Category: Foreign News

At least 14 people have been killed in a shooting at a Batman film premiere in the US city of Denver, police say. […]

Rajesh Khanna is no more after being critically ill from last few months. He breathed his last in the presence of his ex-wife Dimple Kapadia, daughters Rinkie and Twinkle, son-in-law Akshay Kumar, grand children and close relatives. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana India’s University of Mumbai will be offering beginning this academic year a Master’sdegree course in Buddhist studies  called MA-BS, a university official said. […]

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has died in Geneva, Saudi state television said on Saturday, citing a royal court statement. […]

Daredevil Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk on a tightrope across the Niagara Falls, taking steady, measured steps on Friday night for 1,800 feet across the mist-fogged brink of the roaring falls. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana Deb Chowdhury is a popular music director from the West Bengal state of India with strong and ancient Buddhist roots. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana After Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir Arunchal Pradesh becomes the fourth state in India to receive the next fully fledged Buddhist Center by the allocation of funds by the  Central government of India. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Times of India has reported  a section of the wall of the 8th century Buddhist monastery at Jajpur’s Udayagiri collapsed recently. Another national newspaper, the HINDU has blamed the government of India for lack of interest in preserving the Buddhist center for some time and has been complaining […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The rugby legend Jonny Wilkinson hit world headlines  due to his 2003 World Cup final heroics, when his drop goal in the last minute of extra-time delivered the trophy to England. He made another sensation when he told the London Times that he became a Buddhist by reading Quantum […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana DMK President and Chairman of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organization (TESO) Muthuvel Karunanidhi whose 89th birthday wish was the bifurcation of Sri Lanka started his birthday with hearing all kinds of ominous news when Chennai Corporation and Police started pulling down hundreds of illegal flex boards and then banners […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Angelina Jolie, one of the most successful women in Hollywood is seeking the advice of astrology of an Asian Buddhist monk to fix a good time for her marriage to Brad Pitt, the National Enquirer reported. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Amarvati is one of the greatest Buddhist civilizations in India. Mallikarjuna Rao is a Buddhist artist who has been inspired by it. He wants to be part of the great revival of Buddhism currently taking place in the country. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana The Sunday Telegraph of London quoting the Tibetan government in exile said China is hunting through its well trained agents to collect bodily specimens of Dalai Lama with the intention of harming him. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Helped by the falling crude oil prices Indian oil marketing companies have announced a reduction of aeound Indian Rupees 2.00  for a litre of petrol. […]

CAIRO (AP) — Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that forced him from power last year. The ousted president and his sons were acquitted, however, of corruption charges in a mixed verdict that swiftly provoked a new wave of anger on […]

Kalmykia state is a Buddhist area in Russia where Vesak Has been declared a public holiday.This is Golden Temple in Elista city there Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Russia has announced that they have published “The first encyclopaedia of Buddhist philosophy”  where Buddhism has seen a revival after the collapse of Communism. […]