TNA leader meets India envoy, seeks one-on-one with Modi
On Thursday, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan met Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay at…
Govt. faces gruelling task in combating the new wave of COVID-19 pandemic
President handled first wave effectively, but multiple factors led to apparently uncontrollable new upsurge Pompeo talks place…
Dicing with a deadly disease in the struggle of life
Some Sri Lankans have been seen in public ignoring the potentially deadly coronavirus in their midst…
China’s snub to US Pompeo: ‘You ain’t welcome in Lanka’
The levelled playing fields of Lanka were queered this week when two titans – one the…
The ‘new kid’ who soon stood tall Nalanda College- 95th anniversary
Education in Sri Lanka dates back to the 3rd Century BC, or even before. The Mahavihara…
Three home-grown youngsters to represent Jaffna Stallions at inaugural LPL
The inaugural Lanka Premier League (LPL), which will begin in November, is expected to boost the…
SLUSA gearing up for XXXI Summer World University Games
The Sri Lanka Universities Sports Association (SLUSA) is gearing up for the XXXI Summer World University…
INSEE Cement signs landmark agreement with SEC
INSEE Cement Sri Lanka has signed a landmark agreement with the State Engineering Corporation (SEC) to…
Many reasons for the increasing COVID-19 infections-BT poll
A multitude of reasons, primarily being the government’s weak handling of COVID-19 after showing success at…
NSBM Embarks on Phase II
NSBM Green University Town completed its proud 4 years of excellent service to the nation on…
SLIM launches South Asian Journal of Marketing
The National Body for Marketing in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) recently…
News
Tight security ring for Pompeo at Kochchikade church
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Sri Lanka on Tuesday night and Wednesday for talks with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Foreign Minister Dinesh…
SC bench to be expanded from 11 to 17; CA 12 to 19
The Government is fasttracking the expansion of the Supreme Court bench from 11 justices to 17 under an amendment that was moved at the Committee…
WHO says COVID vaccine only in mid-2021, Sri Lanka applies for it
Sri Lanka is one among 180 countries that have signed up for a COVID-19 vaccine from the World Health Organisation (WHO), but the UN agency…
Ministry revises discharge criteria as COVID cases rise
UDA setting up land banks for investors; six properties identified
Lanka’s petroleum storage and pipeline facilities need urgent upgrading, warns national audit
85 Police CIs stuck without promotions for 15 years
Education, transport, and health bureaucrats fail A/L exam candidates
COVID-19 strategy-change
Dicing with a deadly disease in the struggle of life
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LPL faces road block from ‘stubborn’ health authorities
With exactly three weeks to go before the start of the Lanka Premier League (LPL), organisers are like deer caught in the headlights: There is…
Managing Sports in the Pandemic; a thought process!
At a time when knockdowns and spectator bans are applied across…
Sri Lanka bowling coach Saker linked with Warwickshire
IPG defaults first payment to SLC despite reminders
Iconic Welagedara Stadium ready to rock again after revamp
Little known Polish player
Three home-grown youngsters to represent Jaffna Stallions at inaugural LPL
SLUSA gearing up for XXXI Summer World University Games
Business Times
Weak handling of pandemic-BT poll shows
Most of the respondents in a Business Times (BT) poll on the Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have commended the first steps taken by…
ADB steps in to meet Sri Lanka’s funding gap
Negotiations are underway with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and some other multilateral development banks (MDBs) to tackle the country’s economic woes arising of the…
SAGT on strike, loss over Rs.200 m
The South Asia Gateway Terminal (SAGT) at the Colombo Port has not been operational since Monday night due to a strike action launched by workers…
India to manage ECT operations at the Colombo Port
Foreign buyers pull out of Colombo
Treasury allocates over Rs. 10 b to handle emergency needs in COVID-19
INSEE Cement signs landmark agreement with SEC
More loans could possibly leave Sri Lanka in the hands of China, warns top political economist
World class 4G services soon from Airtel
HNB secures S$60 m funding for SMEs from France’s Proparco
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Editorial
The second wave Covid tsunami
The entire system of controlling the COVID-19 pandemic has now got heavily overloaded. The Government continues to put up a brave front maintaining that the virus has not yet spread to the community at large, and is still at the ‘cluster stage’. Various reasons are trotted out for the recent…
Columns
- Political Commentary
Govt. faces gruelling task in combating the new wave of COVID-19 pandemic
President handled first wave effectively, but multiple factors led to apparently uncontrollable new upsurge Pompeo talks place Lanka in no-win situation, Gotabaya confides in ministers he will not sign…
- 5th Column
Something wicked comes this way
My dear Basil maama, I am writing to you to congratulate you on achieving the near impossible, getting the 20th Amendment to the Constitution passed when it looked…
- The Economic Analysis
Prospects and uncertainties in the balance of payments
Considerable uncertainties in the global containment of COVID-19 and when the international economy would rebound as well as the recent resurgence of COVID-19 in the country, make economic…
- Talk at the Cafe Spectator
TNA leader meets India envoy, seeks one-on-one with Modi
On Thursday, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan met Indian High Commissioner Gopal Baglay at his official residence, India House for a discussion. The meeting was the…
- Focus on Rights
The 20th Amendment’s increase of judges and consequent concerns
Eyebrows are being raised over the 20th Amendment to the Constitution’s inclusion of provisions at committee stage to increase the number of judges in Sri Lanka’s superior courts…
- Sunday Punch
China’s snub to US Pompeo: ‘You ain’t welcome in Lanka’
The levelled playing fields of Lanka were queered this week when two titans – one the world’s superpower, the other its regional counterpart – chose to turn the…
- In the National Interest
Diversifying sources of development assistance key to minimising impact on Sri Lanka due to US-China spat
Health experts the world over as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO) tell us that the world will have to live with the COVID-19 virus for at…
- Thoughts from London
To the depths of diplomacy
So Mike Pompeo has come and gone. For which we give thanks to whoever it was that facilitated this quick exit. The problem with some leaders of major…
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A teacher from his teens walks along the corridors of time
Two leading Buddhist schools with a shared history celebrate their respective birthdays today Ananda was just 28 years of age when I had the good…
The ‘new kid’ who soon stood tall Nalanda College- 95th anniversary
Letters to the Editor
Appreciations
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Giving life to ‘Sri Lankan-isms’
“It is a brand with a tongue-in-cheek attitude and we want to honour Sri Lankan products, sayings and more generally ‘Sri Lankan-isms’”, sayKat Scott and…
Noob Alliance Partners with Redline Technologies
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Nuclear arms control in crisis while US exerts pressure on treaty signatories
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — Responding to a question, Albert Einstein, the German-born physicist who won the…
Law must be in order
The US Election’s chaos quotient
More Sunday Times 2 >>Education
Current COVID issue no obstacle for A/L students
With academic activities hampered due to the curfew and the current COVID situation, a student engages…
Plans in motion to accommodate more undergrads at state universities
Funds for PPE delayed; A/L exam centre staff purchase items out of their own pockets
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Giving life to ‘Sri Lankan-isms’
“It is a brand with a tongue-in-cheek attitude and we want to honour Sri Lankan products,…
