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PTI | Colombo | Updated: 14-04-2021 12:58 IST | Created: 14-04-2021 12:58 IST Sri Lanka has banned 11 hardline Islamist organisations, including the Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Qaeda, for their links to extremist activities in the country and warned that any person who conspires with them would be sentenced to prison terms between 20 and 10 years, according to an official announcement. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a special gazette notification issued on Tuesday proscribed the radical groups under the Prevention of Terrorism (temporary) Provisions Act. The notification specifies that any...

Rajapaksas Regime Under Multiple Pressures Many issues crying for attention COLOMBO: The regime of the Rajapaksas, established in November 2019 and consolidated in August 2020, is facing multiple problems, both domestic and external, economic as well as political. Divisions have arisen in the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and also with alliance partners. There is difficulty in kick-starting the economy derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, mainly due to flaws in the decision making and implementing apparatuses. The external debt repayment issue is looming in the horizon. And last, b...

Mastermind Of 2019 Easter Terror Attacks Identified: Sri Lankan Minister Mastermind Of 2019 Easter Terror Attacks Identified: Sri Lankan Minister Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out coordinated blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on the Easter Sunday in 2019. The Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 in Sri Lanka killed 270 people, including 11 Indians. (File) Colombo: A top Sri Lankan minister said on Tuesday that a radical cleric, who is now under detention, has b...

Send A top Sri Lankan minister said on Tuesday that a radical cleric, who is now under detention, has been identified as the mastermind of the deadly Easter Sunday attacks in 2019 that killed 270 people, including 11 Indians. File Photo Colombo: Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linked to ISIS, carried out coordinated blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on the Easter Sunday in 2019. "Naufer Moulavi was the mastermind (of the Easter bombings)," Minister of ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Christians on Sunday honored the 279 people killed in the 2019 Easter bombings as the island’s top Catholic leader warned of street protests unless those responsible were prosecuted. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith lit candles at the St. Anthony’s Church where 56 people perished when local extremists carried out coordinated suicide attacks against three hotels and three churches. The Christian minority across the country attended Easter Sunday masses under armed police and tight military security amid fears of fresh attacks, officials said. Ranjith renewed his call for sw...