Category: Local News

Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva today said that if the media wants to use his name to increase their sales by spreading rumours about him, then so be it. […]

A Blind student, who sat for the 2011 GCE Ordinary Level examination last year, has scored ‘A’s in all subjects she had offered. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana By supporting a US presented human rights resolution against Sri Lanka Manmohan Singh led New Delhi government has missed an opportunity to project India as a respected regional power charged The Pioneer. […]

Without criticizing India directly for backing the US-initiated resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council, Russia has described the resolution as “politically motivated” and one that has ended up discrediting the Council itself. […]

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday nominated Michele Sison to be ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives. […]

With the European Union expected to reform its GSP system by 2014, Sri Lanka could face many challenges with both Pakistan and Bangladesh eligible to benefit by trade concessions with a possible free trade agreement with India expected to exert more pressure. […]

Former UNP Provincial Councilor and now SLFP member Sagara Senarathne was abducted this evening in Kotte by a group that arrived in a van before being dropped in an area close to Ja-ela town at around 9.30pm (26th March). […]

(By  Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles) An article written in response to what the paper said was India’s U turn in foreign policy by voting against a close ally, Sri Lanka at a United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva  warned that the “Indian government might find itself in a very uncomfortable situation […]

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary Defence and Urban Development currently on an official visit to Tokyo met with Ambassador Yasushi Akashi, Japan’s Special Representative to Sri Lanka, in addition to Senior Ministers, Japanese parliamentarians and dignitaries and held discussions on the current development activities and financial and technical assistance extended by Japan. Discussions were also held on […]

Economic sanctions cannot be imposed on Sri Lanka through the resolution that was adopted at the United Nations Human Rights Council, External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris said today. […]

The results of the 2011 G.C.E. Ordinary Level examination have been released, the Examinations Department said. The results could be obtained via the website www.doenets.lk […]

The UN and INGOs deployed in Sri Lanka during Eelam war IV could help the international community to verify the validity of allegations contained in Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said. […]

The saying, ‘Love Conquers All’ (Omnia Vincit Amor), is a universal factor that can transgress all the borders, all ethnicities, physical or any other disabilities or in essence, anything, to state the least. […]

The public must voice its opinion and decide on the US-led resolution against Sri Lanka, National Freedom Alliance leader and Minister of Housing and Construction, Wimal Weerawansa stated. […]

UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara responding to the call for a fresh mandate from the people by Minister Wimal Weerawansha said that the request was a very “foolish one and wouldn’t solve the mess we have got ourselves into”. […]

Sri Lanka on Saturday warned India of possible repercussions over Held Kashmir after it voted for a US resolution in Geneva on rights abuses during its war on the Tamil Tigers. […]