President’s Vesak message

It is with immense fervor and devotion that we celebrate, with full State patronage, the thrice blessed festival of Vesak this year, which also marks the 26th Sammasambuddhatva Jayanthi. Through 2600 years the teachings of the Buddha have shown the correct path of livelihood to mankind. The comfort and consolation these provided to humans remain […]




Sri Lankan cricket team attacker arrested

DERA GHAZI KHAN: One of the terrorists involved in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team on March 3, 2009 has been apprehended in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan. Sources told The Express Tribune that police arrested Adnan Khosa for a bank robbery that took place on May 14 in Taunsa Sharif, a city in […]



Rt. Rev. Dhiloraj Canagasabey consecrated as 15th Bishop of Colombo

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) The Episcopal Ordination and Installation of Rt. Rev. Dhiloraj Ranjit Canagasabey as the 15th Bishop of Colombo at the Church of Sri Lanka took place this morning on 14 May at the Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour in Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo. […]



President Rajapaksa attends the Sri Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi sil programmes in schools

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa participated in the sil campaigns organized in connection with the 2600th Sri Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi celebrations at the Ananda and Nalanda Colleges and Visakha Vidyalaya in Colombo on Friday 13 May. Many special religious programmes of Dhana, Seela and Bhavana including sil campaigns […]



President Rajapaksa officially inaugurates the 2600th Sri Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi Year

Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially inaugurated the 2600th Sri Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi Year and the Vesak week in Anuradhapura this evening on 14 May 2011. The state ceremony took place on a grand scale in the sacred area premises of the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura. […]



The home of Namal’s Co-ordinating Secretary attacked

The home of MP Namal Rajapaksa’s Co-ordinating Secretary was shot at early morning today (May 15) in Beliatta. No one was injured in the attack while only a window had been broken in the shooting, Southern Province Deputy Inspector General Kingsley Ekanayaka told Ada Derana. […]



Power devolution talks will be extended to all parties: Heads of political parties hail President’s announcement

Leaders of political parties representing the Tamil-speaking people of the North and the East welcomed President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent announcement that the talks on power devolution to the North and the East will not be confined to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) but will also be extended to other political parties which represent the people […]



EU rejects intl. probe on Sri Lanka

The European Parliament yesterday defeated an attempt by the Socialist group “to seek the immediate establishment of an international justice mechanism” on Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Embassy in Brussels said. The eventual resolution adopted instead during an ‘urgency’ debate called by the Socialist and Green parties at the Strassbourg Plenary session to draw attention […]



Peiris, Gunawardena to hold talks in New Delhi

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris and Sajin de Vass Gunawardena, Coordinating Secretary to the President, will visit New Delhi to hold a broad range of talks with the Indian leadership on post-conflict management issues in the island nation. […]




Suspension on Lankaenews lifted

The Pugoda Magistrate Court a short while ago ordered to lift the suspension on Lanka-e-news news website and also to release its journalist Shantha Wijesooriya. […]



Road Safety is another project for Lankans

For nearly thirty years, we had a conflict in our land that took away the lives of thousands and seriously injured similar numbers every year. That is now over with the humanitarian operation to defeat the forces of terror to which the entire nation contributed. Today we need another humanitarian operation on our roads to […]