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Attackers of Sri Lanka Easter Sunday bombings were inspire by ISIS
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 25 (ANI): Sri Lanka's Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people were carried out by local groups who drew inspiration from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) group, a top investigator said on Wednesday.
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Sri Lanka: Security beefed up as Buddhist monks meet over presidential vot
Updated : 6 years, 11 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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Happy to be back, says PM Modi on arrival in Sri Lanka
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Jun 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here on Sunday for a short stay on his way en route India from the Maldives.
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Month after deadly Easter attacks, Sirisena calls for collective action ag
Updated : 7 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 31 (ANI): Over a month after the deadly Easter Sunday attacks claimed more than 250 lives in Sri Lanka, President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday called upon all countries across the world to come together to fight and defeat the menace of terrorism.
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State of emergency extended in Sri Lanka by one month
Updated : 7 years 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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Month after Easter attack, Sri Lanka invokes Gautam Buddha on Vesak
Updated : 7 years 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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ISIL chief says Sri Lanka attack was 'vengeance for brothers in Baghouz'
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Doha [Qatar], Apr 30 (ANI): Chief of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in a propaganda video, asserted that the battle for Baghouz, ISIL's final bastion in eastern Syria, "is over."
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Sri Lanka Defence Secretary resigns
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Apr 25 (ANI): Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando on Thursday stepped down from his post amid allegations of mishandling intelligence reports that came before the Easter Sunday attack.
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