News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka tourism industry begins to recover after attacks, election is next hurdle
Sri Lanka's tourism industry, badly hurt by Easter day bombings, is showing signs of gradual recovery, industry executives say, although a national election later this year is likely to weigh on holiday season arrivals. The island nation's tourism sector, one of the country's top revenue
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka Unhappy With India Over Budget Allocation, Wants Review
While Sri Lanka is India's closest Indian Ocean Region neighbour and shares centuries-old close links, Colombo has been pipped by IOR countries Mauritius and the Maldives, who are the beneficiaries of India's largesse in this year's budget. - Sri Lanka Unhappy With India Over Budget Allocation, Wants Review
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lankan president extends emergency rule for another month
are aimed at “preventing people from becoming terrorists.” In other words, they will involve increased surveillance and wide-ranging attacks on basic democratic rights. Opposition leader Mahinda ...
News Sri Lanka People: One out of three pregnancies in Sri Lanka unplanned
It can prevent unwanted pregnancies and avert unsafe abortions. Most young people in Sri Lanka are sexually active and they should not be prevented from accessing sexual and reproductive health ...
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lankan investigator: No ISIL link to Easter bombings
The suicide bombers targeted three churches and three hotels had no direct link to the foreign armed group [Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters] Sri Lanka's Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people were ...
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka Easter Blasts Probe Reveals No ISIS Link In Terror Attack
Sri Lanka's Easter attacks that killed 258 people were carried out by local Islamists who drew inspiration from but were not linked to the Islamic State group, a top investigator said Wednesday. Ravi ...
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka officials accused of blast negligence granted bail
A Sri Lankan court on Tuesday granted bail to the country's police chief and former top defense bureaucrat a week after they were arrested for alleged criminal negligence leading to Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks that killed more than 250 people.
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka's top court stays executions until Oct. 30
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's Supreme Court on Friday issued a temporary injunction against the execution of four people, a week after the country's president announced he would end the ...
News Sri Lanka People: After Sri Lanka attacks, Muslims face boycotts and violence
After mobs attacked the area near the New Fawz Hotel, they traveled five miles down the road to where Ali Jisthy’s family had completed a new pasta factory, the largest of its kind in Sri Lanka. A ...
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka picks two hangmen for first executions since 1970s
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka has hired two hangmen as it prepares for executions of four prisoners convicted of drug offenses in what would be the country’s first use of the death penalty for over 40 years, prison authorities said on Friday.
News Sri Lanka People: An ill-deserved reputation threatens Sri Lanka’s ‘secretive snake’
Contributing to this fear is Sri Lanka’s high snake-bite mortality rate, exacerbated by lack of access to adequate health care, particularly in rural areas where people are more likely to ...
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka readies laws to curb hate speech, false news
Sri Lanka's government will introduce laws to curb hate speech and false news that threaten ethnic reconciliation and national security, in the aftermath of Easter bombings that killed more than 250 people.
News Sri Lanka People: UK relaxes Sri Lanka travel advice issued after attacks
Over 250,000 Britons visited Sri Lanka in 2018, making it the third-highest ... Police say just over 100 people, including 10 women are in custody in connection with the attacks. ...
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday attacks were meant for international audience, but have local consequences
The terror that visited Sri Lanka in April 2019 was something that local people had hoped was long consigned to the past. On that Sunday, a friend told me to contact my family to let them know I ...
News Sri Lanka People: Unsubstantiated claims Muslim doctor sterilized women raise tensions in Sri Lanka
On May 23 Sri Lankan newspaper Divaina, known for its nationalist stance, published a front page article alleging a Muslim doctor had secretly sterilized 4,000 Sinhala Buddhist women after caesarean deliveries. The article was produced roughly a week after Buddhist mobs in the North Western Province
News Sri Lanka People: Sri Lanka Muslim gov't leaders resign over allegations
"If any of us are found guilty, we are prepared to face whatever punishment for that, but the innocent people should not be punished," he said. Hakeem said that Sri Lanka's Muslim community has ...
News Sri Lanka People: Aussie home minister lays wreath at bombed Sri Lanka church
NEGOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton ... He laid the wreath at the altar of St. Sebastian church, where 113 people were killed. Bombings at three churches and three ...
News Sri Lanka People: All 9 of Sri Lanka’s Muslim Ministers Resign, as Bombing Backlash Intensifies
If any of us are found guilty, they should be punished,” said Mr. Hakeem, who also leads the largest Muslim party in Sri Lanka. “Our people fear a blood bath,” he said. Responsibility for the bombings ...
