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Sri Lanka's ex-intel head arrested in connection with 2019 Easter attack probeSri Lanka’s former state intelligence chief Suresh Sallay was arrested in Colombo in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that k...25 Feb, 2026, 01.11 PM IST- Gunman fires at Sri Lanka church ahead of Easter bombings anniversaryAmid heightened security for Easter celebrations, a gunman targeted a church in Manampitiya, Sri Lanka, damaging windows but causing no inj...19 Apr, 2025, 12.28 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 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 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
- 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
- Sri Lanka braces for Modi's visit on SundayModi will be the first foreign leader to visit the island nation after the Easter bombings that killed over 250 people, including 11 Indian...07 Jun, 2019, 01.05 PM IST
- PM Narendra Modi to visit Colombo after Male tripThe site for the visit could be one of the churches that was attacked in the Easter bombings, ET has further learnt.31 May, 2019, 10.14 AM 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
- Lanka terror group linked to Easter bombings has over Rs 140 million cash, Rs 7 billion worth assets: PoliceThe Islamic State terror group claimed the attacks, the island nation's worst, but the government blamed ISIS linked local Islamist extremi...06 May, 2019, 09.33 PM IST
- Sri Lankan security agencies warn of fresh terror attacksSeveral conspirators in the Easter Sunday bombings which killed 257 people were still at large, official sources told ET form Colombo.05 May, 2019, 11.31 PM IST
- Sri Lanka: Leave my country alone, President Maithripala Sirisena tells Islamic StateSirisena also warned it may be possible Islamic State had launched a "new strategy" by targeting smaller countries, media said.01 May, 2019, 01.55 PM IST
- Father, two brothers of Sri Lanka suicide bombings mastermind killed in gun battleAuthorities have detained more than 100 people, including foreigners from Syria and Egypt since the April 21 bombings.28 Apr, 2019, 03.53 PM IST
- Death toll climbs to 359 in Sri Lanka bombings: PoliceThe Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the devastating Easter blasts in Sri Lanka and identified the suicide bombers who were inv...24 Apr, 2019, 10.43 AM IST
- 87 bomb detonators found at bus station in Colombo: PoliceThe police initially found 12 bomb detonators scattered on the ground. A further search revealed 75 more, a police statement said.22 Apr, 2019, 05.16 PM IST
- Pakistan detained more than 5,000 after Easter bombing; forms JITAbout 56 intelligence-based operations were carried out by the Punjab police whereas 16 raids were conducted by the counter-terrorism depar...29 Mar, 2016, 08.19 PM IST
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