Category: Local News

The Asian Development Bank is to continue investing in around 300 Million U.S.Dollars in the development programmes of Sri Lanka each year until 2016. […]

UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa yesterday told the visiting Indian parliamentary delegation that a post-war political solution should be within a unitary and undivided Sri Lanka. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Communist Party of India(Marxist) said instead of keeping away all shouldld ensure that the Parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka succeeds in its mission of finding a political solution to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. […]

Onlanka News –  By Walter Jayawardhana Not only the two Members of parliament from AIADMK and DMK in Tamil Nadu even the Congress Party head of the state has dropped out of the Sri LANKA trip at the last moment , the Times of India reported. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana A multi-party MPs delegation embarked on a six-day visit to Sri Lanka during which they will oversee developmental projects by India and handing over of houses in the areas worst affected by the decades-old civil war, reported the Times of India. […]

Sri Lanka intends to substantially curtail the import of Iranian crude, in line with tough new sanctions imposed by the United States, before the June 28 deadline. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Colombo’s Island newspaper reported that Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena UNP parliamentarian and former Minister who suffered a heart attack while travelling in London is now discharged from a hospital. […]

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held one to one talks on matters and issues relating to the countries this morning.   In addition to this bilateral talks were also held between the delegations of the two countries with the Sri Lankan delegation led by Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L.Peiris and […]

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has challenged UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella to give the name of the mother who, according to Kiriella, had claimed to have seen the person who abducted her son at the Police Station went she went to make a complaint about the abduction. […]

Ten road accidents were reported for the 24 hours from 6am on Sunday (15) to 6am this morning on the Southern Expressway.  Seven persons, one of them seriously, were injured. Two of the injured  were Indians. […]

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi that was vandalised late on April 5 in the East Sri Lankan town of Batticaloa, headquarters town of the Tamil-dominated Eastern province, has been restored. Three other statues are in the process of being restored. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The decision of the Drvida Munnetra Kazhagam Party(DMK), a constituent of the United  Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi to keep out of a Parliamentary delegation going to Sri Lanka could be called a major embarrassment to Manmohan Singh led government  said the Hindu newspaper. […]

International Monetary Cooperation Senior Minister Dr Sarath Amunugama will lead a Sri Lankan delegation to the IMF – World Bank Spring Meeting to be held in Washington this week. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Nalin Hewapathirana) President Mahinda Rajapaksa performed the oil anointing ritual this morning at the auspicious time of 7.08 am (Sunday 15 April) at the Carlton house in Tangalle. The Chief Sangha Nayaka of the Southern Sri Lanka and the Chancellor of the Ruhunu University Rajakeeya Panditha Ven. […]

Onlanka News– Walter Jayawardhana Copying exactly what his Tamil Nadu rival Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram did DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi also announced that he would withdraw the lone DMK representative to go in the all party parliamentary group headed by Sushma Swaraj. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Shah Rukh Khan has all types of admirers who love him.  One of them was not only happened to be a terrorist and loved  to use Sharuk ‘s name as an alias and that would have made the Bollywood star attract the attention from airport officials in the US […]