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NIA team in Colombo to probe ISIS related cases
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) has reached Colombo in connection with two ISIS related cases being investigated by the agency.
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Sri Lanka reacts to UN Special Advisers' statement on sectarian violence
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 27 (ANI): Rohan Perera, Sri Lanka's permanent representative to the United Nations, on Sunday, criticised two UN representatives for expressing alarm over the "growing acts of violence on the basis of religion," particularly in the North Western Province of the count
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Sri Lanka: 5 terror suspects arrested with Rs 1 bn in bank accounts
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 26 (ANI): The bank accounts of five terror suspects, who were arrested a day earlier for close links with Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jammath (NTJ), had funds worth Rs 1 billion, a senior police official said.
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Sri Lanka PM congratulates Modi for 'magnificent election victory'
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 23 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday congratulated his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as the BJP-led NDA government looks all set to form the government for the second term at the Centre.
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State of emergency extended in Sri Lanka by one month
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 22 (ANI): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday extended the state of emergency in the nation by one month in the aftermath of the devastating Easter attacks.
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Sri Lanka: MP to be grilled over links with terror group NTJ
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 22 (ANI): A member of Parliament who was arrested on charges of having close links with local Islamic terror group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ), has been detained and will be questioned, police said on Tuesday.
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Foreign embassies websites under cyber attack in Sri Lanka
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 19 (ANI): Websites of at least 11 foreign embassies, including the Kuwait Embassy, here has come under a cyber attack, the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) said on Sunday.
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Month after Easter attack, Sri Lanka invokes Gautam Buddha on Vesak
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 18 (ANI): As Sri Lanka recovers from the deadliest terror attack in a decade and episodes of communal violence that followed, President Maithripala Sirisena, while conveying his greetings for Vesak or Buddha Poornima, urged the nation to "recollect the teachings o
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Easter bombings: 17 safe houses, 7 training camps of terrorists busted
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 16 (ANI): Sri Lanka police on Thursday busted several safe houses and training camps in connection with the deadly Easter Sunday attacks, which targeted high-end hotels and churches across the country, killing over 250 people.
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Perpetrators of communal violence to be charged under ICCPR: Sri Lankan PM
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 16 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has ordered the police to charge the perpetrators of communal violence in the country on May 12 and 13 under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act.
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Sri Lanka: Curfew lifted for 2 hrs in North Western Province
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 14 (ANI): The indefinite curfew imposed in one of the provinces of the island nation will be lifted for two hours from 4 pm to 6 pm in the evening.
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Nationwide curfew imposed in Sri Lanka
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 13 (ANI): Sri Lanka has imposed a nationwide night curfew beginning from 9 pm on Monday to curtail escalated communal unrest in the country, one of the worst outbreaks since the deadly Easter suicide bombings.
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