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News
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, dengue fever cases are also on the rise. So it is double work for Public Health Inspectors and other health…
The Government has decided to obtain a loan of USD 1 billion from international private lending agencies to set off interest payments for loans obtained…
Essential food item importers have urged the Government to reintroduce the banking system under which they were allowed to import goods on an assessed foreign…
Sports
Sri Lanka One Day International cricket players’ list beginning from Somachandra de Silva and ending at Ramesh Mendis has a total of 197 players. And…
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will begin player registration for its…
Business Times
State-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will gain billions of rupees in profits, despite assertions that it was losing money, from the sale of fuel at…
Sri Lanka is likely to lose its competitive edge and risks US$580 million worth of exports within one year should the GSP+ concessions be withdrawn…
The launch of the much-awaited Delivery versus Payment (DvP) will be rolling out in July, wiping the settlement risk in share trading, and mooting foreign…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Sri Lanka’s once exemplary all-island immunisation campaigns, devolved and decentralised to the very grassroots long before Provincial Councils were introduced, and hailed by world health authorities for decades, came a cropper with the recent COVID-19 vaccination programme. The blame has to be placed entirely at the doorstep of the role…
Columns
Cabinet of Ministers kept in the dark Rumblings within government ranks A caucus within ruling alliance calls for relief measures for poor Relaxation of measures against COVID-19 may…
My dear Udaya, I write to you because you seem to be at the centre of the controversial fuel price increase, a decision which will raise the price…
The external finances of the country are in a perilous state. External reserves have fallen, the trade deficit is widening, the balance of payments deficit is increasing and…
The spread of news over COVID -19 in Sri Lanka is as fast as the deadly coronavirus. Whilst the only formal source for the public is the Government,…
Even as arrests of Sri Lankan social media critics and opposition protestors continue in a covid-afflicted nation with an oppressive net slowly tightening on democratic spaces, the appellate…
Energy Minister Gammanpila found himself stranded on the government highway and left holding the can for the oil hike, after the governing party secretary accused him last Saturday…
The shifting Sri Lankan political landscape has many implications for the country—right now and in the future. Right up to 1956 the United National Party (UNP) dominated the…
The current controversy over the ban on chemical fertiliser and pesticides and the consequences of this policy move remind me of the days long gone by when I…
Plus
When Mahaprajapathi Gothami with 500 Sakyan ladies went to the Buddha and asked for permission to join the order, there may have been among them, …
Magazine
Like most illustrators, Samantha Weerawardane has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. At the tender age of ‘too young to understand what is…
Sunday Times 2
It is indeed a pleasure for me to write a few lines on the 97th birth…
Education
Let’s accept it- working today is tough given the fear of the virus, restrictions on travel…
Magazine
Like most illustrators, Samantha Weerawardane has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. At the…