Sai Baba passes away
April 24, 2011 - 10:30 am
Malinga took the right decision, says Mahela
April 24, 2011 - 10:18 am
Jaipur Former Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene feels speedster Lasith Malinga has taken the right decision in bidding adieu to Test cricket and said it would help his dream of playing in the 2015 World Cup. The Kochi Tuskers Kerala skipper said Malinga has been suffering from this injury for quite some time and quitting […]
Government of India donates new facilities to upgrade two vocational training centres in Batticaloa
April 23, 2011 - 8:24 pm
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development, Dullas Alahapperuma and the High Commissioner of India, Ashok K. Kantha signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for setting up facilities at two vocational training centres in Batticaloa District, eastern province in Sri Lanka. The signing ceremony was held today at 11.45 […]
Sri Lankan First Lady visits handicapped children’s institute in Dhaka
April 23, 2011 - 8:18 pm
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix By:Chandana Perera) Sri Lankan First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa visited ‘Proyash’ a school for handicapped children in the Cantonment area in the Dhaka city during her visit to Bangladesh early in the week. The First Lady visited different classrooms and academic programmes of the institute, an army-backed institute for […]
Ingredients of LTTE rump in UN report – Media Minister
April 23, 2011 - 1:06 pm
The recent report of the three member panel of United Nations experts on accountability issues which supposedly arose during the latter stages of the humanitarian operation has ingredients of the LTTE rump and the Tamil Diaspora, Government Spokesman and Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella charged yesterday. […]
Gang using fake credit cards busted
April 22, 2011 - 12:41 pm
GUNTUR: A three-member gang allegedly involved in drawing money from bank accounts using fake credit cards was busted at Mangalagiri on Thursday. The accused were identified as Anthony Pillai Nimal Raj, Cladison Dino, both native of Sri Lanka and settled in Chennai, and Yerramsetti Venkata Nagakiran of Gudivada (now staying in Vijayawada). […]
U.N.: Sri Lanka’s crushing of Tamil Tigers may have killed 40,000 civilians
April 22, 2011 - 12:21 pm
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Washington Post newspaper reported that Sri Lanka’s decisive 2008-09 military offensive against the country’s separatist Tamil Tigers may have resulted in the deaths of as many as 40,000 civilians, most of them victims of indiscriminate shelling by Sri Lankan forces, according to a U.N. panel established by Secretary […]
UN heads for rights confrontation with Sri Lanka
April 22, 2011 - 11:59 am
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) – The United Nations hurtled toward a high-profile confrontation with the Sri Lankan government over international action on alleged war crimes during a military offensive against Tamil separatists. Rejecting a Sri Lankan demand to keep a report by a panel of experts secret, the United Nations on Friday said the report would […]
SLC asks Malinga to return from IPL
April 22, 2011 - 11:49 am
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s selection committee has asked Lasith Malinga to return home from the IPL and undergo rehabilitation after the fast bowler made himself unavailable for the upcoming Test series in England citing injury. Sri Lanka’s new chairman of selectors Duleep Mendis has said that Malinga wrote to the Board to say he was unavailable […]
Govt rejects UN panel report; Says fundamentally flawed:
April 22, 2011 - 8:10 am
Million signatures against panel report The government strongly objects to the publication of the report of the UN Secretary General’s Panel of Experts on accountability in Sri Lanka and to the taking of measures based on the recommendations made by the said panel since the panel is not appointed by the UN system, External Affairs […]
ONLY I CAN SAVE WAR HEROES FROM WAR CRIME CHARGES NOT THE CARDBOARD PATRIOTS – FONSEKA
April 21, 2011 - 12:26 pm
President Rajapaksa meets his countrymen in Bangladesh
April 21, 2011 - 11:52 am
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a three day official visit to Bangladesh met with his countrymen at the Sri Lanka High Commission in Dhaka. A large number of Sri Lankans those who are working and residing in Bangladesh gathered at the High Commission premises […]
President Rajapaksa returns with sacred Hair Relics of Lord Buddha
April 21, 2011 - 11:41 am
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix By: Nalin Hewapathirana) President Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to Sri Lanka today (Wednesday) on 20 April after a three day State visit to Bangladesh. President returned with sacred hair relics (Kesha Dhathu) of the Lord Buddha given by Bangladesh. The sacred relics will be deposited at the Hunupitiya Gangaramaya […]
President Rajapaksa visits Bangabandhu Museum and International Buddhist Centre Dhaka
April 20, 2011 - 4:14 pm
Onlanka News – By Janaka Alahapperuma (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on a three day official tour in Bangladesh visited the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhaka on Tuesday morning 19 April. The President paid a floral tribute to the Bangladesh founding leader, the late Bangabandhu Sheik Mujibur Rahuman’s statue erected in […]
Final days in Vanni: 600 Tamils shot and killed as stray dogs- First Person Revelation
April 20, 2011 - 11:43 am
More than 600 innocent Tamil civilians were shot and killed like stray dogs from 1 October 2008 to 18 May 2009 in the Vanni region, but not a single innocent civilian was killed by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the hostility campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. […]
Sri Lanka name Atapattu as batting coach
April 20, 2011 - 9:05 am
COLOMBO (AFP) – Former captain Marvan Atapattu has been appointed as Sri Lanka’s batting coach, the cricket board said on Tuesday. Atapattu, 40, joins interim coach Stuart Law for next month’s tour of England, where Sri Lanka will play three Tests, five one-day internationals and one Twenty20. […]