Category: Local News

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana In an obvious reply to  Minister Wimal Weerawansa, former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka said what  he had told about war crimes was that he was prepared to take  the responsibility as the former Commander of the Army and  defend any  allegation against any body alive or dead who were […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Blaming that those who negotiated General Fonseka’s release from the jail with the President are responsible for the freedom without civic rights he received  Ranil Wickramasinghe said Tiran Alles being a member of parliament should tell the nation the circumstances under which such a sorry state came into being. […]

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella returned to the island from Australia where he had been receiving treatment for injuries he had sustained in an accident. […]

The latest survey carried out by the well known American pollster Gallop Poll in respect of people’s acceptance of the Head of State of their respective country, out of 21 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been ranked in the 3rd position.  The survey says that 91% of the Sri Lankans […]

Several roads in Colombo including Town Hall, Horton Place, Thunmulla, Amarasekara Mw, Devi Balika has been flooded due to the heavy rain experienced in several parts of count this morning, police said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Responding on the threat by the Attorney General’s Department on Ms. Hirunika Premachandra, the AsianHuman Rights Commission has said it is the the CID who should be charged with contempt of Court rather than the murder  victim’s daughter Hirunika. […]

A major fire has broken out at a fuel station in front of the Dehiwala –Mount Lavinia Municipal Council. The Fire brigade has been deployed to douse the fire, Police said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s Housing Minister and leader of the National Freedom Front, a constituent party of the governing coalition,Wimal Weerawansa criticized forrmer Army Commander Sarath Fonseka for saying Sri Lanka must cooperate with  any international inquiry into war crimes they allege since we did not do such crimes. […]

SupremeSAT (Pvt) Ltd. signed the investment agreement with the Board of Investment yesterday with very ambitious plans to take Sri Lanka into the global space race. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka Army’s former commander  Sarath Fonseka rejected accusations that thousands of civilians had been killed in the closing phase of the army’s offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in an interview with BBC’s Charles Haviland in Colombo.. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s main opposition the United National Party has appointed a committee chaired by Wijedasa Rajapaksa to draft a private member’s bill to win back the civic rights  of the former Commander of army Sarath Fonseka , said the party’s General Secretary, Tissa Attanayaka. […]

  A weapons manufacturing hideout in the Dediyagala area in Akuressa was raided by the Matara Division Anti-vice Squad where they found hundreds of half-built guns similar to T56 assault rifles. […]

Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, who was released on a special presidential pardon on Monday, is to form a new political party named, ‘Democratic Party’ led by him, MP Jayantha Ketagoda said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Although President Rajapaksa has released him from incarceration with a ban on elections for the next seven years Sri Lanka’s ex- Army Chief Sarath Fonseka is to work hard to build a stronger opposition in the country , he said in his first interview out of jail. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu newspaper said the Presidential release granted to his incarcerated rival General Sarath Fonseka is a conditional one and he cannot contest an election for the next seven years. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, currently on a State visit to Qatar met Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani on Sunday. […]