Sri Lanka’s Postal trade union coalition has called off their strike after discussions held this morning with the Minister of Postal Services Jeewan Kumaratunga. […]

Sri Lanka Lesson Learnt Reconciliation Commission LLRC appointed to see whether any people, group or institution bears any responsibilities for the conflict in the country handed over its final report to President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sunday evening at the Temple Trees. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as Finance and Planning Minister will present Budget 2012 in Parliament tomorrow. The budget would be development-oriented with the aim of making Sri Lanka the “Wonder of Asia” by 2016, according to Government sources. This will be the 65th Budget to be presented since Independece. Budget 2012 will be […]

A court in Sri Lanka has jailed former army chief Sarath Fonseka for three years for implicating the government in war crimes. The court ruled that he lent credence to allegations the defence secretary ordered Tamil Tigers to be killed as they tried to surrender in May 2009. […]

Sarath Fonseka was found guilty and sentenced to 3 years in prison after the verdict of the case regarding the ‘White Flag’ statement was given today (November 18) by the Colombo High Court. […]

News Source: BBC News – By Charles Haviland The verdict is due in the third and most serious case brought by Sri Lankan authorities against former army chief Sarath Fonseka. He is charged with “spreading disaffection” after he gave a newspaper interview apparently giving credence to allegations that the defence secretary ordered war crimes. […]

“Let my people and my country prosper and my people have peace of mind”, This is President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s birthday wish to the nation on his birthday. […]

The government banned only a few websites which do not comply with ‘the right to reply’ concept, one of the key norms in a democracy. Sri Lanka has hundreds of newspapers, 54 radio channels, 16 television channels and some websites which respect the concept ‘right to reply’, Cabinet Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. […]

The Centre should assert itself with the Sri Lankan Government to control the “rogue elements in the Sri Lankan Navy” who continue to indulge in acts of physical assault on innocent fishermen from Tamil Nadu, said Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. […]

The Employees of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation felicitated today their Chairman Hudson Samarasinghe who has been conferred with the Strategic Business Communicator Award by the Association of Business Communicators of India. […]

Popular film and teledrama producer and businessman Upul Jayasinghe has been questioned by two unidentified men whether his upcoming film ‘Ethumai Methumai’ is based on the Kolonnawa incident. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the second phase of the National Tree Planting Campaign-2011: ‘Haritha Ratak – Deyata Sethank’ this morning on 15 November at the botanical garden on the Sri Lanka-Japan Friendship Road in Battaramulla. The Environment and Natural Resources Ministry has organised many projects […]

Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) that MP Duminda Silva be arrested and produced before court, over the killing of former MP Baratha Lakshman Premachandra in the Mulleriyawa shooting incident. […]

The main opposition UNP today warned that the collapse of the economy of the country had started with the passing of the ‘Revival of Underperforming Enterprises and Unutilised Assets Bill’ in Parliament. […]

Sri Lanka while insisting that the lack of a coordinated effort to uphold maritime security affects oceangoing vessels and the coastal nations, yesterday called for greater cooperation to boost such security. […]