News Sri Lanka Southern: Sri Lanka- US envoy writes to President dismissing concerns
(MENAFN - Colombo Gazette) With the future of the proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact agreement between Sri Lanka and the ... get from Pettah to the Southern Expressway as ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: Sleepless in Sri Lanka
The teardrop-shaped island just off the Southern coast of India, Sri Lanka, can be a nation grossly misunderstood at times. While it has often been portrayed as a war-ravaged country, social media ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: NIA conducts raids in Tamil Nadu over suspected links with Sri Lanka church attackers
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at various places in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu following reports that some people were in touch with those involved in the Easter day church blasts in Sri Lanka. Raids were conducted by a team of NIA sleuths at seven places in the city, police sources said.
News Sri Lanka Southern: United flavours of Sri Lanka
I am in the tiny beach town of Ahangama, on the western coast of Sri Lanka. Its growing popularity as a destination ... on where they originally arrived from before settling in the Southern Province. ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: Monsoon to hit Myanmar, Sri Lanka 5-6 days late
except that monsoon-friendly southwesterly flows are currently gathering speed over the southern parts of the country. The monsoon may hit Sri Lanka either in a burst of rains under a low-pressure ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: China Faces New Competition As India, Japan Eye Sri Lanka Port
India, Japan and Sri Lanka are weighing the development of a terminal at the bustling port of Colombo in a country that's seen ongoing political controversies related to investments from China's Belt and Road initiative.
News Sri Lanka Southern: Khawaja stakes World Cup claim as Australia win Sri Lanka warm-up
Australia's Usman Khawaja plays a shot during the 2019 Cricket World Cup warm-up match between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, southern England, on May 27, 2019. LONDON: Usman ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: Khawaja guides Australia to easy win over Sri Lanka
Australia’s Usman Khawaja plays a pulls shot during the World Cup warm-up match against Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, southern England, yesterday. (AFP) Opener Usman Khawaja shrugged off ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: 'Mother of Satan' bombs show foreign hand in Sri Lanka bombings: investigators
One month after the Sri Lanka suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people, investigators have told AFP the bombers used "Mother of Satan" explosives favoured by the Islamic State group that are a new sign of foreign involvement. Detectives said the back-pack bombs used in the April 21
News Sri Lanka Southern: Sri Lanka’s Persecuted Muslims Are Turning Radical
Some of them are Malay Muslims and have their own language. Muslims are widely distributed across Sri Lanka, with two-thirds living in the Sinhala Buddhist-majority region of Central, Southern and ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: One killed, two injured in shootout in southern Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 17 (Bernama) -- One person was killed and two others injured in a shootout in Sri Lanka's southern town of Lunugamwehera early Friday, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting the police. A ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: China Faces New Competition as Japan, India Eye Sri Lanka Port
India, Japan and Sri Lanka are weighing the development of a terminal at the bustling port of Colombo in a country that’s seen ongoing political controversies related to investments from China’s Belt and Road initiative. The three countries are set to sign a memorandum of understanding in the coming
News Sri Lanka Southern: Police impose curfew on Sri Lankan town after mosques attacked
Sri Lanka has been under a state of emergency since the suicide ... The statement said Aliyar was "involved" with training the group of suicide bombers in the southern town of Hambantota.
News Sri Lanka Southern: Exclusive: Sri Lankan software engineer, under Indian surveillance, key in Easter attack
COLOMBO/AHMEDABAD,India (Reuters) - A Sri Lankan software engineer suspected by authorities in Sri Lanka of having provided technical and logistical support to the Easter Sunday suicide bombers was monitored by Indian intelligence agencies three years ago for links with Islamic State suspects, investigators
News Sri Lanka Southern: Two arrested after one killed in anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka
A prominent legislator aligned to Mr. Sirisena, and suspects linked to earlier anti-Muslim attacks in the southern and central parts of Sri Lanka, have come under the spotlight in the wake of Monday’s ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: Sri Lanka military gets special powers after deadly bombings
The Sinhalese are largely Buddhist. The Tamils are Hindu, Muslim and Christian. Sri Lanka, off the southern tip of India, is about 70% Buddhist. In recent years, tensions have soared between hard-line ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: Sri Lanka bomber Jameel Mohamed 'under police surveillance' while he plotted attack
Sri Lanka’s government believes that the massacre was carried ... According to the Nikkei Asian Review, Hashmi was operating out of southern India, or had links there, in the months before Sunday's ...
News Sri Lanka Southern: Scared Sri Lanka honeymooners 'just want to get home'
A honeymoon in Sri Lanka ticks a lot of boxes ... but it hasn't been ruined because the Sri Lankan people have got on with things," he told the BBC from the southern town of Unawatuna. "They've ...
