By Uditha Jayasinghe, Chathuri Dissanyake and Ashwin Hemmathagama Security forces were on high alert yesterday with multiple search operations taking ..
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President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said that he would speedily restructure the intelligence structure of the Sri Lankan security forces, with ch
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Headline inflation as measured by the year-on-year change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI, 2013=100) increased to 2.9% in March 2019 from 2
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Reuters: The stock index dived 3.63% on Tuesday, its worst plunge in more than seven years, due to retail panic selling in its first trading day after
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Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) and Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) yesterday said the country was open for business, and a
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Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday accused the Government of undermining the security establishment by harassing intelligence agenci
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The Colombo Stock Exchange yesterday observed a minute’s silence after the Regular Trading session commenced following the Open Auction on the Autom
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The number of foreign nationals identified as killed in the Easter Sunday attacks rose to 34 yesterday, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday, with 14 s
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By Ashwin Hemmathagama – Our Lobby Correspondent Updating Parliament on the Easter Sunday attacks, State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene yeste
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The Council of Imams Queensland (CIQ) and the Islamic Council of Queensland (ICQ), on behalf of all Muslims in Queensland, in a statement condemned th
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The Jamiatul Ulama South Africa in a statement has expressed shock and condemnation of the mass murder of Christian congregants at churches and guests
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The Botswana Muslim Association issued the following statement yesterday on the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka: “The Botswana Muslim Association
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Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s premier connectivity provider, has been working for several years with the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) of Sri La
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On 21 April, a group of young Russians gathered in front of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow to pay tribute to those killed in several explosions th
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National Shoora Council (NSC), the umbrella body of 18 Muslim organisations of national reach and many influential individuals, in a statement vehemen
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Hindus have strongly condemned the massacre on Easter Sunday in various Sri Lanka churches and other places, killing worshippers and others; and expre
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By Nuwan Senarathna Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday called on the Government to resign over its intelligence lapses that the party insist
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UNICEF yesterday said it is deeply shocked and saddened by the terrible violence directed against families, including children, gathered in churches a
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The extension of Southern Expressway from Matara to Hambantota is scheduled to be vested with public by next August, a Road Development Authority offi
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Never in the history of Sri Lanka has there been such a masterly engineered and flawlessly executed terror attack on soft targets to bring down a cala
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Sri Lanka was devastated on Sunday when suicide bombers went on rampage. Whilst the actual impact will be seen in the near future, what is sad for Sri
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
