News
With Sri Lanka being hit by months of extreme weather apparently linked to climate change, our pictures show the flood-affected Akuressa area in the Matara…
By Damith Wickremasekera Sri Lanka is expected to receive US$ 300 million from the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) soon after…
By S. Rubatheesan In the Northern and Eastern Provinces, several courts have turned down police requests seeking stay orders banning tomorrow’s commemorative events organised by…
Sports
The current turmoil at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is likely to have far-reaching consequences as it has left the national team, coaching staff and the…
South Africa’s ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius will be released from…
Business Times
Emirates, Etihad Airways and the Adani Group are among prospective bidders seeking a stake in SriLankan Airlines (SLA). They are among 16 investors – Tata…
Sri Lanka has incurred a massive loss of billions of rupees annually as a result of exemption granted to import luxury vehicles and electric vehicles…
The Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) will be split into two entities namely Life and General before its restructure and the background to this process…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The continuous evening thundershowers since September and the ensuing floods and landslides must surely be an eye-opener to the reality that something is amiss with weather patterns; and that this must surely be directly related to Climate Change and the much-talked-of Global Warming. The Meteorological Department explains this phenomenon as…
Columns
President claims it comes under the executive branch but opposition say, it is part of the legislature Ranil wants question time limited to one hour in parliament to…
My dear Indian cricket fans, I want to write to you, firstly to express my commiserations after your country lost the World Cup final on Sunday to the…
Regular features of the country’s public finances have been overruns in expenditure and shortfalls in revenue. Furthermore, the inability to implement a large number of projects and programmes…
Back to back successes seem to be what the Foreign Ministry is seeing these days. Just last week, in these columns we reported how it was witnessing election…
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s highly inappropriate jocularity in Parliament this week when commenting about the ‘Public Trust’ Doctrine only reinforces the (unfortunately) pejorative stamp of his Presidency as undermining…
On October 31, Pitiduwe Siridhamma Thera stood before the Malwatte Mahanayake at the Sri Dalada Maligawa to beg forgiveness for assassinating Prince Siddhartha’s character on various social media…
With President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s announcement that Presidential and Parliamentary Elections will be held next year, concerned citizens must necessarily focus on the trajectory that the country will take…
So, what news would you like first? The good, the bad or the utterly deplorable? To put some smiles on the faces of the despondent millions preparing to…
Plus
Acozy and safe little place all of their own with every facility for vulnerable mothers with mental health issues, and their babies, to recover and…
Magazine
19-year-old Anagi Gunasekera wants to take her ‘Goodville Program’ that emerged from a school project, to more rural schools By Shannon Salgadoe Inspiration strikes when…
Sunday Times 2
I read with great interest that President Ranil Wickremesinghe was exhorting his party faithful at the…
Education
Adverse weather conditions have had an impact on schools with many students finding it difficult to…
Magazine
19-year-old Anagi Gunasekera wants to take her ‘Goodville Program’ that emerged from a school project, to…