News
Addressing the United National Party special convention held yesterday at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium under the theme “a smart country’, President Ranil Wickremesinghe produced document…
CPC says it will strategically deploy dollar reserves and expedite tankage projects By Sandun Jayawardena As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages in West…
By Kasun Warakapitiya President Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday announced the conduct of the presidential election next year (2024), followed by the parliamentary elections and the provincial…
Sports
Three straight defeats have put their World Cup campaign on the line but Sri Lanka just managed to scrape through against a team lacking in…
Sri Lanka spinner Maheesh Theekshana has suffered a hamstring injury…
Business Times
Tourists walk on a flooded street in the tourist town of Mirissa in southern Weligama. Pic by Tharanga Chanaka…
The Commercial Bank, the first bank from Sri Lanka to start operations in Bangladesh over two decades ago, has ambitious plans to expand horizontally and…
The tourism industry is facing a drop in MICE travellers as most are feeling the pinch from the high rates charged following the imposition of…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month in Environment Minister Nazeer Ahamed’s case (October 6, 2023) upholding his expulsion from his party must surely cause serious concern to other Members of Parliament who crisscross the floor of the House with gay abandon. Depending on which way the political winds blow,…
Columns
Other Government leaders surprised by move with questions over delay in elections Controversy over IGP’s third extension; JVP challenges President’s power to do so after CC’s rejection…
My dear Diana, I thought of writing to you this week after noticing that you are in the news again. It is somehwat like hearing about our cricket…
The Gaza war and the Ukraine war are serious setbacks to the Sri Lankan economy, which was striving to recover from the worst economic crisis that the nation…
Sri Lanka’s next High Commissioner to Britain, former Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, has finally received his Agrement from the host country after some unexplained delay in accepting him.…
Sri Lanka’s political establishment continues to be in unusually excited tumult following this month’s Supreme Court decision in the Nazeer Ahamed case, upholding the opposition Sri Lanka Muslim…
‘Eye for an eye’ makes Israel-Hamas both blind to the full horror of war Israel showed on Tuesday it had lost none of its Judaist zeal to claim…
After the Aragalaya of 2022 the cry for system change has repeatedly been heard in political circles as well as from various quarters of society. There are diverse…
Never in the history of independent Sri Lanka has a single government with such a short history and a dubious mandate, drawn up such a battery of obnoxious…
By Sandun Jayawardana Attention was drawn to the crisis facing the country’s state universities during this week’s Parliament sessions. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday (19) as it debated…
Plus
The Lake District, with its silver mirror lakes, daffodils, and green hills, was where children’s writer Sita Brahmachari grew up. It was also typical Beatrix…
Magazine
By Anoushka Jayasuriya The enchanting tale of Hansel and Gretel, the Grimms fairy tale of the courageous brother and sister who embark on a fantastical…
Sunday Times 2
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS–The ongoing battle between Israel and Hamas is overwhelmingly one-sided—the most powerful…
Education
In line with its vision to guide students to become successful, Queen’s International Business Campus successfully…
Magazine
By Anoushka Jayasuriya The enchanting tale of Hansel and Gretel, the Grimms fairy tale of the…