The Eden Resort & Spa, Beruwela (a member of Confifi Group Hotels) has the perfect accommodation solution for the more discerning traveler where the emphasis is on space, luxury and pampering. Its premium category aptly referred to as Paradise Rooms and Suites serve up a wide and unique range of facilities and services with prominence [...]
Joe Berger Checks Out The Best And The Worst Places To Eat And Drink In Colombo… The Sunday Leader is pleased to announce that it has started a regular weekly column investigating the various restaurants in Sri Lanka. Our visits are carried out completely anonymously, without announcement either prior to or after the dining experience. [...]
By Ranee Mohamed G. Laksitha Damayanthi, a school teacher of the Siyambalanaduwa Maha Vidyalaya was shot dead allegedly by a young man who entered the school on Thursday morning. The young man identified as Wickremasinghe Mudiyanselage Chathura Saranga, (27) a married man and a resident of Badulla had thereafter shot himself. He is reported to [...]
By Ranee Mohamed- Photos by Tusitha Kumara Some friendships last a lifetime. Some don’t. I was introduced to Egerton on Friday morning. On Saturday, he died. The sun was struggling to let out its first rays, when Egerton breathed his last. And like everyone who dies, death was the last on the list of this hefty [...]
SLAF Chief Continues To Reign At Knuckles By Gazala Anver The Knuckles Conservation Committee, appointed to look into the alleged illegal holiday bungalow built by Air Force Commander Roshan Goonetileka, is still at too early a stage to make a decision, Deputy Minister of Environment Faiszer Mustapha told The Sunday Leader. To date, despite the [...]
Mahina Bongso: An Award Winning Newscaster By Anushka Gunawardena As a supportive grandmother watched her granddaughter, Mahina Bongso, go for an interview at Channel 1 MTV, little did she know that one day she would become the ‘Best English News Reader’ at the Rupavahini State Awards. At the age of 24, Mahina Bongso, now a [...]
By Maryam Azwer An official at the Ministry of External Affairs said that efforts were being made to have Rowan Kumar, pardoned on a blood-money agreement. Rowan Kumar is a Sri Lankan who was recently sentenced to face a firing squad in Dubai after being found guilty of murdering a Nepalese man. The official, who [...]
On Saturday, August 28, l was driving my car, accompanied by my wife, towards Colombo on the Colombo – Negombo road. The time was around midnight and except for a few isolated spots where there was traffic, the road was peaceful. As I usually do at such times, I kept cruising on the outer-left lane [...]
By Ranee Mohamed – Photos by Asoka Fernando Despite vehement denials by the Vice Chancellor of the Sri Jayawardenapura University, N. L. A. Karunaratne that he sent six girls for a virginity test, The Sunday Leader met with and spoke to two of the girls who had been subjected to this humiliating act. “It was [...]
T. Bill Rates Bottom-Out With the Monetary Board (MB) keeping policy rates unchanged at Tuesday’s MB meeting, that signalled to the market that an upward trend in rates were plausible, with Treasury (T) Bond yields of 2013, 2014 and 2015 tenures cumulatively moving up by 25 and 10 basis points each (on the two longer [...]
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