Category: Local News

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday noted that an improved road network has reduced travel time between areas, supplemented development and established closer links between people. “The government’s emphasis on developing roads has ensured that people spend less time for travel and have more time for work. I feel like the country has become smaller due to […]

SEOUL (AFP) – A fierce blaze swept through a karaoke lounge in a busy commercial district of the South Korean city of Busan, killing nine people including three Sri Lankans, police said on Sunday. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Vesak moon will be closest to the earth on Sunday May 6 than it is on any other night in entire year 2012 and hence it will appear very much larger. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada engaged in an inspection tour of the 150-megawatt Upper Kotmale Hydro Power Project this morning on 05 May. The power plant project was launched in 2006 with financial assistance from the government of Japan. […]

Convicted. Ramanan Mylvaganam leaves Brampton courthouse with supporters after being released on $680,000 bail in 2006. File photo The United States Department of Justice will ask a federal judge to impose a 15-year prison sentence on a Malton man who pleaded guilty to his role in a 2006 terror plot to supply Sri Lanka’s Tamil […]

Colombo, May 4 (IANS) Sri Lanka will set up a centre to address human-elephant conflicts in the country, Deputy Economic Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywaradana said Friday. […]

It is indeed a great privilege to once again commemorate the triple festival of events in the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, with great reverence and honour, and with full state patronage, states President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a Vesak message. […]

– By Dr.Telli C Rajaratnam – Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. […]

Onlanka News –  By Walter Jayawardhana The Indian parliamentary delegation who visited Sri Lanka met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and other leaders of the NewDelhi government and recommended  the 13th amendment of the Sri Lanka Constitution should be implemented. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The question asked often is what came first? The chicken or the egg?  For a Welimada poultry farm owner he is sure sometimes the chicken also comes first. […]

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) today announced that it has given approval for a Rs. 70 increase in the price of a 50 kilogram bag of cement. […]

Price of a 12.5 Kg domestic LP gas cylinder, both Litro and Laugfs, will be increased by Rs. 350 with affect from midnight today (04), the Consumer Affairs Authority said. […]

A 400g packet of imported milk powder was increased to Rs. 325, Minister of Cooperatives and Internal Trade, Johnston Fernando stated today (May 4) at a press conference. […]

The Central Bank has decided to stop the printing of Rs.10 and Rs.2000 currency notes henceforth, officials said yesterday. However, the CB said notes already in circulation in could be used for transactions. […]

A 15% tax or a maximum of Rs.92 per kilogramme has been imposed on imported milk powder except for infant milk powder, the Finance Ministry stated. […]

At least twenty two line-houses in the Mocha Estate in the Maskeliya area were completely destroyed following a fire that broke out this morning, police said. […]