News
All over the world, Tamil Hindus celebrated Thai Pongal or the harvest festival. The next day, they celebrate what is known as ‘Mattu Pongal’ to…
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is poised to name a new three-member Commission of Inquiry (CoI) mandated with looking into reports of previous panels and “finding closure…
A new resolution will be brought before the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva by the Core Group on Sri Lanka — Canada, Germany,…
Sports
Sri Lanka has traditionally produced great women sprinters such as Damayanthi Darsha, Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sriyani Kulawansa, Jayamini Illeperuma and Tilaka Jinadasa, who ruled the roost…
Last week the MoS (Ministry of Sports) appointed a fresh…
Business Times
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The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) is fast seen becoming a ‘gambling joint’. High-profile traders with a lot of cash in hand and no place to…
Companies in the investment zones are facing severe stress as a result of the pandemic that has resulted in increased expenses on testing for COVID-19,…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
In Sri Lanka’s court of public opinion, there is much chatter over convicted murderers being allowed to sit in Parliament, a pro-Government terrorist turned politician indicted of assassinating an elected MP and a string of other pro-Government figures being set free, while an Opposition Parliamentarian has this week been handed…
Columns
Indian High Commissioner voices concern to Premier Rajapaksa Monday’s hartal paralyses Jaffna peninsula Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit Sri Lanka SJB invites disappointed UNP group to…
My dear Ranjan, I am writing to you because you are the man of the moment these days, although for all the wrong reasons. You have been sent…
Containing the spread of COVID-19 is the immediate and paramount concern. At the same time the adoption of correct economic policies for recovery and growth must address the fundamental…
As rioters stormed the Capitol Building in Washington DC last week, there was an American of Sri Lankan ancestry who headed an emergency response unit of a US…
Confusion has been worse confounded in the public mind following the conviction this week of politician and self-proclaimed corruption crusader Ranjan Ramanayake for contempt of court by the…
While many countries have joined the queue well on time to be in line to receive the life-saving, life-changing, hope-restoring vaccine of vaccines to end COVID’s unchallenged siege…
One year after the appearance of the COVID-19 virus, the world has come to terms with the fact that the virus is not likely to go away in…
What in the names of all the deities is going on? And in this resplendent isle too! It is bad enough that envious eyes are cast in our…
Plus
The Queen’s New Year Honours List for 2021 announced recently includes Prof. Mohan Edirisinghe, biomedical engineer and Bonfield Chair of Biomaterials, University College London (UCL).…
Magazine
What started off with a 10×10 tent, a table, a grill and a few chairs, now has the distinction of being rated the No. 1…
Sunday Times 2
Yankee bashers of Lanka and beyond its shores were delighted at the recent debacle that took…
Education
Mahamaya Girls’ College in Kandy celebrated it’s 89th anniversary on Friday. To mark this occasion, on…
Magazine
What started off with a 10×10 tent, a table, a grill and a few chairs, now…