Category: Local News

Colombo:The Sri Lankan government has targeted the country’s per capita income for 2012 to be as high as USD 3,000, a release said today. […]

May the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year that has dawned be one that brings peace, joy and prosperity to all, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a New Year message. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister and and General Secretary  of the AIADMK Jayalalitha Jeyaram said her party would boycott the 15 member parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission scheduled April 16 arguing it may prove an eyewash. […]

Best Pop Act Ashanthi (Sri Lanka) (1st place) Chris Schermer (Austria)(2nd place) Worren Webbe (India) (3rd place) Feritta (Australia) (4th place) Allegro Fudge (India) (5th place) Stars and rabbit (Indonesia) (6th place) […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Premakumar Gunaratnam a leader of the JVP splinter group, Frontline Socialist Party who was banished from Sri Lanka to his second home Sydney received  the widest possible publicity in Australia when he held a press conference there […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Kudnkulam nuclear plant diplomatic tussle between Sri Lanka and India has given a shot in the arm to many anti-nuclear agitators in Chennai who have been protesting against the upcoming plant in the  area reported the Hindu. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s former President Chandrika Kumaratunga has justified India for voting against Sri Lanka at the United Nation’s Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva recently. […]

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 005 PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS ISSUED AT 1151Z 11 APR 2012 THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN. -AN INDIAN-OCEAN-WIDE TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT -A MAJOR AFTERSHOCK OCCURRED AT 1043Z WITH MAGNITUDE 8.3 … THE WATCH AREA IS NOW REDUCED … A TSUNAMI WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR […]

The Australian man abducted in Sri Lanka over the weekend has contradicted the claims of the Colombo government, claiming it abducted him, and were it not for Canberra’s intervention he would have faced certain death. […]

Leader of the newly formed Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), Australian national, Premakumar Gunaratnam who had been living in Australia under the false name, Noel Mudalige, was yesterday deported to Australia with the concurrence of the Australian High Commission in Colombo. He had walked into the Colombo Crime Division Headquarters at Dematagoda on Tuesday night, claiming […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana DMK President and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi  slammed Sri Lanka for raking up the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project issue, saying it had been there for many years and India’s Southern neighbour’s protests now cannot be accepted. […]

Minister Dallas Alahapperuma said the main objective of this measure is to prevent deaths being caused by crocodiles in the surrounding areas of Nilwala Ganga. Every year several persons become victims of these crocodiles as many people in the rural areas on the banks of the Nilwala Ganga are using the river for bathing and […]

Dimuthu Attygalle who was allegedly abducted on April 6 is currently attending the press conference of the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP). […]

The government’s objective is to guarantee that the dividends of the highest economic development that the country has so far achieved, reached the remotest corners of the country, including the North and East, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Bharatiya Janatha Party led state government of Madhya Pradesh is favouring  a Hindutva agenda in granting subsidies to the state pilgrims to visit Sitamatha temple in Sri Lanka , the Opposition leader of the state has alleged. […]

JVP dissident group leader Premakumar Gunaratnam alias Kumara Mahaththaya who was allegedly abducted is currently in Police custody, JVP MP Ajith Kumara told Ada Derana. He claimed that the IGP N.K. Illangakoon had informed him this morning that Gunaratnam was found. […]