http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 20 May 2023 19:26:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/lankas-envoy-defends-big-deals-with-indias-adani-group-520648.html 20 May 2023 @ 9:53 pm Sri Lanka rsquo;s High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda, had a tough time answering some political questions posed by New Delhi-based foreign journalists related to the Adani deals and Chinese influence. nbsp; nbsp; lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-520654 quot; title= quot;cafe-spectator quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/230521/uploads/2023/05/cafe-spectator2.jpg quot; alt= quot; ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/controversy-over-tight-security-cordon-around-colombo-520639.html 20 May 2023 @ 9:10 pm lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt; lt;em gt;Troops were ready to cope with violence and nbsp; nbsp; lt;/em gt; lt;em gt;bloodletting but there was none lt;/em gt; lt;/strong gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt; lt;em gt;Tamil parties talk with President on interim measures but they provoke only heated exchanges lt;/em gt; lt;/strong gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt; lt;em gt;Uphill... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/profiteering-prophets-520633.html 20 May 2023 @ 9:04 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;My dear Pastor Jerome, lt;/p gt; I thought of writing to you like this because I am not sure where you are, although you have said you will return to Paradise today. It must be a novel experience for you, isn rsquo;t it, being almost unknown among the general public a week ago and becoming the hot topic of discussion a few days... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/from-economic-contraction-to-economic-growth-in-2024-2-520597.html 20 May 2023 @ 8:28 pm There is little doubt that the economy would contract by about 3 percent this year. There is an expectation that the economy would get on to a growth path next year. However, there are several global and domestic downside risks. lt;strong gt;This year lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-520598 quot; title= quot;nimal quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/230521/uploads/2023/05/nim... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/playing-with-public-anger-through-nonsensical-laws-520593.html 20 May 2023 @ 8:16 pm When nbsp; French Prime Minister during World War I, Georges Clemenceau rousingly said that lsquo;war is too important to be left to the generals, rsquo; Sri Lankans may be justified in muttering to themselves more than a hundred years later that, lsquo;laws are far too important to be left to the lawyers ndash; or to Ministers of Justice, perchance. rsquo; lt;img class= quot;alignright size-fu... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/end-of-armed-conflict-yet-to-yield-desired-benefit-to-the-country-520579.html 20 May 2023 @ 7:54 pm The defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009 gave rise to hope that the country could traverse the road to peace and prosperity by creating national unity and strengthening the economy. The past 14 years have unfortunately only seen the peoples' hopes to go up in smoke, and today the country has even declared bankruptcy as a result of inept economic mismanagement over t... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/police-await-the-promised-coming-of-pastor-jerome-at-airport-today-520535.html 20 May 2023 @ 6:47 pm Buddhist sensitivities were outraged this week after Jerome Fernando, the self-proclaimed prophet, made an unwarranted attack on the Buddha, casting him in inferior light to Jesus, and claiming the Buddha, born 500 years before Christ, was searching for Jesus rsquo; light. In a controversial video released on April 30 on his YouTube channel, he has not spared the other three main religions eith... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/food-for-thought-and-surviving-the-new-gsp-520526.html 20 May 2023 @ 6:44 pm It was Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman who once said there is nothing called a free lunch. He should know. Critics claim that his free-enterprise philosophy and abjuring state intervention in business left many without any lunch. Friedman rsquo;s policies, absorbed by international bodies such as the IMF, which itself is supposedly backed by American big business, have left severa... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/230521/columns/from-economic-contraction-to-economic-growth-in-2024-520487.html 20 May 2023 @ 6:21 pm There is little doubt that the economy would contract by about 3 percent this year. There is an expectation that the economy would get on to a growth path next year. However, there are several global and domestic downside risks. lt;strong gt;This year lt;/strong gt; There is little doubt that the economy would contract this year. All three sectors of the economy have contracted in the first...