Category: Local News

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Pix by: Nalin Hewapathirana President Mahinda Rajapaksa instructed relevant authorities to urgently launch a programme to promote the consumption of liquid milk in Sri Lanka. He made these instructions following the inspection at the Milko Industrial Complex in Polonnaruwa. […]

Train services islandwide have been halted due to a strike carried out by railway guards. Talks are currently underway between the authorities and the union. […]

“Sri Lanka is not going to make decisions to make NGOs and other countries happy; what is best for our country and our people will be decided by the people of Sri Lanka” Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, Karunathilaka Amunugama told Daily News. He said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has made this clear on many […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened the Wellawatte Municipal market complex and the first four-storeyed car park yesterday morning. The market complex is equipped with 83 stalls, of which 53 are for vegetables and fruits and 21 for fish and meat stalls. The car park can accommodate 95 vehicles at a time. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Pix by: Sri Lanka Army Sri Lanka Army 55 Division Headquarters of Veththalaikerny organized a one day medical workshop recently to educate newly resettled civilians in the Thalaiady area on AIDS, HIV and other venereal diseases (VD). The programme was aimed at civilians and school children in Thalaiady area. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Pix by Eranda Sooriyapperuma Executive Committee member of the Consular Corps of London, Chaminda Kularatne organised the 999 Seminar of their Consular gathering at the Sri Lanka High Commission in Hyde Park Gardens, London recently. A large number of diplomatic officers turned up at the Chancery of the Sri […]

As the combined United States and European Union sanctions against Iran take effect, small nations like Sri Lanka are extremely worried. Sri Lanka depends almost entirely on Iran for its crude oil supplies and the only refinery in the country, Sapugaskanda, can only process Iranian crude. […]

Sri Lanka’s Central Bank said it would only have to pay a higher interest rate for International Monetary Fund loans exceeding 300 percent of the country quota, and lower balances would only attract a rate of a little over 1.0 percent. […]

The United National Party (UNP) says all existing vacancies for organizer posts will be filled within the next two weeks. […]

UPFA general secretary Susil Premajayantha today (Jan. 30) had a meeting with Dr. Telli C Rajaratnam, the most senior Tamil member of the SLFP. […]

“I will be asking all relevant political parties to come together in the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) process in an effort to iron out differences of opinion among them with regard to the issues facing our communities and to speed- up the normalization process in the country. All these parties and other relevant sections are […]

Former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions Evander Holyfield who is on a visit to Sri Lanka called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning. […]

Sri Lanka has been named among the top five destinations in Kuoni’s annual poll of where UK customers want to spend their holidays. Sri Lanka also retained the number one destination for weddings according to the report. […]

The Prison Department is to collect the criminal records of the prisoners in remand for narcotic offences from respective courts destroyed after the records room of the Magazine remand prison was set on fire during riots on Tuesday, a senior prison officer said. […]

UNP and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe Saturday condemned politicians making use of occasions such as venerating the tooth relic and private meetings with religious dignitaries for political propaganda activities. […]

‘In finding solutions to whatever issues the country faces, the government would always look for home-grown methods, that meet the aspirations and needs of the people, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. He said that solutions to country’s problems should come from within based on dialogue and understanding and stressed that he and the government were […]