Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has ordered former president Sirisena to pay $273,300 from his personal funds to family members of 2019 Easter bombing victims. Watch to know more.

Sri Lanka's top court orders former president to compensate 2019 Easter bombing victims

For many in Colombo, the Easter festivities were marked with grief. It's been 2 years since the Easter Bombings but there have been zero prosecutions. Why?

Gravitas: 2 years of Lanka Easter Bombings

On Sunday (April 5), the world celebrated Easter, a festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But for many in Colombo, the festivities were marked with grief.

In Sri Lanka, Easter invokes memories of horrific bombings two years ago

Sri Lanka's central bank Thursday announced a 50 basis point cut in its benchmark interest rates, the third reduction since the Easter bombings that killed at least 269 people.

Sri Lanka announces third rate cut since Easter bombings to boost economy

As Sri Lanka recovers from the deadly Easter Sunday attacks that took place in April this year, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Austin Fernando on Friday stressed that the government has taken steps to boost the tourism sector such as giving concessions on air tickets and hotel rates.

Post-Easter Sunday attacks, Sri Lanka giving concessions on air tickets, hotel rates to boost tourism: Envoy

Sri Lanka's tourism industry, badly hurt by Easter day bombings, is showing signs of gradual recovery, industry executives say, although a national election later this year is likely to weigh on holiday season arrivals.

Sri Lanka tourism industry begins to recover after attacks

Sri Lanka on Monday extended a law granting security forces emergency powers for a fourth month following the Easter Day bomb attacks on hotels and churches that killed more than 250 people.

Sri Lanka extends emergency for fourth month after Easter bombings

The Sri Lankan government on Thursday defeated a no-confidence motion brought by an opposition party over what it called "criminal negligence" in failing to prevent Easter Day bomb attacks on hotels and churches that killed more than 250 people.

Sri Lankan government defeats no-confidence motion brought over Easter bombings

PM Narendra Modi leaves for Sri Lanka from Maldives. Watch full video to know more.

PM Modi leaves for Sri Lanka from Maldives

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Sri Lanka on his way back to India from Maldives. PM Modi is the first world leader to visit the island nation after the serial bombings on Easter left more than 250 dead. Watch full video to know more.

How is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit perceived in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's suspended police chief has petitioned the Supreme Court, accusing President Maithripala Sirisena of failing to prevent the Easter bombings that killed 258 people.

Police chief blames president for failing to prevent Sri Lanka attacks

A two-member team of India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) is in Sri Lanka to hold discussions with authorities about a probe in the Easter Sunday bombings over claims that some terrorists, owning allegiance to ISIS, had travelled to India, including Kashmir, officials said Wednesday.

NIA team in Sri Lanka to help in Easter bombings case; will seek more details of probe

Sri Lanka is unlikely to hit its full-year economic growth target of 3-4% following the Easter Sunday bombings, junior finance minister Eran Wickremeratne told Reuters on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka likely to miss full-year growth target after Easter bombings: Junior minister

Sri Lanka has tightened security ahead of the reopening Tuesday of some Catholic schools for the first time since the Easter bombings that killed 258 people, the army chief said.

Safe for Catholic schools to reopen: Sri Lanka army

The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was holding its forecast for Sri Lanka's 2019 economic growth at 3.5% in spite of devastating Easter bombings, saying it was too early to assess financial damage.

Too early to assess Sri Lanka economic damage from Easter bombings: IMF

Sri Lanka's army on Thursday denied allegations that its troops colluded with anti-Muslim mobs and failed to contain widespread riots that killed one man in a backlash against the Easter terror attacks.

Troops did not connive with rioters: Sri Lanka Army chief Mahesh Senanayake

Sri Lankan government has banned three Islamist extremist groups, including the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) that carried out the country's worth terror attack on Easter Sunday in which over 250 people were killed.

Sri Lanka President Sirisena bans National Thowheeth Jama'ath, two other Islamist extremist organisations

The International Monetary Fund Tuesday released a long-delayed loan instalment to Sri Lanka, providing financial relief to a government still reeling from the Easter Sunday bombings that claimed 258 lives.

IMF provides financial relief to Sri Lanka, releases long-delayed cash

Sri Lankan soldiers in armoured vehicles on Tuesday patrolled towns hit by sectarian violence this week as residents recalled how Muslims had hid in paddy fields to escape mobs attacking their homes and shops.

Sri Lanka soldiers patrol areas hit by violence

On May 19, 2009, then president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, clad in his traditional white sarong and shirt, solemnly averred before the Parliament: “The writ of the state now runs across every inch of our territory … we have completely defeated terrorism.

Islam has become the handmaiden of jihadist-Salafism

How did a small, fringe Wahhabi splinter group, led by a fiery speaker with a sixth-grade education, known mainly for defacing Buddhist symbols, carry out a coordinated and sophisticated terrorist attack on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka?

The next Islamic State battlefield will be in South Asia

After The Release Of A Video Of ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi, Questions Over The Authenticity Of The Video Remain..

WION Gravitas: Experts question the authenticity of the baghdadi video

In the 18-minute video from the Al Furqan network, a bearded man with Baghdadi's appearance says the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka were IS's response to losses in its last territorial stronghold of Baghouz in Syria.

WION Gravitas: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi alive, absconding

IS, the brand of terror is rising since 2014 and now it has started using internet to spread it's hateful ideologies through social media. Watch this video to know more.

WION Gravitas: IS using social media to spread it's hateful ideologies

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