Category: Local News

Trading activities of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) have been halted as the ATS system that facilitates trading is currently undergoing a technical failure, a CSE official said. […]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa left for New York this morning to attend the UN Summit. Sri Lankan President will lead a delegation which also includes External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Pieris, to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly. Where he will deliver his address in the UN General Assembly on the 23rd, […]

One person has been reported killed and over 20 injured when two trains collided at Alawwa. The injured have been admitted to the Alawwa Hospital. According to hospital sources, the seriously injured are being transferred to the Kurunegala Hospital. […]

Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya, Commander of the Army en route for Haiti to inspect operational duties of the Peacekeeping troops serving the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) had a stopover at UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York and met Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye, Military Adviser and UN Assistant Secretary for Department of […]

The three students who came first obtaining 195 marks each in the Year Five Scholarship examination called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday evening. The President congratulated the three students and presented gifts to them. […]

A Sri Lankan born former account manager at a semiconductor company who pleaded guilty in the US government’s campaign against insider trading was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Thursday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened Temple Trees to the public in 2004 and since then he invited people from all walks of life and offered them meals. […]

A Sri Lankan cleaner will have to pay Dh2,000 fine after a court convicted him of entering the women’s washroom at Dubai Mall and looking at a Filipina while she used the facility Dubai: A Sri Lankan cleaner will have to pay Dh2,000 fine after a court convicted him of entering the women’s washroom at […]

There is no racial basis in the appointments to the Sri Lankan police, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralidaran said responding to US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Wasantha Hemal) Dallas Alahapperuma, Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development said that inability to understand the language spoken by each other is the main reason for creating distance between different communities in Sri Lanka. It is an obstacle for peace among Sinhalese and Tamils as well. […]

It is important to deploy Tamil police in the North so that the military no longer needs to perform these functions, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake said today (September 14) addressing journalists in Colombo. […]

Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Ashok K.Kantha and Sri Lankan Minister for Education Bandula Gunawardhana exchanging documents in Colombo on Tuesday. Photo: R.K. Radhakrishnan Sri Lanka and India have come together in a major initiative to expand teaching English in schools in this country. Though launched in 2009 after President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared ‘English […]

SSP Maxi Proctor is set to assume duties as the Police Media Spokesman this week, succeeding SP Prishantha Jayakody. SSP Proctor has over two and a half decades of experience at the Sri Lanka Police Department and is renowned for his prowess as the head of the Fraud Investigation Bureau of the Police. […]

Chilaw Additional District Judge R.M. Jayawardana has issued an order temporarily suspending the annual rituals of animal sacrifice to be held today (September 13) at the Sri Bhadra Kali Amman Kovil in Munneswaram, Chilaw. […]

Sri Lanka Central Bank will set up a common ATM, mobile switch and a card switch as a common payment switch for the first time in Sri Lanka shortly. Central Bank’s Assistant Governor Janaki Mampitiya making a presentation on “Mobile Payments Initiatives in Sri Lanka” at the National Information Technology Conference 2011 in Colombo  has […]

External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris and Plantation Industries Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe had discussions in Geneva with Human Rights Council President Laura Dupay Lasserre on the eve of commencement of the 18th session of the Human Rights Council. Sri Lanka’s international critics have, perhaps, lost sight of the very real opportunities for a new […]