A group of Sri Lankan pilgrims were targeted allegedly by pro-Tamil groups near Trichy airport on Tuesday. The protestors smashed windshields of three buses carrying the pilgrims even as the police escorted the vehicles. […]

A school girl was stabbed to death using a sharp object in Thibbatuwawa, Kekirawa. The police spokesman’s office stated that the perpetrator is suspected to be the victim’s lover. […]

The Sri Lankan government today issued a travel warning against those visiting Tamil Nadu in India, in the wake of recent events of intimidation towards Sri Lankan nationals visiting the Southern Indian state for religious and tourist purposes. […]

A three Judge Bench of the Supreme Court yesterday directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to comply with the judgment dated July 25, 2012, and release the rankings of the students of the last GCE (AL) examination under both the old and new syllabi on an islandwide and district basis, considering both sets of candidates […]

Sydney: Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has called the opposition’s call to deport all Sri Lankan asylum seekers ‘extraordinary’ and ‘hypocritical’. […]

A youth was shot and killed in Katuwila, Ahungalla this morning while traveling on a motorbike. […]

Unloading of crude oil has been delayed because of the sudden breakdown in the pipe line that leads to the Colombo Port, the Petroleum Ministry said today(02). […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The racist Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Jayalalitha went into frenzy when she learned that Sri Lankan school kids are scheduled to play friendly soccer games with Tamil Nadu school kids and in a rage has ordered suspension of the stadium officer of the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor stadium in Chennai […]

The Government has declared Monday September 3 as a day of national mourning to mark respect for the death of Most Venerable late Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thero, the Chief Prelate of the Ramannya Nikaya. […]

Chinese Defence Minister Liang Guanglie says Beijing’s increasingly close ties with South Asia are aimed at ensuring regional “security and stability” and are not intended to harm any “third party”. […]

Onlanka News – (A comment by Walter Jayawardhana) Now it is clear that that the UNP leader Ranil Wickrmasinghe cannot make any statement related to the long history of the Sinhala people or Buddhism without becoming the laughing stock of the Sri Lankan people. […]

Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has called for diversifying trade between Pakistan and Sri Lanka to promote greater economic interaction between the two countries. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is in Iran to participate in the XVI Non Aligned Summit, yesterday called on his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Teheran. […]

The government has declared September 3, as a day of mourning as a mark of respect for the late Mahanayake Thera of the Sri Lanka Ramanna Nikaya, the most Venerable Weweldeniye Medhalankara Thera, who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 103. […]

I take modest pride in the fact that Sri Lanka is one of the economies in Asia where impressive successes have been recorded during these turbulent times, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said at the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran yesterday. […]