http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:35:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/peace-walk-monks-poised-to-win-the-hearts-of-lankans-as-they-did-in-the-us-637918.html 4 April 2026 @ 11:38 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;The 'Walk for Peace', a 110-day peace walk across 10 US states from Texas to Washington conducted by a group of Buddhist monks, captivating millions in that country and garnering worldwide attention, will take place in Sri Lanka later this month. lt;/p gt; [caption id= quot;attachment_637933 quot; align= quot;alignright quo... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/power-crisis-looms-govt-blames-west-asian-conflict-opposition-flags-corruption-in-coal-deal-637893.html 4 April 2026 @ 10:07 pm lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt;National programme launched to conserve power amid nbsp; lt;/em gt; lt;em gt;growing public criticism over low-grade coal imports lt;/em gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt; nbsp; lt;/em gt; lt;em gt;Desperate Govt. explores buying oil from Russia and nbsp; lt;/em gt; lt;em gt;the US, but the move is beset by multiple challenges lt;/em gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/shifting-the-goal-post-637887.html 4 April 2026 @ 10:00 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;My Dear Jayakody lt;em gt;sahodaraya lt;/em gt;, lt;/p gt; I thought of writing to you because you have suddenly gone from being lsquo;which Jayakody? rsquo; to a person that everyone is talking about. Even our good old lsquo;Maco rsquo; referred to you as lsquo;Prince Win Flag rsquo;. Now though, there is no need for such ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/uninterrupted-health-care-a-social-justice-concern-that-is-the-responsibility-of-the-state-637830.html 4 April 2026 @ 9:10 pm The corridors of the country rsquo;s national hospitals, have once again become theaters of uncertainty. The familiar spectacle of the Government and the Government Medical Officers rsquo; Association (GMOA) locked in a bitter standoff has returned, this time over a contentious doctor transfer system. While the GMOA decries the system as a politically motivated assault on transparency, the State d... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/external-shocks-and-drought-portend-severe-hardships-and-economic-crisis-637807.html 4 April 2026 @ 8:58 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;Are we likely to face a long period of shortages of essentials and an economic crisis? lt;/p gt; This is the question uppermost in the minds of our people as we face severe shortages of petrol, diesel, gas and kerosene and unprecedented warm weather with the prospect of an El Ni ntilde;o drought that threatens our food security... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/from-an-inspector-general-of-police-to-police-spokesman-the-long-reach-of-sri-lankas-constitution-637802.html 4 April 2026 @ 8:55 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;In a nation where an Inspector General of Police (IGP) was once held responsible for the grievous torture of a suspect (but nevertheless continued in office until the winds of political change forced him out), it is little surprise that this week, an ostensibly unassuming police spokesman was found by a majority opinion of the S... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/seven-long-years-of-easter-tears-and-still-no-mastermind-in-sight-637707.html 4 April 2026 @ 7:47 pm Every year for the last seven damning years, a precious stock of the nation rsquo;s tears has been held in store to be ritually wept during April for those who died and for those who were left maimed and injured in what the world commonly calls lsquo;Sri Lanka rsquo;s Easter tragedy of 21st April 2019'. A Sunday later, under the headline, lsquo;Sunday Bloody Sunday rsquo; the opening paragrap... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260405/columns/why-was-trump-addressing-the-nation-on-april-fools-day-637702.html 4 April 2026 @ 7:28 pm Tragedies happen now and then, sometimes too often, as many around the world today would sadly confirm. There are some that could have been avoided and others that were too late to have been saved by human intervention or interception so that nations and their peoples would survive to pursue the glorious futures embedded in their minds. But there is another kind of tragedy which is really lsqu...