Rising veg prices change consumer behaviour; health warning from top nutritionist
A sharp vegetable price hike, together with the domestic cooking gas shortage and safety issue, has…
SLC gets tough on fitness
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will introduce tougher fitness benchmarks for its national cricketers from next year…
Smell of death, stench of gas duopoly and regulatory rot linger
Bureacatic bungling, indecisions and confusion continued last week on the country’s domestic cooking gas supply with…
Alert raised amid 26 dengue deaths and jump in infections
Close to 5,000 people have been infected with dengue in the first half of December. Health…
Safety fails
The main reason behind the recent incidents of explosions of containers of liquid organic fertiliser is…
Indian trawlers vacuum up Sri Lankan fish stocks after wrecking their own
Valvettithurai, Jaffna: Ever since he was a teenager, Kathiramalai Kamalanathan, 56, has been fishing to support…
British High Commissioner addresses MA students at AOD Graduate School on partnership with De Montfort University UK
The first of its kind on the island, the Masters qualification will enable students to have…
General Convocation 2021 – Final Session held at BMICH on 09th December 2021
“There is a mismatch between the education generally on offer in Sri Lanka and what is…
Study Human Capital Management at MSI
When choosing which higher education institutions (HEI) to enroll, it can be easy to get distracted…
Knife with a double edge
UDA seals deals worth US$ 1b” was the headline of a story in the Sunday Times…
Nepal Tour operators visited Sri Lanka
A group of twenty top Nepal tour operators was in Sri Lanka on a familiarisation tour…
News
Chinese envoy visits point close to India
In an apparently strategic move, China’s ambassador Qi Zhenhong visited the Northern Province, including Sri Lanka’s northern most point, Sakkotai Cape in Point Pedro overlooking…
Fertiliser importers tell Govt. to settle arrears of Rs. 26b
Private sector fertliser companies are demanding that the Government should settle an arrears of Rs 26 billion for stocks previously provided under the state-subsidy scheme…
SriLankan Airlines told to pay for jet fuel in dollars — or else
The Energy Ministry has officially informed SriLankan Airlines that it will not supply jet fuel if the payment is not made in dollars. Energy Ministry…
15 Lankans face charges in Kerala over LTTE links
Fitch rating revision: Debt default fears worsen but Lanka assures repayment
Cabraal gets 74% of earlier salary as pension and Rs. 400,000 as monthly pay
Rising veg prices change consumer behaviour; health warning from top nutritionist
Rituals herald the start of pilgrimages to Sripada
Eye Hospital chief: Who’s pulling wool over patients’ eyes?
Mirigama-Kurunegala expressway to be opened next month
Sifting truth from myth as concerns grow over Omicron as well as booster
‘COVID-19 brought home the need to think globally and act locally’
Resignation hits RTIC one day after first sitting
Sharp increase in rape of underaged girls
Govt. cites pandemic, says local council polls cannot be held
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Hathu loses case against SLC; may file fresh action
By Champika Fernandocricket
Former Sri Lanka Head Coach Chandika Hathurusingha has withdrawn the case he filed against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) challenging his sacking after the Court of…
Injury-prone KJP defies medical advice to play LPL, risking recovery
Opener Kusal Janith Perera has defied medical advice to feature…
SLC gets tough on fitness
Piliyandala Central win Segment ‘B’ 7s title
AIS roars at Rowing Junior Nationals
Yasitha, Chathurya, Anjalika, Janali reach Singles finals
Roshan Mahanama launched his second book titled ‘My Innings’
A reputation too easy to risk
Lanka Premier League reach final stage
The tale of three triumphs
Ushan, Maduranga fastest in Kothmale
Ajith wins 65kg title at Mr. Novice Meet
Business Times
Statues for cribs
Workers at Angle Arts, Mattakkuliya preparing statues to be used in cribs during the Christmas season. They said this was the best Christmas season so…
Sri Lanka’s economic woes likely to worsen in 2022
Sri Lanka is heading towards a major economic crisis in 2022 amidst dwindling foreign reserves and pressure on the monetary system with no immediate signs…
Fertilisers allocated for tea industry grabbed
Amidst speculation that foreign exchange coffers are fast running out of dollars, fertiliser importers are caught in a tight situation unable to bring down adequate…
ADB-funded health sector enhancement project marred by irregularities
Fresh organic tender for Yala season
Chinese fertiliser case: Sri Lanka reverses decision
Mandatory conversion of foreign earnings
Knife with a double edge
Tracified says helps 10,000 Lankan farmers to move up the value chain
New committee at Ship Suppliers Association
Vehicle importers urge government to introduce credible survival plan
Taprobane Seafoods announces strategic diversification plans
Sri Lanka’s economy contracts in 3Q 2021-DCS
HSBC’s Rajagiriya facility to move to Havelock City
Janashakthi Life GWP grows at 42%
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Editorial
Omicron and the virus that refuses to be beaten
No cooking gas; no fertiliser; no medicines; no milk powder; no vegetables; no trains; no post office; no imports; no foreign exchange; no Parliament and it looks like no Government. The only likely import is Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant that has reached 77 countries big time, and the only…
Columns
- Political Commentary
Prorogation may be presidential prerogative, but politics plays a part
Parliament committee heads unhappy over President’s sudden move; speculation that it was aimed at quashing probes and removing present committee heads Cabinet divided over IMF assistance; COPF chairman…
- 5th Column
Everyone’s beginning to see red
My dear Anura Kumara or ‘AKD’, I thought I should write to you because more and more people are talking about the increasingly important role you are playing…
- The Economic Analysis
Export performance: Only silver lining in external finances
The favourable export performance this year is the only silver lining amidst the dark threatening clouds of depleting external finances. Export earnings have exceeded US$ one billion a…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Prorogation: LSSP laments it was not consulted
A little known fact is that the Government does not discuss with constituent parties in the alliance led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) critical issues or…
- Focus on Rights
Lanka’s brand of burning people alive, ‘animal farm’ style
Even at the brink, if not firmly in the abyss of moral, legal and financial bankruptcy as a nation, Sri Lanka’s vicious peddlars of racial and communal hatred…
- Sunday Punch
X’mas comes early for MPs sent on mandatory holiday
Christmas has come early this year for the political class of Lanka. Shortly before the President’s own departure in the wee hours of Monday morning to Singapore on…
- In the National Interest
Yugadanavi deal: Govt.’s loud silence gives credence to allegations of corruption
The events surrounding the attempt by the Government to sell 40 percent of the shares in the Yugadanavi Power Plant to a United States based Company, have increasingly…
- Thoughts from London
Tryst at midnight and more gas leaks
Many decades ago — until the end of the 1980s — when we covered the country’s political scene, it was customary to see some politicians strutting around like…
Plus
When ‘angelic voices’ herald Christmas in Kandy
In the hills of Kandy, the Christmas season seems inevitably to begin with the carols at Trinity College. The congregation returns expectantly, to hear the…
All I want for Christmas…
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
A window to Sri Lanka’s pioneer abstract artist George Claessen
Sanghamitta Theri and the dawn of a cultural revolution
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Raising their voices in Christmas harmony
Christmas carols, those well-loved favourites we all enjoy singing at this time of the year help us enjoy this season of goodwill and carry the…
A tree of hope and love
Picking those Christmas treats to add seasonal flavour
Udaykantha ignites ‘GinimalPokuru’
The King of Sri-Lankan Pop Music
‘Dolce Vita in Serendib’: Lankan smile on Italian face
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How Indian conman Sukesh wooed and won Jacqueline
At first Bahrain-Lankan model Jacqueline Fernandez, who made good in Bollywood, refused to take the call…
Law and order with justice: New challenges
A welcome effort to take Tamil poetry to English literary world
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Hardy Advanced Technological Institute students on protest
Students of the Hardy Advanced Technological Institute in Ampara protested in Colombo on Friday. They were…
IT facilities to be provided or upgraded in many rural and provincial schools
New degree in Japanese at J’pura University
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Raising their voices in Christmas harmony
Christmas carols, those well-loved favourites we all enjoy singing at this time of the year help…
