President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok for a fourday visit to Thailand yesterday. Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand, Yongyoot Wichaidit welcomed President at the Airport. Sri Lanka has become a country where all communities could live together in harmony and has entered the development path after ending a 30 year war, said […]
The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka has requested the Ceylon Electricity Board to provide all information pertaining to the calculation of electricity bills, including taxes, subsidies and any other charges related to electricity consumed, Director General of PUCSL Damitha Kumarasinghe in a media release states. […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (The tamil name for Sri Lanka Tamil Government Party) has refused to revisit its constitution which seeks the establishment of a separate stateat its 14th National Convention in Batticaloa recently charged the Hindu newspaper. […]
RURAL PERSPECTIVE A painting by Kappari Kishan Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Kappan Kishan is a Buddhist artist from Telangana province of Andra Pradesh, South India. The people from the region like to call their area as the seat of Buddhism in India. “These women, according to me, are devotees of Buddha. In this […]
“The Metro Colombo Urban Development Project and its successful implementation, together with other initiatives of the Government to develop Colombo, will help transform this city into a truly world class one”, said Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa today morning (May 28). […]
Describing as “an insult to injury” Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s assertion that his country would not bow to outside pressure and withdraw the Army from the North, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday said the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO)would soon organise a conference to discuss these issues and take […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana As a strong message to the politicians who govern the country, the most venerable Agga Maha Panditha the Supreme Maha Nayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Sangha Sabha Dauldena Gnanissara said that “Dasa Raja Dharma” should be practiced by rulers when the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka visited him […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana In an obvious reply to Minister Wimal Weerawansa, former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka said what he had told about war crimes was that he was prepared to take the responsibility as the former Commander of the Army and defend any allegation against any body alive or dead who were […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Blaming that those who negotiated General Fonseka’s release from the jail with the President are responsible for the freedom without civic rights he received Ranil Wickramasinghe said Tiran Alles being a member of parliament should tell the nation the circumstances under which such a sorry state came into being. […]
The latest survey carried out by the well known American pollster Gallop Poll in respect of people’s acceptance of the Head of State of their respective country, out of 21 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been ranked in the 3rd position. The survey says that 91% of the Sri Lankans […]