Category: Local News

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said if DMK Leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s unfulfilled dream was a Tamil Eelam, he should work for it in India because the largest population of Tamils live in the Tamil Nadu state of India and not in Sri Lanka. […]

Many an eye brow has been raised over the apparent reluctance on the part of the officialdom to reveal the arrest of a British national on a narcotics charge yesterday. […]

High Court Judge W.T.M.P.B. Warawewa has revealed that a request made by the Attorney-General’s Department to further extend his term of office by a year to enable him to hear several pending cases has been refused by the Chief Justice. […]

A Director and announcer of the  Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) Nurania Hassan was killed  this morning and five others injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a lorry at Rambawa,according to the Police. […]

A group of three wheeler drivers nabbed a second year female university student who attempted to make a getaway after snatching a gold chain from a woman she had just befriended. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana A new variety of Sri Lankan monkeys have been discovered by a nature conservation group doing their observations in the Sinharaja forest. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the President of the of Drvaida Munetra Kazhagam (DMK) continued to embarrass the New Delhi Central government after rejecting to participate in the all party parliamentary delegation which is visiting Colombo now  also by declaring Tuesday in the party organ Murazoli that Sri Lanka should be divided […]

Sri Lanka Police yesterday launched a special vehicle equipped with mobile Close Circuit TV (CCTV) operation in Colombo. […]

The Asian Development Bank is to continue investing in around 300 Million U.S.Dollars in the development programmes of Sri Lanka each year until 2016. […]

UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday told the visiting Indian parliamentary delegation that a post-war political solution should be within a unitary and undivided Sri Lanka. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Communist Party of India(Marxist) said instead of keeping away all shouldld ensure that the Parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka succeeds in its mission of finding a political solution to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. […]

Onlanka News –  By Walter Jayawardhana Not only the two Members of parliament from AIADMK and DMK in Tamil Nadu even the Congress Party head of the state has dropped out of the Sri LANKA trip at the last moment , the Times of India reported. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana A multi-party MPs delegation embarked on a six-day visit to Sri Lanka during which they will oversee developmental projects by India and handing over of houses in the areas worst affected by the decades-old civil war, reported the Times of India. […]

Sri Lanka intends to substantially curtail the import of Iranian crude, in line with tough new sanctions imposed by the United States, before the June 28 deadline. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Colombo’s Island newspaper reported that Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena UNP parliamentarian and former Minister who suffered a heart attack while travelling in London is now discharged from a hospital. […]

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held one to one talks on matters and issues relating to the countries this morning.   In addition to this bilateral talks were also held between the delegations of the two countries with the Sri Lankan delegation led by Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L.Peiris and […]