The Government and the Opposition yesterday traded accusations over intelligence failures following Easter Sunday’s deadly attacks that left nearly ..
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Reuters: The US State Department said in a revised travel advisory ‘terrorist groups’ were continuing to plot possible attacks in Sri Lanka after
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Party Leaders have accepted the Speakers decision to summon Parliament at 10.30 a.m. today enabling the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to make a
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The Colombo Stock Exchange in consultation with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka announced that trading and related market operatio
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US President Donald Trump yesterday telephoned Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to share condolences and extend his support. Prime Minister’s Med
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AFP: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Monday that the United States will keep fighting “radical Islamic terror” after devastating attacks in S
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AFP: Interpol is deploying a team of investigators, including experts in disaster victim identification, to Sri Lanka to help local authorities in the
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AFP: Three of the four children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen were killed in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, a spokesman for his
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President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday appointed a three-member Special Council to inquire into the series of explosions in the country on Easter Su
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President Maithripala Sirisena presided over an emergency meeting of National Security Council yesterday and the following decisions were taken at the
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By Nuwan Senarathna Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday faulted the Government for what he termed as negligent handling of vital intelligen
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a condolence message to his Sri Lankan counterpart on 21 April, after multiple deadly attacks shook the country.
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Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland yesterday expressed her revulsion at the appalling news of the horrendous and mindless coordinated se
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The Government of Pakistan said it strongly condemns the barbaric explosive attacks across Sri Lanka that caused numerous casualties and a huge loss o
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AFP: As Shantha Prasad carried children wounded in Sri Lanka’s deadly attacks into a Colombo hospital, memories of the country’s deadly civil war
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Reuters: Bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 207 and injuring 450 people, in the first major
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AFP: Members of Sri Lanka’s Christian minority have been left afraid to go to church after deadly attacks that hit Easter services, killing nearly 3
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AFP: Some hid their eyes, some collapsed in tears as gruesome images of victims from Sri Lanka’s Easter massacre were projected on to a screen in fr
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Pakistani Christians and Muslims hold candles at a tribute to Sri Lankan bomb blast victims at the Sacred Heart Cathedral Church in Lahore on 22 April
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
The country faced electricity power cuts, reminding citizens of early 1990s, which resulted in private power producers supplying electrical power with
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Yesterday was Easter Sunday; 227 persons [at the time of writing] have been killed, and many times more injured. The primary targets were churches and
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
This is the most important day of the year for Christians – the Peaceful Easter Sunday or Easter Day was shattered by deadly explosions in several C
Monday, 22 April 2019
Almost five months have gone. It is with a profound sense of sadness that we experienced the demise of our veteran teacher, respected author, legal lu
Monday, 22 April 2019
I posed the following question to a group of university students recently: ‘Do you desire to have a strongman to rule Sri Lanka today?’ The studen
