Category: Local News

Indian Oil Corp is ready to help Sri Lanka cut its heavy dependence on Iranian crude imports, as tighter Western sanctions hit supplies from Tehran, IOC subsidiary Lanka IOC said yesterday. A top Lanka official said it was ready to help in a $2bn upgrade of Sri Lanka’s 50,000 barrels per day refinery which state-owned […]

Maj Gen Walter D Givhan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plans, Programmes and Operations of the US State Department’s Bureau of Political – Military Affairs, paid a courtesy call on Secretary Defence and Urban Development Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday (26th April) at the Ministry of Defence. […]

Thousands of Sri Lankan internet users could be among millions worldwide who will face a total internet blackout from July 9, 2012 due to a malicious piece of software that may infect their computers without their knowledge, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team warned yesterday. […]

Price of wheat flour has been increased by Rs. 8.50 per kilogram with immediate effect, sources told Ada Derana. Therefore the new price of a kilogram of wheat flour is Rs. 98.50. […]

United National Party Parliamentarian Karu Jayasuriya has issued a media release yesterday in view of the completion of three years since Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka was imprisoned and the completion of six years since he was injured in a suicide bomb attack. […]

Milinda Moragoda who stepped down as Leader of the Opposition, and Member of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) today denied reports claiming he is to take up an appointment with the World Bank. […]

The Police in one of the biggest raids in recent history on heroin distribution, arrested three women and two men at a luxurious distribution point in the 2000 Plaza housing complex, Sri Jayawardenapura, Kotte last evening. […]

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) said yesterday that they had seen a marked rise in cyber crimes, as they had received a total of 202 complaints on the matter.  Most of them were related to hacking of Facebook accounts. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Going ahead with his campaign for carving out a separate ‘Tamil Eelam’ in Sri Lanka, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday sought the revival of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO), an outfit he was associated with in the 1980s, to fight for a separate State for […]

Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Sri Lanka met Sihyung Lee, Deputy Minister for Trade of Republic of Korea on 22 April on the sidelines of the 13th Ministerial Meeting of UNCTAD General Assembly Session at the Qatari National Convention Center, Doha. […]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon said that it is the right time for President Mahinda Rajapaksa to address the issues including rights violation in a speedy and judicious manner. […]

– By Dr. Telli C rajaratnam – Day and Night a young man went from district to district, day by day across the miles with knapsack on his back with literature about the President of this country. He stopped at every corner touched the hearts of those around him with his polite speeches which he […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Leader of the all-party Indian delegation was quoted having told the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that she discussed devolution of powers to the Sri Lankan provinces with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Attacking Muthuvel Karunanidhi the leader of the DMK for asking for the separation of Sri Lanka and create Eelam through UN intervention the Hindu newspaper in no uncertain terms said the cases of Montenegro, South Sudan, East Timor and Kosovo where the UN intervened have no relevance to Sri […]

– By Sadhana Vikram – The Daily News on 2012.02.01 reported a news item. The following news item appeared as follows: […]

Colombo Chief Magistrate Prasanna Alwis today ordered Inspector General of Police (IGP) N.K. Illangakoon to investigate into the alleged death threat received by Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the slain former MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. […]