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Sri Lankan Airlines temporarily suspends flight services from April 8-21
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 2 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Airlines on Thursday temporarily suspended all flight operations with effect from April 8 to April 21 in view of the travel restrictions imposed by various countries, including India, to combat the coronavirus spread.
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Sri Lanka ends emergency rule 4 months after Easter attacks
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 24 (ANI): Sri Lanka has officially ended the four months of emergency rule imposed in the wake of Easter terror bombings that killed more than 250 people on April 21.
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Lanka's Wickremesinghe says govt responsible for mistakes that lead to Eas
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that the Sri Lankan government, along with the cabinet of ministers, are responsible for the mistakes and lapses which enabled a local terror group to launch successful attacks on Easter Sunday that killed more th
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Lanka to revive suspended visa on arrival programme for 39 countries; excl
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 10 (ANI): The Sri Lankan government plans to revive the visa on arrival and free visa programme, which was suspended after the Easter terror attacks that killed more than 250 people on April 21, for citizens of 39 countries from August 1.
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Sri Lanka: Security beefed up as Buddhist monks meet over presidential vot
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 7 (ANI): Security was beefed up in the Sri Lankan highland town of Kandy on Sunday as hardline Buddhist monks gathered for their first big assembly since Easter attacks by Islamist militants on churches and luxury hotels that killed more than 250 on April 21.
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Sri Lanka: CID arrests former Defence Secretary, IGP over mishandling repo
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 2 (ANI): Sri Lankan authorities on Tuesday arrested former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando and Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara on charges of mishandling intelligence reports that came before the Easter Sunday terror attack killing more than 250 pe
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Sri Lanka's terror-hit Shangri-La Hotel reopens today
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 12 (ANI): The Shangri-La Hotel here is set to reopen today, seven weeks after the high-end facility was extensively damaged in deadly terror attacks that killed more than 250 people who were celebrating Easter on April 21.
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PM Modi first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after Easter terror attack
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Jun 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be making a brief stopover in Sri Lanka on his way back to India from the Maldives, becomes the first foreign leader to visit the island nation after the deadly Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people o
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S. Lankan President denies he was informed about Easter Sunday attacks
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 31 (ANI): Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday evening denied reports that he had prior knowledge of the Easter Sunday bombings, which targeted several high-end hotels and three churches, killing over 250 people across the country on April 21.
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Sri Lanka: Death toll in Easter Sunday bombing rose to 257
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 2 (ANI): The death toll in a series of coordinated bombing that rocked Sri Lanka on April 21, has risen to 257 on Thursday.
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Goa: Police conduct security assessment in Basilica of Bom Jesus Church
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Goa [India], Apr 30 (ANI): Police on Tuesday conducted a security assessment in Basilica of Bom Jesus Church in old Goa, as a precautionary measure in the wake of serial bomb blasts in Sri Lanka on April 21.
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India issues advisory, says avoid non-essential travel to Sri Lanka
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Apr 27 (ANI): Following the multiple terror attacks which rattled Sri Lanka on April 21, India issued a travel advisory on Saturday, urging citizens against undertaking non-essential travel to the neighbouring nation.
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