http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sun, 27 Feb 2022 01:12:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/easter-sunday-massacres-88-volumes-of-hard-copies-given-to-mps-request-for-soft-copies-474485.html 26 February 2022 @ 10:52 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-474487 quot; title= quot;cafe-spectator quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220227/uploads/2022/02/cafe-spectator3.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;260 quot; height= quot;116 quot; / gt;After numerous requests by MPs, the Presidential Secretariat on Tuesday handed over to Parliament previously withheld volumes of evidence in the final repor... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/no-light-shed-on-burning-issues-despite-big-din-474465.html 26 February 2022 @ 9:50 pm Amidst a countrywide fuel shortage and daily power cuts lasting over five hours, Parliament echoed with sounds of protests and angry exchanges. Yet, rather than discuss solutions to the crisis, both Government and Opposition MPs kept pointing fingers at each other over the unprecedented economic crisis. On Thursday, SJB MPs wielding placards and battery powered torches staged a protest inside t... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/sri-lanka-facing-worst-crisis-on-multiple-fronts-474384.html 26 February 2022 @ 8:56 pm lt;div gt; lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;span style= quot;font-size: small; quot; gt; lt;em gt; lt;strong gt;Cost of Living soaring and further increase likely with Ukraine war lt;/strong gt; lt;/em gt; lt;/span gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;span style= quot;font-size: small; quot; gt; lt;em gt; lt;strong gt;Govt. likely to seek IMF bailout package, but long-procedure may take Lanka to brink of ba... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/only-god-knows-why-474380.html 26 February 2022 @ 8:50 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;My dear Pujith and Hemasiri, lt;/p gt; I am writing to both of you because you were acquitted of all charges against you with regard to those deadly Easter attacks some three years ago. I am sure you must be very happy about this, but it makes us wonder even more about why those attacks occurred and who the mastermind behind th... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/govt-should-not-be-averse-to-consultation-with-stakeholders-474363.html 26 February 2022 @ 8:43 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-474366 quot; title= quot;National-Interest-logo-col quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220227/uploads/2022/02/National-Interest-logo-col3.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;181 quot; height= quot;138 quot; / gt;Compounding the multiple crises in the country today is the confusion within Government ranks and the dissension within the constitu... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/no-prospects-or-policies-for-resolving-the-economic-and-financial-crisis-474330.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:53 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-474336 quot; title= quot;nimal quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220227/uploads/2022/02/nimal2.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;250 quot; height= quot;116 quot; / gt;Much like the COVID pandemic, the economic and financial crisis has come to stay with no resolution of the problem in sight. lt;strong gt;New normal? lt;/strong gt; Is... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/the-mills-of-god-and-the-grinding-of-justice-overseas-474326.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:45 pm Of what use are Ministers and the panoply of Government for that matter, if it takes the Executive President clothed in the awful constitutional powers of the Head of State, to advise on minimising of lsquo;price discrepancies rsquo; regarding the production of raw milk and direct relevant state institutions to ensure supply of lsquo;grass needed to feed the cattle. rsquo; lt;img class= quot;ali... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/sri-lanka-waiting-for-godot-in-the-theatre-of-the-absurd-474299.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:36 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-474300 quot; title= quot;Sunday punch logo quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220227/uploads/2022/02/Sunday-punch-logo2.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;229 quot; height= quot;90 quot; / gt;In the abject manner natives of the British Empire rsquo;s far flung islands used to wait for the mothership to arrive bearing the essentials for their... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220227/columns/as-kaputas-begin-to-gather-in-geneva-474295.html 26 February 2022 @ 7:32 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-474296 quot; title= quot;thoughts quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220227/uploads/2022/02/thoughts3.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;300 quot; height= quot;73 quot; / gt;After weeks of laying siege to Ukraine, the Russian leader did to one of the founding socialist republics of the now defunct Soviet Union, what his predecessors did in e...