News
Muslim preschool children took part in a Bakthi Gee programme titled ‘Sanda Diya Dhara 2024’. Accompanied by their mothers, students, who took part in the…
By Damith Wickremasekara Nominations for the presidential election are set to be accepted only in mid-August, not earlier, with the announcement of the exact date…
By Ranjith Padmasiri Former President Maithripala Sirisena has acquired 10 state properties for himself using “Swarnabhoomi” title deeds awarded when he was President. This was…
Sports
Binura Fernando, Chamindu Wickremasinghe, Dinesh Chandimal, and Kusal Janith Perera have earned their places in the national T20 side to face India in the three-match…
After Sri Lankan bowlers restricted Bangladesh women to a below-par…
Business Times
A toddy tapper uses ancient methods of tapping toddy during a familiarisation tour in Chilaw and Marawila of production facilities of the family-run Rockland Group,…
Serious interest from major Indian operators have been seen flowing in for national carrier, SriLankan Airlines for the past few months and some are likely…
The second terminal construction of the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) extension project will begin shortly after the delay of over one year under a concessionary…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The forthcoming presidential election seems to have given the wrong message to trade unions and their handlers that it is an opportune time to ‘strike’. The JVP’s presidential candidate admitted to this newspaper that his party was masterminding the string of strikes unleashed in recent weeks. The railway strike, for…
Columns
Wickremesinghe to contest as independent candidate; SLPP awaits formal letter on policy matters before declaring support Rishad’s ACMC to back Wickremesinghe; as President gradually increases campaign momentum In…
My dear new ‘Maco’ Rathnayake, I am sorry to write to you at this time when you must be very busy, what with an upcoming election and an…
The past few weeks have been characterised by a spate of strikes in public services that brought the country to almost a halt. Fortunately, these have been called…
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Tourism, Lands, Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Harin Fernando were set to attend the 48th National Sports Games at the Sugathadasa Outdoor Stadium on…
Consternation reign in Sri Lanka following President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s directive to gazette an inconsequential 22nd Amendment to the Constitution feared to be, in truth, a political ruse to…
How tension-gripped UNP and SLPP scramble in haste at the eleventh hour to make final ‘candidate’ decision Election fever hit a new high on Wednesday as sole electoral…
Among the social indicators that Sri Lanka is rightly proud of are achievements in education and health. In both these spheres, the provision by the State to provide…
It was just last month that firecrackers were bursting here and there. Sky rockets were aiming for the stars as though India and China were competing to grab…
Plus
It started with kiribath. Kiribath with blackened coconut snapper, lunumiris and Sri Lankan treacle—the very first dish presented to the judges of the much-loved MasterChef…
Magazine
By Yomal Senerath-Yapa ‘To Lunuganga’ by the Geoffrey Bawa Trust captures the ‘echoes’ of the master architect’s beautiful estate, with artwork of different kinds…
Sunday Times 2
COLOMBO – To strengthen Sri Lanka’s preparedness for climate-related emergencies, the US government, through the United…
Education
Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Audrey Azoulay, during an official…
Magazine
By Yomal Senerath-Yapa ‘To Lunuganga’ by the Geoffrey Bawa Trust captures the ‘echoes’ of the…