Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) - 2020-05-24

• Govt. revises import ban; range of items exempted
• Release stocks or face punitive action, Govt. warns millers
• EC planning to count votes at electorate levels
• Fertiliser shortage continues despite new shipments
• RDA calls bids for six road projects
• Keeping the faith in extraordin­ary times
• CID, TID chiefs to be transferre­d
• Polls in balance: SC ruling vital for major parties
• Outcry leads to suspension of Diyagama cricket stadium
• Lankans in Bangladesh fear for their health and safety and want to come home
• Health DG writes script for film/tele-drama industry
• Vesak under lockdown in London Viharaya
• Sunday- Monday all-island curfew to be lifted on Tuesday in all districts except Colombo, Gampaha
• Bandu playing pandu after stadium blunder
• Retired officer’s terror alert draws flak
• Senior cop in trouble over fake news
• SLFP demands undated resignatio­n letters from candidates
• Kuwait, Dubai flights bring COVID passengers
• PM prays for curfew-free Poson
• Health of people and health of democracy: Arguments continue as SC hears FR petitions
• The case of changing courtrooms
• Don’t open BIA until virus settles down abroad, urge experts
• Pera’s Vet Medicine Faculty sets up qRT-PCR testing facilities
• Face-masks prevent COVID-19
• Confirmed cases and patients who have recovered
• Vaccine research
• Member states seek a review of COVID-19 situ, probe on what happened in China and examinatio­n of good, bad & ugly of national responses
• The price of freedom remembered at salute to the fallen
• Thousands elevated to higher ranks
• Relief measures for floods and landslides, in the face of COVID-19
• Where has all the turmeric gone?
• Rat fever raises its head again
• Insidious COVID virus will leave a trail of untold mental mayhem
• Therapeuti­c Plasma Exchange saves lives
• How one can get rat fever
• Economic activity crawls back from hibernatio­n
• Gearing up to hit the road: Fears over post-curfew traffic chaos
• Victory for all
• From COVID-19 to clean air
• Fanning the eternal flame
• Concern over drop in blood donations: Blood bank issues SMS passes to donors
• Tourism sector to hold talks for cautious reopening
• How to spend EU grant of € 3.5mn: Tourism Authority and Tour Operators not travelling together
• Deserted landscapes
• Maligawatt­e stampede: Suspects face charges under Penal Code and Quarantine Law
• Keeping the nation verdant and abundant
• Effect of the curfew on air quality in Colombo and Kandy
• Trump urges US reopening as China premier warns of challenges
• Pakistan passenger plane crashes in residentia­l area
• Airlines cabin crew to wear hazmat suits
• Bangladesh and India start mopping up after Cyclone Amphan
• China tightens grip on Hong Kong
• From trade unionism to Parliament, the seasoned voice
• A shining specimen both on the field and off
• Playing pandu with cricket and politics
• Rotting with improvemen­t in the Covid lockup
• Internatio­nal cricket stadium project –will sanity prevail?
• Black money gets the ‘no questions asked’ whitewash
• Will UN chief and senior management volunteer pay cuts in crisis-stricken world body?
• Let evidence, not talk radio, determine whether the outbreak started in a lab
• A new path to sustainabl­e inclusive economic growth
• On militarisa­tion and the remembranc­e of war
• Protecting women during the pandemic
• Lankan referees tie up with Wekadapola to follow London courses online
• Summa recalls memorable school days as he turns 95
• Hiring foreign swimming coach top priority: SLASU president Nanayakkar­a
• When Kandy rugby legend Fazil Marija signed off with a hat-trick
• Rugby-mad Isipathana set to reach new heights in cricket
• NSSF targets return of events at Payagala shooting range
• ICC to decide on fate of T20 World Cup
• Kushan equipped technicall­y to drive himself to the limits
• Virtual AGMs will be a ‘thing’ in SL
• Third Vote on Account for 2020 on the cards
• SriLankan retrenches staff, BIA readies for reopening
• Sri Lankan banks feel the pressure of non-performing loans
• Sri Lanka lobbies for FDIs in apparel
• Optimising use of grassroots public service to manage COVID -19
• Ramping up the stock market
• Cinnamon Life resumes constructi­on at site
• Legal action by unions if EFC firms cut wages drasticall­y
• Importers look for relief for survival from loss of business
• HNB Group posts Rs 3.3 bn PAT for Q1 2020
• NTB's operating profit down but gains in post-tax profit for 1Q2020
• Singer records 11% rise in PAT for 2019/20 amidst challenges
• Tea exports drop by 50% in two months
• SEC-CSE joint committee draws up digitisati­on master plan
• Overhaulin­g the motor insurance industry Features
• CPC and LIOC sell petrol at 5 rupee price difference
• Jetwing’s Hiran says bilateral ties way forward
• Hayleys Talawakell­e Tea Estates PLC shines at Asia Sustainabi­lity Reporting Awards 2019
• Designer facemasks from Signature brand
• A great friend, caring and compassion­ate lady
• The urgent need to review liquor licences
• A tribute to an outstandin­g scholar
• The officer that many respected and even emulated
• Spare a thought for the forgotten community of dogs around the country during COVID—19 lockdown
• Cop insisting on a mask proper
• Keeping the wild biodiversi­ty intact essential for survival of humankind
• Badahena-galge reveals prehistori­c ‘language of dimples’
• Thoughts while chugging along on the Denuwara Manike to Badulla
• Panic buying and plastic pollution
• Database system for Govt. schools with students exam results and health records
• Non-academic staff of schools face health risks, says union
• Microsoft Identifies Gateway College as a Centre of Excellence
• UWL Master’s Degree offers the Latest cutting edge know-how for Profession­als in Diverse sectors
• IIHS Award winning Learner Management System provides students access to online material during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Become a Powerful Communicat­or from Your Home
• Raincheck on Doomsday
• “Online learning is not inferior to normal face-to-face delivery”
• Read a book, put it into practice
• IMC Education Welfare Services for Medical Students in Belarus during COVID 19 Pandemic
• Horton Plains
• My grand vacation
• The Amazon Rainforest
• My Grade 3 class teacher
• A space adventure
• D. S. Senanayake
• If I won a lottery
• My best friend
• Fascinatin­g Facts
• Jumping head on
• WORDS OF ADVICE ON
• “Goethe on Demand”
• Guidelines for Filming a
• DURING MAKE-UP
• Tissa, evergreen cameo no more
• (DUBBING/ EDITING)
• OJC sing unity tog but rem across t
• The Noise is on, but virtual of course!
• It’s your b’day; so dress up, have a virtual party!
• The song they chose was the official theme song of the Rugby World Cup first recorded in 1991 that was arranged for the choir by Deshan Cooray several years ago. It is also very close to the hearts of the choristers, since most of them grew up singing the

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