Category: Local News

A youth was shot and killed in Katuwila, Ahungalla this morning while traveling on a motorbike. […]

Unloading of crude oil has been delayed because of the sudden breakdown in the pipe line that leads to the Colombo Port, the Petroleum Ministry said today(02). […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The racist Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha went into frenzy when she learned that Sri Lankan school kids are scheduled to play friendly soccer games with Tamil Nadu school kids and in a rage has ordered suspension of the stadium officer of the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium in Chennai […]

The Government has declared Monday September 3 as a day of national mourning to mark respect for the death of Most Venerable late Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero, the Chief Prelate of the Ramannya Nikaya. […]

Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie says Beijing’s increasingly close ties with South Asia are aimed at ensuring regional “security and stability” and are not intended to harm any “third party”. […]

Onlanka News – (A comment by Walter Jayawardhana) Now it is clear that that the UNP leader Ranil Wickrmasinghe cannot make any statement related to the long history of the Sinhala people or Buddhism without becoming the laughing stock of the Sri Lankan people. […]

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has called for diversifying trade between Pakistan and Sri Lanka to promote greater economic interaction between the two countries. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is in Iran to participate in the XVI Non Aligned Summit, yesterday called on his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Teheran. […]

The government has declared September 3, as a day of mourning as a mark of respect for the late Mahanayake Thera of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya, the most Venerable Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thera, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 103. […]

I take modest pride in the fact that Sri Lanka is one of the economies in Asia where impressive successes have been recorded during these turbulent times, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said at the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran yesterday. […]

The Chief Priest at the Munneswaran Bhadrakali Kovil today announced that the annual animal sacrifice will not take place as scheduled following a request made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to refrain from such act during the exposition of the sacred Kapilawasthu relics. […]

A high level 25-member high powered delegation led by State Councillor and Minister of National Defence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) General Liang Guanglie called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Wednesday (29). […]

Minister Mervyn Silva said today that he will go to the Munneswaram Kovil premises in order to ensure that the animal sacrifice is not conducted. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has requested that the animal sacrifices are not made especially during the exposition of the sacred Kapilavastu relic, Presidential Spokesman said today. […]

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s national carrier announced on Wednesday it had jettisoned pilots’ bulky paper manuals weighing 84kg in favour of iPads that weigh just 660 grams. […]

Ambassador Major General Shavendra Silva, Charge d’Affaires of the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, emphasized that action taken by the UN and its member states to curb proliferation of small arms and light weapons shouldn’t affect right of governments to acquire weapons. […]