Tuesday, 01 December 2020_ At least eight prisoners were killed and over 50 were injured from clashes at a prison in Sri Lanka, officials said on Monday (November 30) as first responders rushed to the site in attempts to quell violence triggered by pandemic-related distress in an overcrowded prison.
Wednesday, 09 September 2020_The Sri Lankan navy said on Wednesday it had extinguished another fire on a stricken supertanker loaded with 2 million barrels of oil and is towing it to deeper water.
TEHRAN, August 20 - Sri Lanka's president on Monday appointed a general accused of grave human rights abuses in the final stages of its long civil war as the country's new army chief, a move a top United Nations human rights official said is likely to impact contributions to U.N peacekeeping missions.
TEHRAN, August 13 - Over 1,700 houses have been damaged from days of strong winds and heavy rains which lashed out across Sri Lanka since last Thursday, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said in its latest update.
TEHRAN, Jul 11 - Sri Lanka is still in talks with the United States on a status-of-forces agreement (SOFA) for visiting U.S. military personnel, the prime minister said, disregarding a warning by the president that it would undermine sovereignty.
TEHRAN, Jul 5 -Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has vowed that he will not allow his government to finalize a proposed military deal with the United States that will permit the American troops to have free access to the island country’s ports.
TEHRAN, Jul 5 - Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom’s ultra-conservative Wahhabi school for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly Easter bomb attacks.
TEHRAN, Jul 3 - Sri Lanka's prime minister opposes a decision by the president to execute drug convicts, saying the country must conduct its affairs in a civilized manner, his office said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Jun 14 - Five Sri Lankans suspected of having links to Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people were brought home in police custody on Friday after being deported from Saudi Arabia, police said.
TEHRAN, Jun 2 - Sri Lanka's suspended police chief has petitioned the Supreme Court, accusing President Maithripala Sirisena of failing to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people.
TEHRAN, May 28 - In an attempt to bring some balance to China’s growing domination across the Indian Ocean region, Delhi and Tokyo agreed to jointly develop Sri Lanka’s largest and busiest seaport, Colombo.
TEHRAN, May 18 - Still reeling from the Easter terror attacks, Sri Lanka commemorates this weekend 10 years since the end of a bloody civil war that killed at least 100,000 people, from which the scars are still not healed.
TEHRAN, May 13 - Sri Lanka said on Monday it was temporarily blocking some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after mosques and Muslim-owned businesses were attacked in the wake of Easter bombings by Daesh terrorists.
TEHRAN, May 12 - Authorities in Sri Lanka have arrested a Saudi-educated preacher over links with the suspected mastermind of bombings last month, throwing a spotlight on the role of Salafi-Wahhabi terrorism in South Asia.
TEHRAN, May 07 -Sri Lanka’s police have announced that all the assailants involved in the deadly bomb attacks in the country last month have either been killed or arrested.
TEHRAN, May 06 -Sri Lanka police arrested two men after a personal feud led to clashes between two sectarian groups in a beachside resort north of the capital, the site of one of the deadliest Easter Sunday suicide bombings, as schools reopened to near-empty classes.
TEHRAN, May 04 - Police in Sri Lanka have requested members of the public hand over swords or other large knives to the nearest police stations after hundreds of such blades were discovered in Mosques and homes during searches in the aftermath of Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks.
TEHRAN, Apr 29 -Sri Lankan security officials have warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s suicide bombings are planning attacks and could be dressed in uniform, as the archbishop of Colombo complained about insufficient security around churches.