Category: Local News

President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Brazil to attend the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, met the President of Chile Sebastian Pinera and Bhutan’s Prime Minister Jigme Thinley at Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. President Rajapaksa and President Pinera engaged in talks on the sidelines of the conference. […]

Senior Minister Athauda Seneviratne, who handed himself over to court over damaging public property, was ordered released on bail of Rs. 1 million by the Warakapola Magistrate’s Court under strict conditions. […]

About 75 asylum seekers including SriLankana are feared dead in a mishap where a boat carrying 200 asylum seekers, capsized in Indonesian waters. […]

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka plans to sell sovereign euro bonds worth up to $1 billion to add to its dollar reserves and give the central bank more room to defend the weakening rupee currency. […]

Tangalle High Court Judge Chandrasena Rajapaksa in a disclosure in court  said he had come to know that Geeganagamage Amarasiri alias Julampitiye Amare who had more than a 100 arrest warrants against him had visited an inmate at the Tangalle prison last week. […]

Geeganagamage Amarasiri, alias Julampitiye Amare, who surrendered to the Tangalle High Court on Tuesday in connection with a murder which occurred in 2002 will be produced at an identification parade in the Walasmulla Magistrate’s Court in connection with last Friday’s Katuwana double murder. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana DMK President Muthuvel Karunanidhi strongly objected to an alleged statement of Sri Lankan Minister Champika Ranawaka in which the minister had threatened another “massacre” of Tamils and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the issue with Colombo and the United Nations. […]

Sri Lanka President arrived in  Brazil on Tuesday (19) to attend the Rio+20, United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) led by actor Vijayakant has decided to boycott the Indian Presidential elections on the ground of many issues out of which two are  Sri Lanka issues. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana Julampitiye Amare, an underworld figure wanted for the murder of two psrticipants at a JVP political meeting at Katuwana in the Hambantota electorate surrendered to the High Court Tangalle while opposition political parties and international human rights organizations were criticizing the Sri Lanka government for protecting the murderers. […]

Geeganagamage Amarasiri also known as “Julampitiya Amare” alleged to be involved in the Katuwana killings and wanted for other cases has surrendered to the court, police said today. […]

Prices of nineteen varieties of infant milk food will be decreased from midnight today as the government has decided to impose a price control for infant milk food; Minister of Internal Trade Johnston Fernando said a short while ago. […]

Excavations at the Pahiyangala cave in Bulathsinhala, Kalutara confirmed that homo sapiens had settled in Sri Lanka 40,000 years ago, Deputy Director of Archaeology Dr Nimal Perera said. A skeleton of the Balangoda man was found at the excavation site of the Pahiyangala cave a few days ago, he said. It was the first time […]

Director General of the Media Center for National Security, Lakshman Hulugalle said today that he had proof to believe that the cause of the shooting in Katuwana was due to an internal conflict within the JVP. […]

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left, sits with Cuba’s President Raul Castro inside Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, on Saturday (June 16). Image courtesy – Suomen Kuvalehti.fi Cuban President Raul Castro and visiting President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka agreed Saturday to further strengthen cooperation between their countries. […]

Onlanka News – By Dr. Telli C Rajaratnam “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”-William Shakespeare * Born – June 20, 1949 * Appointed Defence Secretary in 2005 * Joined Sri Lanka Army in 1971 * Commanded 1st Battalion of Gajaba Regiment in Vadamarachchi in 1987 * […]