Category: Local News

The former Head of the Media Center for National Security (MCNS), Lakshman Hulugalle has been admitted to the Kandy Hospital early today, hospital sources said. […]

The JVP yesterday called upon the government to ensure that an impartial investigation would be conducted into the mass grave at Thiruketheeswaram, Manthai in Mannar and those responsible brought to justice. […]

Britain says it faces an uphill struggle to secure the passage of an appropriately robust resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in March against Sri Lanka but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is working hard to mobilize opinion and get the necessary majority. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

One of the four albino turtles brought from the Kosgoda turtle hatchery to the Dehiwela Zoo was found dead last night, a Zoo official said. […]

A Grade 4 student of Ananda College in Maradana died following an accident involving a heavy roller at the college grounds this morning, police said. […]