Category: Local News

Colombo, May 4 (IANS) Sri Lanka will set up a centre to address human-elephant conflicts in the country, Deputy Economic Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywaradana said Friday. […]

It is indeed a great privilege to once again commemorate the triple festival of events in the life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, with great reverence and honour, and with full state patronage, states President Mahinda Rajapaksa in a Vesak message. […]

Onlanka News –  By Walter Jayawardhana The Indian parliamentary delegation who visited Sri Lanka met Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and other leaders of the NewDelhi government and recommended  the 13th amendment of the Sri Lanka Constitution should be implemented. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The question asked often is what came first? The chicken or the egg?  For a Welimada poultry farm owner he is sure sometimes the chicken also comes first. […]

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) today announced that it has given approval for a Rs. 70 increase in the price of a 50 kilogram bag of cement. […]

Price of a 12.5 Kg domestic LP gas cylinder, both Litro and Laugfs, will be increased by Rs. 350 with affect from midnight today (04), the Consumer Affairs Authority said. […]

A 400g packet of imported milk powder was increased to Rs. 325, Minister of Cooperatives and Internal Trade, Johnston Fernando stated today (May 4) at a press conference. […]

The Central Bank has decided to stop the printing of Rs.10 and Rs.2000 currency notes henceforth, officials said yesterday. However, the CB said notes already in circulation in could be used for transactions. […]

A 15% tax or a maximum of Rs.92 per kilogramme has been imposed on imported milk powder except for infant milk powder, the Finance Ministry stated. […]

At least twenty two line-houses in the Mocha Estate in the Maskeliya area were completely destroyed following a fire that broke out this morning, police said. […]

The “Jaya Pirith” chanting ceremony was held at the BMICH yesterday, (02) nvoking blessings to the country, the President and the war heroes with the participation of 3000 monks invited from all parts of the Island. […]

Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Katsuya Okada will arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow on a two day state visit. […]

Government has requested the private, corporate and mercantile sectors to declare Monday(May 7) as a holiday. In a release the Labour Minister Gamini Lokuge kindly requested to declare this holiday in view of the Vesak Poya Day which falls on May 5. […]

Nipun Dhananjana, 11, who rescued his sister Achini Dhananjana, 9, from drowning in a 70-foot well in Athuwana, Chilaw was rewarded for his heroic act. […]

The United National Party (UNP) yesterday vehemently rejected reports that there were LTTE flags in the UNP May Day rally in Jaffna and charged that the images shown on state media were meant to deceive the viewers and sling mud at the party. […]

A group of treasure hunters who were digging up a treasure with a backhoe in a tank bund at Dunumadalawa in Ranorawa off Wilachchiya clashed with the residents of the area who opposed them, police said. […]