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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Growing divide within government and history of Emergency paint grim picture ahead

The announcement of State of Emergency in Sri Lanka comes against a backdrop where activists have been campaigning for the removal or improvement of counter-terror legislation in the country

Sri Lanka blasts Updates: UK’s royal family, South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa condemn attacks, hail medical, emergency services

Sri Lanka blasts Updates: The Indian High Commission in Colombo confirmed the death of one more Indian, named H Shivakumar

Day after Easter blasts, challenge for Sri Lanka is to prevent existing fissures from destabilising country

Those behind the Sri Lanka blasts, whether part of an Islamic State module or any other module, whether from inside or out, will only feed on existing fissures, the best counter terrorism model is to simply refuse to follow that path

Sri Lanka government declares State of Emergency from midnight on Monday in wake of serial blasts that killed 290 people

The Sri Lanka government has declared Tuesday as a national day of mourning. It also believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the suicide bomb attacks.

Sri Lanka blasts: Four JDS workers touring Colombo killed, confirms HD Kumaraswamy; three others missing

At least 290 people, including three Danes, a Japanese citizen, two Chinese nationals, and the five Indians were killed in the Sri Lanka blasts in the worst violence to hit the island nation since the civil war that ended a decade ago.

MEA confirms six Indians dead in Sri Lanka blasts; Sushma Swaraj identifies two more bodies after Easter Sunday attacks

Six Indians were killed in a string of eight powerful blasts in Sri Lanka, which struck three churches and luxury hotels frequented by foreigners, on Easter Sunday.

Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 290; authorities lift curfew despite fear of renewed communal violence

Authorities lifted a curfew in the Sri Lanka on Monday, a day after 290 people were killed and about 500 wounded by a string of bomb blasts that tore through churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka: Authorities ignored intelligence memo that warned of attacks; alert was circulated day before explosions

A memo that warned of a potential attack was circulated a day before the deadly blasts in Sri Lanka. The memo dated 11 April was signed by Sri Lanka's deputy inspector general of police.

Sri Lanka blasts: Timing of 'barbaric' explosions indicate coordinated attack; president, PM urge public to not believe 'false news'

On Sunday, eight blasts in Sri Lanka, including at three hotels in Colombo and three packed Catholic churches, killed 215 people and injured scores more.

World leaders react to Sri Lanka blasts: Narendra Modi calls attacks 'cold-blooded', Donald Trump agrees to help

Religious and world leaders have condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 200 people on Sunday, including dozens of foreigners with British, Dutch and American citizens believed to be among them. Here is a summary of the reactions.