http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:36:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/embattled-president-delivers-avurudu-relief-as-coal-crisis-deepens-638957.html 10 April 2026 @ 9:52 pm lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt;Subsidies and relief for farmers, Aswesuma beneficiaries; Govt works on multiple fronts to secure fuel supply lt;/em gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt;President denies wrongdoing in coal tender; Audit Office report exposes irregularities; Calls grow for energy minister rsquo;s resignation lt;/em gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt;SJB MPs press Sajith over stal... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/no-ordinary-book-launch-638951.html 10 April 2026 @ 9:48 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;My dear Gammanpila, lt;/p gt; I am writing to congratulate you on the recent launch of your book which you claim is about searching for the lsquo;mastermind rsquo; of the Easter Sunday terror attacks 7 years ago. It is not that I believe the book is the result of a great investigative effort. Far from it. Still, everyone talks... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/easter-sunday-attacks-seven-years-on-another-debate-and-the-usual-accusations-638945.html 10 April 2026 @ 9:44 pm lt;strong gt;By Sandun Jayawardana nbsp; nbsp; lt;/strong gt; With less than two weeks to go before the 7th anniversary of the Easter Sunday terrorist attack, Parliament held yet another adjournment debate on one of the country rsquo;s darkest chapters in recent history. While there was nothing to distinguish this debate from multiple others that had been held on the same subject since 2019, i... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/israel-does-it-again-repeats-practice-of-selective-adherence-to-peace-accords-638901.html 10 April 2026 @ 9:22 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;In what can only be described as a dramatic eleventh-hour development, a temporary ceasefire was announced last week in the escalating conflict involving the United States, Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, to view this pause as a simple diplomatic breakthrough is to ignore the grim reality of how it was arrived... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/will-the-celebration-of-aluth-avurudda-this-year-be-austere-638848.html 10 April 2026 @ 8:38 pm lt;p style= quot;text-align: left; quot; align= quot;center quot; gt;This year rsquo;s celebration of the Aluth Avurudda or Sinhala and Tamil New Year, may be somewhat austere, especially in the villages, due to several reasons. lt;/p gt; While there are ample reasons to expect it to be austere, our people have a knack of celebrating festivals even in difficult economic conditions. lt;strong... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/old-years-departing-shocker-the-rising-scandal-of-ndbs-13b-fraud-638792.html 10 April 2026 @ 3:52 pm lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;strong gt;Sorry to bring bad news, but a financially inauspicious Sinhala and Hindu New Year looks likely to dawn on nation lt;/strong gt; lt;/li gt; lt;/ul gt; As the old devil rsquo;s year-long reign dragged toward its inevitable end, it seemed hellbent not on walking into the sunset with a stylish wave of resigned grace, but on leaving Lanka with a shocker to be ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/260412/columns/trumps-torpedo-shakes-a-foreign-policy-stultified-government-638789.html 10 April 2026 @ 3:48 pm In the couple of days between the writing of this column and its appearance today, what will happen to the world is anybody rsquo;s guess. Whether this war, which the adversaries have called a halt to for a breather, I presume, will lead to a lsquo;finis rsquo; is hard to predict. True, a war that has been raging for a few months has suddenly been silenced. The wannabe Napoleon who threatened ...