Category: Local News

The Bakery Owner’s Association stated that the price of bread would be increased by Rs.5 from midnight. […]

The United States has said that it wanted Sri Lanka to take “concrete steps” on reconciliation as the Colombo government vowed mass protests against US-backed calls for a UN censure on human rights. […]

The Sri Lankan government or its permanent mission to the UN in Geneva, has no hand in the formulation of a reportedly US- crafted resolution on accountability issues in Sri Lanka, which is expected to be presented to the upcoming UNHRC sessions, a letter sent by the Sri Lankan mission to UNHRC member states and […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by Sudath Silva) Executive  vice chairman  and chief executive officer of the International Finance Corporation, Las Henrick Thunel met President, Mahinda Rajapaksa today  on 23 February at Temple Trees. […]

Sri Lanka is looking for alternatives to Iranian crude oil in the face of US-led sanctions aimed at spurring Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme, Colombo’s petroleum minister said Wednesday. […]

The US State Department official has stated that it shared concerns about the judicial processes used to try and convict Former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka and the wider implications his prosecution has on freedom of expression and the rule of law in Sri Lanka. It adds that in the U.S. Department of State’s 2010 report […]

In response to our story on Wednesday February 22 under the headline ‘Arabian Light fuel to replace Iranian Oil’ Minister of Petroleum Industries Susil Premajayantha yesterday said the government had not stopped buying fuel from Iran. […]

External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday stressed that the government wouldn’t negotiate with the US on the proposed resolution, which the Obama administration intended to move against Sri Lanka during the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to begin on Feb. 27. […]

The government was making baseless accusations against the UNP, after assuring the United Nations Human Rights Commission that war crimes allegations against the security forces would be investigated and those found guilty punished, General Secretary of the UNP Tissa Attanayake said yesterday. […]

A forest fire in a section of the Bio Diversity Complex in Ambuluwawa, Gampola was extinguished with the help of two Air Force helicopters. The fire erupted on Tuesday evening, spreading to other areas. […]

Several areas in the country are currently experiencing a power outage due to breakdown of the five grid substations and a transmission line from Polpitiya to Habarana, the Power and Energy Ministry said a short while ago. […]

A cache of nearly 100 Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) including live ones were found in Puttalam today and two persons have been arrested. […]

Presenting the government’s national action plan on the protection and promotion of human rights to the United Nations Human Rights Council bypassing Parliament is a breach of Constitution, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesighe charged today. […]

Minister of Information Technology Ranjith Siyambalapitiya refuted the allegations being made by the Opposition United National Party saying that the government has increased oil prices in accordance with an agreement made with the International Monitory Fund as baseless and sheer imagination. […]

Opposition and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today requested the government to increase salaries if it is unable to reduce a fuel price that was jacked up recently. […]

Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday set an example in energy conservation by directing his officials to reduce his fuel allowance by 10 percent. […]