Category: Local News

AN EXPERIENCE AT GETWELL PHARMACY, WELLAWATTE The Ministry of Health has given strict instructions to all Pharmacies in the best interests of the people yet most Pharmacies are exploiting innocent consumers by selling expired medication and substitutes. […]

While claiming that Malaysia’s abstention at the vote on the UNHRC resolution On Sri Lanka was not a double standard, the Malaysia Government says it is unfair to impose an obligation on Sri Lanka to report in just three months. […]

You are a strong and valuable vote of confidence in Sri Lanka; an expression of growing trust in the new opportunities for export trade in a country that was famous for international trade from ancient days, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles The recent statement that some cadres of  Sri Lanka’s crushed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have joined Maoists of the Sothern Indian state of Karnataka is a process that continued to happen without any break with the fall of the movement back in 2009 […]

Education Minister Bandula Gunawardene said today said he was ready for a public debate to prove that a family of three could survive with a monthly income of Rs.7500. […]

Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena today reiterated his earlier comment claiming that Rs. 2,500 was enough for a person to survive for a month. He added that he was prepared to debate the fact with anyone who was qualified enough. […]

The island best results for the Ordinary Level examination 2011 was obtained by Udeshika Madushani Hettiarachchi of Visaka Vidyalaya, Colombo while Anusha Perera of Science College Matale obtained the second best results. […]

Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva today said that if the media wants to use his name to increase their sales by spreading rumours about him, then so be it. […]

A Blind student, who sat for the 2011 GCE Ordinary Level examination last year, has scored ‘A’s in all subjects she had offered. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana By supporting a US presented human rights resolution against Sri Lanka Manmohan Singh led New Delhi government has missed an opportunity to project India as a respected regional power charged The Pioneer. […]

Without criticizing India directly for backing the US-initiated resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has described the resolution as “politically motivated” and one that has ended up discrediting the Council itself. […]

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Michele Sison to be ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives. […]

With the European Union expected to reform its GSP system by 2014, Sri Lanka could face many challenges with both Pakistan and Bangladesh eligible to benefit by trade concessions with a possible free trade agreement with India expected to exert more pressure. […]

Former UNP Provincial Councilor and now SLFP member Sagara Senarathne was abducted this evening in Kotte by a group that arrived in a van before being dropped in an area close to Ja-ela town at around 9.30pm (26th March). […]

(By  Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles) An article written in response to what the paper said was India’s U turn in foreign policy by voting against a close ally, Sri Lanka at a United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva  warned that the “Indian government might find itself in a very uncomfortable situation […]

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development currently on an official visit to Tokyo met with Ambassador Yasushi Akashi, Japan’s Special Representative to Sri Lanka, in addition to Senior Ministers, Japanese parliamentarians and dignitaries and held discussions on the current development activities and financial and technical assistance extended by Japan. Discussions were also held on […]