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News
This picture in Pettah yesterday shows the haphazard way in the lockdown is being imposed while the COVID-19 pandemic death toll topped the one thousand…
A rationing system is being mooted by the Government for essential food stuffs to arrest the skyrocketing prices. Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena is to propose…
A WHO- facilitated group of Sri Lankan medical professionals has recommended extending the current lockdown to October 2 or at least till September 18 which,…
Sports
Throwdown specialists with the ability to rachet up speeds in excess of 145kmph with the sidearm could help Sri Lankan batters better prepare to face…
Sri Lanka’s Major Club tournament will be reduced to 15…
Business Times
Despite this week’s lockdown, there were large crowds at vegetable markets as seen in this picture taken at the Peliyagoda vegetable market. Pic by Eshan…
Sri Lanka’s two state fertiliser companies on Thursday signed an agreement with the Chinese fertiliser supplier for the import of inputs used to manufacture organic…
The Central Bank (CB) may have by a quirk of fate contributed to a flourishing unofficial market operation in the wake of the US dollar…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The Government’s lockdown this week was neither here nor there, and now it has been extended by another week. It was clear from the very beginning that it was clamped due to sheer pressure from the general public. Shops in major towns declared a voluntary shutdown akin to a hartal…
Columns
President furious over letter sent by ten alliance party leaders; warns that they could be sacked from Cabinet Doctors say Covid strategy seriously flawed and lockdown a token…
My dear Mangala, I am saddened by your sudden farewell. Always controversial, your departure was also controversial. After speculation that you passed away, we were told that this…
The country is facing a plethora of economic problems. The one most discussed of these has been the critically low level of the country’s foreign currency reserves. This…
Trade Minister Bandula Gunawardena’s announcement on Friday evening that he had tested positive for COVID-19 set off alarm bells in the highest circles of the government, given that…
As much this millennium’s devastating global pandemic has brought deaths, destruction of livelihoods and mindless misery to millions across borders, there is a harsh mirror that it holds…
AFTER COVID TRAUMA, HEART ATTACK CLAIMS OUTSPOKEN STATESMAN’S LIFE Nation grieves death of Mangala Samaraweera at the age of 65 Through the hurly-burly of Lanka’s dirty politics, Mangala…
It is unbelievable but true. When the Political Editor of this newspaper wrote two weeks ago of bodies of Corona-victims piling up in morgues, some of them stacked…
Plus
Rehan Somaweera from Perth, aged 10, became one of the youngest Australians to author a scientific paper when he, together with his father Dr. Ruchira…
Magazine
It is almost midnight when Sahana Ravishankar gets home after an exhausting yet fulfilling day, feeding over 200 stray animals around Peliyagoda and Lake House.…
Sunday Times 2
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — The suicide bombings that claimed the lives of over 170 Afghans, and…
Education
Dinesh Gunawardena, who assumed duties as the new Education Minister recently, lost no time in calling…
Magazine
It is almost midnight when Sahana Ravishankar gets home after an exhausting yet fulfilling day, feeding…