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Despite end of 26-year war, Sri Lanka still allocates higher budget for defence
Sri Lanka will provide early retirement to a 34,000 strong civil defence force that protected villages during civil war
Sri Lanka among 10 countries with highest ratio of soldiers to civilians, opposition MP says.
Police presence was seen around Sri Lanka's parliament as President began presenting 2024 Budget
The drone was found floating 36 kilometres off Trincomalee in the island's Eastern waters
Indian Rs300mn grant to provide cabs for the duty needs of police stations in the Northern Province
A driver of a vehicle had died after being shot at a Sri Lanka Navy checkpoint set up in the Wattala area to search for ...
ECONOMYNEXT - Daily life in Sri Lanka is returning to normal amid tighter security, after the Easter Sunday bombings, Pr...
Sri Lanka will allow duty free import of security scanners and metal detectors to be used at hotels, schools or other co...
Sri Lankan security authorities have either killed or arrested all the jihadists responsible for the Easter suicide bomb...
Sri Lanka's Negombo town is calm following overnight unrest and a dusk-to-dawn curfew has ended at 7.00 am, police said,...
Police curfew has been imposed in Negombo, Sri Lanka to maintain public order, police said.
The nauseating smell of death that infested the streets around Colombo's morgue after Sri Lanka's devastating Easter att...
Authorities will search schools and their environs in Colombo Sunday ahead of re-opening the next day, police said.
Sri Lanka bolstered security Friday with fears of attacks against bridges in the capital as the prime minister vowed to ...
ECONOMYNEXT – The United Kingdom’s Minister for Security and Economic Crime, Ben Wallace pledged support t...
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Sri Lanka's horrific Easter attacks that killed 253 people were orchestrated by a firebrand cleric who sought out young ...
Sri Lanka has uncovered evidence showing that two policemen killed in November 2018 and other crimes, following the arre...
Two injured persons extracted from a house in Eastern Sri Lanka where 15 people died were the wife and child of suicide ...
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for three men who blew themselves up in clashes with Sri Lankan polic...
Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena had decided to ban two Muslim organizations linked to Easter Sunday bombings ...
Fifteen people including six children had died in a shootout and explosions during an overnight raid on a suspected hide...
At least 15 people had been killed in a shootout in Sri Lanka's east while security forces were raiding a suspected safe...
Sri Lanka security forces who were hunting Islamist suicide bombers in Eastern Sri Lanka were shot at by an unidentified...
Sri Lanka's police say they have raided a hideout in Eastern Sri Lanka which could be where suicide bombers were shown m...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s state information office said the government has re-imposed a curfew from 10.00 ...
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