News
Amid the ongoing Covid pandemic, thousands of nurses staged a sick note protest in hospitals all over the country. Nurses’ union leaders met President Gotabaya…
The Finance Ministry has submitted a Cabinet paper seeking approval to sell the 51 percent majority shares it holds in a diesel power plant to…
The Trade Ministry is to revert to imposing a price control system on retail rice sales in an attempt to keep rice prices low. Cabinet…
Sports
Sean Seresinhe (A13-year-old, Sri Lankan living in the UK ) was picked up for the ‘Coin Toss’ on July 11 at the Wimbledon tennis tournament.…
Sri Lanka cricketers protesting over their annual contracts are likely…
Business Times
Many people were seen at this finance company in Kuliyapitiya earlier this week seeking to pay their leases while some were waiting to pawn their…
Despite assurances that Sri Lanka has won approval to receive International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding from a new facility, the IMF is still to receive…
A large offshore trader heavily into trade financing on Tuesday received a ‘positive’ response from the Central Bank (CB) through the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Torn between the two competing pressure groups, both equally well intentioned maybe, the Government seems to want to keep the status quo — i.e. an unofficial lockdown with the hope that the stuttering vaccination campaign will get to better footing in the next few weeks and months, and the citizenry…
Columns
(As the Sunday Times Political Editor is unwell, we publish today a translation of the Thiraya Pitupasa (Behind-the-Scenes) column that appears in the Sunday Lankadeepa today.) As fertiliser crisis…
My dear Green Man, I thought I must write to you because you are in the news once again after many months, entering Parliament as the only Green…
The country is heading towards a severe economic crisis. External finances are perilously low; foreign debt repayments are large; weak public finances severely limit the capacity of the…
Media rights groups have written to Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana Wickramaratne raising concerns over “indirect threats” levelled by a Senior Deputy Inspector General (SDIG) against a…
As the seething fury of Sri Lanka’s farmers spills over onto village roads and sets the country ablaze with war cries of ‘give us fertilizer to farm our…
People may be compelled to brace themselves for a brewing financial storm that may make landfall soon and possibly leave the country’s economy flattened in its relentless trail.…
Continuous mismanagement of the economy has made the country vulnerable and over dependent on questionable measures to keep the economy afloat. Large scale printing of money and currency…
Though I did not hear the deafening sounds of relief, there surely must have been many from different quarters back in our Resplendent Isle. Concerns began to mount…
Plus
A few weeks before Yasmin’s nikah ceremony, there was a flurry of news articles announcing reforms to Sri Lanka’s Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act (MMDA).…
Magazine
Henna also known as mehendi is an ancient art. While new trends such as white henna, neon or “glow-in-the-dark” henna have emerged in the West,…
Sunday Times 2
The severe castigation of the police and the lower courts by the Court of Appeal (CA)…
Education
Students in various parts of the country complain that they face issues in following online…
Magazine
Henna also known as mehendi is an ancient art. While new trends such as white henna,…