KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka — To enter this seaside town, visitors pass through a soaring arched gateway bearing messages of welcome and verses in Arabic calligraphy. Beyond it is a city of narrow ...

After any terrorist outrage, the first question that is always asked is, could the carnage have been prevented? In Sri Lanka, still reeling from a devastating series of bombings on Easter Sunday ...

Three people, including a three-year-old child, have died in separate road accidents reported across various parts of the country, police stated ...

KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka — When the Wahhabis came, with their austere ideology and abundant coffers, the town of Kattankudy yielded fertile ground. In this part of Sri Lanka, faith was often the ...

A bus met with an accident leaving the driver, two assistants injured yesterday morning (30). The accident occurred in the ...

In his paper entitled, Kattankudy in Eastern Sri Lanka: A Mullah-Merchant Urban Complex Caught between Islamist Factionalism and Ethno-Nationalisms. Dr. Ameer Ali traced the history of the town ...

Kattankudy, home to about 50,000, is a place where Muslims - a religious minority that has faced violence in Sri Lanka - feel secure and at ease. It is also a place where, ...

Kattankudy was affected badly by the 2004 tsunami too . In the clash that ensued several persons on both sides were injured. Three sustained serious injuries and were hospitalised.

KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka — Zaharan Hashim, a radical Muslim preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, never hid his hatred. He railed against ...

KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka (REUTERS) - Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the Jamiathul Falah Arabic College. He was a nobody, with no claim to scholarship ...

Isolation of several Grama Niladhari (GN) divisions in Kattankudy, Bandaragama and Monaragala will be lifted at 6.00 pm today (21), the National Operations Centre for the Prevention of the Spread of ...

After any terrorist outrage, the first question that is always asked is, could the carnage have been prevented? In Sri Lanka, still reeling from a devastating series of bombings on Easter Sunday ...