70 IS suspects held after bombings: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday said that there were as many as 140 Islamic State suspects in...
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Sri Lanka reduces death toll to 253, Defence Secretary quits
Colombo: Sri Lanka on Thursday revised down the toll in Easter Sunday bloodbath to "about 253" even as Defence Secretary Hemasiri...
Sri Lanka Police hunt for six after suicide bombings
Colombo: The Sri Lanka Police on Thursday released photographs of six young suspects - three males and three females -...
Three suspects arrested with hand grenades in SL
Colombo: Police in Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested three suspects during a raid in Colombo and seized 21 hand grenades,...
Sri Lanka keeps visa-on-arrival programme on hold
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Tourism Ministry said on Thursday that it has kept its new visa-on-arrival programme on hold until further...
Spice tycoon suspected of helping sons in suicide attacks
Colombo: Police are holding the father of two Sri Lankan suicide bombers on suspicion of aiding and abetting his sons...
Minor explosion reported in Pugoda on outskirts of Colombo
Colombo: A minor explosion occurred in the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital on Thursday, although there were no reports...
Sri Lankan top security officials told to quit, toll 359
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the Defence Secretary and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to quit...
2 suicide bombers sons of Sri Lankan spice mogul
Colombo: Two sons of millionaire businessman and spice trader Mohammed Yusuf Ibrahim were among the suicide bombers who carried out...
Sri Lanka blasts: 359 dead, FBI joins probe, 58 arrested
Colombo: The US Embassy in Sri Lanka has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was on the ground in...
