The Church had planned to resume Sunday public services for the first time since the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 257 people

All public services by Sri Lanka’s Christian minority were cancelled after the April 21 suicide attacks

In the aftermath of Sunday’s deadly attacks, Sri Lankans are trying to understand what has happened

The attacks were the worst act of violence to hit the country in the decade since the end of a bloody civil war that killed up to 100 000 people

47 male applicants would be interviewed on Wednesday and Thursday, after the government advertised the vacancies in February

Sri Lankan troops have found 11 bodies of convicts raising the death toll in an overnight prison riot in the capital to 27, prisons minister said.

Flooding in Sri Lanka has forced more than a million people out of their homes, the government said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka’s recovery from a decades-long civil war has been marred by graft, violence and a culture of lawlessness, a corruption watchdog said.

Sri Lanka said on Saturday it had smashed the Tamil Tigers’ maritime capability as Colombo pressed on with an offensive to crush the rebels.

Sri Lanka told Britain and France that it would keep up its military offensive until the leaders of the rebel Tamil Tigers have been captured.

Sri Lanka’s military readied on Monday for a final assault on Tamil Tigers boxed into a strip of jungle with thousands of trapped civilians.

A Sri Lankan newspaper editor has been detained over alleged links to a Tamil Tiger air attack in the capital, a family member said on Thursday.

Charges by the UN that 2 800 civilians had been killed in Sri Lanka in recent weeks were ”unsubstantiated”, it was reported on Saturday.

At least 32 Tamil Tiger rebels have died in the latest push by Sri Lankan government troops into the rebels’ fiefdom, it was reported on Friday.

Human Rights Watch called on Thursday on the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigerss to allow civilians trapped in the war zone to flee to safety.

A female Tamil Tiger suicide bomber hiding among a group of civilians fleeing Sri Lanka’s war zone blew herself up on Monday, killing at least 28.

Sri Lanka’s top defence official on Saturday accused rebels of infiltrating international organisations in a bid to force a ceasefire.

Patients who could walk fled one of the last functioning hospitals in Sri Lanka’s northern war zone on Tuesday after it was hit by artillery shells.

A Sri Lankan health official says recent heavy fighting in the north has killed more than 300 civilians and wounded at least 1 000 others.

Assailants beat a Sri Lanka newspaper editor and smashed his car as he drove to work on Friday, colleagues said.