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Sri Lankan Ex-President To Pay 100 Million Rupees To Easter Attack Victims
Sri Lanka's former president Maithripala Sirisena was on Thursday ordered by the country's top courtto pay SLRs 100 million as compensation to victims of the 2019 Easter attack for his negligence in preventing the attack.
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Two Indians Get Life Terms For Selling Drugs In Sri Lanka
Two Indian men have been sentenced to life terms in Sri Lanka for selling illegal drugs, the country's police said on Wednesday.
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Easter Sunday Attack Suspects Should Be Hanged: Sri Lanka President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has demanded death sentence to all the suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks, amid his differences with the governing coalition over reintroduction of capital punishment after four decades.
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Panel Probing Easter Attacks Submits Final Report To Sri Lanka President
A three-member committee appointed to probe the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians, submitted its final report to President Maithripala Sirisena today.
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In Sri Lanka, PM Modi Makes Unscheduled Visit To Church Hit By Easter Bombing
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Sri Lanka this morning, made an unscheduled visit to a Catholic church that was bombed during the Easter suicide attacks in April.
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PM Modi First Foreign Leader To Visit Sri Lanka After Easter Bombings
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will briefly visit Sri Lanka on Sunday during which he will hold discussions with President Maithripala Sirisena, according to the president's office in Colombo.
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Didn't Get Report On Terrorists Travelling to India: Sri Lanka President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today said he has not received any report that the suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday terror attacks had travelled to India.
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PM Holds Bilateral Talks With BIMSTEC Leaders, Focuses On Boosting Ties
PM Narendra Modi today held separate meetings with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, exploring ways to further strengthen bilateral ties.
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BIMSTEC Leaders Arrive In Delhi For Narendra Modi's Swearing-In
Leaders from Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, or BIMSTEC, nations, including Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering arrived in New Delhi today to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony.
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ISIS Chose Sri Lanka As Target To Tell The World That It Exists: President Sirisena
The ISIS terror group chose Sri Lanka to stage a massive attack on Easter Sunday to tell the world that they exist, President Maithripala Sirisena said today, amid reports that the plot was hatched in war-torn Syria way back in 2017.
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"No Face Veils In Public": Sri Lanka Announces Ban After Easter Bombings
President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.
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Sri Lanka Opposition Attacks PM Wickremesinghe Over New Constitution
Sri Lanka's Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday slammed the efforts being made to formulate a new Constitution, saying Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe''s government does not have political moral to introduce it and should therefore hold fresh polls.
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Court Dismisses Plea To Check Maithripala Sirisena's Mental Health
A top Sri Lankan court today dismissed a petition seeking mental health assessment of President Maithripala Sirisena for his sacking of Ranil Wickremesinghe as PM, a controversial decision which plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis
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Sri Lankan Parliament To Convene Today After Sacked PMs Reinstatement
Sri Lanka's Parliament is set to convene on Tuesday for the first time after the reinstatement of Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister that ended the 51-day political standoff in the country, but he and President Maithripala Sirisena are yet to agree on Cabinet positions.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa Resigns As Sri Lanka PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe To Return
Ending the power tussle in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was appointed as prime minister by President Maithripala Sirisena in a controversial move, resigned today and Ranil Wickremesinghe is likely to take oath as the island nation's prime minister tomorrow.
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Sri Lankan Ex-President To Pay 100 Million Rupees To Easter Attack Victims
Sri Lanka's former president Maithripala Sirisena was on Thursday ordered by the country's top courtto pay SLRs 100 million as compensation to victims of the 2019 Easter attack for his negligence in preventing the attack.
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Two Indians Get Life Terms For Selling Drugs In Sri Lanka
Two Indian men have been sentenced to life terms in Sri Lanka for selling illegal drugs, the country's police said on Wednesday.
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Easter Sunday Attack Suspects Should Be Hanged: Sri Lanka President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has demanded death sentence to all the suspects arrested in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks, amid his differences with the governing coalition over reintroduction of capital punishment after four decades.
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Panel Probing Easter Attacks Submits Final Report To Sri Lanka President
A three-member committee appointed to probe the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that killed 258 people, including 11 Indians, submitted its final report to President Maithripala Sirisena today.
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In Sri Lanka, PM Modi Makes Unscheduled Visit To Church Hit By Easter Bombing
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Sri Lanka this morning, made an unscheduled visit to a Catholic church that was bombed during the Easter suicide attacks in April.
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PM Modi First Foreign Leader To Visit Sri Lanka After Easter Bombings
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will briefly visit Sri Lanka on Sunday during which he will hold discussions with President Maithripala Sirisena, according to the president's office in Colombo.
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Didn't Get Report On Terrorists Travelling to India: Sri Lanka President
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena today said he has not received any report that the suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday terror attacks had travelled to India.
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PM Holds Bilateral Talks With BIMSTEC Leaders, Focuses On Boosting Ties
PM Narendra Modi today held separate meetings with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering, exploring ways to further strengthen bilateral ties.
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BIMSTEC Leaders Arrive In Delhi For Narendra Modi's Swearing-In
Leaders from Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation, or BIMSTEC, nations, including Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering arrived in New Delhi today to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swearing-in ceremony.
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ISIS Chose Sri Lanka As Target To Tell The World That It Exists: President Sirisena
The ISIS terror group chose Sri Lanka to stage a massive attack on Easter Sunday to tell the world that they exist, President Maithripala Sirisena said today, amid reports that the plot was hatched in war-torn Syria way back in 2017.
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"No Face Veils In Public": Sri Lanka Announces Ban After Easter Bombings
President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.
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Sri Lanka Opposition Attacks PM Wickremesinghe Over New Constitution
Sri Lanka's Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday slammed the efforts being made to formulate a new Constitution, saying Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe''s government does not have political moral to introduce it and should therefore hold fresh polls.
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Court Dismisses Plea To Check Maithripala Sirisena's Mental Health
A top Sri Lankan court today dismissed a petition seeking mental health assessment of President Maithripala Sirisena for his sacking of Ranil Wickremesinghe as PM, a controversial decision which plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis
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Sri Lankan Parliament To Convene Today After Sacked PMs Reinstatement
Sri Lanka's Parliament is set to convene on Tuesday for the first time after the reinstatement of Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister that ended the 51-day political standoff in the country, but he and President Maithripala Sirisena are yet to agree on Cabinet positions.
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Mahinda Rajapaksa Resigns As Sri Lanka PM, Ranil Wickremesinghe To Return
Ending the power tussle in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was appointed as prime minister by President Maithripala Sirisena in a controversial move, resigned today and Ranil Wickremesinghe is likely to take oath as the island nation's prime minister tomorrow.
