Police use tear-gas to disperse students protesting against SAITM

Anglican church to continue Sunday services

While the Catholic Church has cancelled its Sunday services for a second week following the Easter Sunday bombings, the Anglican Church has decided to continue its Sunday service, under tight security. Last Sunday the Anglican Church conducted services in most churches in Colombo but allowed the parish priest of each church to decide if it was safe to conduct the service or not. While some Anglican churches cancelled the service and gathered at selected homes of parishioners for a private mass

04 May, 2019

NTJ t-shirts, bank slips and other items recovered by troops

Extensive cordon and search operations of the military conducted across the country with assistance of the Police has resulted in the recovery of some National Thowheeth Jama’ath t-shirts, bank slips and other items. The Army media unit said that troops in?Kandy recovered swords, National Thowheeth Jama’ath books and documents, four NTJ banners, seventeen NTJ T-shirts, five NTJ recruiting applications, six fake birth certificates, six fake NICs, eleven fake passports, eleven fake vehicle number

03 May, 2019

More attacks feared in Colombo, threat to bridges

Islamist extremists in Sri Lanka are believed to be planning attacks on bridges in Colombo, authorities said, as they warned several conspirators in the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 257 people still at large, the AFP news agency reported. Police confirmed they had instructed stations around Colombo to deploy additional officers and asked the navy to deploy more vessels on rivers, following leaks of police intelligence reports warning bridges into the capital were at risk of attack. Sri L

03 May, 2019