News
While in New York to address the United Nations General Assembly sessions, President Ranil Wickremesinghe also met the Sri Lanka community there. Most of them…
About 100 IT companies also to be invited to invest here; duty-free vehicle concessions also on offer By Damith Wickramasekara In a major investment drive, the…
The United States-based RM Parks company will begin fuel distribution in Sri Lanka next month, a senior Power and Energy Ministry official said. The company…
Sports
The 26-year-old has a grade III tear in his hamstring and medics are racing against time to see how best, and fast, they can get…
Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) entourage at last year’s T20 World…
Business Times
Sri Lanka’s motor traders have raised serious concerns on the government’s decision to impose a zero customs tariff on the CIF value to import electric…
In a bid to revitalise the currently struggling construction sector for survival, the Finance Ministry is planning to propose catalytic inputs including easing taxation on…
More Israeli travellers are scheduled to visit Sri Lanka during the winter season when a special charter operation will get underway. Arkia Israeli Airlines, an…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Bribery and corruption are now the second-most significant unlawful activity generating criminal proceeds in the country, states the National Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment (NRA) of Sri Lanka released last week by the Central Bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). This is an alarming, though not entirely surprising development.…
Columns
Treasury Secretary complains of threat to his life; cites allegations made to Parliamentary Select Committee by Vajira and Cabraal President’s visits demonstrate that his foreign policy is paying…
Aiyo Sirisena, I thought of writing to you because you are always in the news now and not many people seem to like you these days. It began…
The country is on the eve of yet another phase of economic uncertainty, as elections next year are likely to arouse opposition to the ongoing economic reforms and…
The Auditor General has raised issue over the poor performance of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC). In its observations on the Annual Performance…
It takes a Government wholly insensible to public opinion to be audacious enough to gazette two Bills grievously impacting on constitutional liberties of citizens literally within a few…
Vibrant social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp under threat Two most obnoxious legal bills were published in the government gazette this week. One, newly called ‘Anti-Terrorism’ bill could…
The unresolved enigma surrounding the Easter Sunday attacks of April 2019 continues to cast its long shadow over the nation’s political landscape, even after four and a half…
The times have not changed. Sri Lanka carries on its usual blustering, bovine way, never mind who occupies the seat of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. This…
By Sandun Jayawardana More than four years afterwards, lingering questions surrounding the Easter Sunday terror attacks were raised in the House yet again as Parliament held another debate…
Plus
We, both the Sinhalese and the Sri Lankan Tamils, are truly ‘unique’ and share a common genetic ancestry! This common genetic ancestry has been revealed…
Magazine
Faculty of Visual Arts Colombo’s graduation show By Yomal Senerath-Yapa Amidst stunning avant garde couture gowns and vast abstract sculptures made of bamboo, while passing…
Sunday Times 2
By Ayesh Indranath Ranawaka In the ever-evolving landscape of global trade and geopolitics, Sri Lanka finds…
Education
A food festival organised by the Tourism Club of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura was held…
Magazine
Faculty of Visual Arts Colombo’s graduation show By Yomal Senerath-Yapa Amidst stunning avant garde couture gowns…