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Diplomats lend a hand at Vesak Dansala

Diplomats lend a hand at Vesak Dansala

Joining in the spirit of Vesak and giving, foreign diplomats volunteered to serve food to visitors at a 500-seat rice dansala organised by the Presidential…

Some 80 state enterprises to be restructured under sweeping reforms

Restricting Treasury guarantees for loss-making state-owned enterprises, controls on their finances, and the policy on restructuring the institutions will be included in a bill to…

Audit report exposes multibillion rupee scandal by Customs

Sri Lanka Customs officials have distributed billions of rupees as reward money among themselves since 1988, based on an internal circular prepared by the department,…

Sports

End of road for Paralympian Dinesh Priyantha Herath

End of road for Paralympian Dinesh Priyantha Herath

athletics

Celebrated Sri Lanka para-athlete and two-time Paralympic medalist, Dinesh Priyantha Herath, has been forced to end his athletic career, following a reclassification process carried out…

Dambulla and Colombo women record wins

Dambulla Women and Colombo Women came out victorious in the…

Business Times

Tourism on a roll

Tourism on a roll

The Sheraton Colombo Hotel was the venue of an interesting discussion on tourism on Tuesday. The panellists at the discussion titled “Tourism on a roll”…

Sri Lanka to become regional hub for aircraft recycling

Sri Lanka will become a regional base to recycle aircraft through a new investment by Aitken Spence Ltd that is set to commence operations at…

SL crime fighting authorities on a roll

At least 10 money laundering convictions are on the cards at the higher courts, after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) nudged Sri Lankan authorities to…

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Editorial

OHCHR’s Lanka report and fig leaves for some

Last week’s UN report on Sri Lanka from the Office of its High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), if one was to use a Churchillian phrase, was a ‘riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. For one, the release of the report’s timing gave the show away. It was…


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Dansals back  in a big way

Dansals back in a big way

Four years after the COVID pandemic and the economic crisis that followed kept people away, Lankans all across the island celebrated Vesak on a grand…

Lessons on safari parks from China

Bold flavours see Brin to UK MasterChef win

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Reckoning with a new authoritarian bloc

BERLIN – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to China—his first trip abroad since being “re-”elected”—highlights…

Kithu Dana Pubuduwa celebrates Pentecost with all-night service

New Additional Solicitor General takes oaths

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