Category: Local News

Onlanka.com celebrates its 10th Anniversary today (26th January). Onlanka.com was launched in 26th Jan. 2004 with minimal facilities. After 10 years we are happy to tell you that we have earned good number of readers / visitors to our website. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Let us view some of the comments made by the Office of the UN Secretary General in relation to Sri Lanka. STATEMENTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SPOKESMAN OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – It was recently announced that the Sri Lanka Bar Association had signed a MOU with the USA Government to promote ‘Rule of Law’. The announcement immediately leads us to wonder exactly what type of rule of law does the US intend to promote in Sri Lanka and whether Sri […]

Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga who briefed Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva at the Palais des Nations on Tuesday (21st January 2014) on ‘Progress in the reconciliation process in Sri Lanka’, has said the Government of Sri Lanka has done all that was humanly possible to implement the recommendations of the […]

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Japan has encouraged and assisted leading Japanese television stations to promote Sri Lanka. As a result, seven documentaries have been telecast in 2013 depicting Sri Lankan culture, world heritage sites, places of tourist attraction, investment opportunities available and history of Japan-Sri Lanka relations. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – With the recent calls to rewrite history it is no better a time than now to bring out all the hard facts that have got both hidden or buried (pun intended). Every time the topic of colonial atrocities are brought forward for debate the quick response is to […]

The Customs Revenue Task Force seized 4 million cigarettes valued at Rs. 112 mn at Orugodawatte Rank Container Terminal today, Customs’ Media spokesman Leslie Gamini said. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Statistics Office said on Wednesday it will sack one of its top officials for disobedience and leaking internal information after he said that economic growth data compiled by the office was inflated last year. Opposition legislators have criticised President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government, saying it has long overstated growth estimates and […]

The four popular artistes,former Miss Sri Lanka and popular model Gayesha Perera, famous singer Ginger, Popular actress Ruwanthi Mangala and Malsha Kumaratunga, daughter of Minister Jeevan Kumaratunga who faced the Nomination Board of the SLFP recently  revealed in an interview with Daily Mirror why they decided to enter politics and what they would do if […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – No post-independent Government has faced such a barrage of disputes as the current Government many of which have been as a result of its own making.  The momentum brought about by the patriotic forces following the LTTE’s closure of the Mavil Aru water supply forced the Rajapakse Government […]

Motorcyclists in the Western Province are requested to travel with their headlights switched on even during daytime from tomorrow, police said. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa welcomed Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and his delegation this morning to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo where bilateral talks took place. Following a one-on-one conversation between the two leaders, the delegations of the two countries partook in bilateral discussions spanning a wide variety of sectors. […]

Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana was arrested in Kotte, last night by a special CID team in connection with the murder case of the British national Khuram Shaikh, police said. […]

Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Thilina Gamage ordered the lawyers who appeared for the suspect to make a complaint to the IGP, against the police officer of the Kollupitiya Police Station who had videotaped, using his camera phone, the young female suspect nude, during a raid of a so-called massage parlour. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – The ICRC started operations in Sri Lanka in 1989, an invitation extended by late President Premadasa following his tryst with the LTTE and with LTTE expanding its terror ICRC was able to expand its operations too. What is noteworthy is that ICRC established its offices in areas that were […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa who arrived at the Abu Dhabi Capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a one-day state visit has attended the opening ceremony of the 7th World Future Energy Summit (WFES) and Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony-2014 last evening (20 January) at the Abu […]