Category: Local News

A tense situation has erupted in Maligawatta as authorities have arrived to demolish unauthorized buildings, Maligawatta police told Ada Derana. Police have been deployed to the area to control the situation as the residents are protesting the move to demolish. […]

A U.S. court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, noting he is immune from lawsuits as a sitting head of state. […]

The EU yesterday backed UK’s demand that the GoSL take tangible measures to address accountability issues or face the consequences. […]

External intervention at this time is singularly unhelpful and will indeed inflict grave damage on a sensitive internal process which is moving forward, External Affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris said in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday. […]

The Cinnamon Gardens Police have arrested 43 boys from a leading boy’s school in Colombo, for causing disturbance to school activities at two of Colombo’s leading girl’s schools. […]

The decision on the milk powder price revision will be taken tomorrow (March 1) after milk food companies requested a price revision from the Pricing Committee of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA), the Ministry of Cooperatives and Internal Trade stated. […]

A 48 year old woman was found dead with stab wounds, inside a hotel room in Kollupitiya early this morning, the police said. […]

Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that the 19th sessions of the UNHRC in Geneva were detrimental to the interests of corrupt government leaders and not those of Sri Lanka. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the mammoth crowds in Kilinochchi, Jaffna, the East and the rest of the country could protest unitedly on highways on Monday, irrespective of all differences, against a resolution before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva against Sri Lanka because ruthless terrorism was defeated without rousing racist passions, by […]

Treasury Secretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundera has defended the recent fuel price increases saying the revisions were undertaken only after it became apparent that subsidising fuel and electricity was no longer sustainable. […]

Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe the Leader of the Sri Lankan delegation currently in Geneva at the UNHRC session outlined the initiatives taken by the government to address issues raised. Addressing the session Samarasinghe invited delegates to visit the country and witness for themselves first hand the transformation that has taken place in the country. below is […]

The Mahanayake Theras of the three Nikayas in a joint statement yesterday have called upon the people to shed all petty differences and join hands with the government to defeat all foreign conspiracies aimed at undermining the country’s development efforts and the communal and religious unity and amity now building up. “If the people go […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) The 14th Census of Population and Housing conducted by the Department of Census and Statistics of the Ministry of Finance and Planning was inaugurated today on 27 February at the President’s House with the participation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The official 2012 Census kicked off […]

There is no need for a resolution on Sri Lanka calling for the implementation of the LLRC’s recommendations as this is already being done by the Government, Plantation Minister and President’s Special Human Rights Envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe said addressing the 19th session at the UN Human Rights Council a short while ago. […]

Rev.  Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith of Colombo  says that presenting of a resolution against Sri Lanka by the United States Government at the United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva is an undue meddling in the sovereignty and integrity  of Sri Lanka […]

The UN Human Rights Council has an opportunity and a duty to help Sri Lanka advance its own efforts on accountability and reconciliation. Both are essential if a lasting peace is to be achieved, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Irish President Mary Robinson say in an article written to The Guardian today. […]