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'Go home Gota' chants reverberate in Sri Lanka as protesters demand president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down
•The mass scale street protests began in Sri Lanka after a gathering opposite Rajapaksa's private home was tear gassed on 31 March when several people were arrested and later granted bail
Jayawardene, Sangakkara among top Sri Lankan cricketers to back anti-government protests
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Sri Lanka faces new COVID-19 challenge as main testing machine breaks down amid surge in cases
•The breakdown of the PCR testing machine at the Base Hospital in Mulleriyawa resulted in backlog of 20,000 PCR tests till Thursday, with a delay of about five days in releasing results
Mahela Jayawardene questions Sri Lanka government's plan to build country's largest cricket stadium
•Former skipper Mahela Jayawardene has questioned the Sri Lanka government's plan to build the country's largest cricket stadium in Homagama, saying even the existing infrastructure is not used enough right now.
Sri Lanka police raids headquarters of hardline Islamist group suspected to be behind church bombings
•Sri Lanka police raided the headquarters of a hardline Islamist group founded by the suspected ringleader behind the Easter suicide bombings of churches and hotels, a Reuters witness said, as Sunday mass was cancelled due to fears of further attacks.
Maithripala Sirisena admits Sri Lanka govt is 'responsible' for Easter Sunday attacks due to lapses in communicating intel inputs
Fp Staff •Sri Lanka president Maithripala Sirisena on Friday appealed to the island nation not to view its minority Muslim community as terrorists in the wake of Easter Sunday attacks that officials say was carried out by a local Muslim extremist group.
Sri Lanka's intel failure result of political rivalry between PM, president; ‘lack of communication’ between leaders aided Easter Sunday blasts
•Government dysfunction and an intelligence failure that preceded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka are traced to simmering divisions between the president and prime minister after a weeks-long political crisis that crippled the country last year.
Sri Lanka blasts: Muslim leaders in key accused Zahran Hashim’s hometown Kattankudy raised alarm ‘years ago’
•Zahran Hashim's sword-wielding zealotry fuelled fears in the sleepy east coast town of Kattankudy long before the cleric became Sri Lanka's most wanted man over the horrific Easter Sunday suicide attacks.
Sri Lanka govt revises toll in Easter Sunday blasts from 359 to 253; says scale of mutilation is grim indicator of explosions' force
•The dramatic revision of the death toll in Sri Lanka's Easter bombings, which has been cut by more than 100, is a grim indicator of the power of the deadly blasts.
Joining foreign 'armed uprising' not against law in Sri Lanka, says PM, claims govt knew about nationals who returned from Syria
•Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the government had known that Sri Lanka nationals who had joined the Islamic State had returned to the country, but they could not be arrested as joining a foreign terrorist organisation is not against the law.