Category: Local News

The Jordan labour minister has started investigating allegations of sexual abuse, torture and rape against foreign workers in a garment factory in Jordan’s Al Hassan Industrial Estate (QIZ) reported by a US-based labour advocacy group. […]

The Police Fraud Investigations Bureau is to bring to notice of several international and local banks operating in the country regarding certain bank practices that threaten the security of the deposits of the bank customers. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave for Russia on Tuesday to seek both Moscow’s support for Sri Lanka and brief world leaders on key issues facing the country. […]

The much-awaited Indo-Lanka ferry service will resume operations from tomorrow from Tuticorin, with India’s Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan flagging off the vessel Scotia Prince. […]

Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh is to make an official State visit to Sri Lanka on an invitation by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

June 11, 1990 according to many is the saddest day in the history of Sri Lankan Police. It is the day, the LTTE massacred over 600 unarmed policemen from several police stations in the East, who surrendered allegedly following a request from the very top in the political hierarchy. […]

Dismissing the unanimous resolution of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly that called upon the Government of India to impose economic sanctions against Sri Lanka and declare its President Mahinda Rajapaksa a war criminal, a Minister here said Sri Lanka dealt with India and not with individual States. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) Abdul Azeez Al-Jamaz, Saudi Envoy for Sri Lanka and Maldives handed over the symbolic key to President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the 500 tsunami houses which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia built in the eastern province in Sri Lanka. The Saudi government handed over the ownership […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa handed over 26 Samadhi Buddha Statues to mark 2600 Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi to the External Affairs Ministry to be entrusted to the Sri Lankan missions abroad. This program was jointly organized by the Ministry of External Affairs, the Presidential Secretariat and the Foreign […]

  Heavy traffic jam has been reported on the roads leading to Maradana due to UNP organized protest in front of Maradana railway station. […]

The Cabinet of Ministers has given the green light for a scheme to pay a pension to citizens over the age of 80 years. This follows a proposal forwarded to the Cabinet by Minister of Social Services and Social Welfare Felix Perera. […]

The internal report of the one-man committee appointed to look into the turbulent incident that took place at the Katunayaka Free Trade Zone on May 30 was handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa today (June 8). […]

More than 20 female students of the Sri Jayawardenapura University have been temporarily suspended for organizing protest campaigns around the island and causing unrest according to the University authorities, convener of the Jayawardenapura University Students Union Venerable Kamburugamuwe Gnanessara stated. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa conferred “Vishista Seva Vibhushanaya- Distinguished Service Decoration” on several senior officers of three services at the investiture ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat this afternoon on 07 June 2011. The President recognized the exemplary service of senior officers in the three Armed […]

The opposition today charged that the Private Pension Scheme Bill has not been withdrawn from the parliamentary order paper despite the cabinet decision to do so. […]

The Higher Education Ministry and the Minneriya Infantry Training Centre yesterday denied Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) allegations that participants in the leadership training programme were exposed to sexually explicit material at the Minneriya Centre on June 4. […]