Sri Lanka extends emergency in surprise move
Colombo | A state of emergency was extended by Sri Lanka’s President on Saturday, going back on pledges to relax the tough laws introduced after the...
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Sri Lanka President Sirisena extends emergency by month
Colombo | Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday extended by a month the state of emergency imposed in the wake of the deadly Easter Sunday...
Lanka now safe, all extremists linked to Easter Sunday Attacks killed or arrested: Security authorities
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The tourism industry leaders have urged the government to make strong measures to enable the industry to revive following the Easter Sunday attacks on three...
Sri Lanka Easter attack leader Zahran Hashim died in hotel bombing: Sirisena
Colombo | Sri Lankan Islamist extremist Zahran Hashim, said to be the top leader of an IS linked local militant group that carried out the...
Sri Lanka revises Easter blasts toll to 253, cites ‘calculation error’
Colombo | Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando resigned over his failure to prevent the Easter terror attacks even as the health ministry on Thursday night...
Sri Lanka’s defence secretary resigns over Easter attacks
Colombo | Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando resigned from his post on Thursday, days after a series of devastating suicide attacks that tore through three...
Sri Lanka declares emergency from midnight
Colombo | Sri Lanka will enforce a state of emergency from midnight on Monday in the wake of the deadly Easter blasts that killed 290 people...
There was major breakdown in India-SL relationship after change of govt in 2014: Rajapaksa
Bengaluru | Sri Lanka’s opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday said there was a “major breakdown” in bilateral relationship between India and his country after a...
Sri Lanka: President Sirisena says opposed to forming national govt
Colombo | Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday said he is opposed to forming a national government only to expand the Cabinet of ministers,...
2018 will be remembered for worst political crisis in Lanka’s history
Colombo | The year 2018 would be etched in Sri Lanka’s history as the most turbulent one politically as the cash-strapped country saw an unprecedented power...