Print Edition - The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka

Hoteliers tired of explaining political situation to foreign guests

Hoteliers handling foreign guests have been going through some embarrassing moments these days. First, it came…

The youth are marching on

It started with about 20 people on Green Path on Monday morning. Fresh off the fiery…

Onto the Green they came to voice their protest

People from all walks of life flocked to Galle Face Green yesterday for the largest gathering…

Skyrocketing prices dampen festive air; small businesses face grim avurudu season

With the forex crisis and fuel price increases sending festive goods and essential commodity prices sky…

People’s contempt for MPs grows as protests continue on Parliament access road

The growing public anger at their elected representatives filled the air at multiple protests at the…

Overseas warnings intensify tourism agony in economic calamity

Sri Lanka’s tourism industry is facing a crisis yet again due to economic, political, and social…

Urgent need to look at ‘availability, accessibility and affordability’ of essential drugs

Essential medicines – the shortages and their disastrous repercussions are the focus of the Sunday Times…

Combing through

With the cost of living high, and people of all walks of life affected, garbage collectors…

Forest land cleared for papaya plantation, temple claims ownership

Environmental activists allege that over 50 acres of forest land in Paramakanda Reserve has been cleared…

New Year treats pose possible health risk

Food poisoning could be caused by contaminated food that Sri Lankans buy for the Sinhala-Hindu New…

‘Raid Amazones 2022’

The first leg of popular ‘Raid Amazones 2022’ adventure is completed in Sri Lanka last week.…

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News

The gathering storm

People from all walks of life, some with their families, gathered outside the President’s office overlooking the Galle Face Green yesterday marking their attendance at…

Cabinet secretaries call for sweeping reforms to revive economy

Cabinet ministry secretaries have proposed to the Government that it should cut down the number of ministers, reduce their perks, drastically curb the number of…

New CB Governor asks people to brace for more hardships; says economy can be “turned around”

The newly appointed Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe issued a strong new policy directive, saying the Central Bank (CB) would curb excessive money printing, reduce…

Excessive sugar imports caused dollar drain, consumers did not receive benefit of tax cuts

Treasury orders takeover of vehicles, houses of ministers who resigned

Sabry seeks $3 billion in external assitance to stave off crisis at least for six months

LCC scrambling to find dollars to avert arbitration

Banks will be open for business on April 11 and 12

A five-point plan to address critical medicinal shortage from health experts

Photo of alleged arsonist released

Onto the Green they came to voice their protest

Protest march from Katuwapitiya to Kochchikade for Easter attack victims

Teacher transfers to resume after a two year lapse

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Sports

Chaos rein following SLR suspension

RUGBY

The country’s rugby is in a state of uncertainty, following the suspension of Sri Lanka Rugby (SLR) by the Sports Ministry and handing it over…

Kandy claim honours at NSL finals

Oshada Fernando’s fine form of yet another century (109) and…

143rd Roy-Tho on July 21, 22, 23 pending SSC clearance

Silverwood takes charge as Sri Lanka Head Coach

Spirited Touch outruns Alcazaba for second time

Coach Fernando conducts training programmes in three nations

Gayanthika and Nilani shatter national records

Sri Sumangala back in top division

Business Times

Tourism industry veterans demand solutions

Jetwing Group Chairman Hiran Cooray speaks to the media during a protest flagging many economic issues by tourism industry stakeholders on Tuesday outside the Kollupitiya…

Economy at breaking point, job losses feared

Sri Lankan corporates have seen an over 50 per cent to 70 per cent drop in their total potential output over the past two months…

Sri Lanka runs out of time for IMF bailout

Time is running out for Sri Lanka to start talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at its spring meetings in Washington on April 18…

Tourists cancel holiday plans to Sri Lanka

Another mass mayhem looms following the end to to loan moratorium

Food processors industry employs over 600,000 people

Two Sri Lankan women receive international recognition

Margin providers meet SEC for moratorium

Hemantha Gunetilleke to head Nations Trust Bank

Dialog fastest 5G Speeds in Sri Lanka at Samsung event

Coconut industry wants fertiliser or face imminent collapse

When we are entirely defined by economics!

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

The Avurudu koha (Asian koel) has appeared to herald the traditional New Year, adding to the cacophony of voices on the streets demanding the ouster of the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The bird heralds the arrival of springtime and a bountiful harvest, but not so this year with the disastrous fertiliser…

Columns

Political Commentary
Rajapaksa citadel shaken, but Gota stays put and won’t quit

The growing crisis causes chasm within the ruling family; Premier defies calls for his resignation; Chamal unhappy, while angry Basil unceremoniously castigates PM’s emissaries carrying…
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5th Column
The right man for the right job at the right time

My dear Nandey, I am writing to you this week after hearing that you were returning to our little island which was once a Paradise. That is to…
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The Economic Analysis
Hopes and expectations for the New Year

On the eve of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year, thoughts uppermost in the minds of people is whether the country’s economic situation will enable them to celebrate…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Hoteliers tired of explaining political situation to foreign guests

Hoteliers handling foreign guests have been going through some embarrassing moments these days. First, it came with the power cuts, and now with the protests. Some hotels found…
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Focus on Rights
Sri Lanka’s popular revolt and the culture of shaming

Minister of Foreign Affairs GL Peiris’s badly argued brief to Colombo based diplomats this week, describing peoples’ protests in Sri Lanka targeting the Rajapaksa Government as mass based…
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Sunday Punch
People retake sovereignty but Govt still in the saddle

THE LANKAN AVURUDHU SPRING ++ THE LANKAN AVURUDHU Lanka rushes headlong toward constitutional crisis People Power reclaimed the sovereignty they had constitutionally delegated to the President and Parliament…
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In the National Interest
Resolution of national crisis–ball in Government’s court

When Parliament met last week to discuss the current situation in the country, most people anticipated that a possible way out of the crisis would emerge out of…
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Thoughts from London
Things fall apart but the centre clings on

Between this writing and its publication anything could happen. Like a government without a cabinet, or a four-member cabinet of sorts with or without a finance minister but…
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Lobby
A lot of noise but little headway in House that takes Avurudu break

Confusing, chaotic, comical, frustrating and even surreal are some of the words that come to mind when describing this week’s extraordinary Parliament sessions that occurred in the backdrop…
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