News
Colombo-based foreign diplomats came out of their busy schedule for National New Year fun and games organised by the Foreign Ministry at the Police Park…
On IMF guidance, major new moves to confiscate ill-gotten wealth By Namini Wijedasa President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe have jointly presented to…
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi will arrive in the country as previously scheduled on Wednesday for an overnight state visit when he will also inaugurate the…
Sports
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will look at a significant increase in match and contract fees for women cricketers as an incentive to the players who…
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has parted ways with Naveed Nawaz,…
Business Times
Plantation workers, in a rare protest in Colombo, on Friday assembled in the capital to demand higher wages. They are seeking a daily wage of…
Sri Lanka and its external bondholders are under immense compulsion to reach a consensus on the US$ 12 billion sovereign debt in the next few…
Sri Lanka could be facing another financial crisis with fund raising issues mainly from borrowings commencing by mid this year with political stagnation and periodic…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi is due in Sri Lanka next week on a rare state visit abroad—unless unsettled circumstances in war-torn West Asia overtake events. Unlike in other constitutional presidencies, the Iranian President is not the numero uno of his country. That honour goes to its Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
Columns
Mahinda and Basil Rajapaksa appear to be backing Ranil, but Namal talks about a separate candidate Major parties prepare for May Day as a test of strength for the…
My dear Satellite, I am writing to you after some time. That is after seeing you back in the limelight after many years, dabbling again in the affairs…
The National New Year was celebrated this year in the traditional manner of observing nekath, or auspicious times, making kiribath and sweetmeats, and raban playing. From urban areas,…
The move to allocate more than Rs. 300 million from the decentralised budget funds to a group of MPs from an opposition party on the instructions of President…
That a State Minister has called upon President Ranil Wickremesinghe to pardon Gnanasara Thero now serving his most recent sentence of four years handed down by the Colombo…
Former UNP Deputy Minister Paltha Thewapperuma had no pretensions of being an educated intellectual nor any claim to a distinguished pedigree. He was a grassroots son of the…
Father Cyril Gamini Fernando who is the editor of the Catholic weekly Gnanartha Pradeepaya and also the spokesperson of Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith on matters relating to the Easter…
India’s new high commissioner to Colombo Santosh Jha is no stranger to Sri Lanka. He served here during the last years of the anti-LTTE war and a while…
Plus
The island’s first cinnamon museum (filling a major lacuna, as Sri Lanka alone gives the world the best and truest of this burnished spice) was…
Magazine
From sharing her outfits on Instagram to becoming an influencer and entrepreneur, Tina Abeysekara talks of how her hobby became her career By Shanali Fernando Hydrologist turned…
Sunday Times 2
To empower Muslim civil society, a steering committee of the Sri Lanka Chapter of the World…
Education
The Master of Laws Programme offered by the University of London, conducted at Royal Institute of…
Magazine
From sharing her outfits on Instagram to becoming an influencer and entrepreneur, Tina Abeysekara talks of how her…