Category: Local News

A tense situation was reported from the Magazine Prison. The sound of gun fire was heard from the prison premises, a reporter said. […]

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) trade unions today agreed to the 25 percent salary increment to be provided by the government from January. […]

Two prisoners have been shot and arrested when three jailors were injured when they attempted to escape from the Galle Prison this morning, a reporter said […]

In this Oct. 16, 2011 photo, a worker at the Sri Lanka Eye Donation Society holds three corneas in bottles with preservatives, ready to be sent abroad, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.Photo By Gemunu Amarasinghe AP At 10:25 a.m., a dark brown eye was removed from a man whose lids had closed for the last time. […]

In the run-up to the Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva next month, those pushing for an international war crimes inquiry targeting Sri Lanka are stepping up pressure, with a key member of UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on accountability in Sri Lanka, Prof. Steven Ratner reiterating the demand for an international investigation. […]

A new rule has been introduced with immediate effect where drivers transporting schoolchildren should be over 30 years, Colombo Division Senior DIG Anura Senanayake said when he met Western Province three wheeler drivers and motorists transporting schoolchildren on Saturday. […]

Chinaman, a novel by Singapore-based Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, on Saturday won the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature which carries a cash award of $50,000, the Hindu reported. […]

A German tourist drowned last evening (January 21) while swimming in the ocean off the Hikkaduwa beach. The Hikkaduwa police stated that the victim died after being admitted to the Karapitiya hospital. […]

Sri Lanka will use the program for a trilingual Sri Lanka to make the nation great, India’s former President Dr. Abdul Kalam said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe said the latest discoveries reported last week implying the existence of hundreds of billions of alien planets has an intimate connection with his theory that life is exceedingly commonplace in the universe. […]

There were only three education ministers who had a spine to take pragmatic decisions and a vision for national education in Sri Lanka who were C.W.W. Kannangara, I.M.R.A. Iriyagolla and Richard Pathirana, Small Crops Exports Minister Reginald Cooray said. […]

The government will never cut or prune free education and free health services in the country. The people sh ould not entertain any doubts or fears about it. The government will never lay its hands on these two welfare services as long as President Mahinda Rajapaksa remains in power, emphasised Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa […]

Indian ruling parliamentarian Sashi Tharoor talks to the co-founder of Sri Lanka’s leading citizen journalism website Groundviews, Sanjana Hattotuwa in Galle on January 20, 2012. Tharoor, a prize-winning author of 12 books is attending Sri Lanka’s main literary festival in the southern town of Galle. Pix by Getty Images The Galle Literary Festival commenced in […]

The Colombo High Court which heard the ‘Hi- Corp’ case against fomer Army Commander Sarath Fonseka reserved its judgement to February 28 short while ago. When the case was taken up before Colombo High Court Judge Sunil Rajapakshe, the Defence on behalf of theformer Army Commander submitted that the case before the courts was the […]

The government will take measures to grant a pension to Civil Defence Department members, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said . […]

‘The salaries of Cabinet ministers and Supreme Court judges should be on the same scale according to the constitution but the salary increase was given only for judges. No salary increase was given to ministers. President Mahinda Rajapaksa said ‘no’ to such an increase, Cabinet Spokesman and Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. […]