3rd January 1999

• 600 victims after New Year revelry
• Another vote for Thondaman
• End extremism – Jaffna Bishop
• Mystery vehicles in Wayamba
• Patrick slams the pact

• 'It's acid'
• The promises
• Heritage in a fridge
• Exciting peek into vernacular heritage - Book review
• A mine of historical illustrations - Book review
• Malgudi's Ripe Papayas  - Book review
• Bookshelf
• Six young men drown in Boxing Day tragedy
• Kala corner - by Dee Cee
• Two eyesores
• A storm of protest over medical college - Second opinion
• Can I have the salt, please?
• Pregnancy: you need to plan it?
• A new drug for shyness ?
• Vegetarian diets: health habit or health hazard?
• Sore throat bacterium may hide in cells
• What's in the stars for '99
• 'What resolution with the war on?'
• Shoes of the Fisherman
• Crazy over diaries
• Amazing sounds
• A historic journey in 1864
• Letters to the editor






• Disclosure requirement enforced 
• Electronics behind 
• Drop in oil prices boost BOP 
• Cross rates fixed 
• Mind your business 
• Looking ahead with realism 
• Lanka not desperate for IMF help: ASJ
• Milanka's debut tomorrow 
• Lanka's best buys 
• Exporters against cargo levies 
• Know your personality by sectors 
• Gem market needs change to sell better
• GDP 4.8 % in first nine months 
• Money
• Employment 
• Shipping 
• Ken on top 
• MA cabin staff best at service 

• Missing children traced to children's home 
• 8,000 state bank workers face dismissal 
• Northern Muslims take case to UNP 
• PA nod for YP's wife as MP 
• Private hospitals seek remedy for bitter bill 
• Cadet pilots allege irregular recruitment procedure
• A doctor's prescription for faulty drug problem 
• Media family stamped out in Trichy 
• Bumper racket in hamper 
• Farmers to get guns again 
• Backbenchers fight poll violence 
• Destination dead end 
• Rama runs into trouble in Sita Eliya 
• Health sector undergoes amputation 
• Air Lanka to resume flights to SA? 
• Packed ball rooms despite poya and war 
• Cop vs journalist 
• Right of reply 
• Majority politics and abortive military strategies 
• Come '99: What a record of damage! - From the Green Corner
• Culture of complacency – 1998 in retrospect 
• Shylock in the United Nations - Inside the Glass House - 

New Series





• Dear Santa... 
• A reason for the season 
• It was all for the children 
• Rohan & Ashan team up 
• Take me to Bopathella 
• Is bald beautiful? 
• Fashion
• Junior Times
• TV Times & Entertainment

• Singer Cup match at SSC double fixed? 
• ICC orders Kumar to change action 
• BCCSL in a spot 
• Disgruntled rugby referees to quit 
• Mahela cracks 129 for SSC 
• Inter School cricket 
• Hasantha lights up gloomy evening 
• Lanka Lions to break new ground this year
• Rover pinpoints..... 
• It's not plain sailing at all
• Sri Lanka offered assistance by AFC
• Arrogance will be your annihilation
• An Indo-Pakistan Treaty
• Miscellany
• When Wesley Hall played cricket in the Cable Office
• 'No ref. could be tagged a cheat'
• 23 swimmers in Nepal SAF Games poo
• Bookmaker menace
• The last champion of a rare class 
• Bertie Wijesinghe is still fit to coach
• A red letter day for Colts cricket
• Young McLaughlin boots a treble
• Medals drought ends
• Boxing Day fireworks by the FitzGerald-Henderson combination
• Past is now memory; Play hard to be in contention
• Insurance cover for umpires
• Pam in Guinness Book of Records
• No coach for Malwattawalla 
• New stadium for Kalutara