Indian travellers can visit Sri Lanka visa-free, stay for up to a monthThis initiative, following a Cabinet decision in October, extends to travelers from other key countries, including China, Russia, Malaysia,...
28 Nov, 2023, 05.01 PM IST
No international inquiry into 2019 Easter bombings, reiterates Sri Lankan PresidentSri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has rejected the idea of an international probe into the 2019 Easter terror attacks, stating that...
07 Oct, 2023, 12.42 PM IST
Sri Lanka's president will appoint a committee to probe allegations of complicity in 2019 bombingsSri Lanka's president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has announced the appointment of a committee to investigate allegations made in a British tele...
10 Sep, 2023, 05.09 PM IST
Sri Lanka government to investigate allegation of intelligence complicity in 2019 Easter bombingsThe Sri Lankan government plans to establish a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report regar...
06 Sep, 2023, 11.22 AM IST
Sri Lanka's former president ordered to pay SLRs 100 million in compensation for failing to prevent 2019 Easter attacksIn its verdict, a seven-member bench of the Supreme Court ruled that the respondents named in the petitions for failing to prevent the 2019...
12 Jan, 2023, 05.08 PM IST
India seeks Zakir Naik’s extradition from QatarNaik fled to Malaysia in 2016, just before the National Investigation Agency started a probe against him. Naik fled to Malaysia in 2016, ju...
24 Nov, 2022, 10.19 PM IST
India takes note of Doha hosting Zakir Naik for Fifa World CupQatar had invited Naik, who fled India to live in Malaysia as permanent resident, to give lectures during the Fifa World Cup. Earlier, when...
22 Nov, 2022, 02.19 PM IST
Coimbatore blast probe handed over to NIAThe Tamil Nadu government said the decision to recommend the probe handover to the central anti-terror agency was taken as there is involve...
27 Oct, 2022, 05.03 PM IST
Stalin govt to recommend NIA probe into Coimbatore blastTamil Nadu government decided that the involvement of factors "extraneous to the state" and "possible international links" make the case fi...
27 Oct, 2022, 12.07 AM IST
Sri Lanka's former president Sirisena named suspect in 2019 Easter bombingsOn April 21, 2019, nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carri...
16 Sep, 2022, 06.56 PM IST
Sri Lanka mulls madrasa ban, wearing burqasMinister for public security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference he had signed a paper on Friday for cabinet approval to ban the full...
13 Mar, 2021, 10.55 PM IST
Pakistan PM Imran Khan's visit fails to win hearts of Lankan BuddhistsIt was not just fear of Khan launching a tirade against India that forced the Lankan authorities to cancel the Pak PM’s proposed address at...
26 Feb, 2021, 11.14 PM IST
India working on plan to offer $50 million line of credit to Sri Lanka in defenceSri Lanka could become the second country in India’s neighbourhood to receive defence-related LoCs. India is working with Bangladesh to imp...
28 Sep, 2020, 01.08 PM IST
Sri Lanka Easter Sunday attacker's wife may have fled to India: ReportOn April 21, 2019, nine suicide bombers belonging to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS carri...
22 Jul, 2020, 03.06 PM IST
Lanka includes India, China in free visa on arrival service stopped after Easter Sunday bombingsThe scheme is a part of Sri Lanka's initiative to increase tourist arrivals. After the bombings in April, the country's tourism has decline...
24 Jul, 2019, 03.55 PM IST
National Investigation Agency cleared to join probe into IS links in ColomboThis follows Colombo’s assent to share the details of their investigations, officials aware of the development said.
28 May, 2019, 10.46 AM IST
42 foreigners killed in Easter blasts: Sri Lanka ministrySri Lankan Foreign Ministry, in a statement, said that as of Monday April 29, the number of foreign nationals who have been killed in the a...
30 Apr, 2019, 01.31 PM IST