http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:30:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/211205/sunday-times-2/how-beijings-billions-are-buying-up-the-commonwealth-464291.html 4 December 2021 @ 8:25 pm lt;span style= quot;font-size: small; quot; gt;W lt;/span gt;hen Tuesday morning dawns in Barbados, British influence in the Caribbean will retreat one more step as the island becomes a republic, ending almost 400 years of loyalty to the Crown. The Queen will be head of state of one fewer Commonwealth realm. Barbados has already drifted away from Britain, and in common with dozens of other Com... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/211205/sunday-times-2/toastmaster-sandun-becomes-first-world-champion-in-impromptu-speaking-464277.html 4 December 2021 @ 8:18 pm [caption id= quot;attachment_464278 quot; align= quot;alignright quot; width= quot;300 quot; caption= quot;Sandun Fernando (R) receiving the award quot;] lt;img class= quot;size-full wp-image-464278 quot; title= quot;DSC_0302 quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/211205/uploads/2021/12/DSC_0302.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;300 quot; height= quot;349 quot; / gt;[/caption] Sri Lankan Sa... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/211205/sunday-times-2/is-a-nuclear-weapons-free-zone-in-the-middle-east-an-exercise-in-futility-464271.html 4 December 2021 @ 8:00 pm UNITED NATIONS, (IPS) ndash; Israel rsquo;s nuclear capability is best characterised, idiomatically speaking, as the ldquo;elephant in the room rdquo; ndash; an obvious fact but intentionally ignored. A Wall Street Journal cartoon once depicted a group of animals huddled together in the jungle with the elephant complaining: ldquo;I don rsquo;t know why they keep ignoring me when I am in the... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/211205/sunday-times-2/remembering-the-legendary-physiologist-prof-k-n-seneviratne-464266.html 4 December 2021 @ 7:49 pm Professor Keerthi Nissanka Seneviratne was born in Elpitiya, Galle on November 22, 1929 as the second son of Dr. Robert and Mrs Laura Seneviratne. He had his primary and secondary education at Royal College, Colombo and won the Arunachalam Prize for General Knowledge in 1946 and 1947. nbsp; He obtained his MBBS degree with honours in 1954 from the University of Ceylon, Colombo, gaining a distincti... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/211205/sunday-times-2/all-ceylon-womens-buddhist-congress-agm-464284.html 4 December 2021 @ 6:21 pm The All Ceylon Women rsquo;s Buddhist Congress rsquo; 72nd annual general meeting, which was postponed in July due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will now be held on January 22, 2022. The ACWBC requests members to send in their nominations before January 6, 2022 and contact the office on 0112296411 for more details. The positions to be filled are: President (1), Deputy President (1), Vice Presidents... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/211205/sunday-times-2/global-coal-hypocrisy-464304.html 4 December 2021 @ 3:30 pm NEW DELHI ndash; India has somehow emerged as the villain of last month rsquo;s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), blamed for resisting cuts to coal consumption even as toxic air envelops its capital, New Delhi. The country rsquo;s supposed crime in Glasgow was to join China in insisting on a last-minute change to the conference rsquo;s final declaration, in which countries pledged...