Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi who came under the pressure of  New Delhi had to drop his demand  to create a separate state called Eelam the Times of India reported. […]

UPFA Colombo Municipal Councilor Azath Salley stated that Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Minister Rauf Hakeem had betrayed the Muslim community with the decision not to join a coalition of Muslim parties for the upcoming elections. […]

The main opposition UNP charged today it would take legal action against the Government if it used and abused state property for election campaigning. […]

A special ceremony was held at the Welikada Prison to mark National Prison Day on Monday. […]

The Ven Thibbotuwawe Sri Siddhartha Sumangala Thera, the Mahanayake of the Malwatta Chapter, yesterday, expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation in the country […]

Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Monday asked the central government to send back all Sri Lankan military personnel training in India and accused New Delhi of not respecting Tamil sentiments. In a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Jayalalithaa said the the central government was showing “utter disrespect” to the sentiments of the Tamils by training […]

UNP MP Lakshman Kiriella states that the government cannot survive for long on loans. […]

TONY EASTLEY: Well as you’ve heard at the weekend Sri Lanka’s navy forced one boat back to shore and stopped another leaving, arresting 130 people on board one of the boats bound for Australia. A former admiral in the navy is now the country’s high commissioner to Australia. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) Former Solicitor General, President’s Counsel Sarath Palitha Fernando was sworn in as the new Attorney General of Sri Lanka before President Mahinda Rajapaksa a short while ago at Temple Trees. Secretary to the President, Lalith Weeratunga was present at the occasion. […]

For the first time after 30 years, a Tamil sub-titled version of a new Sinhala film will be released at Raja Cinema, Jaffna on Friday July 20. Chandraratne Mapitigama’s latest Sinhala movie ‘Sihinaya Dige Enna’ will be screened in the Jaffna cinema bringing new hope for peace through the arts. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) objective for a separate homeland (Tamil Eelam) for all Tamils threatens the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India and amounts to cession from the Indian Union and thus falls the ambit of unlawful activities said the Home Ministry of India explaining the […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana Following President Rajapaksa’s statement the elections for the Northern Council elections in Sri Lanka would be held in September 2013 DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday wondered whether Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had any genuine intention to hold elections to the country’s northern provincial council. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu quoted a former LTTE girl fighter Niromi de Soyaza who recently published a book as telling the LTTE tortured and killed alleged spies and “traitors” and also looted Tamil shops and homes while fighting the Indian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka. […]

The Department of Motor Traffic now permits trial runs on vehicles with automatic transmission to issue driving licences, Commissioner General S.H. Harischandra said. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremonially declared open the 150MW Upper Kotmale Hydropower Plant this morning on 14 July at the auspicious time of 10.45 am. The ceremonial opening also attended by Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and Japanese Ambassador in Colombo, Nobuhito Hobo. […]

Onlanka News – By N.Iresha Ratnayake It was ironic to read a scurrilous article by a Sunday newspaper regarding a provocative interview between its Editor and the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa. From the reading of the contents, one could realize that the Editor deliberately provoked the Defence Secretary as that has been the forte of […]