Manusha, Harin join campaign to ensure President’s victory
Former Ministers Manusha Nanayakkara and Harin Fernando say they will concentrate on the election campaign of…
After Dhammika pulls out, SLPP turns to Namal for presidential race
Billionaire businessman withdraws because of his firm belief in Feng Shui and indisposition of family member More…
Prominent monks express support to President’s candidature
Prominent Buddhist monks have extended their support to President Ranil Wickremesinghe in the upcoming election. The…
Last minute indiscipline by Royal hand win to Pathana
Isipathana College flyhalf Shahid Zumri played a crucial role in guiding his team to a nail-biting…
Unbeaten Peterites march towards league title
Defending champions St. Peter’s College showcased their resilience and determination with a remarkable second-half burst to…
CEB to lower rooftop solar tariff from July 1
By Niranjala Ariyawansha The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has taken steps to lower the rooftop solar…
Whither SLFP: Once dominant party suffers another blow in its 73 years
By Chandani Kirinde “Malice towards none, with charity for all” were the words used by the…
Aluthwatta villagers demand a halt to polluting sewage plant
By Mimi Alphonsus A pungent smell wafts over the village of Aluthwatta in Kandy, the final…
The path from being ‘lames’ to ‘lions’
Scorned and laughed at, even labeled by home fans as ‘lonthayo’–roughly translated to mean ‘lame people’–after…
A million-dollar answer!
As we had to spend a couple of hours travelling from Colombo to Kandy on Wednesday,…
Caribbean Sunset Soirée at MLH
On the evening of July 30, 2024, Mount Lavinia Hotel delighted its corporate friends, travel agents,…
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Kandy’s most spectacular pageant begins
One of Asia’s most spectacular pageants, the Kandy Esala Perahera, began yesterday with the Kumbal Perahera taking place. The caparisoned Maligawa tusker Indiraja and other…
Fake EC website in operation; probe by police cybercrime unit
Computer Emergency Response Team traces website to US-based Google server By Ishu Bandara The Election Commission is to seek the assistance of the police cybercrimes…
Drones, snipers and 4,500 police personnel for nominations on Thursday
By Damith Wickremasekara Drone cameras, snipers and more than 4,500 police personnel will be deployed for security operations in and around the Election Commission on…
Centralised electronic system to streamline declaration of assets
Online visa: Immigration Dept only partly complies with SC order; visa issuance activated and deactivated
Symbols for independent candidates gazetted
Bawa memorial lecture by Architect Kundoo
Manusha, Harin join campaign to ensure President’s victory
Bill to tone down powers of Online Safety Commission
Wildlife Dept. to conduct elephant survey this week
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Last minute indiscipline by Royal hand win to Pathana
By Riyad RiffaiRUGBY
Isipathana College flyhalf Shahid Zumri played a crucial role in guiding his team to a nail-biting 19-18 victory over Royal College in the Super Round…
Unbeaten Peterites march towards league title
Defending champions St. Peter’s College showcased their resilience and determination…
Sri Lanka and England focus on WTC standings
Pumas bite All Blacks
St. Peter’s and St. Anthony’s through to U-17 semi-finals
Dominant South Africa crush Australia
The path from being ‘lames’ to ‘lions’
CCC and Ace Capital battle for Major Club LO supremacy
Cycling elections on hold until August 27
Tennis of the Olympians
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Demand rises for on-arrival visas
With the Supreme Court temporarily cancelling the e-visa system managed by VFS Global, following a petition by tourism industry organisations and three opposition politicians, the…
Sri Lanka immigration link on the blink
A long time ago there was an island on the Indian Ocean to where people from all over the world travelled to. But today this…
SL businesses in Bangladesh will not pull out
Local businesses in Bangladesh, particularly by MAS Holdings and Brandix –Sri Lanka’s largest apparel manufacturers -, were largely unscathed by the violence that swept the…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
The PC factor in presidential poll
The northern polity is keen to take advantage of every election, this time the presidential election, to ‘strike when the iron is hot’ and make demands from the competing parties in the South. One of their demands is to hold elections to the nine defunct provincial councils after the presidential…
Columns
- Political Commentary
After Dhammika pulls out, SLPP turns to Namal for presidential race
Billionaire businessman withdraws because of his firm belief in Feng Shui and indisposition of family member More shocks to Pohottuwa as Pavithra and Rohitha decide to support Ranil Several…
- 5th Column
Coming fourth
My dear Namal baby, I thought I must write to you to congratulate you since you have now been chosen as the candidate of the ‘pohottuwa’ party for…
- The Economic Analysis
Macroeconomic indicators shine amidst increasing poverty and social unrest
The expected economic growth of 4 percent for this year is being achieved amidst political uncertainties and social unrest. In spite of this, poverty and malnutrition have increased,…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Online safety law: Britain to take tougher line after telling Sri Lanka to tone down provisions
It is with wry amusement that we find the Sri Lankan Parliament has been told that the Government’s social media laws (the Online Safety Bill) will be reintroduced…
- Focus on Rights
The ‘second liberation’ of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka’s ‘zero liberation?
Those who unwisely murmur ‘Bangladeshi people power a la Sri Lanka’ in assessing the ‘second liberation’ of Bangladesh following the jubilant toppling of fifteen year one-party rule by…
- Sunday Punch
Dhammika quits to clear the way for heir Namal’s planned advent
Poor Dhammika Perera, who was touted as the SLPP’s presidential hope. For months on end, he had been kept tied in reserve as the party’s biblical scapegoat to…
- In the National Interest
Praise be to the Supreme Court and the Judiciary
The Supreme Court has been making the headlines in recent times for all the right reasons. A spate of judgements that have deep implications for a democratic society…
- Thoughts from London
Dining with an assassin: Alleged killer of the ‘Father of Bangladesh’
If the arrogant and egotistic leaders of developing countries do not learn a clear lesson from the disgraceful fall of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed, they too…
- Lobby
As polls near, MPs’ focus shifts from matters economics to politics and Bangladesh
By Chandanie Kirinde While the current parliament completed four years of its five-year term this week, there was more focus on what was happening outside parliament than inside…
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Take the leap!
Soaring through the clouds, 13,000 feet above the ground with a breathtaking view of the Koggala Lake, the coastline, and the endless sea unfolding beneath…
Human-centric approach to HEC mitigation is not the way
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
From Brahmi script to modern Sinhala alphabet
Insightful depiction of an ancient Hindu temple
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Teens on a mission to make a change
By Vinuri Gunaratne Cricket: Undoubtedly the most intense national passion that unites the entire nation. Yet for the boys’ team in Kelamitiya (close to Tangalle),…
Kandy’s Kolam Studios brings Broadway and more to Lionel Wendt
Deshapriya’s ‘Doosra’ now in cinema
Cinema based on best-selling video game
UWU hosts first ever National Level Culinary and Bartending Competition
Caribbean Sunset Soirée at MLH
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Violin- Piano duo recital for Prithipura Home
Violinist Sulara Nanayakkara and pianist Johann Peiris will present a Violin- Piano Duo Recital on Tuesday,…
A youth course to improve your faculty of thinking
Kashmir Day observed by Pakistan High Commission in Sri Lanka
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A lack of this, a lack of that…
A protest was held by the Inter University Student Federation in Colombo this week over a…
Chinese smart classroom project to start this month
Potential Sri Lanka-Singapore collaborations discussed
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Teens on a mission to make a change
By Vinuri Gunaratne Cricket: Undoubtedly the most intense national passion that unites the entire nation. Yet…
