Tourist visa holders doing business in Sri Lanka: SLTDA
By Namini Wijedasa The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) this week admitted there was a…
Stamp to mark Sri Lanka Law College 150 year anniversary
To mark the Sri Lanka Law College’s 150 year anniversary, the Sri Lanka Philatelic Bureau launched…
Ranil wants UNP revamped but suspense over his candidature for presidency
Appoints five-member team to strengthen the party on priority basis; contacts with other political parties and…
Push-start, again, for stalled online vehicle registration system
The Department of Motor Traffic is gearing up to resume the much-awaited eMotoring project, Commissioner General…
People disappointed with state officers; work won’t happen without influence or bribery
Peradeniya University survey paints pathetic picture of public service By Kasun Warakapitiya People are mostly dissatisfied…
A mission to save little brains & spines
Dr Nirukshan Jayaweera undertakes a gargantuan task amidst a lack of facilities and instruments By Kumudini Hettiarachchi …
Prison inmates bring in 253 million rupee revenue
The Department of Prisons has earned over Rs253 million revenue by facilitating prisoners to engage in…
El Niño charges up temperatures, causing illness
Experts recommend avoidance of outdoor activities and intake of more water and fluids By Nathara Abeywickrema…
SRI LANKA’S BIGGEST EDUCATION FAIR IN – Meet 69 premier institutions from CANADA| USA | UK | IRELAND
8th March | 11.00 am | Grand Kandyan Hotel, Kandy 9th March | 11.00 am…
Gateway hosts Inter-School Robotics Competition and STEAM Activity Day
The STEAM Activity Day and Robotics Competition served as an exploration platform to over 500 children,…
Explore education opportunities in India at the ‘Study in India Expo 2024’ in Colombo and Kandy
The 3rd consecutive edition of ‘Study in India Expo’ - one of the largest Indian education expo in the…
News
Gaza: Using food as a weapon of war
A day after more than 100 Palestinian civilians scrambling for food were killed in Gaza City by Israeli troops, Palestinian children stand amid the rubble…
Central Bank, other SOEs can’t increase their staff salaries
Justice Minister will present bill to Parliament, transferring financial powers to Treasury and Parliament By Damith Wickremasekara Financial powers of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including the…
No more free visa extensions: Russian, Ukrainian tourists can apply for visa or go back
The government’s decision to cancel a free visa facility granted to Russians and Ukrainians who have remained in Sri Lanka since February 2022 has not…
CEB makes thumping Rs. 61.2 billion profits last year
Lanka accuses UNHRC of double standards and politicisation of human rights
Drug fraud: Additional Secretary seeks to make special statement in court
Political leaders attend Ronnie’s funeral
PSC to probe road deaths; Justice minister proposes tough new measures
Maligawa holds event to remember monk’s bravery before Kandyan Convention was read out
Navy to deploy second ship to ensure Indian Ocean security; first ship returns
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Skipper Vidanage’s ton lift Nalanda
By M. Shamil Amit94th Battle of the Maroons
Nalanda College skipper Sajitha Vithanage played a brilliant captain’s knock–100 off 178 balls while Sadev Samarawickrema struck a half century to lift them to 277…
Confident Sri Lanka take on Bangladesh sans Hasaranga and Nissanka
Sri Lanka will deeply feel the absence of their skipper…
St. Anthony’s cruise to seventh outright win
Steve and Sharujan lead Bens to second title against Wesley
Work underway on scandal-hit Olympic surf tower in Tahiti
Royal dominate drawn Mini Battle
Top guns reach Cup quarters at Zahira Centenary 7s
Royal-Thomian Past Cricket Coloursmen’s Annual Dinner
Jaffna recognised by SLFB as most active basketball body
Australia target New Zealand ‘superstar’ Ravindra in first Test
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Awards for business women
Prof. Maithree Wickramasinghe, in the presence of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, presenting an award at the recent Women’s Chamber of Industry and Commerce (WCIC) awards ceremony…
Ceylon coffee the next best drink from Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is prioritising coffee cultivation with a number of plantations expanding into this industry, looking at capturing the export market with its speciality “Ceylon…
Turbulence ahead: SriLankan Airlines divestiture on the brink
The divestiture of national carrier SriLankan Airlines and its subsidiaries catering and ground handling services is being pursued with glitches under the present difficult circumstance…
Nanocarriers, nano diagnostic kits to revolutionise medicine industry
SL-India negotiating tech cooperation on lab testing and minerals
MRR remains contentious issue within industry
Public procurement law to replace current system
Mortgaging struggling assets
Getting along with the neighbours
Sri Lanka’s strategy in the region and the world was terrible
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Editorial
The business of businesses run by tourists
Sri Lanka and its people have been known for welcoming foreigners and being nice to them. Some Europeans came and overstayed for centuries, but now, emboldened by the lax implementation of the law and a thriving culture of official bribery, corruption and plain indolence, a rising number of foreigners are…
Columns
- Political Commentary
Ranil wants UNP revamped but suspense over his candidature for presidency
Appoints five-member team to strengthen the party on priority basis; contacts with other political parties and alliances continue Namal Rajapaksa’s name also emerges in public, but he says…
- 5th Column
Police headed by an accused
My dear Deshabandu, I last wrote to you three months ago when you were first appointed to your job, albeit in an ‘acting’ role. You seem to have…
- The Economic Analysis
Challenging task of strengthening external reserves to meet foreign debt obligations
Although the details of the repayment of the restructured foreign debt obligations are yet unknown, the Central Bank has indicated that this year’s foreign debt repayment obligations will…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Bharat-Lanka estate housing project runs into deadlock over contractors
The fourth phase of the Bharat-Lanka housing project was launched recently, with some 1300 houses across 45 plantation estates in ten districts to be built. The Bharat-Lanka project…
- Focus on Rights
An election on the horizon – but what of large ‘corporate’ buying of the vote?
It is perhaps one of the many painful ironies afflicting Sri Lanka’s political landscape that though an ecstatic song and dance was made about the country’s ‘first ever’…
- Sunday Punch
Will US soldier’s death in ring of fire open American eyes to Gaza horror?
Nothing starker could have awoken the American conscience to the relentless massacre of Palestinian innocents by genocidally bent Israeli troops than an active US soldier‘s shocking suicide in…
- In the National Interest
Sri Lanka’s foreign policy: Non-aligned or multi-aligned?
The economic downturn in Sri Lanka unleashed a cascade of repercussions across society, particularly devastating for the impoverished and marginalised segments. Recovery from this wreckage seems like a…
- Thoughts from London
Two hoots for democracy; for that matter, constitutions too
There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the current Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, in a seeming mood of bravado, was quoted…
Plus
Having won one battle, the struggle of daily life begins
The mother, father and two sons are over the moon, even though they have had only a few pieces of boiled manioc for breakfast and…
Celebrating 150 years of the school behind the pines
Appreciations
It’s the journey that matters
Seeing the world through a lot of different eyes
Gratiaen takes Malaiyaha Tamils to Jaffna
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A brush with the wilds
“Petrichor’- self-taught wildlife artist Tharanga Herath’s exhibition of natural history paintings is now on at the Lionel Wendt Gallery and will continue tomorrow, Monday, March…
OpenAI launches Sora: You prompt, it creates
Prasanna’s ‘Paradise’ nominated for four Asian Film Awards
Lecture by Kamal Addara Arachchi on ‘Identity of Modern Art’
International Women’s Day celebration at MLH
Alston joins the 150 years celebration of Wesley College
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Who are the traitors and who are the patriots?
By Satya Dissanayake The worst crisis Sri Lanka faced was in 2022, when it had to…
Lanka ratifies UN Convention on mediation for commercial dispute resolution
LKI Foreign Policy Forum reassess the relevance of Non-Alignment in a polarised world
More Sunday Times 2 >>Education
Welcome aboard: Flowers for new students
Admission of Grade 6 students to the Saliyawewa Model National School in the Puttalam District took…
Education Ministry to introduce school boards
Heavy load on children: Steps to reduce weight of school bags
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A brush with the wilds
“Petrichor’- self-taught wildlife artist Tharanga Herath’s exhibition of natural history paintings is now on at the…
