure”, attacking it from…
Dousing the cluster-fires doable with public support
New DG pays tribute to public health staff & others firefighting COVID-19 flames, in wide- ranging …
COVID sinks the hopes of northern fisherfolk
For the past week, Anthon Santhanarasa, a fisherman from Munai, Point Pedro, has not ventured into…
Yevan David – the Sri Lankan future hope for Formula 1
It’s a cold February winter morning in Valencia, Spain. Amongst 55 European drivers stands a young…
Reclaims used Pens, plastics from the environment
Atlas Axillia Co. (Private) Limited has announced its partnership with the Ministry of Environmentto support its…
SLIM Signs MoU with MBSL Insurance
SLIM Trainings, the training arm of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) recently signed a…
New Manning Market complex
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, amidst his busy schedule as Finance Minister attending the budget debate, seen…
Colonies of greed: The plague of outdated developers
If a forest is clear felled and the ground bulldozed, indeed it becomes a blank slate…
‘Bulletproof Children’ competes in China
Award winning playwright and filmmaker Indika Ferdinando’s newest film ‘Vedi Novadina Lamai’ or ‘Bulletproof Children’ will…
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Under lockdown, this is the way they get their extra needs
Near this specially set up police post at a Grandpass apartment complex under lockdown, most of the people get the Government’s relief package of…
Stay-Safe QR code for state employees and those visiting Govt. offices
People visiting government offices and state sector employees will be required in the future to ‘check in’ by scanning the digital Quick Response (QR) code,…
Ex-envoy Wickramasuriya’s fraud case: US dismisses immunity given by new Govt.
Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Washington, “does not enjoy residual immunity for his wire fraud, money laundering and his false statements on an…
COVID Task Force to assess Colombo situation
Engineers say new UDA regulations detrimental to national interest
Bitter battle over sugar prices: Traders resist CAA moves
Cabinet bends rules, CEB to sign up for LNG power plant
Crisis at Colombo Port: Govt. declares it as essential service
Final rites of Ramanna Nikaya Chief Prelate today
Detention of Hejaaz Hizbullah arbitrary and unlawful: LAWASIA
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Argentina fight back to earn draw against Australia
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NEWCASTLE REUTERS Nov 21: Argentina continued their remarkable Tri-Nations campaign on Saturday, backing up their maiden victory over New Zealand last week with a hard-fought…
‘Phoenix-like rise from the Ashes’
Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) president Rizly Illyas is gung-ho about…
‘Guilty’ Zoysa claims ICC on a ‘witch-hunt’ against Sri Lanka
Elite National Sportspersons eventually get the attention they truly deserve!
SLC look for ‘positives’
Yevan David – the Sri Lankan future hope for Formula 1
BSC Futsal Football Tourney concludes successfully
OVEP reaches Super Eight stage, final set for November 23
Business Times
New Manning Market complex
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, amidst his busy schedule as Finance Minister attending the budget debate, seen here on Friday opening the new Manning Market complex…
Colombo Port fights pandemic; freight rates skyrocket
Two of the Colombo Port’s terminals are back to full working capacity while the third one shows some improvement amidst the COVID-19 pandemic but shipping…
Two LNG power projects get underway
The groundwork towards commencing two LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) power plants involving an American and a local company has been laid by the government weeks…
Inconsistency leads to mismatch in some budget numbers
Budget 2021 – A ‘grow’ your way out of trouble strategy
Revised taxes, MRP complicate commodities market
Expolanka PLC sees 3% decline despite DPS
Inward-looking budget
Poor pay more taxes?
Fairfirst Insurance launches Weather Index Insurance
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Editorial
Budget blues
It was good to see the President seated in Parliament to listen to the Budget debate this week. One of the drawbacks of an Executive Presidency is that the holder loses touch with Parliament isolated as he is in an ivory tower of a Secretariat, far removed from the parry…
Columns
- Political Commentary
A Cabinet re-shuffle in the New Year
Temple Trees under lockdown New laws before Parliament to enable PC polls Ex-SC Judge to head Public Service Commission Ex-spy boss in Election Commission Amidst an exploding…
- 5th Column
A dignified retirement?
My dear ‘Maco’, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you had retired after nearly four decades of working with elections in this country…
- The Economic Analysis
Realising promises and fiscal objectives of 2021 budget
The 2021 budget presented to Parliament last Tuesday by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Finance Minister, contained the usual plethora of promises, proposals and programs for economic…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Vaccines coming; but rituals also continue; in Jaffna even Asuran wears mask
At least two of the world’s pharmaceutical giants – Pfizer and Moderna – have come up with good news over the COVID–19 global pandemic. They have both produced…
- Focus on Rights
On Buddhist ‘charity,’ presidential munificence and depletion of the public purse
Out of the welter of distasteful controversy surrounding the transfer of a colossal sum of Rs. 600,000,000/= from the public fund of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission of Sri…
- Sunday Punch
Holy Mackerel! Ex-fish chief mouths the raw COVID truth
Recently ministers of this Government have been behaving rather strange, queer to say the least. And yet have shown a ready and admirable willingness to go the extra…
- In the National Interest
Reducing the health budget in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic is difficult to comprehend
One of the compelling reasons for ending the three decade old civil war between the LTTE and the Government was the enormous drain on the country’s resources as…
- Thoughts from London
In the name of the people
Oh citizens, what injustice is committed in thy name. What travesty is fathered on thee, my citizens. So okay, this is hardly Shakespeare. But then neither did the…
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A happy marriage of Kandyan and Baroque
No. 12 Flower Road was how Suresh Mudannayake, a.k.a. Ashok Ferrey, re-imagined a Kandyan townhouse of the 17th Century. It’s proof of the little-tapped potential…
Zoom is the name of the game
Appreciations
There are things you can learn even from a pandemic
Colonies of greed: The plague of outdated developers
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Finding her true voice
Melissa Pereira has a voice that keeps audiences enraptured as she does it her way. Coming from a musical background with her mother being a…
Something to take note of
Good Groove Society: Bringing a musical tribe together
Master violinist dreaming to share the love for music
Paul and Nihar bid goodbye
Bobby Brown’s son Bobby Jr. dies at 28
Mariah Carey taps Ariana Grande, Tiffany Haddish, Snoop Dogg for Christmas Special
‘Bulletproof Children’ competes in China
Rehan’s ‘Didi’ goes to Ontario
‘Bro’ comes every weekday on ITN
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Bidding Trumps or No Trumps?
I remember that time many years ago when I first learned to play this strange card…
The global South’s pandemic path to self-reliance
Clean suit, empty pocket
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Tuition teachers take up Zoom classes
With the COVID-19 situation disturbing the usual education process, teachers too have tried their best to…
Special health guidelines needed to conduct O/L exams next January
No more asbestos in schools; Eco-friendly material to be used in construction
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Finding her true voice
Melissa Pereira has a voice that keeps audiences enraptured as she does it her way. Coming…
