Cooking gas shortage puts a damper on New Year celebrations
As 2022 dawned yesterday, the cooking gas crisis was a damper on celebrations with many households…
Eye-watering prices of essentials, shortages set to worsen
The dawn of the New Year failed to cheer many due to the soaring costs of…
Leaders, people flock to religious places
Religious observances were held yesterday islandwide marking the dawn of a New Year. Large crowds of…
Wishing for queue-free New Year: A wishful thinking?
Food crisis looms; gas companies continue to hold people to ransom, while a hapless Government looks…
Don’t come to Australia through unauthorised channels, warns visiting Home Affairs Minister
Renewed high interest among Sri Lankans to pay people smugglers for illegal passage brought Australian Home…
Sri Lankans greet New Year with hope and prayer
The New Year is ideally heralded with parties, events, and religious activities. Some households boil fresh…
Northern fishermen meet detained Indian fishermen; deliver food, tough message during New Year prison visit
In a New Year goodwill gesture, Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda and group of Northern fishermen yesterday…
Taking the books to the children
A book can change the world; that is the firm belief of Mahinda Dasanayaka who, whilst…
Gateway and Dialog Celebrate the Winners of InnovaThon 2021
Gateway College and Dialog Enterprise, the corporate solutions arm of Dialog Axiata PLC, celebrated the winners…
A White Christmas at SLIIT INTERNATIONAL
As a time of giving and celebrating joy, Christmas is unparalleled to any other time of…
12 public sector organisations win gold at CA Sri Lanka’s APFASL Best Annual Reports & Accounts Awards 2021
In recognition of their high-quality financial reporting, 12 public sector institutions received gold awards at the…
News
Chinese fireworks blaze 31st night sky over Galle Face
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic’s new variant Omicron spreading rapidly, 31st night attracted a large crowd to the Galle Face Green where the people had the…
Kuwait Airways pulls out as dollar crunch hits airline operations
Kuwait Airways pulled out from flying into Sri Lanka this week in the midst of the “dollar crisis” threatening tourism arrivals with airlines reluctant to…
Forex crisis hits vital export sectors as shippers demand payment in dollars
The crisis over lack of US dollars in Sri Lanka’s banks has spread to the export sector with shipping lines demanding that their freight charges…
IMF bailout: Cabinet likely to decide tomorrow
Marriage registrars want controversial ‘crime-free’ partner knot loosened
Engineer killed in train-car collision at Wanawasala’s unprotected level crossing
Desmond Tutu’s life and ministry are an example for us today: The Church of Ceylon
Cement prices up
More than 2000 killed in fatal road accidents in 2021
CEB in talks with state banks to help CPC to get dollars for thermal plant fuel
Covid rules thrown to the wind as revellers dance the 31st night away
Cooking gas shortage puts a damper on New Year celebrations
Eye-watering prices of essentials, shortages set to worsen
Oxford trailblazer in SL to help set up more nanopore sequencing facilities
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On the eve of 2022, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) was busy interviewing candidates to replace former Head Coach Mickey Arthur, whose contract was not extended…
All is not lost for Sri Lanka youth cricketers – Coach Gunawardene
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Hasali wins U-16 Singles crown; Akeesha and Movindi bag U-14 Doubles title
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Queen’s Baton arrives in Sri Lanka tomorrow
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Business Times
Welcoming the New Year
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SL expat employees more resolved to withhold dollars
Sri Lankan expatriate workers are even more determined to withhold foreign exchange earnings in their respective countries of residence moving to the latest dollar surrender…
Over 30% drop in tourist traffic
Sri Lanka’s dollar crisis has led the economy to depend on tourism to resolve the issue but irrespective of what lengths the authorities take to…
Five loss-making SOBEs to undergo structural changes
Illiquid share manipulation to stop by month-end
BOI investors want exemptions on dollar conversion
Stretching rubber
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Kapruka gearing to kickstart growth plans
CSE adopts UN Women’s Empowerment Principles
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Galle Face Properties develops new property
Problem arises when the media doesn’t properly interpret annual reports- Treasury Secretary
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Editorial
2022: Bitter pills for pandeconomic ills
A New Year in the Gregorian calendar has dawned against the backdrop of the pain and suffering from as many as 15,000 deaths due to the COVID-19 virus, the lengthy but necessary lockdowns, mass countrywide protests and strikes by every conceivable trade union every day. And yet, with each January…
Columns
- Political Commentary
Wishing for queue-free New Year: A wishful thinking?
Food crisis looms; gas companies continue to hold people to ransom, while a hapless Government looks on More expected from main opposition SJB over burning issues Public confidence…
- 5th Column
Economic assassin strikes again
My dear PB, I thought I must write to you as my first task for the New Year. That is because everyone seems to be talking about what…
- The Economic Analysis
Another year of economic deprivations or one of economic recovery?
At the dawn of the New Year, the question uppermost in our minds is whether the deprivations experienced of essentials last year will be aggravated or whether there…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Mystery over PB — What’s his afterlife as President’s Secretary The secrecy surrounding the “resignation” of Presidential Secretary P. B. Jayasundera, has reached ridiculous heights with even the…
- Focus on Rights
A military nod for marriages to ‘foreigners’ and other associated Sri Lankan idiocies
On the very day that the powerfully resonant voice of South Africa’s anti-apartheid advocate and priest Desmond Tutu was stilled (December 26th 2021), Sri Lanka announced a preposterous…
- Sunday Punch
2022: Survival of the Richest
IF YOU THOUGHT 2021 WAS BAD ENOUGH, THINK AGAIN: WORSE IS TO FOLLOW What horrors await masses in new ‘no news is good news’ year? Like a farmyard…
- In the National Interest
National crisis—three options for the Government
Senior citizens who have lived through the major part of the post Independence era confirm that they have never witnesssed dysfunctional governance of the current type. They claim…
- Thoughts from London
If you want to marry me darling…
In an earlier time in the history of our cherished country when politics was clean and fresh as the morning dew and so were politicians, there was a…
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Top Nanopore expert is Sri Lankan
Seated in the lobby of a Colombo hotel on Thursday morning, having a long and leisurely chat, on the low table is a laptop, a…
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Pomegranate: Why we should eat more of it
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Having been in the Army Medical Corps until 2016, and giving serious thought to music only in 2017, lyricist and rap artist R.V. Dulanja Alwis,…
‘Aiyo Alice’, a game changer
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He leaves behind a legacy of research work on Muslim issues
M I M Mohideen Born in Akkaraipattu in the East and married to Khairul Inaya, daughter…
There’s a Hole in the Bucket Dear Sir, Dear Sir
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“Sakwala” programme launched by SJB
A programme to donate digital screens and computers to schools known as “Sakwala” was recently organised…
Social Reconciliation Centres for state campuses this year: UGC
J’pura University to receive mangrove resource centre in Kalutara
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Taking off on his own solo path
Having been in the Army Medical Corps until 2016, and giving serious thought to music only…
