News
Hours after President Ranil Wickremesinghe returned from a two-day official visit to India, he left for Anuradhapura to observe the sacred city development project. He…
All political parties represented in Parliament will be consulted on devolving police powers to provinces, the Government announced hours after the Presidential delegation returned from…
The Health Ministry this week withheld until further testing a batch of propofol anaesthetic that was recently bought from an Indian company and for which…
Sports
Proving the fact of unpredictability at the 76-year-old encounter Trinity College made an impressive comeback to record an unlikely 13-10 win against traditional rivals Royal…
St. Peter’s College continued their unbeaten run in the Dialog…
Business Times
World Bank Country Director for Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Faris Hadad-Zervos speaking on Sri Lanka’s new country partnership with the bank at an event…
In a move towards accomplishing state economic policy reforms and for the proper corporate governance of the majority Treasury-owned Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), its chairman…
The financial transaction advisors, advising on the State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) restructuring are in town for the next two weeks, officials said. International Finance Corporation…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
If US President Franklin Roosevelt referred to the day Pearl Harbour was attacked as a date that will live in infamy, July 24, 1983, would also be considered the same way by many Sri Lankans of recent vintage. That day, 40 years ago, tomorrow, was a watershed moment in the…
Columns
Sagara Kariyawasam fires first salvo at Ranil over 13A; but Basil losing significant support within party Lanza to form independent group, claims the backing of 40 MPs and…
My dear Keheliya, I thought I must write to you this week because you are, as they say, the ‘man of the moment’. It maybe that Uncle Ranil…
There are both favourable developments in the economy, as well as uncertainties, risks and threats to be overcome for economic recovery and revival. Improvements The improvements in the…
When it comes to abusing or using State resources for personal or their cronies’ use against the regulations, there seems to be no party differences or any conflict…
It is only in singularly paradoxical Sri Lanka that Parliament can proudly announce its ‘unanimous’ passing of the country’s newest anti-corruption law while blithely counting in its ranks,…
Opposition to bring no-confidence motion to force him out Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stands in the dock today, on public trial for making a pig’s breakfast of the…
Several media reports last week focussed on Sachini Perera, holder of the national record in Pole Vaulting and known in sports circles as the “Vaulting Queen” being compelled…
Immediately after leaving university at Peradeniya in 1962, I joined the Observer newspaper published by Lake House, the premier publishing house of the day. It was at the…
By Sandun Jayawardana A beleaguered Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella faced growing calls to resign from opposition parliamentarians this week over the worsening crisis in the state health sector.…
Plus
When Isabela Ono was a little girl, and her friends would ask what her father did, she would say he designed gardens and they would…
Magazine
‘Teenpreneur’ Rishma Rizvi’s passion as a child to have her own beauty product has taken shape with ‘Soapstoris’ By Dilushi Wijesinghe The story of Soapstoris…
Sunday Times 2
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Department of…
Education
A delegation led by Yuan Jiajun, Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of China, visiting…
Magazine
‘Teenpreneur’ Rishma Rizvi’s passion as a child to have her own beauty product has taken shape…