NPP’s India visit causes excitement in political circles
Anura Kumara tells the Sunday Times of high-level talks and India’s security concerns President invites opposition parties…
Truncated parade for freedom at 76
The 76th National Independence Day celebration was held at Galle Face Colombo, under the theme “Let’s…
Why road accidents keep occurring despite tough preventive measures
Experts cite driver indiscipline, behavioural issues and government failures as some of the key causes; call…
Bakery owners to feel the weight of violating gazette as CAA takes action
By Dilushi Wijesinghe The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) is to file action against bakery owners who…
Dealing a death blow to drug menace, say police
As the controversy-ridden “Yukthiya” (Justice) operation reaches 50 days, Acting IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon talks about breakthroughs…
Gangaramaya needs help for perehera to go on
The Gangarama temple at Hunupitiya, Colombo is calling for sponsorships for the Nawam Perehera event which…
They come to feed the jumbos and watch them bathe
The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is one of the main tourist attractions in the country. Tourists, both…
All Set For The Bci Campus Open Weekend 2024!
BCI Campus, Negombo, is all set to commence its Open Weekend 2024, happening on the 9th…
Madagodalanda Sri Siddhartha Sunday School celebrates 31 years
Completing 31 years of the Galigamuwa Madagodalanda Sri Siddhartha Sunday School, the prefects induction ceremony and…
From one Kella to others out there; you are not alone
Singing sensation Yohani talks to Shanali Fernando about what her first album means to her Our very…
Let’s learn some economics!
Let me ask you a question: If the government must allocate 6 per cent of GDP…
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Politically loaded meetings
Two important meetings took place this week between India’s External Affairs Minister and two possible candidates for Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential election. At Perth in…
Imports broadbased to reduce food prices
Not only licence holders but other traders also will be allowed to import By Damith Wickremasekara In a fresh bid to control food prices, the…
Fuel at lower prices from Chinese refinery in Hambantota
Sri Lanka will be able to buy fuel from the proposed Chinese oil refinery to be set up in Hambantota under an agreement reached between…
NMRA to go for foolproof digi system
Police to get higher food and lodging allowance from Tuesday
Invoking blessings on King Charles
Supreme Court green light for appeal against order preventing pastor’s arrest
CID begins probe on hidden hand behind self-styled Bodhisatva
Activist group seeks court intervention to prevent human, elephant deaths
Iran celebrates 45th Victory Day
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Sri Lanka should use all-round armoury
Daminda Wijesuriya reporting from Pallekelecricket
The recent matches played by the Sri Lankan cricket team signify a return to their traditional style of play, believes former batting great Sanath Jayasuriya.…
Kandy SC in close win over Havies
After a lacklustre yet strenuous first half, where only a…
Royal beat Petes after 38 years
Airmen gundown Sailors
Kamindu and Sangeeth shine with centuries
Nethmi leads Colombo Women to victory
SSC Press Box ‘must’ go on par with rest of the world
Pathum: Welcome to the epic club of 200
SIU investigation on Asian Games badminton selection further delayed
LiNing Finalists found
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Rising fish prices
At the fishermen’s jetty at Elakanda, Wattala, fishermen are selling fish straight from their boats as the fish sellers have stopped coming from nearby markets…
VAT 18 shutting down Sri Lanka’s coconut industry
In just a few weeks since the newly imposed 18 per cent VAT, the coconut industry in Sri Lanka is right now in dire straits…
Excise Dept gears up to collect the highest revenue target of Rs.232 bn
Having the highest annual revenue target in 2024 of Rs.232 billion in history, the Department of Excise has to grapple in collecting a sum of…
Dairy items’ potential price hikes will see low demand
New laws to impose severe punishment against corrupt practitioners
Port Access Elevated Highway project back on track
Foreign missions alerted on labour law reforms
Taxing knowledge
Let’s learn some economics!
Government to enact a new Public Financial Management Act this month
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Editorial
Big power interest in Lanka’s elections
The opening of a new session of Parliament, probably the last before the next general election, set the stage for what is in store on the political battlefield in the coming months. The main Opposition boycotted the event which in the old days was the ‘Throne Speech’ by a Governor…
Columns
- Political Commentary
NPP’s India visit causes excitement in political circles
Anura Kumara tells the Sunday Times of high-level talks and India’s security concerns President invites opposition parties to join him in common purpose of developing the country With residents’…
- 5th Column
A taste of your own medicine, perhaps?
My dear Keheliya, I am writing this to you not knowing where I should send it. I suppose Prison Hospital is the best bet. That is where you…
- The Economic Analysis
Further reflections on post-independence economic underdevelopment and underperformance
Last Sunday’s column on the country’s failure to realise the expectations of economic development at independence and its full economic potential raises the question of why we failed.…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
SLPP MPs wonder whether JVP leader will drop talk on Indian expansionism
Some Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MPs were in Polonnaruwa this week for the first phase of their ‘Jana Rala’ programme. The group also met some of the…
- Focus on Rights
The rude farce of Sri Lanka’s Online Safety Act
The Sri Lankan Government can ill afford to take the moral high ground and object to the Opposition calling the Online Safety Act, No 9 of 2024 as…
- Sunday Punch
Rambukwella’s arrest disgrace as alleged sins come home to roost
Magistrate orders CID probe into all drug imports and into victims’ fate The litany of sins which ex-Health Minister Rambukwella stands accused of, came home to roost in…
- In the National Interest
Indian invitation signals NPP’s coming of age
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) led National Peoples Power (NPP) delegation’s visit to India last week on the Indian Government’s invitation has given political commentators much to write…
- Thoughts from London
India’s diplomatic move takes many in Colombo by surprise
When the Indian Government decided the other day to stretch the hand of friendship to the once strongly Marxist-Leninist JVP, which, in the late 1980s, was seen as…
- Lobby
Govt. shores up support for President’s policy statement while opposition shoots it down
By Sandun Jayawardana While the government used the two-day adjournment debate on President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Policy Statement to echo his call for all parties to come together to…
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Kandy lights up with lit
It was a wholly enthusiastic gathering as the first ever Ceylon Literary and Art Festival opened in the historic city of Kandy on February 8,…
The Song of Ceylon and its unsung hero Lionel Wendt
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
A writer of history rather than a ‘historian’
A legacy to anyone interested in life-giving surgery
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SL HC to Britain participates in puja at London Buddhist Vihara
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Britain Rohitha Bogollagama and Mrs Bogollagama participated in a puja at…
Grade 5 scholarship champs receive gifts
Catholic university students organise cancer hospital charity project
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Physician heal thyself: University students protest again
Medical students this week held a protest outside the Sri Lanka Medical Council in Colombo demanding…
Pawra – Raids around schools net drugs and sellers
Rajarata Uni hosts career guidance workshop
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From one Kella to others out there; you are not alone
Singing sensation Yohani talks to Shanali Fernando about what her first album means to her Our very…
