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Sri Lanka: Modi visits church targetted during Easter terror attacks
Updated : 6 years, 9 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 : 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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PM Modi's visit shows India's solidarity with Sri Lanka following Easter t
Updated : 6 years, 9 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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Sri Lanka: Suspended Police chief blames Sirisena for not allowing him to
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 6 (ANI): Sri Lanka’s suspended police chief Pujith Jayasundara on Thursday told the special parliamentary select committee, appointed to probe the Easter Sunday blasts, that President Maithripala Sirisena had denied him from attending any meetings of the Na
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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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Indian nationals travelling to Sri Lanka advised to be careful, vigilant
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 28 (ANI): Acknowledging the return of normalcy in Sri Lanka following the Easter Sunday terror attacks, the Indian government on Tuesday advised its citizens to be "careful and vigilant" while traveling to the island nation, unlike the previous travel advisory where In
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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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Pak U-19 to play 5 ODIs against Sri Lanka
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 19 (ANI): Pakistan Under-19 are set to tour Sri Lanka to play five One-Day Internationals (ODIs), beginning May 26 in Hambantota.
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Moez Masoud working on film based on New Zealand Mosque attacks
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 15 (ANI): Egyptian scholar-producer Moez Masoud will be helming 'Hello Brother', a film about the terror attacks that took place on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Piyush Goyal slams Ritesh Deshmukh again
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 13 (ANI): Allegations and counter-allegations flew back and forth as Bollywood actor Riteish Deshmukh and Union Minister Piyush Goyal hit out at each other over the claim made by the central government leader that the actor's father, the former Mahara
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Sri Lanka: PM Wickremesinghe orders Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], May 4 (ANI): In the wake of the serial bomb attacks that rattled Sri Lanka killing over 250 people, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday ordered the Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs Ministry to regulate madrasas, instead of the education ministry.
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Christchurch terror attack: Death toll mounts to 51
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Christchurch [New Zealand], May 3 (ANI): The death toll in the terror attacks at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, rose to 51 on Thursday after a Turkish man injured during the shooting died in the hospital, police said.
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