News
At the Puttalam District Secretariat premises, members of varied party members after submitting nominations on Friday took shelter in a marquee together because of the…
UNIFIL in stand-off with Israel over demand for withdrawal, as two Lankan soldiers are wounded By Dilushi Wijesinghe andMimi Alphonsus The United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL)…
By Damith Wickremasekera Fifty bar licences issued during the presidential election period have been put on hold and will be reviewed before they are re-issued…
Sports
Sri Lanka will aim to emulate their recent Test success in the shortest format of the game—T20—when they take on the West Indies in a…
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, AFP: New Zealand eased past winless…
Business Times
World Bank and IFC Country Manager Gevorg Sargsyan (right) and World Bank Senior Economist Richard Walker keenly observing the presentation on the South Asia Development Update on “Women, Jobs and Growth” made…
Sri Lanka is preparing to resume discussions on the US $ 2.9 billion bailout programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the IMF and…
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) under the Labour Ministry headed by Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya, is determined to weed out the agency’s…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Nominations for parliamentary elections next month concluded on Friday with a distinctly lower degree of public enthusiasm considering the clamour there was for a new set of legislators to replace the older lot. Some 160 MPs from the former Parliament are in the fray again. “The mandate” of the people…
Columns
Many seasoned politicians out of the race—they include Mahinda, Ranil, Wimal and Champika Weerawansa warns new president of “Western imperial” schemes Champika accuses SJB of violating the deal…
My dear Sajith, I wrote to you last about two months ago but I thought I should write to you again now even though you must be busy,…
The President announced that the government would continue with the IMF agreement. He expects to achieve the macroeconomic targets set by the IMF while giving relief to low-income…
Hardly had the nominations for the parliamentary elections been handed over, political parties began planning on how they would be part of a future government. Some of the…
What the Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) Presidency and his (rather frighteningly) new administration faces as a daunting challenge up to the General Elections on November 14th 2024 and…
It’s a wrap as last man left to pay, SDIG Nilantha pays up on final day The long-drawn battle waged by Malcom Cardinal Ranjith to bring justice to…
The Parliamentary Elections of 2024 promises to be an unusual one in more ways than one. Even though the nomination process has only just been completed and elections…
Oh, what a national tragedy. What a fall was there, my countrymen, if one might temporarily dip into the words of Mark Antony. After all, they too were…
Plus
After ‘In the Pursuit of Governance’, his memoirs published in 2002, Desamanya M. D. D. Pieris has now compiled a tome of his speeches and…
Magazine
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, leading menswear brand Hameedia, unveiled its exclusive Global Wedding Collection at a glamorous event held at Envoy Mansion, Colombo this week.…
Sunday Times 2
Bees play a critical role as pollinators, supporting both biodiversity and agriculture in our ecosystem. Beyond…
Education
A photography exhibition to mark World Children’s Day 2024 organised by the Art Council of Sri…
Magazine
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, leading menswear brand Hameedia, unveiled its exclusive Global Wedding Collection at a…