Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on February 23 on a brief bilateral visit, Daily Mirror learns. The visit which has been overdue for some time, will take place under the travel bubble concept introduced to facilitate high profile engagements. The last ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka has for the first time named a military officer to head the country's main intelligence agency, which was blamed for failing to prevent Islamist extremist bombings in April that killed 259 people. The head of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) was replaced by ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's police Tuesday suspended two senior officers for falsely warning of a suicide attack similar to the Easter Sunday bombings that killed at least 258 people in April. Several luxury hotels received a message from police last week cautioning them to step up security. Police ...

COLOMBO - The United Nations has suspended Sri Lankan troops from peacekeeping duties after Colombo ignored repeated warnings and appointed a general accused of war crimes to head its army. The UN and several Western nations expressed concern over the promotion of Maj Gen Shavendra Silva last ...

*COLOMBO: *A general accused of war crimes by the UN was on Monday appointed Sri Lanka army chief by the nation’s president despite international concerns about his human rights record. Major General Shavendra Silva, 55, was elevated to the army’s second-highest position of chief of staff in ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s chief prosecutor ordered the arrest of a top officer at the police watchdog over his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar gun-running racket. Saman Dissanayake, the secretary and third in command of the National Police Commission, was ordered to appear in court ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka´s president has demanded capital punishment for the "terrorists" responsible for the deadly Easter Sunday attacks just days after he blamed international drug dealers for the suicide bombings. President Maithripala Sirisena has been battling his own uneasy coalition ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police arrested their top commander and a former defence chief Tuesday over their alleged failures to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people, spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. He said Inspector-General Pujith Jayasundara and former defence secretary Hemasiri ...

COLOMBO: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled stop at a Catholic church bombed during the Easter suicide attacks ahead of his official welcome to Sri Lanka. Modi’s entourage made a detour to St Anthony’s shrine on their way to President Maithripala ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's president has sacked the national intelligence chief and will not cooperate with a parliamentary investigation into security lapses before the Easter suicide bombings, officials said Saturday. Maithripala Sirisena summoned an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday night to ...