Health Ministry revises Easter attacks death toll down to 253
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Health on Thursday revised down the death toll in the serial blasts that struck the country on April 21 by...
IGP & Defence Secretary have not fulfilled responsibilities – President
President Maithripala Sirisena, addressing the Heads of media institutes today (26), urged all Sri Lankans not to look at the entire Muslim community as...
PM says joining foreign terrorist groups not against Sri Lankan law...
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the Sri Lankan government was aware of the fact that the locals who joined the Islamic State had...
Businessman shot dead in Mulleriyawa
A businessman has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles at Ranabima Mawatha in Mulleriyawa North.
Police said the shooting had occurred at around...
Depression in Bay of Bengal likely to intensify into cyclonic storm
The low pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal to the southeast of Sri Lanka now concentrated into a depression and located near lat-01.9N,...
Another possible attack targeting mosques ?
A statement issued by the IGP warns of another possible attack by the terrorist group which carried out the Easter Day attacks.
The DIGs in...
Identity of Zion Church bomber confirmed
The severed head of the suicide bomber at the Zion Church in Batticaloa has been identified by his mother.
It is reported that the bomber...
Female suspect related to Easter attacks misidentified, police issue statement
The police have issued a statement correcting a mistake made by misidentifying one of the females listed among the photos of the suspects which...
198 detonators found inside abandoned parcel in Nuwara Eliya
198 detonators have been recovered from Hawa Eliya area in Nuwara Eliya this morning (25).
Nuwara Eliya Police had received a tip-off on a suspicious...
SL Muslims will not accept bodies of terrorist behind attacks –...
All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) stated that they will not accept the bodies of the individuals who carried out the Easter Day attacks.
Holding a...
