Category: Local News

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Gathering hosted by Sri Lankan Congressional Caucus and Embassy of Sri Lanka includes secretary of defense’s speech, panel discussion on reconciliation Congressman Jack Kingston: “I’ve never seen a people who have come so quickly together, and after 26 years of division.” […]

All websites that publish news on Sri Lanka or its people, from the country or elsewhere have been requested to register with the Ministry of Mass Media and Information, the government information department reported. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa graced the annual prize giving ceremony of Visakha Vidyalaya, one of the oldest Buddhist prestigious girls’ schools in Sri Lanka which was held at the school premises on Friday 04 November.  The President participated the ceremony as the chief guest. He […]

The United States says it has ‘high expectations’ for the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report due to be released this month and that it should be of the highest quality […]

Legal procedures were overlooked when Duminda Silva was taken to Singapore for further treatment says Hirunika Premachandra, the daughter of murdered presidential advisor Baratha Lakshman Premachandra. Parliamentarian Duminda Silva was treated for brain injury as a result of gunshot wounds sustained during the shooting that killed President’s advisor Baratha Lakshman Premachandra. It is reported that […]

The government decided to take over 37 companies according to a collective agreement entered into by the Cabinet and the government, Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. […]

Sri Lanka is to publish its report into the final stages of its war with Tamil rebels despite international criticism that the probe was flawed from the start, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. […]

Government investment for minor export crops has increased up to six percent. This was three percent in 2004. The government plans to increase it up to eight percent within two years, said Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa participating as chief guest at the inauguration of the Entrepreneurship Development Workshop 2011 in Colombo yesterday. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Sri Lanka Army- Security Forces Head Quarters in Jaffna has launched another social project to help students from poorer backgrounds by providing ten scholarships in Jaffna recently. This is one of their ongoing educational and social projects to encourage students who face financial difficulties in the area. So far […]

The Vavuniya police today arrested an alleged drug dealer known as ‘Kudu Baba’ who had run an illegal drug business in the area since the end of the war, with 500 grams of heroin in his possession. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva) A delegation of Thai Royal family members including Princess Soamsawali who are on a tour in Sri Lanka paid a visit to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on 01 November. The meeting was arranged just after President Rajapaksa arrived in Sri Lanka after […]

Transport Minister Kumara Welgama said that Sri Lanka Transport Board has to spend an additional cost of Rs. 2.2 million per day due to the recent hike in diesel prices. […]

MP Duminda Silva has been taken out of the neurosurgery ICU of Ward 18 of Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital, according to reports which cannot be verified. […]

Angry crowds set a medical laboratory and a house in the Boraketiya area in Karandeniya on fire today. The laboratory is owned by the main suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Dr. Prasad Jayasinghe, which took place on September 29 in front of his dispensary in Thalgashandiya. […]

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) officials argue that going by the present losses, a tariff hike of between 10 and 20 per cent is needed for their debt ridden institution to break even. However, there are moves from a number of quarters to minimise the percentage of the hike. […]

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Sunday condemned a “preposterous” UN-commissioned report alleging war crimes in his country, revealing he stopped Canada raising it at a Commonwealth meeting. […]