President seeks Macron’s help to retain GSP+
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, during talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in India, has sought his…
Gas shortages again; Govt. expects normal supplies to resume soon
Gas shortages were reported in several parts of the country, but the government yesterday said they…
World Press Photo Exhibition comes to Colombo and Kandy
The Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, in collaboration with Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), has…
Dambulla agricultural warehouse non-operational for 7 years
Seven years after the 5,000-metric-tonne-capacity Indian-funded temperature-controlled agricultural warehouse in Dambulla was inaugurated by Indian Prime…
Strainers in canals block plastic waste from polluting sea
By Sajeniya Sathanandan The Ocean Strainer™ project, a national initiative to combat marine plastic pollution through…
Can Sri Lanka brush off the dust and move forward as a complete unit?
If Sri Lanka’s resounding victory over Australia felt like a statement that restored pride and reawakened…
Pidurangala’s pachyderm problem needs “sustainable solution”
By Wasantha Ramanayake The death of a foreign tourist due to a wild elephant attack at…
‘Ali Pancha’ to provide orphaned elephants imported Australian milk powder
By Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe A special programme was held at the Hambantota Port premises to symbolise…
Business, BUT NOT AS USUAL – Southern Cross University Brings Bachelor of Business to Sri Lankan Students at NSBM Green University
Southern Cross University (SCU), one of Australia’s leading public universities, in partnership with NSBM Green University,…
Masterchef Sri Lanka is here
The question had all foodies and amateur cooks buzzing; ‘Are you ready to turn your home…
Vicious cycle of taxation
Last week, the Sunday Times Business reported that SriLankan Airlines received Rs. 25.2 billion in December…
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Talks amid AI summit: What’s the prompt?
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for bilateral talks on the sidelines of the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi.…
Modi reviews Indian projects in talks with AKD
Indian premier offers more help; AI cooperation also discussed By Damith Wickremasekara Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the progress and delays of ongoing Indian…
President seeks Macron’s help to retain GSP+
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, during talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in India, has sought his assistance to retain the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus…
National Energy Policy draft completed with narrow window for public views
Power crisis looms over low-quality coal; govt. seeks AG’s advice
Amid Trump’s plan for attack on Iran, US Pacific Fleet chief visits Lanka
Suspected Akuregoda gunman arrested
Pera Uni computer lab reopened with philanthropist’s support
Seven new high courts to be set up in Colombo to expedite cases
Earthslips and rockfalls force road closure in Kandy area
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Can Sri Lanka brush off the dust and move forward as a complete unit?
T20 WC 2026
If Sri Lanka’s resounding victory over Australia felt like a statement that restored pride and reawakened faith in a team that had been struggling under…
Sri Lanka fielding coach confident players will ‘step up’
As Sri Lanka head into their Super Eight opener against…
England eyeing to break Nissanka’s running form
ICC MEN’S T20 WORLD CUP 2026 SCHEDULE
Red Shirts champs again
New Zealand-Pakistan Super Eights game washed out
Cops stun New Star to record maiden Super Round win
Joes, Cambrians, Mahanama, Richmond and Jaffna Central secure first innings wins
34th Royal-Thomian past coloursmen’s annual dinner
Sri Lanka beat Windies by 10 runs to take WODI series lead
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IMF Chief in Sri Lanka
IMF Chief Kristalina Georgieva’s three-day visit to Sri Lanka included a trip to the cyclone-devastated village of Mawathura in the Central Province where she was…
Business tourism growing in Sri Lanka, many MICE events
With business travel growing alongside MICE events, Sri Lanka has secured a bid to host the prestigious US-based International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)’s 34th…
SEC steps up to ensure sound finfluencing advice
Sri Lanka’s capital market regulator is addressing the rise of unregulated financial influencers or “finfluencers,” by introducing a code of conduct and guidelines to ensure…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
Nation in the IMF tangle
In some quarters, the visit of the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms Kristalina Georgieva, to Sri Lanka is being hailed as ‘historic’, welcomed not only by the Government but also the mainstream Opposition. All economic indicators point to an economy on the road to recovery, under…
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Diplomacy takes centre stage as President meets world leaders in busy week
AKD holds bilateral talks with Modi, Macron, Tobgay and Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in New Delhi after meeting IMF chief and British deputy premier…
- 5th Column
A princely problem
My dear King Charles, I am writing to you at this trying time after your brother Andrew was arrested for alleged ‘misconduct in public office’. I hope you…
- The Economic Analysis
Sri Lanka’s economy could face severe external shocks
The Sri Lankan economy could face severe external shocks of higher tariffs, high oil prices and lower remittances. The Sri Lankan economy could be facing these severe external…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Cambridge bows to Diaspora pressure; Oxford goes ahead with Namal’s address
Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organiser and MP Namal Rajapaksa is headed to the United Kingdom despite attempts by some sections of the Tamil diaspora to stop…
- Focus on Rights
The Atukorala murder case; why this double faced stand on presidential pardons?
It is doubtful that anyone, including academics and politicians, emotionally calling upon President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to issue a presidential pardon for the twelve accused sentenced to death…
- Sunday Punch
Not only Justice remains blindfolded but Lanka’s Cabinet Ministers as well
Following the brutal killings of Attorney-at-Law Buddhika Mallawaarachchi and his wife Nisansala last Friday the 13th, the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, Rajeev Amarasuriya, issued…
- In the National Interest
Peace without justice for the Palestinian people and the illusion of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
In Washington last Thursday, a spectacle of geopolitical theatre unfolded that would have made even the most seasoned playwright blush. President Donald Trump, surrounded by a hand-picked assembly…
- Thoughts from London
Year of the horse-and asses and donkeys too, presumably
This year dawned rather inauspiciously, if one is permitted a euphemism where the cantankerous President Trump is concerned. On January 3, that great man in the sky who…
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Behind Bridgerton
Dearest gentle reader, One does not simply meet the talk of the Ton – one is granted an audience. And so it was that, amid…
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Return to his roots
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The Satinwood bridge that once spanned the Mahaweli
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Masterchef Sri Lanka is here
The question had all foodies and amateur cooks buzzing; ‘Are you ready to turn your home cooked passion into a Masterchef title?’ Now after months…
When Shakespeare spoke in a Sri Lankan voice
Return of Epic Elvis
British play ‘Black Prince’ with Lankan touch
‘Api Mirisse’ unfolds the reality of beach destinations
Advertising veteran KayJay (Keith Jayasekera) transpose himself as a storyteller
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Lankan ambassador, French MP discuss improving parliamentary ties
The President of the France–Sri Lanka Friendship Group in the French National Assembly, Soumya Bourouaha, met…
Lanka doctors in US donate machines to advance mental health treatment
Ayathurai Santhan discusses new novel, ‘Twice Upon a Lifetime’
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How was the paper?
The GCE (Ordinary Level) examination commenced this week and has progressed without any incidents. Students of…
Changes to National Colleges of Education curricula
Re-scrutiny of results of Dhamma Schools exam
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Masterchef Sri Lanka is here
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