Category: Local News

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Going by the recommendation of the LLRC report the Sri Lanka government has decided to release the information on war detainees. […]

  Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Indian anti- narcotic detectives  arrested four train passengers including two women and a Sri Lankan Tamil who was waiting outside in a car to receive the contraband, seizing ng more than 100 million Indian Rupees worth of heroin to be sent to Sri Lanka this Friday in Chennai. […]

  Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The electrocution death occurred of an Indian worker in a private steel plant of a BOI company has revealed that workers are immigrated to work in this plant under tourist visas from India and they are working under modern day conditions of slavery. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Karunakaran Kandasamy Kandasamy, a US citizen charged for aiding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a terrorist group in Sri Lanka was released by the Federal Judge to time served in jail – about five years, after casting doubt on the terrorism case […]

Onlanka News – ByWalter Jayawardhana Sushma Swaraj, India’s Leader of Opposition addressing the Madurai convention of her Bharatiya Janata Party questioned why when Sri Lanka’s respected Tamil Leader R.Sampanthan says that he wanted Tamils to remain in a united SriLanka certain leaders in Tamil Nadu want to promote Tamil separatism for Sri Lanka. […]

The strike action launched by government doctors today has been called off fallowing discussions, the Government Medical Officers Association said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu and Times of India said two Sri Lankan suspects of a drug cartel carrying a large quantity of pure heroin was arrested in Chennai .The ones arrested are only couriers, investigators believed. […]

Federal prosecutors in New York City say a man who was the top U.S. representative of outlawed Sri Lankan rebel group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), deserves a stiff prison sentence while his lawyers say he’s done enough time. […]

All government doctors will launch an island-wide strike today from 8am onwards demanding the transport allowance agreed in 2008. All doctors are expected to join the strike with the exception of the Accident Service, Castle hospital, Lady Ridgeway Hospital, De Soysa Hospital and the Cancer Hospital, Maharagama. […]

Minister Mervyn Silva’s son Malaka Silva says that he has not decided to enter active politics at the moment, but if there is any request from the public he will seriously consider it. “I have not decided to enter politics right now as I am busy with business and social service activities,” he told Daily […]

Postal workers have refrained from the distribution of letters in the Colombo region due to a dispute over shifting their work station to a different place. President of the Ceylon Postal Services Union, Jayantha Wijesinghe speaking to Ada Derana said that a consensus could not be reached during talks with the authorities last night. […]

Setting an appalling precedent, putting the country’s equity market’s credibility on the line, National Savings Bank (NSB) in a newspaper advertisement has said that the bank’s director board has decided not to pay the moneys due on the The Finance-NSB transaction. […]

Around 800 women prisoners were united with their offspring at a function at Magazine Prison yesterday in an event to mark International Mothers’ Day. […]

Despite objections by Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN Tamara Kunanayakam of herself being transferred from her post, Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha has been appointed the new Permanent Representative to the UN, informed sources said. […]

A blessings ceremony by a world Sangha congregation for global peace to mark the 2600th anniversary of the Buddha’s Enlightenment, began at the Nelum Pokuna(Lotus Pond) theatre in Colombo yesterday under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Over 500 members of Maha Sangha from 30 countries joined over 1,000 members of Maha Sangha from Sri […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu said the Sri Lankan entry “Abinikmana”, the directorial debut of theatre personality Hector Kumarasiri at the Buddhist film festival in New Delhi was well appreciated. […]