Category: Foreign News

Onlanka News – By  Walter Jayawardhana In Britain, an old bastion of Christian heritage there had been a widely accepted practice of starting public meetings by saying prayers until secularist campaigners protested  sometimes even by challenging the authorities in courts of law. Eventually some local government bodies dropped the practice altogether. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Havana which has made many medical feats for a small country has manufactured a very effective drug for asthma Cuba’s Prensa Latina News Service reported. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana There had been many reported incidents where the majestic tiger had been killed by animals of lesser stature especially when it comes to the saving of off springs. In addition to the motherly instinct in the incident reported  last Saturday  the ferocious tiger was already injured in an earlier […]

New Delhi: Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has accepted the Rajya Sabha nomination proposed by the Congress, according to reports. He is the first active sportsperson and cricketer to have been nominated to the Rajya Sabha. […]

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — A civilian airplane carrying 131 people crashed Friday in Rawalpindi just before it was to land at an airport in Islamabad, according to emergency officials. […]

External Affairs minister SM Krishna has asked Indian envoy Nirupma Roy to take up the issue of detaining actor Shah Rukh Khan at a US airport. Krishna said detaining and then apologising is not acceptable as detainig in this manner has become a practice in the US now. Meanwhile, US customs and border protection authorities […]

Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan was detained at a New York airport for over two hours by immigration officials after arriving from India in a private plane with Nita Ambani, to address students at Yale University here. […]

The 66-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi whom the former Military junta of Myanmar had kept imprisoned in her lakeside home for the better part of two decades has won a seat in the Parliamentary elections held in Myanmar yesterday. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Dollars 1.7 million worth Templeton Prize of religion for the year 2012 has been awarded to the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. […]

Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles The Norway Broadcasting  (NRK) reported  the country’s UN special envoy to Sri Lankan peace process and the powerful leftist politician Eric Solheim has been stripped of his Ministerial titles-both of environmental issues and foreign aid and replaced by younger ones in the party in the […]

MOSCOW: Russian leader Vladimir Putin Sunday reclaimed the Kremlin in a crushing presidential election victory that he declared was honest but the opposition said was marred by serial violations. […]

LONDON (AP) — Respected American war reporter Marie Colvin, who covered conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria and stood up for the importance of independent journalism, died in a shelling attack in Syria on Wednesday. She was in her 50s. […]

Male:  A top U.S. government official met with leaders in the Maldives on Saturday to get a fresh assessment of the political situation in the Indian Ocean nation. […]

MALE (Reuters) – The former president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, demanded on Friday fresh elections and said he would organise street protests in the Indian Ocean archipelago best known as a luxury beach getaway if polls were not called. […]

A criminal court in the Maldives issued arrest warrants for ousted president Mohamed Nasheed and his former defence minister, but the charges against them were unclear, a senior official of Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said. […]

NEW DELHI, February 8: Three ministers of the beleaguered Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka state lost their jobs today for watching porn on a mobile phone on Wednesday inside the State Assembly while the House was in session in Bengaluru. […]