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COLOMBO – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has sent a message to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, condemning the terrorist attack targeting civilians at a railway station in Urumqi, capital of China’s northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region last Wednesday, the Sri Lankan External Affairs Ministry said on Saturday. […]

Sri Lankan terrorism expert, Dr Rohan Gunaratna, considers the arrest of suspected Lankan Muslim terrorist Zakir Hussain in Chennai on Tuesday, and the busting of his outfit in Tamil Nadu as being “very significant” for the entire South Asian region. […]

Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Galagodaatte GnanasaraThera today claimed they had done nothing to destroy religious harmony and whatever they did was in the open and exposed to the media. […]

Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co Ltd said on Friday it had won a 350.6 billion Korean won ($339.30 million) order to build an integrated resort in Sri Lanka for privately owned Waterfront Properties Ltd. […]

While expressing concern over the Sri Lankan government decision to list 16 entities and 424 individuals for purported links to terrorist activities, the Canadian government said that it ‘could further hinder progress on reconciliation.’ […]

Five including the train engine driver, assistant, guard, signal controller and the Potuhera station master have been interdicted until the crash probe ends, Sri Lanka Railways said today. […]

Sri Lanka’s main political parties and affiliated trade unions will hold rallies today to mark the 125th International Workers’ Day (May Day). A majority of political parties will hold their rallies in Colombo. […]

At least 70 passengers were injured in the train accident at Pothuhera, Kurunegala this morning, the Police said. Four of the injured were in serious condition, hospital sources said. […]

Gold weighing 33.453 kg and worth Indian Rs. 10 million seized by officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in a raid on an apartment at Triplicane, India. Two youths were arrested. The gold was smuggled from Sri Lanka. […]

At least 20 passengers were injured when Vavuniya bound inter-city train collided with Matara bound train at Pothuhera, Kurunegala, this morning, police said. […]

The reduced fares on buses plying along the Southern Expressway will not be changed, Chairman of the Expressway Transport Services Company, L.A. Wimalaratne said. […]

Bahrain’s Prime Minister His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa hosted a luncheon in honor of President Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon at the Ritz-Carlton. […]

US State Department’s Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Biswal, is scheduled to meet Tamil Diaspora groups on Tuesday (April 29). […]

A team of the Andhra Pradesh police is expected to arrive in Sri Lanka shortly, to probe a multi-million rupee kidney racket involving some residents of Andhra Pradesh and also Sri Lankans, including leading Lankan nephrologists. […]