Category: Local News

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 […]

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has challenged UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella to give the name of the mother who, according to Kiriella, had claimed to have seen the person who abducted her son at the Police Station went she went to make a complaint about the abduction. […]

Ten road accidents were reported for the 24 hours from 6am on Sunday (15) to 6am this morning on the Southern Expressway.  Seven persons, one of them seriously, were injured. Two of the injured  were Indians. […]

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi that was vandalised late on April 5 in the East Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa, headquarters town of the Tamil-dominated Eastern province, has been restored. Three other statues are in the process of being restored. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The decision of the Drvida Munnetra Kazhagam Party(DMK), a constituent of the United  Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi to keep out of a Parliamentary delegation going to Sri Lanka could be called a major embarrassment to Manmohan Singh led government  said the Hindu newspaper. […]

International Monetary Cooperation Senior Minister Dr Sarath Amunugama will lead a Sri Lankan delegation to the IMF – World Bank Spring Meeting to be held in Washington this week. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Nalin Hewapathirana) President Mahinda Rajapaksa performed the oil anointing ritual this morning at the auspicious time of 7.08 am (Sunday 15 April) at the Carlton house in Tangalle. The Chief Sangha Nayaka of the Southern Sri Lanka and the Chancellor of the Ruhunu University Rajakeeya Panditha Ven. […]

Onlanka News– Walter Jayawardhana Copying exactly what his Tamil Nadu rival Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram did DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi also announced that he would withdraw the lone DMK representative to go in the all party parliamentary group headed by Sushma Swaraj. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Shah Rukh Khan has all types of admirers who love him.  One of them was not only happened to be a terrorist and loved  to use Sharuk ‘s name as an alias and that would have made the Bollywood star attract the attention from airport officials in the US […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana India should not feel awkward about the Chinese presence in Sri Lanka since there is plenty of room for both declared Member of Parliament and Presidential advisor Rajiv Wijesinghe in an interview in New Delhi. In a stopover in the Indian capital while travelling to Nepal Wijesinghe said India […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Indian Muslims have urged to add a Muslim representative to the Indian parliamentary team headed by Opposition Leader Sushma Swaraj scheduled to visit Sri Lanka April 16. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma from London UNP Gampaha District MP Dr Jayalath Jayawardena has been admitted to East Surrey Hospital, the former minister was found unconscious at the Gatwick Air Port on 13 April. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana In response to Chief Minister Jayalalitha’s allegation that the Indian parliamentary team would become a public relations event for the Rajapaksa’s other than serving any useful purposes India has announced that the Indian delegation would get the opportunity of interacting with all elected parliamentarians of the Tamils when they […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by Sudath Silva) When the entire country is gripped in a happy and festive mood after officially lifting tsunami danger, Sri Lankans celebrated the traditional Sinhala and Hindu New Year in usual grand style. According to the astrological charts, the most eagerly awaited National New Year dawned at […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The India Today magazine said Jayalalitha’s withdrawal of her nominee from the all-party parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka has upset Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s calculations who is bending over backwards to pacify the ruffled feathers of Sri Lanka after the vote at the UNHRC meeting in Geneva. […]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a message greeting all Sri Lankans around the world for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year said that it gives an opportunity to help build a democratic nation defined by-tolerance and respect for human rights. […]