Category: Local News

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) Former Solicitor General, President’s Counsel Sarath Palitha Fernando was sworn in as the new Attorney General of Sri Lanka before President Mahinda Rajapaksa a short while ago at Temple Trees. Secretary to the President, Lalith Weeratunga was present at the occasion. […]

For the first time after 30 years, a Tamil sub-titled version of a new Sinhala film will be released at Raja Cinema, Jaffna on Friday July 20. Chandraratne Mapitigama’s latest Sinhala movie ‘Sihinaya Dige Enna’ will be screened in the Jaffna cinema bringing new hope for peace through the arts. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) objective for a separate homeland (Tamil Eelam) for all Tamils threatens the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and amounts to cession from the Indian Union and thus falls the ambit of unlawful activities said the Home Ministry of India explaining the […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana Following President Rajapaksa’s statement the elections for the Northern Council elections in Sri Lanka would be held in September 2013 DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday wondered whether Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had any genuine intention to hold elections to the country’s northern provincial council. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu quoted a former LTTE girl fighter Niromi de Soyaza who recently published a book as telling the LTTE tortured and killed alleged spies and “traitors” and also looted Tamil shops and homes while fighting the Indian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka. […]

The Department of Motor Traffic now permits trial runs on vehicles with automatic transmission to issue driving licences, Commissioner General S.H. Harischandra said. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremonially declared open the 150MW Upper Kotmale Hydropower Plant this morning on 14 July at the auspicious time of 10.45 am. The ceremonial opening also attended by Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and Japanese Ambassador in Colombo, Nobuhito Hobo. […]

Onlanka News – By N.Iresha Ratnayake It was ironic to read a scurrilous article by a Sunday newspaper regarding a provocative interview between its Editor and the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. From the reading of the contents, one could realize that the Editor deliberately provoked the Defence Secretary as that has been the forte of […]

Onlanka News – By N.Iresha Ratnayake REASONS STATED FOR IMPOSITION OF FEES FOR NEWS WEBSITES A FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNDERMINING THE NORMS OF DEMOCRACY. Recent news of an imposition of a registration fee and an annual fee has baffled the local and international media. Perhaps the fall of the Media Minister in Australia […]

The price of a Laugfs and Litro domestic gas cylinder will be reduced by Rs. 150 from midnight today, the Ministry of Finance and Planning said. […]

A power failure is currently being experienced in Panadura, Rathmalana, Colombo City and suburbs due to a breakdown at the Pannipitiya gird, the Ceylon Electricity Board said. The CEB added that power will be restored soon. […]

Responding to recent comments made by UNP MP Harin Fernando, Minister Mervyn Silva said that before trying to sort out issues pertaining to neighbours he should first sort out the issues in Mr. Fernando’s house […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said new ministry Secretaries must manage institutions under the ministries in an efficient and exemplary manner to promote productivity. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi said that he very much doubts about President Rajapaksa’s statement on the Northern Provincial Council elections saying there is some “hidden meaning” on the polls scheduled a year from now as was said by the President. […]

Steps are being taken to introduce new laws to make compulsory the registration of new news websites in Sri Lanka while a registration fee and an annual renewal fee will be charged as well, Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated. […]

Sri Lanka Telecom, the nation’s number one integrated communications service provider and the leading broadband & backbone infrastructure services provider, is proud to announce the successful implementation of the 1st phase of its ultra-high speed Broadband Network under its nation-wide network modernization project “i-Sri Lanka” which has already driven an increase of 40,000 new broadband […]