Print Edition - The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka

Govt. remains united amidst SJB’s damp squib

Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa will grant MPs duty-free permits to import vehicles President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will…

Ditch electric fences – human-elephant deaths are rising

The two farmers thought they were safe after chasing off a herd of elephants coming into…

Grants to train farmers on how to make organic fertiliser

The Agriculture Ministry has launched a countrywide initiative and grant scheme, to provide capacity building training…

Going organic: Farmer Wickramasinghe sets an example

Moving to organic agriculture as an alternative tool to address the shortage of chemical fertiliser for…

Teachers fed up with being on bottom rung of salary ladder

Parents and students continue to struggle following the sudden absence of teachers from online teaching for…

World T20 in focus

After widespread criticism following on and off-field dramas by national cricketers, the win on Friday against…

Don’t flout the 25% capacity rule: Plea from hotel, restaurant associations to businesses

The social scene in Colombo has begun to pick up but restaurant and hotel associations are…

Bathiudeen maid another grim notch on child abuse tally

The case of the domestic maid who died at MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s house has again highlighted…

Finding support for our daily rhythms to beat working from home blues

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought rapid changes in our lives. Our social rhythms, routines and work…

‘Living on the Edge’ by Mario for Lankan Olympic heroes

Olympic, the world’s biggest sports festival was scheduled to hold in Tokyo last year, but for…

Prospering in a crisis

There are some nations – I believe, they are a few in the world -, which…

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News

Kumba Mela like ceremony at Kataragama

One of Sri Lanka’s major national pageants, the Kataragama Esela Poya Perahera, concluded yesterday. Due to the COVID pandemic, the perahera was restricted to participants…

Trade Ministry to import items; compete with private sector

The Trade Ministry is to seek cabinet approval to obtain a bank guarantee of US$ 10 million from the Treasury to get into the business…

Presidential Secretary says IMF not the answer

Sri Lanka has no immediate plan to seek financing from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Presidential Secretary P.B. Jayasundera has said. “Right now, it is…

KNDU gets billions from two state banks

Sharp rise in COVID cases at NHSL; early signal of spike elsewhere

Important findings on AstraZeneca & Sinopharm from vaccine studies

Re-visiting the basic info to keep the virus at bay

Thalangama wetland: CEA amends 2007 gazette to allow elevated highway

Litro says it can meet country’s LP gas demands even if Laugfs withdraws

Petitions filed against Finance Bill, more to follow

A timely booklet packed with detail

Watch out; heavy rains and strong winds likely in many areas

Door-to-door vaccination begins

‘When balancing lives and livelihoods, don’t get COVID-19 and don’t give it to others’

Ditch electric fences – human-elephant deaths are rising

COVID-19 and quarantine rules are keeping Lankan workers from going back abroad

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Sports

World T20 in focus

Mickey Arthur says India series last chance for players to stake a claim

After widespread criticism following on and off-field dramas by national cricketers, the win on Friday against India was like manna from heaven–regardless of how depleted…

Tehani, Aniqah bow out, Niluka crashes to heavy defeat

Niluka Karunaratne’s late set heroics could not produce the end…

Roy-Tho in September pending ministry’s endorsements

Nelka, living her father’s dream

Selection Trials for World Junior on July 27

From self-doubt to self-belief

Dinesh Priyantha: War hero to a brave-hearted Paralympian

At the venue of the first modern Olympics Games…

Elmo Rodrigopulle – evergreen Sports Journalist

The Reward and the Racket that is Badminton

Business Times

Hotel workers protest

Distressed hotel industry workers urging the government to provide them relief and a moratorium on their bank loans among other demands during a demonstration this…

Govt. to relax some import restrictions

The government is to ease import restrictions on several product categories required to manufacture value-added and export-based products for the export market while retaining the…

Sri Lanka’s forex crisis squeezes banks

Banks are grappling with a situation of ‘whom to serve’ with importers breathing down their necks, foreign investors in the stock market demanding to take…

Spa Ceylon expands on wellness drive

Kotelawala Uni gets over Rs.36 bn from BOC, NSB

New SEC Act to end vagueness, boost regulation

MarCom Collective urges clients to temporarily suspend calling for pitches, competitive bids

Four-lane elevated expressway more costlier than the LRT

Hayleys Fabric installs Sri Lanka’s largest solar roof

SDB bank issues 10% shares to Belgian investor

Five local Green Energy Innovators in Green Energy Champion Accelerator 2021

Sri Lanka rejects Moody’s plans of a possible rating downgrade

ComBank partners UoM to support academic research

Laugfs grapples with LPG imports amidst dollar constraint

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

New Finance Minister faces tough choices

The advent of a new Finance Minister heralds what many believe is the dawn of a new era. While this may be an exaggeration, it implies a desperate attempt at mid-course correction by the Government before the country is shipwrecked in the stormy seas of economic and financial mismanagement. The…

Columns

Political Commentary
Govt. remains united amidst SJB’s damp squib

Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa will grant MPs duty-free permits to import vehicles President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will meet an SLFP delegation on Tuesday SJB fails to get its act…
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5th Column
Here to stay?

My dear Gota maamey, I thought I must write to you when I heard you saying you would be in charge for the next 8 years. In these…
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The Economic Analysis
How will the economic crisis be resolved?

Everyone is aware that the country is in an economic crisis. Especially that we are facing a severe crisis in foreign finances. Low foreign reserves have to meet…
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Editorial
Oil prices: No short-term solutions in Gammanpila’s booklet

Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila in preparation to face the No -Confidence Motion against him by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya had prepared the groundwork for the challenge by publishing…
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Focus on Rights
The very great harm of the PTA and lessons from history

To a protesting (Sinhalese) Stalin, (or for that matter, a Marx or Lenin), who is released along with comrades following public outrage and street anger after unjustifiable detention…
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Sunday Punch
Farmers’ goosebumps as fields go cold turkey

If expectations had been raised to fever pitch among farmers that Basil Rajapaksa’s return to Lanka last month to assume the nation’s financial reins would see reversed a…
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In the National Interest
Protests must conform to health guidelines to keep COVID-19 at bay

As predicted by many including medical personnel and scientists the world over, the COVID-19 pandemic does not show signs of going away easily. The Sri Lankan experience is…
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Thoughts from London
Opposition gets kicked in its butt

These days when allusions to military doings of one sort or the other seem quite au fait, a reference to the charge of the Light Brigade is quite…
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Lobby
NCM: Was it an attempt to expose Govt.’s nudity, a media event or a hodgepodge of political lies?

If the objective behind the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) on Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila was to further exploit fractures that were publicly opening up within the Sri Lanka Podujana…
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