Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka signs port deal with India, Japan

11:24 pm May 29, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lanka has signed a deal with India and Japan to develop a deep-sea container terminal here amid increasing forays by China which has taken a strategic port on a 99-year lease that has worried New Delhi. The three countries will jointly build the East Container Terminal at the Port of Colombo. High Commissioner […]

Lanka PM appeals to people to vote peacefully and maintain law & order

Wickremesinghe vows to stop Islamic State terrorism raising its head again in Lanka

11:53 pm May 26, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has vowed to take security measures to prevent the Islamic State (IS) terrorism raising its head again in the country as he appealed to people not to support extremism or religious fanaticism. The premier after meeting with a group of representatives of civil societies and trade union collective […]

Lanka's sacked top defence official faces charges for criminal negligence over Easter bombings

Five suspects linked to Easter bombing mastermind arrested

10:57 pm May 24, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lankan police on Friday arrested five suspects, allegedly having links with local Islamist group National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) and its leader Zahran Cassim, the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday bombings. The five suspects were arrested in Horowpathana area on the day when the Parliament passed the state of emergency with 22 lawmakers voting […]

Sri Lanka marks a decade of the end of civil war

10:56 pm May 18, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lanka, still reeling under the scars of the Easter Sunday bomb blasts, Saturday marked 10 years of the end of the nearly brutal civil war between the government and the LTTE even as it came under criticism for failing to ensure justice for the victims. The Sri Lankan government on May 18, 2009 […]

Lanka suicide bombers visited Kashmir, Kerala for ‘some sorts of training’: Army chief

7:21 pm May 4, 2019

Colombo: Sri Lanka Army’s chief has said that some of the suicide bombers who carried out the country’s worst terror attack on Easter Sunday visited Kashmir and Kerala for “some sorts of training” or to “make some more links” with other foreign outfits. It is the first time that a top Sri Lankan security official has confirmed the militants’ visit to India which had shared intelligence inputs with […]