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Sri Lanka ends emergency rule 4 months after Easter attacks
Updated : 6 years, 11 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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Catholic bishops in Sri Lanka call for independent inquiry into Easter ter
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Aug 14 (ANI): The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka (CBCSL) has urged the government to hold an "independent and impartial" inquiry into the Easter Sunday terror attacks as a matter of utmost urgency.
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Lanka's Wickremesinghe says govt responsible for mistakes that lead to Eas
Updated : 7 years 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 : 7 years, 1 month 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: CID arrests former Defence Secretary, IGP over mishandling repo
Updated : 7 years, 1 month 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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PM Modi meets Sri Lankan Oppn leader Mahinda Rajapaksa
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Jun 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the incumbent Sri Lankan Leader of Opposition and former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, during his official visit to the nation on Sunday.
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Modi plants sapling at President's Secretariat in Colombo
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Jun 9 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after the Easter terror attacks, planted a sapling at the President's Secretariat here on Sunday.
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Sri Lanka: Modi visits church targetted during Easter terror attacks
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Jun 9 (ANI): Showing India's solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid his respects at the St. Anthony's Church, which was targetted during the Easter terror attacks.
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PM Modi first foreign leader to visit Sri Lanka after Easter terror attack
Updated : 7 years, 2 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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PM Modi's visit shows India's solidarity with Sri Lanka following Easter t
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jun 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi's upcoming official visit to Sri Lanka after taking charge for a second time shows India's humane approach towards the people of island-nation after the Easter Sunday terror blasts, the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Aus
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