Category: Local News

“Let my people and my country prosper and my people have peace of mind”, This is President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s birthday wish to the nation on his birthday. […]

The government banned only a few websites which do not comply with ‘the right to reply’ concept, one of the key norms in a democracy. Sri Lanka has hundreds of newspapers, 54 radio channels, 16 television channels and some websites which respect the concept ‘right to reply’, Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. […]

The Centre should assert itself with the Sri Lankan Government to control the “rogue elements in the Sri Lankan Navy” who continue to indulge in acts of physical assault on innocent fishermen from Tamil Nadu, said Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. […]

The Employees of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation felicitated today their Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe who has been conferred with the Strategic Business Communicator Award by the Association of Business Communicators of India. […]

Popular film and teledrama producer and businessman Upul Jayasinghe has been questioned by two unidentified men whether his upcoming film ‘Ethumai Methumai’ is based on the Kolonnawa incident. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the second phase of the National Tree Planting Campaign-2011: ‘Haritha Ratak – Deyata Sethank’ this morning on 15 November at the botanical garden on the Sri Lanka-Japan Friendship Road in Battaramulla. The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry has organised many projects […]

Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) that MP Duminda Silva be arrested and produced before court, over the killing of former MP Baratha Lakshman Premachandra in the Mulleriyawa shooting incident. […]

The main opposition UNP today warned that the collapse of the economy of the country had started with the passing of the ‘Revival of Underperforming Enterprises and Unutilised Assets Bill’ in Parliament. […]

Sri Lanka while insisting that the lack of a coordinated effort to uphold maritime security affects oceangoing vessels and the coastal nations, yesterday called for greater cooperation to boost such security. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Chaminda Kularatne, a diplomat and Minister Counselor handling Consular Affairs & Immigration at the Sri Lanka High Commission in London was recently elected to the executive committee of the Consular Corps of London. This is the first time in the Sri Lankan diplomatic history that a Sri Lankan diplomat […]

COLOMBO: A delegation led by Sri Lanka’s Western Province Gov. Alavi Mowlana is to arrive in Riyadh this week to seek clemency for Rizana Nafeek from the parents of the infant who was killed during her care. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Religious observances including special Bodhi Pooja were held recently to transfer merits to late Presidential advisor on trade union affairs and former parliamentarian from Kolonnawa constituency late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra at Thames Buddhist Vihara, South London. Sri Lanka Mahajana Party jointly organised the religious programme with the help of […]

The Government will act firmly on the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) which is due to submit its report on November 19, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) The 17th SAARC Heads of State Summit concluded on a high note this evening on 11 November in the Addu city in Maldives after four (4) agreements were signed to further strengthen and improve the cooperation of the SAARC region. […]

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) — Australia’s Gold Coast has been chosen ahead of the Sri Lankan city of Hambantota to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games. […]

Sevanagala Sugar Industries Ltd., owner Daya Gamage said yesterday he would go before an international tribunal to seek redress over the government’s plan to acquire his assets through the new act passed in parliament on Wednesday. […]