Colombo, March 22 The Sri Lankan government on Sunday urged the public to use fuel and electricity sparingly in the face of potential shortages, amid volatile global oil markets.This came as the island nation raised fuel retail prices at midnight, the second such increase in a week.As a...
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Colombo, February 26 The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka welcomed the arrest of former head of the State Intelligence Service, Suresh Sallay, in connection with the 2019 Easter terror attacks, saying the move reflected systematic investigations by the current government.Sallay was arrested on...
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Colombo, February 11 A court in western Sri Lanka on Wednesday found 16 of the 41 suspects guilty in the murder of a ruling party parliamentarian and his security officer in 2022.Of these, 12 were given death sentences by a three-judge bench of the high court in the western town of Gampaha in...