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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

An empty Lankan airport holds promise for India

If Mattala airport is well marketed and incentivised by Sri Lanka's tourism authorities, it may well be a commercial...

9 July 2018 3:33 AM IST

Mahinda Rajapaksa is credited with a military victory ending a 26-year separatist civil war with ethnic Tamil rebels during his presidency from 2005 to 2015. (Photo: ANI)

Credited with ending civil war, Mahinda Rajapaksa sworn-in as Lanka...

Ranil Wickremesinghe stepped down as prime minister earlier Thursday to clear the way for the president to form his...

21 Nov 2019 2:16 PM IST

Mahinda Rajapaksa has served as president from 2005 to 2015. (Photo: File)

Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapaksa will be sworn as PM today

Leaders of the parties that backed Gotabaya during the presidential polls will be given preference in the Cabinet.

21 Nov 2019 10:32 AM IST

Voters can choose up to three candidates in their preferential order. The candidate who polls 50 per cent plus one vote as the first preference will be declared the winner. (Representational Image)

In 1st polls since Easter attacks, Sri Lankans up for tomorrow's...

Nearly 16 million people are eligible to vote for the president from among a record 35 candidates.

15 Nov 2019 1:07 PM IST

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

Sri Lanka PM: Most linked to bombing slain or held

The authorities have said there are about 140 followers of the Islamic State group in the country.

29 April 2019 3:35 AM IST

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

Most Sri Lanka Islamist radicals killed or arrested: PM Ranil...

Three churches and three hotels were targeted by suicide bombers in the attacks in which at least 40 foreigners were...

28 April 2019 8:58 PM IST

Two Dubai-based Indians, Razeena Kukkady, 58, and Juno, 42, were killed in blasts. (Photo: Facebook/navroopk)

It was like movie, there was blood everywhere: Survived Lanka blasts

Sri Lanka has a population of 21 million which is a patchwork of ethnicities and religions, dominated by the Sinhalese...

28 April 2019 4:53 PM IST

He also blamed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghes government for weakening the intelligence system. (Photo:AP)

Search ongoing for 140 people with links to ISIS: SL President...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with...

26 April 2019 2:55 PM IST

Top officials have acknowledged that Sri Lanka received intelligence about possible terror strikes ahead of the attacks. (Photo:AP)

Sri Lanka can't arrest citizens who joined ISIS: PM Ranil...

Sri Lankan nationals who joined ISIS could not be arrested as joining a foreign terrorist organisation is not against...

26 April 2019 9:50 AM IST

The minister said that the security services believe that Christchurch attacks prompted the terrorists to hit on Easter maintaining that the attacks were being planned for quite some time. (Photo: AP)

Lanka had no Christchurch linkage, so why was it targeted?

Sri Lanka has requested, and been offered, international help in investigating the atrocities.

25 April 2019 12:14 AM IST

Sri Lankan authorities have started an investigation into how warnings about possible attacks were not passed to top ministers. (Photo:AP)

US denies having prior intel on Sri Lanka Easter blasts

The US ambassador to Sri Lanka has denied the United States had prior knowledge of the Easter attacks.

24 April 2019 1:14 PM IST

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

More attacks possible as some people with explosives on run: Sri Lanka...

He said he believed the Easter day attacks had links to Islamic State.

23 April 2019 8:00 PM IST