Additional security given for O/L centres
The G.C.E (O/L) examinations concluded on Wednesday. On the final day additional policemen were placed outside schools…
Gateway College sweeps the board at COMUN 2021
Colombo Model United Nations conference, organised by the Overseas School of Colombo is one of the…
Over 4,500 students sit for CA Sri Lanka’s Corporate and Strategic Level exams locally and overseas
Over 4,500 students of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) sat…
Bringing back that stage magic
Missing the excitement of the theatre due to the pandemic and wanting to inspire others, a…
Thico Films plans to take lankan cinema to the world
‘Back to Elephant Walk’ a film production by Thilini Priyamali and Dr. Isuru Bandara of Thico…
Victoria Elders’ Home residents happy to get jab
Friday’s symbolic vaccination rollout is the harbinger of the elderly vaccination programme under the COVAX initiative…
24 people ready to set off to Canada by boat nabbed by navy
The Kalpitiya peninsula which has become notorious for illicit smuggling of drugs, conch shells, star tortoises…
EIA clears sand mining in north in spite of flagging environmental drawbacks
Insists issues can be mitigated “without causing irreparable damages” EIA carried out by GSMB Technical Services…
Lucky few start school tomorrow while others wait again
A handful of grades start school tomorrow, but many students in the populous Western Province continue…
No more chasing of non-problem elephants into Wilpattu: Experts
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s offer of driving elephants away from a village area into the Wilpattu National…
Essential items hard to find and cost more despite price cuts
The Trade Ministry might have reduced prices of 27 essential commodities but consumers trying to buy…
News
Burqa ban in Lanka soon
Sri Lanka will soon join several other countries that have banned burqa –a long, loose garment covering the body from head to toe – on…
Ministers, Cabinet bypassed to fast track development
The Government has decided to bypass the need to get approval of the minister and the Cabinet if two state institutions decide to enter into…
Finance Ministry admits Rs. 15.9 billion “foregone revenue” on sugar imports
The Finance Ministry has admitted that the Government’s decision to drastically cut the tax on sugar in October last year had caused a “foregone revenue”…
Indian COVISHIELD consignment delayed; “vaccine diplomacy” in motion
UNHRC vote: President speaks to India’s PM
BIMSTEC invitation apart, Lanka undecided whether to recognise Myanmar junta
Amid moves to import Chinese vaccine sans data, four NMRA board members sacked
Victoria Elders’ Home residents happy to get jab
Prof. Malavige on second jab, concerns over AstraZeneca and more
Health DG says strategy is to immunise every eligible person in the country
Ensuring safety in the vaccination programme
Ranil’s Secretary files FR petition against COI on political victimisation
Light pooja for Mahasivarathri
SriLankan in hot seat after unqualified pilot operated right hand seat of aircraft
Easter attacks: AG wants probe widened
Fallow paddy fields in Katana cultivated after 40 years
Beware of that call that sells attractive insurance scheme by leading mobile operators
24 people ready to set off to Canada by boat nabbed by navy
SLBFE speeds up return of migrant workers
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‘1996’ – a dream year overall
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Golf is my first love, and it remains the same. Cricket was an accident, yet it was the best experience for me personally. I was…
Imperial College encounter Central Campus Colombo in today’s final
Imperial College and Central Campus Colombo (CCC) will clash in…
Kurunegala YCC, Police SC feature in a thrilling tie
Army overall champs at Rowing Nationals
Wesley dominate drawn match at Mt Lavinia
Tharusha, Thevindu steers Isipathana
St. Anthony’s rout Maris Stella
Sprinter Kumarage
Nihara Jayatilleke spearheads RTC project to empower ‘horse-women’
Masters on show at Inter-Club Basketball Tournament
Top 18 to shoot at NSSF Trap Open today
Fancied cueists advance to second round
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Business Times
Railway carriages from India
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3 new Colombo city railway lines to ease traffic congestion
The Government is building three new railway line-routes connecting Colombo and the suburbs, the first new tracks in 70 years since the end of British…
Wise decisions – the game-changer at CSE
The infamous circulars sent by the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) have come full circle. Thankfully, they are now in the past and hopefully, lessons learned…
India steps in to help Sri Lanka out of debt abyss
Tourism faces tall order of Govt. target
New faces, new scam
Cry of the savers
Government strictly adheres to prudential financial management
Mobility in Sri Lanka: Beyond the import ban
Enacting laws alone will not solve problems of female workers
Sri Lanka’s top nurse wins ‘Most Popular Woman’ contest at Vanithaabhimana
Anverally and Sons wins Gold at NCE Annual Export Awards
Sri Lanka’s first ever end-to-end fully- integrated online supermarket launched
Depositors of failed finance companies struggle to survive
People’s Bank reports highest ever balance sheet growth in 2020
CWC wants Collective Agreement
Sri Lanka can produce its entire requirement of power through renewable sources
Banking sector hit hard by the pandemic, but resilient
New strategy for gem and jewellery industry ensures shining future
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Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Another knock on the head for the Public Service
A news item in the front page of this newspaper last week has raised not just eyebrows, but alarm bells within and even outside the public service. It referred to SLIDA (Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration) taking over the conducting of examinations for recruitment and promotions in the public…
Columns
- Political Commentary
UK and core group wrap up tough resolution on SL
Premier Mahinda Rajapaksa will fly to Bangladesh on Friday Dhaka will support Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council Group of SLPP MPs ask the Premier to…
- 5th Column
Celebrating the silver anniversary of our greatest cricketing win
My dear Arjuna, Aravinda and the World Cup winning cricket team, I thought of writing to you this week because in just three days you would be celebrating…
- The Economic Analysis
Increasing exports vital to improve balance of payments and foreign reserves
The expectation of a loan of US$ 500 million and a currency swap of US$ one billion from the People’s Republic of China are the immediate relief to…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Govt. accused of recognising Junta in Myanmar
A motley crowd led by onetime presidential candidate Siritunga Jayasuriya staged a protest last Tuesday outside the Myanmar Embassy at Flower Road in Colombo. Their aim was to…
- Focus on Rights
The stirring of the Rajapaksa heartland in protest and lessons well learnt
‘Get out Russia, get out China’ said the placards of Civil Disobedience activists in Myanmar as they continued to defy the crackdown by the junta. A deadly death…
- Sunday Punch
Blowing hot, blowing cold on Easter Sunday’s bomb report
The final report of the Presidential Commission on the Easter Sunday bombings may be another cross Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith will have to bear in his relentless quest to…
- In the National Interest
Signs of politicisation impeding probes into Easter Sunday attacks
The whole country is of one mind in wanting investigators to identify the mastermind(s) behind the Easter Sunday attacks and ensure that they are produced before the Courts…
- Thoughts from London
Who says things are all bad here
Social media is to blame. It is they who fire all the verbal cannon balls at the government, we are told. It targets the uniformed kind who has…
- Lobby
Lot of sound and fury over CoI final report on Easter Sunday attacks
There was plenty of finger pointing between the Government and the Opposition as the Parliamentary debate on the final report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the…
Plus
Fulfilling a dream with a little help from a pen-pal
Pen-pal bonding as 14-year-olds across the wide seas looking eastward became the stepping stone for a pioneering venture in the 1960s which has stood the…
The lawyer from Mannar who won’t give up the fight
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
A jumbo task that can be done more humanely
Coconut as food grade fibre? What the rats tell us
WNPS lecture on saving our oceans
CFW @18 looks at fashion in a post-COVID reality
The Billionaire comes to Colombo
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Bringing back that stage magic
Missing the excitement of the theatre due to the pandemic and wanting to inspire others, a group of teenagers create their own company ‘Clutch Plays…
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Women will not reach parity at the pinnacle of power for another 130 years, predicts UN
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The United Nations says the highest levels of political power remain the…
Reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic and the rational path to modernisation
Law and order: Money and power
More Sunday Times 2 >>Education
Additional security given for O/L centres
The G.C.E (O/L) examinations concluded on Wednesday. On the final day additional policemen were placed outside schools…
New plan for intermediate classes in national schools says Ed. Ministry
O/L exam evaluations to begin on March 27, practical exams to be held in May
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Bringing back that stage magic
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