http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Mon, 17 Jun 2019 05:36:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/namal-to-wed-on-modis-birthday-353801.html 15 June 2019 @ 11:48 pm Prime Minister Narendra Modiis  “not only the leader of the largest democracy in the world, but also a leader with the largest popular mandate in the world,” declared India’s cherubic High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu at a recent lecture. [caption id="attachment_353883" align="alignright" width="400" caption=""Looking like two dolls":Mahinda Rajapaksa and Namal Rajapaksa ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/prospect-of-lower-trade-deficit-strengthening-external-finances-in-2019-353784.html 15 June 2019 @ 11:37 pm The country’s external financial vulnerability remains a serious concern despite the Central Bank’s assurance that the country’s debt repayment obligations can be met this year and that foreign reserves are expected to be US$ 6.7 billion at the end of the year. On the other hand, if the decline in the trade deficit in the first quarter of this year continues during the remaining months, a... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/the-ugly-use-of-extremism-and-terrorism-for-political-gain-353780.html 15 June 2019 @ 11:33 pm The recent statement by former Eastern Province Governor M.L.M. Hizbullah that Muslims are a majority in the world and that Sri Lankan Muslims should not fear even if they are a minority is dangerously inflammatory. It also amounts to an encouragement of the primitive cacophonous yelling on the part of Sinhala extremists that more Sinhalese ought to be born, that forced sterilizations of ‘Sinhal... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/president-considers-new-gamble-but-it-is-likely-to-fail-353764.html 15 June 2019 @ 11:27 pm Considers possibility of non-binding referendum to hold parliamentary elections before Presidential elections this year Strong opposition from UNF government, SLFP MPs also livid while Mahinda Rajapaksa remains non-committal Sri Lanka facing worst crisis since Independence; country was virtually without a government with both leaders being overseas   President Maithripala Siris... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/all-around-us-chaos-and-madness-353758.html 15 June 2019 @ 11:19 pm Aiyo Sirisena, It has been a while since I wrote to you last, but I thought I must write to you again, especially when we heard that you were quite annoyed about what was happening around you, with everyone trying to blame you for what happened on Easter Sunday – and apparently for what did not happen before that. This is all because a committee in Parliament is conducting its own inquiry into... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/old-king-coal-to-rule-lankas-power-future-353675.html 15 June 2019 @ 10:26 pm Even as the rest of the world look to renewable power as the fuel of the future, Lanka goes into retro mode and seeks its future energy needs in the past.  Whilst the world stares at the heavens and views the sun as the answer to provide infinite solar power, Lanka’s busy, digging into the nethermost regions of infinite hell to find, in that underground mine of condemned coal, the solution for ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/190616/columns/hong-kong-betrayed-freedoms-threatened-353658.html 15 June 2019 @ 10:12 pm This was bound to happen. World over citizens have been betrayed by their governments, promises shattered by political leaders. Here in Britain messy politics and confused pledges have led to sheer historic instability with people increasingly distrusting their governments and mainstream political parties. [caption id="attachment_353659" align="alignright" width="400" caption="People walk past ...