The Sunday Times Sri Lanka

Questions over SLAF’s aircraft purchase deals running into a staggering Rs. 64.8 billion

The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has ambitious plans to purchase helicopters of different makes and…

Royal juggernaut kept on rolling

There’s just no stopping the Royal juggernaut. They had a hint of mortality in the Wesley…

Visakha Vidyalaya secure a double

Visakha Vidyalaya Colombo, annexed the Under-15 and Under-13 titles at the concluded All-Island Schools Tennis Championship…

9th Trinco Blu Sailing Regatta on June 30

The 9th Trinco Blu Sailing Regatta hosted Royal Colombo Yacht Club (RCYC) Regatta 2018 is scheduled…

Around the world on an art project for charity

Let’s have an ‘A’, a ‘B’ and a ‘C’…………and from Sri Lanka it is a ‘J’.…

10 Master’s Scholarships to Korea for Govt officers

In line with its long established tradition of assisting in capacity building of Sri Lanka Government…

Roofs over their heads: When will that day dawn for 15,639 landless people in Jaffna?

After squandering three years plugging unpopular prefabricated metal houses, the Government has approved two initiatives to…

Danger of knowing a little

There are many dairy farmers in Tissamaharama who have got cows for milking in their home…

View from the top: Election stunts in fertiliser, digital transformation of health

In a cursory glance of the numerous 2017/18 financial year annual reports of listed companies being…

Too much monkey business causing havoc on many fronts

Large troops of monkeys, sometimes numbering 50-100, are causing havoc in populated areas in a grab…

Exotic Asian living buoyed by shipping containers

If there’s a house you need built quickly, or office premises to get your start-up rolling,…

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News

The last aircraft flies away from Mattala

The Mattala airport built at a high cost and opened with much fanfare in 2013 lost its only scheduled flight on Thursday when Fly Dubai…

Hambantota project: Chinese firm holds back US$ 585m

The Chinese company involved in the Hambantota Port project has…

KDU Act to be amended to absorb SAITM students

Highest level task force to expedite North-East development

President requests Britain to arrest or deport editor of LankaeNews

CB tells Aloysius companies to disclose payments made from 33 banks

AG: TNL used unauthorised Channel; TNL Counsel: Action taken due to critical newscast

GPPAC-RCSS Week for Conflict-Prevention and Peace-Building

SC judgment calls for law reforms to expand grounds for divorce

2 alleged gangsters killed in shootout with STF

Adverse weather affects 12,000 acres of agricultural lands

Karandeniya PS deputy chairman shooting: One suspect arrested, other on the run

Riding with open umbrella proved fatal

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Sports

Lankan batters struggle as West Indies build big lead

PORT OF SPAIN, June 9, 2018 (AFP) - West Indies turned the screws on Sri Lanka, taking a 360-run lead with six second innings wickets…

Joes looking for a repeat performance

The much looked forward to Milo President’s Trophy Under-19 Inter-School…

Liengprasert claims five-for as Thailand humiliate Sri Lanka

Royal juggernaut kept on rolling

Seven new records established on Day 4

Steeplechaser Marisstella brings home another Gold

Seven-match tour will run from July 16 to August 9

Colombo, Galle teams in quest of the plum

Appointment of Competent Authority for SLC is illegal — Keerthinanda

SLR disturbed by Schools’ status quo

NOC-SLO feud hots up over Olympian Run

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Business Times

Whales from above: Memory of a lifetime

KOGGALA – F-Airways (F-Air)’s three aircraft are parked and ready for take-off at the Sri Lanka Airforce base at Koggala. Guests preparing to take-off on…

Dollar seen continuing at Rs. 160 next week

Colombo’s money markets this week literally “weathered the storm” as…

Coconut producers seek increased subsidies

Amidst losses MTD wants only large scale contracts

Professionals, MPs urge Govt. to revise PAYE rates

INSEE Cement reinforces growth strategy in dull retail trade

View from the top: Election stunts in fertiliser, digital transformation of health

Epic deploys Sri Lanka’s only fully- fledged E-Card Management System

Meta Defence Labs holds SL’S first certified training session on data protection and GDPR compliance

Gold smuggling from Sri Lanka curbed through taxes

Future of advertising in the hands of the youth

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Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

This Government’s flip-flopping on energy policy–particularly when it comes to coal power–is nothing short of legendary. While the rest of the world embraces clean electricity, the administration is now backing Ceylon Electricity Board-led efforts to introduce more coal power plants, despite the bitter experience of the high-polluting Lakvijaya at Norochcholai.…

Columns

Political Commentary
President-Premier in a seeming truce

President Maithripala Sirisena who exploded last week with a scathing attack on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, has seemingly reached a truce. It came during a two-and-half hour meeting…
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5th Column
Swinging times

My dear Dayasiri, I thought I must write to you because somehow you seem to find a way to be in the news. When you resigned from the…
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The Economic Analysis
Economy shows signs of recovery but chaotic political environment a spoiler

Indications are that the economy would recover to achieve about a 5 percent growth this year. However, the present political uncertainty will impact on longer-term economic growth and…
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Talk at the Cafe Spectator
Questions over SLAF’s aircraft purchase deals running into a staggering Rs. 64.8 billion

The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) has ambitious plans to purchase helicopters of different makes and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) at a staggering cost of more than Rs…
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Focus on Rights
That powerful reconciliation strategy which Sri Lanka missed

In retrospect, one of the greatest missed opportunities of the now doomed Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Unity Government was its failure to grab Sri Lanka’s legal system by its ears (metaphorically…
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Sunday Punch
Sujeewa’s hangover after gulping 3m tots from Arjun’s arrack cask

If SLFP MP and former Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera found himself in the public dock three weeks ago for accepting a million bucks from Bond Scam Godfather Arjun…
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Thoughts from London
Then who will judge the judges

It is a troubling issue. Each time the issue of judges withdrawing from hearing a particular case and the case is postponed sometimes for several months as has…
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Lobby
‘Yahapalanaya’ turned on its head with scams as its mainstay

The ‘Yahapalanaya’ Government that came to power with the promise to put a stop to corruption, is now engulfed in the mother of all scandals of political corruption,…
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