SHAH RUKH KHAN’S FAN CREATED SUSPICION ABOUT HIM.

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Shah Rukh Khan has all types of admirers who love him.  One of them was not only happened to be a terrorist and loved  to use Sharuk ‘s name as an alias and that would have made the Bollywood star attract the attention from airport officials in the US […]



Don’t seek exclusive rights to Sri Lanka, Rajiv Wijesinghe tells India,

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana India should not feel awkward about the Chinese presence in Sri Lanka since there is plenty of room for both declared Member of Parliament and Presidential advisor Rajiv Wijesinghe in an interview in New Delhi. In a stopover in the Indian capital while travelling to Nepal Wijesinghe said India […]



INDIAN MUSLIMS URGE TO INCLUDE A MUSLIM MP TO SRILANKA TEAM

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Indian Muslims have urged to add a Muslim representative to the Indian parliamentary team headed by Opposition Leader Sushma Swaraj scheduled to visit Sri Lanka April 16. […]



Dr Jayalath Jayawarden MP admitted to hospital in London

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma from London UNP Gampaha District MP Dr Jayalath Jayawardena has been admitted to East Surrey Hospital, the former minister was found unconscious at the Gatwick Air Port on 13 April. […]



INDIAN PARLIAMENTARY DELEGATION WILL INTERACT WITH ELECTED TAMIL REPRESENTATIVES

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana In response to Chief Minister Jayalalitha’s allegation that the Indian parliamentary team would become a public relations event for the Rajapaksa’s other than serving any useful purposes India has announced that the Indian delegation would get the opportunity of interacting with all elected parliamentarians of the Tamils when they […]



Sri Lanka’s First Family celebrates Sinhala and Hindu New Year

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by Sudath Silva) When the entire country is gripped in a happy and festive mood after officially lifting tsunami danger, Sri Lankans celebrated the traditional Sinhala and Hindu New Year in usual grand style. According to the astrological charts, the most eagerly awaited National New Year dawned at […]



INDIA TODAY SAYS JAYALALITHA UPSET NEW DELHI’S PLAN TO PACIFY THE RUFFLED FEATHERS OF SRI LANKA

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The India Today magazine said Jayalalitha’s withdrawal of her nominee from the all-party parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka has upset Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s calculations who is bending over backwards to pacify the ruffled feathers of Sri Lanka after the vote at the UNHRC meeting in Geneva. […]



‘Chance to build a nation with respect for HR’

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a message greeting all Sri Lankans around the world for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year said that it gives an opportunity to help build a democratic nation defined by-tolerance and respect for human rights. […]



Sri Lanka targets higher per capita income

Colombo:The Sri Lankan government has targeted the country’s per capita income for 2012 to be as high as USD 3,000, a release said today. […]



US regrets detaining SRK at airport, but India fumes

External Affairs minister SM Krishna has asked Indian envoy Nirupma Roy to take up the issue of detaining actor Shah Rukh Khan at a US airport. Krishna said detaining and then apologising is not acceptable as detainig in this manner has become a practice in the US now. Meanwhile, US customs and border protection authorities […]



SRK detained at a New York airport for over 2 hours

Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by immigration officials after arriving from India in a private plane with Nita Ambani, to address students at Yale University here. […]



Dawn of New Year brings fresh thoughts, feelings – President

May the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year that has dawned be one that brings peace, joy and prosperity to all, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a New Year message. […]



JAYALALITHA WITHDRAWS HER PARTY DELEGATE FROM TEAM OF MPS TO SRI LANKA IN PROTEST

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister and and General Secretary  of the AIADMK Jayalalitha Jeyaram said her party would boycott the 15 member parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission scheduled April 16 arguing it may prove an eyewash. […]



Double Wisden honour for Sanga

Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara has been chosen as both one of the Five Cricketers of the Year and the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2011 in the 2012 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, it was announced Wednesday. […]



Ashanthi wins Best Pop Act music award

Best Pop Act Ashanthi (Sri Lanka) (1st place) Chris Schermer (Austria)(2nd place) Worren Webbe (India) (3rd place) Feritta (Australia) (4th place) Allegro Fudge (India) (5th place) Stars and rabbit (Indonesia) (6th place) […]



GUNARATNAM PRESS CONFERENCE GENERATED EXTREMELY BAD PUBLICIY FOR SRI LANKA

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Premakumar Gunaratnam a leader of the JVP splinter group, Frontline Socialist Party who was banished from Sri Lanka to his second home Sydney received  the widest possible publicity in Australia when he held a press conference there […]