Category: Local News

Parliamentarian Sanath Jayasuriya and three other MPs have requested President Mahinda Rajapaksa for ministerial portfolios in the government. […]

A tense situation reported from Dematagoda (near railway grounds), due to a protest campaign by a group of people against the police for arresting several suspects during a search operation in a lane called T-20 watte, police said. […]

Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development paid a visit to the inmates at the Mihindu Seth Medura at Aththidiya yesterday. Secretary met with the service personnel currently receiving treatment at the healing center, while distributing gifts for the Sinhala and Hindu New Year in appreciation for their noble sacrifices to the country. […]

A fire which erupted at the Kelanitissa Power Plant in Colombo at around 4.30 am today (April 21) morning has destroyed the main switchboard for the plant’s power generation machinery. […]

— By Dr.Telli.C.Rajaratnam — Winner of the All Island Mehndi competition –Bridal & Beyond held at BMICH Farhath Haadhy is a household name in Sri Lanka amongst Buddhist, Hindu, Indian, Muslim brides and girls of all ages. Farhath Haadhy clad in “abaya”  her entire face except for the eyes are covered according to traditional Islamic […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Pix by Sudath Silva The visiting Indian parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka headed by the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s House (Janadhipathi Mandiraya) in Colombo this morning on Friday 20 April. […]

The visiting Indian All Party Parliamentary Delegation accompanied by the minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa visited the Batticaloa district on Friday afternoon. The Leader of the delegation and the Opposition Leader of the Indian Parliament Ms Sushma Swaraj and the Minister Basil Rajapaksa declared open the newly facilitated Vantharumoolai Vocational Training Centre on the […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Specialist doctors at East Surrey hospital have recommended an open heart surgery for UNP parliamentarian Dr Jayalath Jayawardena, a reliable hospital source revealed. […]

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said if DMK Leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi’s unfulfilled dream was a Tamil Eelam, he should work for it in India because the largest population of Tamils live in the Tamil Nadu state of India and not in Sri Lanka. […]

Many an eye brow has been raised over the apparent reluctance on the part of the officialdom to reveal the arrest of a British national on a narcotics charge yesterday. […]

High Court Judge W.T.M.P.B. Warawewa has revealed that a request made by the Attorney-General’s Department to further extend his term of office by a year to enable him to hear several pending cases has been refused by the Chief Justice. […]

A Director and announcer of the  Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) Nurania Hassan was killed  this morning and five others injured when the vehicle they were travelling in collided with a lorry at Rambawa,according to the Police. […]

A group of three wheeler drivers nabbed a second year female university student who attempted to make a getaway after snatching a gold chain from a woman she had just befriended. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana A new variety of Sri Lankan monkeys have been discovered by a nature conservation group doing their observations in the Sinharaja forest. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the President of the of Drvaida Munetra Kazhagam (DMK) continued to embarrass the New Delhi Central government after rejecting to participate in the all party parliamentary delegation which is visiting Colombo now  also by declaring Tuesday in the party organ Murazoli that Sri Lanka should be divided […]

Sri Lanka Police yesterday launched a special vehicle equipped with mobile Close Circuit TV (CCTV) operation in Colombo. […]