News
In an apparently strategic move, China’s ambassador Qi Zhenhong visited the Northern Province, including Sri Lanka’s northern most point, Sakkotai Cape in Point Pedro overlooking…
Private sector fertliser companies are demanding that the Government should settle an arrears of Rs 26 billion for stocks previously provided under the state-subsidy scheme…
The Energy Ministry has officially informed SriLankan Airlines that it will not supply jet fuel if the payment is not made in dollars. Energy Ministry…
Sports
Former Sri Lanka Head Coach Chandika Hathurusingha has withdrawn the case he filed against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) challenging his sacking after the Court of…
Opener Kusal Janith Perera has defied medical advice to feature…
Business Times
Workers at Angle Arts, Mattakkuliya preparing statues to be used in cribs during the Christmas season. They said this was the best Christmas season so…
Sri Lanka is heading towards a major economic crisis in 2022 amidst dwindling foreign reserves and pressure on the monetary system with no immediate signs…
Amidst speculation that foreign exchange coffers are fast running out of dollars, fertiliser importers are caught in a tight situation unable to bring down adequate…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
No cooking gas; no fertiliser; no medicines; no milk powder; no vegetables; no trains; no post office; no imports; no foreign exchange; no Parliament and it looks like no Government. The only likely import is Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant that has reached 77 countries big time, and the only…
Columns
Parliament committee heads unhappy over President’s sudden move; speculation that it was aimed at quashing probes and removing present committee heads Cabinet divided over IMF assistance; COPF chairman…
My dear Anura Kumara or ‘AKD’, I thought I should write to you because more and more people are talking about the increasingly important role you are playing…
The favourable export performance this year is the only silver lining amidst the dark threatening clouds of depleting external finances. Export earnings have exceeded US$ one billion a…
A little known fact is that the Government does not discuss with constituent parties in the alliance led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) critical issues or…
Even at the brink, if not firmly in the abyss of moral, legal and financial bankruptcy as a nation, Sri Lanka’s vicious peddlars of racial and communal hatred…
Christmas has come early this year for the political class of Lanka. Shortly before the President’s own departure in the wee hours of Monday morning to Singapore on…
The events surrounding the attempt by the Government to sell 40 percent of the shares in the Yugadanavi Power Plant to a United States based Company, have increasingly…
Many decades ago — until the end of the 1980s — when we covered the country’s political scene, it was customary to see some politicians strutting around like…
Plus
In the hills of Kandy, the Christmas season seems inevitably to begin with the carols at Trinity College. The congregation returns expectantly, to hear the…
Magazine
Christmas carols, those well-loved favourites we all enjoy singing at this time of the year help us enjoy this season of goodwill and carry the…
Sunday Times 2
At first Bahrain-Lankan model Jacqueline Fernandez, who made good in Bollywood, refused to take the call…
Education
Students of the Hardy Advanced Technological Institute in Ampara protested in Colombo on Friday. They were…
Magazine
Christmas carols, those well-loved favourites we all enjoy singing at this time of the year help…