News
With online sex crimes against women and children on the rise in the current AI age, the Sri Lanka Police yesterday launched hotline 109 to…
New members to be appointed with change of PM or Govt. By Damith Wickremasekara The Government is planning to make what it calls ‘structural changes’…
By S. Rubatheesan With only about thirty percent of its recommendations implemented last year, the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has warned state…
Sports
Trinity College continued their unbeaten run in the Dialog Schools Rugby League, brushing aside traditional rivals S. Thomas’ College in a Cup Segment game, with…
Royal College skipper and winger Amika Samarasinghe touched down twice,…
Business Times
Sri Lanka’s much vaunted electronic company registration facility, e-ROC, has come to a grinding halt, delaying seriously the registration of companies or filing of company…
More and more companies are seeking credit scores of potential candidates for job interviews, according to the Credit Information Bureau, officials said. “Using credit scores…
Sri Lanka’s hospitality sector this week welcomed a move by the government to overturn an archaic 1954 law that bars women from working as hotel…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Sri Lanka’s divisive Electricity (Amendment) Bill this week received approval from the multiparty Sectoral Oversight Committee on Infrastructure and Strategic Development for its second reading scheduled for July 24 in Parliament. The debate—and subsequent vote, which, given the government’s numbers in the House, will favour the Bill’s passing—will proceed despite…
Columns
ITAK writes to President, calling for urgent and decisive action to uncover the truth and bring perpetrators to justice Ongoing battle for local council control raises concerns over electoral…
My dear Rajitha, I thought of writing to you this week because you are in the news after a lapse of a few months. That is not necessarily…
The uncertainties in global trade and tariffs and the escalation of wars in West Asia and hostilities between Russia and Ukraine pose severe uncertainties, threats, and challenges to…
The National People’s Power (NPP) has acknowledged that a portion of the salaries and allowances of its MPs and ministers are credited to a single account of a…
A bizarre dialogue had taken place before a Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee a few days ago where officials representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism…
As neurosurgeon Dr. Maheshi Wijeratne walked out of court, released on bail on Tuesday, leaving behind the horrors of a remand cell that she had endured for nearly…
The recent arrest and detention of two young Sri Lankan men — Mohamed Rushdi and Mohamed Suhail — under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has sparked…
Just last week Comrade Minister Viji and his crack team of tariff busters were walking down a plush plaza of Washington Square looking to buy a reduced-price cup…
Plus
Bird calls beckon and dark and mysterious plantations and misty, wind-swept slopes spreading as far as the eye can see, offer a unique experience to…
Magazine
High School Junkies return with Hooves By Yomal Senerath-Yapa The High School Junkies have struck again! This time, they have something supernatural to chill your…
Sunday Times 2
In 1989, with the Presidency already in its pocket, the UNP was well placed to emerge…
Education
Sri Lanka Educator Service Lecturers’ Trade Union members held a protest outside the Education Ministry demanding…
Magazine
High School Junkies return with Hooves By Yomal Senerath-Yapa The High School Junkies have struck again!…