Sri Lanka

Hashim Amla and Faf du Plessis powered South Africa to a nine-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Friday, dealing a huge blow to the Asian side’s hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals. Amla (80) and captain Du Plessis (96) put on an…

Government Officials on Monday said; some social media networks will be temporarily blocked in Sri Lanka after messages shared online raised religious tensions that have been running high since the deadly Easter Sunday bombings. A…

A Sri Lankan court on Friday authorised a DNA test to confirm that the presumed ringleader of coordinated attacks that killed over 250 people on Easter Sunday in churches and hotels did indeed blow himself up at Colombo’s Shangri-La Hotel.…

The head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church appealed for calm on Monday after sporadic violence between Christian and Muslims north of Colombo prompted police to impose a curfew. In the first such violence since the Easter Sunday…

Sri Lankan police on Sunday discovered a 10-acre camp in the eastern town of Kattankudy, where militants linked to the deadly Easter attacks are believed to have practised shooting and bomb-making. The walled terrain is nestled in a…

Mass was held behind closed doors on Sunday at St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, the third church bombed on Easter day in Sri Lanka. Catholic Church had suspended services after the Easter Incident The suicide bomber who attacked the…

Sri Lanka will provide police protection for all schools when they reopen on Monday 6 May after being closed after suicide bombings on Easter Sunday. At least one police officer will be deployed to every school in the country…

The head of Catholics in Sri Lanka on Tuesday rejected a government offer to use a bullet-proof vehicle after the Easter Sunday bombings on churches and hotels that left 253 dead. “A bullet-proof vehicle was sent for my use, but I…

Sri Lanka has banned all kinds of clothing that cover the face and prevent identification, such as niqabs and burqas, officials said on Sunday, a week after the Easter bombings that left over 250 people dead. The ban does not directly…

The archbishop of Colombo says there will be no Sunday Masses until further notice after the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith made the comment during a news conference Friday in the Sri Lankan capital.…

The U.S. State Department has issued a heightened travel warning for Sri Lanka after last Sunday’s suicide bombings that killed more than 250 people. The department is urging Americans to “reconsider travel to Sri Lanka due to…

Sri Lanka’s police chief has refused a request by President Maithripala Sirisena to step down following suicide bombings on churches and hotels, two sources at the president’s office said on Saturday, deepening the rift at top levels of…

Sri Lankan security forces found 15 bodies, including six children, early Saturday after militants linked to the Easter bombings opened fire and set off explosives during a raid on their house in the country’s east, police said. The…

Sri Lanka’s top police official, Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara, has resigned over failures that led to the deadly Easter bomb attacks, the country’s president said Friday. “The IGP has resigned. He has sent his…

Facts have emerged how the suspected leader of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, Mohamed Zahran died. Authorities said Zahran died in the Shangri-La hotel, one of six hotels bombed in an attack which ISIS had claimed…

Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body parts at bomb scenes for the earlier inaccurate number. The new official figure was…

The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 300 people at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. The group’s Amaq News Agency made the claim on Tuesday. A government official said…

Sri Lanka’s Defence Minister has said that Easter Sunday bombings were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand. “The preliminary investigations have revealed that what happened in Sri Lanka (on Sunday) was in…

The billionaire fashion tycoon behind online clothing retailer Asos lost three of his four children in the Sri Lanka terror attacks, a spokesman has said. Anders Holch Povlsen, 46, is Denmark’s wealthiest man and is believed to be the…

The government of Sri Lanka has imposed an 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM curfew in Colombo, following the Easter day bombings of churches and hotels that has so far claimed over 290 lives. Government information department disclosed this on…

Sri Lankan police have arrested two dozen people in connection with a string of bomb attacks on several churches and hotels that have claimed the lives of at least 290 people. The country went on lockdown on Easter Sunday after eight…

The death toll from bomb blasts that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka rose dramatically Monday to 290 — including dozens of foreigners — some of whom have been identified by British newspapers. Among them were the…

In an update, officials said no fewer than 35 foreigners, including Americans, Britons and Dutch, died when a string of coordinated bombings hit high-end hotels and churches in and around the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on Sunday during…

At least 137 people were killed on Sunday when a string of bombs ripped through high-end hotels and churches as worshippers attended Easter services in Sri Lanka. Forty-five people were killed in Colombo, where three hotels and a…