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India urges IMF to urgently provide financial aid to Sri Lanka Sri Lanka sought India’s help last week in garnering international support to secure bridge financing as it enters negotiations with IMF for a bailout programme. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman met IMF managing director...

The man who carried out a terrorist attack at a West Auckland supermarket on Friday can finally be named and we can reveal details as to why his name has been kept secret. He was Ahamed Aathil Mohamed Samsudeen, aged 32. A High Court order keeping his name secret lapsed at 11pm tonight...

43 Pakistani prisoners deported from Sri Lanka Forty-three Pakistani prisoners convicted of drug offences in Sri Lanka were deported to Islamabad in Pakistan at the Bandaranaike International Airport on a special flight this morning. An airport official said that the prisoners were convicted...

China takes bilateral relations with Sri Lanka to a higher level By Shamindra Ferdinando China yesterday (9) reiterated its commitment to supporting President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s development objectives envisaged in his 2019 presidential election manifesto. The assurance was given by senior...

An in depth look at the Port City that China is building in Sri Lanka. It's not in English but the video tells its own story. The Colombo skyline is developing beautifully and the views are amazing. Thanks China!

7 Pakistani drug traffickers including a woman get life imprisonment 13 September 2019 01:10 pm Seven Pakistani suspects including a woman who were found guilty of possessing, trafficking and importing heroin were sentenced for life imprisonment by the Negombo Magistrate on August 28, police...

Sri Lanka is to Ban Arabic for Street Names The government of Sri Lanka Monday banned use of Arabic for street names, according to media reports. A circular issued by Sri Lanka’s Official Languages Ministry asked authorities to remove Arabic street name boards, Colombo-based Sunday Times...

Police impose curfew on Sri Lankan town after mosques attacked Christians attacked mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in Chilaw after what they believed was a threat on Facebook. Police have imposed a curfew in the Sri Lankan town Chilaw after a dispute between Christians and Muslims, that...

Sri Lanka slaps controls on mosques after Islamist attacks Sri Lanka's mosques have been ordered to submit copies of sermons in new fallout from the Easter suicide bombings.PHOTO: REUTERS COLOMBO (AFP) - The Sri Lankan government on Friday (May 10) ordered mosques to clamp down on extremists...

In Sri Lanka, hijab-clad teachers hounded from Christian school are assigned elsewhere MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN May 08, 2019 COLOMBO: Eleven Muslim teachers hounded from a Christian school in Sri Lanka for wearing hijabs have been redeployed. The country’s Western Province Gov. Azath Salley...

400-strong Christian mob attacks Muslim shops in Sri Lankan town hit by Easter bomb By ASSOCIATED PRESS and REUTERS and CHRIS DYER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 02:41 AEST, 6 May 2019 | UPDATED: 00:42 AEST, 7 May 2019 Two people have been arrested in a Sri Lankan town after Christians attacked...

Sri Lanka opens China-funded railway line

Fisherman beaten to death in Indian jail laid to rest KARACHI: “He is missing both his eyes, his skull is open with the brain gone, his kidneys, too, have been taken out but yes, he is our father. We can still say this much about this shell of a corpse handed over to us,” cried Sakina, the...

India Catholic Cardinal Oswald Gracias ‘failed abuse victims’ Over the past year, the Catholic Church has been reeling under multiple allegations of sexual abuse around the world. But while abuse claims have made headlines in North and South America, Europe and Australia, very little is...

India's vigilante cow protectors are reportedly killing dozens of people Key points: Mob attacks are recent — picked up after the Hindu nationalist party came to power in 2014 The report finds Muslims, lower castes, and indigenous communities are often targeted The lynchings also disrupt...

New Delhi is once again the most polluted city on Earth Temples and buildings shrouded in smog in New Delhi, India, on November 6, 2018. Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via Getty Images New Delhi, India’s sprawling capital region home to 18.9 million people, is once again home to the worst air...

Former Sri Lankan prez Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes new Prime Minister Colombo, Oct 26 (PTI) In a dramatic political development in Sri Lanka, former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa was on Friday sworn in as the new Prime Minister by President Maithripala Sirisena after his party abruptly quit the...

Bangladesh Military Attacks Buddhist Temple

Sri Lanka protests over economy, elections Protesters blocked a main road near the finance and defence ministries, disrupting traffic. Thousands of Sri Lankan opposition demonstrators led by former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa have blocked a main road in Colombo in protest at economic hardship...

Sri Lankan student charged with terror offences in Sydney Star Sri Lankan student Mohamed Kamer Nilan Nizamdeen allegedly planned to attack a hit list of "symbolic" individuals and landmarks across Sydney in an ISIS-inspired lone-wolf terror attack that was foiled on Thursday when a co-worker...