News
On the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, President Ranil Wickremesinghe participated in the Global Leaders’ Summit for a New Global Financing Pact on June…
The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has released details of professional bodies of doctors, accountants, engineers, bankers and others and instructed them to open tax files…
A World Health Organisation (WHO) donation of meningococcal vaccine that arrived in Sri Lanka early last month is still stuck with Customs after the relevant…
Sports
Sri Lanka’s World Cup qualifying campaign is facing the prospect of a major setback with spearhead paceman Dushmantha Chameera in doubt for the tournament because…
Representatives of World Rugby (WR) will arrive in Sri Lanka…
Business Times
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, during high level meetings overseas, has said the debt restructuring process will be finalised by September. Here he is meeting IMF Managing…
After some clarity on Sri Lanka’s domestic debt restructuring (DDR) that local banks will not be entitled to a haircut, some stakeholders were relieved but…
A bold initiative to introduce organic liquid fertiliser, to a market that faced the worst crisis in adopting this eco-friendly system of agriculture, has been…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
France took the initiative this week to introduce some fresh thinking into how the economically developed world must reform the post-World War II Bretton Woods agreement that relied on international lending institutions based in Washington, like the IMF and the World Bank, helping economically poor nations out of the woods…
Columns
Core group’s statement more passive but persuasive; President apparently given more time to deliver Human Rights Chief and core group stress on accountability; Lanka’s envoy rejects any external…
My dear Gota maama, I thought of writing to you when I heard that you had celebrated your 74th birthday this week. Oddly enough, it was only mentioned…
There has been a degree of economic stabilisation and expectation of further improvements later this year. However, the first six months have not been a period of economic…
In post-colonial Sri Lankan history, events that unfolded last July were historically important for many reasons, starting from forcing democratically elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country…
Poles apart: Two different cheese-and-chalk worlds of democracy Last year July, Britain’s Tory Party leader Boris Johnson resigned as Prime Minister following allegations he had known that a…
While the country struggles with the multiple challenges to be faced to rescue the economy from the doldrums, there are clear signs that political reforms required in the…
Only the dim-witted would have expected the current government’s record on the political scorecard and its treatment of civil society and voices of dissent on the ground, would…
The Anti-Corruption Bill that was due to be passed by Parliament this week was postponed on Wednesday to a later date with both the Government and the opposition…
Plus
When the Gratiaen Prize turned 30, it was time to celebrate and the Gratiaen Trust had pulled out all the stops for the awards ceremony…
Magazine
By Shannon Salgadoe International operatic soprano Kishani Jayasinghe made a triumphant return to a packed Lionel Wendt Theatre this past Monday after a break of…
Sunday Times 2
Indian Premier Narendra Modi demonstrated to the world his country’s power — Soft Power as he…
Education
An event to donate school bags was held recently at the Gangaramaya temple in Colombo. The…
Magazine
By Shannon Salgadoe International operatic soprano Kishani Jayasinghe made a triumphant return to a packed Lionel…