News

It’s mourning time for the PM

Higher taxes for your property

GTF to represent Tamils at Mandela’s funeral today

Speaker gets special media consultant

2,200 new buses; old buses to settle EPF dues

Tax relief for night races, CMC loses millions

Big fishing deals with Asian countries

CPC oil: Billions down the drain

Rs. 4 million worth electronic items recovered

Investigation into illegal use of postal franking machine

Man killed in fireworks factory fire

New front determined to stand firm against Pettah extortion

CAA renews raids after outdated cheese stocks found at warehouse

Passing of Moratuwa MC budget challenged

‘Sports mafia’ slandering me for my stand against corruption: Aluthgamage

Thalassaemia on the rise

Huge heroin haul: Pressure on Govt. to hold impartial inquiry

Budget 2014 does not meet NP’s peculiar needs, says Chief Minister

Kataragama OIC ordered to produce kapurala in Kandy Courts

CPC where oil and irregularities mix

Click – and tricked

3,000 apartments to come up in Colombo for state sector workers, says UDA

Sharp increase in HIV cases cause for concern

Ankutta join list of endemic fish

I saw three fish come sailing in

Proud industry collapses

Spiralling fatalities focus attention on untrained bus drivers

Ambitious UPFA rebels wreck council budgets

Lawyer files case against Matara cops for harassment

Scrooge rules Christmas sales so far

Editorial

Law is King or King is Law?

Columns

Budget 2014: Import substitution may derail economic growth

The bitter cost of bringing the genie out of the bottle

UPFA focuses on Geneva; UNP on common front for polls

D.M PM: The time to stay or go?

Debate on media: Story does not fit the headline

Lanka pays British MP £ 3,412 to attend Business Forum

PM must come clean on ‘grease yaka’

Sports

It’s not a game of make believe, but believing in

Havelocks-CR rivalry a key event in Havies Centenary celebrations 2014

Hayleys Agriculture Food Exports stages annual sports day

Nimble-footed Silva outclasses Gunasekera

Sri Lanka over the moon after defeating Pakistan

Ranasinghe in line for TT triple

Saverimutto at the wrong end and time?

Hendahewa and Maduranga win singles titles

Sports Diary

Chris Woakes to lead England Lions tour to Sri Lanka

MCA Div ‘E’ KO round in February 2014

Tennis and Post career prospects

Carrom Nationals from Jan. 18

Kinross to celebrate ‘Club Day’

Sandaruwan Best Rider 2013

Asanga must move fast to get Sri Lanka into Hong Kong sevens

SriLankan Airlines retain TTSC swimming championship

Nilfer Ibrahim appointed Hambantota Sharks coach

FFSL ready to adopt foreign mold – Rodrigo

Victory face Colombo Veterans in Yusoof Cup final today

Who are the real rebels?

This could be a chance to get into winning ways again

Junior Open Golf tees of tomorrow

It is not the right time to stage Colombo Night Races

A puncher’s chance

Trinity still top of the hill

Plus

When the Plains go pink and purple

Advent of Sanghamitta Theri and our pioneering Bhikkunis

A lasting legacy from the 19th century

Living and telling the story of China’s cultural revolution to a new generation

Black and white close encounter with the wilds

Letters to the Editor

Appreciations

Runaway train –runaway nation

Laki’s owls all flock together

Designs with a human touch at Rithihi

A starry reception

Good Shepherd Convent Kandy: For the good times

The voice of a compassionate crusader

People and events

Business Times

Growing opposition to casinos, new BT-RCB poll reveals

Cosy winter for Lankan hotels

11 firms to go public in 2014

Nation Lanka shelves deposit-to-shares conversion plan

Austerity spending measures amidst budgetary discrepancies

Mihin Lanka: Key strategy for success

Casinos and keepers of the law

Sri Lanka’s private sector should work together without individually cutting deals

Sampur coal power project set to start with foreign funding

Stop horsing around! – Cabraal tells banks to get their act together

HSBC and MAS Active implement another first in the industry

New Chinese technology to tackle rising electricity bills

Leo Burnett SL wins ‘Rest of South Asia Agency of the Year’ for second year

Moody’s acquires Amba Investment Services

‘Unlock Possibilities’ with Huawei’s competition this holiday season

Sony Vaio enters Sri Lanka with ultrabooks, tablet and hybrids

25 % SL smartphone market share for E-tel : Local agent

CSE goes live on Android

Eden Resort & Spa renewed with world-class 5 star luxuries

Small-time barbers come together, launch benevolent fund

Aerial route to watching Lankan whales

Hayleys Business Solutions International awarded Gold approved Employer Status by ACCA

Dizzying targets hit Sri Lanka Tourism

Suncity adds yet another building to the Colombo skyline

Lanka Walltile brand to make a comeback

LankaClear bags silver award at ICASL annual report awards

Is the future bright for tea the cup that cheers?

Global Compact Network Lanka amongst the world’s best

Lankan citizens must fight against corruption

Amidst the cynicism, a thread to hold on for HIV/AIDS activists

Bank of Ceylon supports ‘War Heroes’ with ABIMANSALA III

Tharaka from Cinnamon Lakeside at the Commonwealth Youth Forum

CCC bags Gold at Annual Report Awards, three years running

Mobitel recognized at inaugural Project Management awards

Social Business: A novel way to do CSR work and funding NGOs

Janashakthi Insurance celebrates win at National Business Excellence Awards

GSK supports project to combat child abuse in Sri Lanka

Bank of Ceylon awards 2,000 schols for top performers at Grade 5 scholarship exam

Lankan banking industry needs capital consolidation

Investment in casinos will generate only tax income, few jobs –poll reveals

Entrepreneur thanks People’s Bank SME loans for his success

Sunday Times 2

Lanka’s own crusader against apartheid

“Not our War”: Army doctor launches latest book

SriLankan Cares hosts ‘disability awareness’ concert

Clear Point Residencies to bring green look to highrise apartments

VOX ONE choir’s annual Christmas service

A celebration of local art

Behind Obama’s handshake with Raúl Castro

Mandela sanitised by hypocrites and apologists

The saint versus the humanist

From some, Mandela praise masks a darker past

Life under apartheid

Japan makes $20 bn pledge to combat Chinese expansion

Mandela’s ‘long walk’ nears its end

US concern following N. Korean purge

China prepares for first lunar rover landing on the moon

Could mushrooms save the world?

Unsettled still

Indian government scrambles to undo Supreme Court judgement on homosexuality

Licensed to booze… 007 was an alcoholic

Canada’s audacious bid to own the Arctic

Asia’s historical furies and obsessions

Middle East frenemies

Jesus Christ tops list of world’s top ten most significant people

China’s smog is so bad you can see it from space

‘Give us back our treasure’

China, India in race to exploit Indian Ocean seabed

In the land of the holy cow, fury over beef exports

India, Pak nuclear war could put 2 billion people at risk: Study

Magazine

Popular plays at Wendt

Saying it with paper, colour and shape

No looking back from those big, black hair days

Have yourself a sweet holiday!

Platform for debate | World Youth Conference 2014

Bringing out the scientist

A Cry unanswered

Do you know senor Santa Claus ?

Of food, fun and relatives | What Christmas means to me

Transit home

Mirage : 25 years rocking the scene

‘Rhythm of the Maroons’

B’day Boy Kumar back as emcee in the dinner dance circuit

Sebs Choir opened the season for Mount Lavinia Hotel

‘Ini Avan’ wins major SIGNIS award

‘Pambaya’ in Dehiwela

‘Nari Bana’ and ‘Jasaya saha Lenchina’ in Borella

Sampath-Rathna celebrate 50 plays in 30 years

‘Peaceful sunshine’ for Christmas

Santa comes on the double decker this christmas too

Saga Award for Club Palm Bay

Kebab Factory at Spice Festival

Merrymaking at the Ramada this season

Funday Times

Asiri’s Quest

Kids’ World

The Evergreen Tree

Gampaha Sussex College steps up…

Properties of Numbers

The night before Christmas

‘Ballerinas on Toes’