The National Freedom Front (NFF) says it will contest the forthcoming Local Government election alone, if the party does not receive candidature from the United People’s Freedom Alliance. […]

The Police yesterday requested the public not to take the law into their own hands but let the law enforcement personnel handle incidents of criminality. Police Spokesman SP Prishantha Jayakody said several incidents of residents attacking individuals arriving in their villages for sight-seeing and other purposes have been reported from several areas. […]

The government stepped-up security in the East as a confrontation between the police and unruly crowds yesterday morning claimed another life at Kattankudy, a predominately a Muslim village in the Batticaloa district. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma The Government of Sri Lanka completed the resettling of all internally displaced people (IDPs) after demining the lands earlier used by Tamil Tiger terrorists in Jaffna Peninsula. On successful completion of early resettlement, Security Forces Headquarters – Jaffna has planned to launch a Mine Risk Education and Mine Awareness […]

Combining military power with will power has enabled Sri Lanka to recover its sovereignty and restore economic development, stated The Economic Times in a report published yesterday. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma A group of teachers and students of the Army school in Panagoda paid a goodwill visit to Puthumadam Roman Catholic Primary School in Inuvil, Jaffna last Sunday on 07 July. This visit was organized by the 513 Brigade of the Security Forces Headquarters – Jaffna as an ongoing coordination […]

With the party in a deadlock, with the Leader refusing to budge and Reformists threatening to take to the streets to force him out, UNP General Secretary MP Tissa Attanayake yesterday declined to comment on the ongoing crisis. […]

China is committed to strengthening the friendship with Sri Lanka and will extend its fullest support in all necessary situations to Sri Lanka in international fora, said Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. […]

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Jaffna Library received another round of generous donation of 1500 books from new supporters, this time a Sinhala family in Nugegoda, Colombo. With sheer intention of quenching the thirst for knowledge of Jaffna students and other interested readers, a generous family in the south donated a volume of valuable […]

Dawadmi High Court, 380 km from the capital, convicted Rizana Nafeek on June 16, 2007, of the murder of her Saudi employers’ baby. She maintains that the newborn choked during bottle-feeding. […]

Three teams from the elite Special Task Force (STF) have been deployed in to the Hatton area to track down individuals engaged in frightening women and taking away their belongings by posing as ‘Grease Devils.’ […]

The International Weightlifting Federation has imposed a four year ban on commonwealth Gold medalist Chinthana Vidanage. The ban was for the use of illegal steroids by the sportsman. He tested positive for using the drug Methylhexanyamine during the Asian games. […]

H.E. President, Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a four day official tour in China inspected the infinit tea centre in Beijing , which is a premier tea institute in the capital, today (10th). […]

The founder of the Nawaloka group, Deshamanya H.K. Dharmadasa passes away at the age of 92 this morning (August 10). The funeral will take place this Saturday (August 13). […]

Raj Rajaratnam, the founder of Galleon Group hedge fund, has been found guilty of 14 securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a federal court in New York City, marking a watershed victory for the US government’s newly aggressive prosecution of insider trading. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a four day official visit to China, arrived at the Beijing international airport yesterday morning to a warm welcome. […]