News
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues, nurses staged a countrywide token strike on Friday in protest against the non-payment of their special pandemic allowance and other…
The Cabinet has decided to allow unlimited imports of rice in a fresh attempt to prevent traders from exorbitantly increasing prices following the withdrawal of…
The President’s Office has directed state institutions to shift from the manual to digital mode by using electronic communications in sharing documents and records for…
Sports
Sri Lanka will make four changes to their squad for the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup with Pathum Nissanka, Lahiru Kumar, Binura Fernando and Akila…
With several seniors missing from the Sri Lanka national team–having…
Business Times
MV EVER ACE, the world’s largest container ship with a capacity of 24,000 containers, made its inaugural call at the Colombo International Container Terminal (CICT)…
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has told a special cabinet meeting on Thursday that special fertiliser can be brought down for use in the tea sector although…
Artificially managing the currency will not mark the return of dollar export earnings, exporters say. “Generally, most exporters carry retained earnings to their respective countries…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The ‘Pandora Papers’ now riveting folks across the globe with its exposures of the shadowy world of sleaze, kickbacks, shell companies, tax avoidance and offshore accounts seems to have drawn its name from the Greek myth and the once famous Pentagon Papers and the more recent Panama Papers. The sequel…
Columns
The Sunday Times Political Editor’s column is not published today as he is on leave.…
My dear Niru and Thiru, Why would I write to anyone else but you this week when you are the talk of the town? Thiru, we had heard…
Recent events, diplomatic developments and foreign investments are indicative of a shift in the country’s foreign policy, foreign economic dependence and perhaps of economic policies. The unfolding of…
Last week was a bit hectic for many Tamil politicos due to the visit of Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla. Many of them, even from newly formed…
First the Panama Papers, then the Paradise Papers, now the Pandora Papers, next will we have the ‘Pappadum’ Papers, a wag may well cynically question? Cold logic of…
The sordid secrets of the shady rich and the extreme measures taken to stash their loot through a complex financial maze in offshore accounts were revealed last Sunday…
Is a travesty of justice being played out against former Western Province Governor Azath Salley? The question arises as a result of what transpired on September 24, 2021…
How many Sri Lankans have heard of the “Pentagon Papers”, never mind whether they have read it or not. How many still remember the scandal that erupted in…
As the country continues to reel from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Opposition this week attacked the Government’s claims that it was the COVID-19 pandemic that had plunged the…
Plus
It was with some trepidation that I rang Eknaligoda Walawwa. Even though I knew Dr Siran Upendra Deraniyagala to be an artist and musician as…
Magazine
Society has grown rapidly over the last couple of decades with vast strides in technology and business. However, education and learning trends haven’t kept up,…
Sunday Times 2
October 9 was Vijaya Kumaratunga’s 76th birth anniversary. Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaratunga was born in Ja-Ela…
Education
Teachers’ day this year was marked with protests by teachers over the unresolved salary anomalies issue.…
Magazine
Society has grown rapidly over the last couple of decades with vast strides in technology and…