Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.the greatest Buddhist modern India produced was a genius who overcame difficult situations and upheld the right of the neglected sections of society, like the so called untouchables, Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri, District in-charge Minister of Uttara Kannada, said here in Karwar in the Uttara Kannada, India. […]

The Victory Day parade marking the third anniversary of the vanquishing of the ruthless LTTE terrorism from the country and end of the 30 years of terrorist atrocity which resulted in the death of several thousand innocent people of this country and destruction of millions worth property, will be held on May 19 at the […]

  Two years after the decisive battle in which the Tamil Tigers were vanquished, Sri Lankan security forces made their biggest-ever haul recovering 6,250 kg of hidden LTTE explosives. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday said that he had not enjoyed the luxury of hot water showers while he was in prison. […]

Gen. Sarath Fonseka will be released soon, as a result of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s one-on-one talks with Democratic National Alliance (DNA) MP Tiran Alles, according to authoritative government sources. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Going by the recommendation of the LLRC report the Sri Lanka government has decided to release the information on war detainees. […]

  Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Indian anti- narcotic detectives  arrested four train passengers including two women and a Sri Lankan Tamil who was waiting outside in a car to receive the contraband, seizing ng more than 100 million Indian Rupees worth of heroin to be sent to Sri Lanka this Friday in Chennai. […]

  Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The electrocution death occurred of an Indian worker in a private steel plant of a BOI company has revealed that workers are immigrated to work in this plant under tourist visas from India and they are working under modern day conditions of slavery. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Karunakaran Kandasamy Kandasamy, a US citizen charged for aiding the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a terrorist group in Sri Lanka was released by the Federal Judge to time served in jail – about five years, after casting doubt on the terrorism case […]

Onlanka News – ByWalter Jayawardhana Sushma Swaraj, India’s Leader of Opposition addressing the Madurai convention of her Bharatiya Janata Party questioned why when Sri Lanka’s respected Tamil Leader R.Sampanthan says that he wanted Tamils to remain in a united SriLanka certain leaders in Tamil Nadu want to promote Tamil separatism for Sri Lanka. […]

The strike action launched by government doctors today has been called off fallowing discussions, the Government Medical Officers Association said. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu and Times of India said two Sri Lankan suspects of a drug cartel carrying a large quantity of pure heroin was arrested in Chennai .The ones arrested are only couriers, investigators believed. […]

Federal prosecutors in New York City say a man who was the top U.S. representative of outlawed Sri Lankan rebel group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), deserves a stiff prison sentence while his lawyers say he’s done enough time. […]