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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
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Topic: Colombo

6 Indians killed in deadly Sri Lanka blasts

The victims are among the 290 killed in a series of explosions that targeted churches and luxury hotels in Colombo on Easter Sunday.

Death toll in Sri Lanka bomb blasts crosses 200

A curfew has been imposed in Sri Lanka after 8 coordinated bombings targeted church goers & tourists in Colombo, Negombo & Batticaloa, killing more than 160 people.

At least 2 killed in another blast in a Colombo hotel in Sri Lanka

This was the 7th blast after six coordinated explosions rocked churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

At least 138 dead and hundreds injured in Sri Lanka blasts on Easter Sunday

The blasts occurred as the Easter Sunday masses were in progress in Colombo and Negombo.

Neither New Delhi nor Beijing should take Colombo for granted

Sri Lanka is not ready to become another front in an India-China cold war for control of the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka’s speaker warns of bloodshed as political crisis deepens

Sri Lankan parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya fears violence if leadership struggle isn't settled in the legislature.

As Rajapaksa, the man India helped oust in 2015 becomes Sri Lanka PM, New Delhi watches and waits

President Sirisena does his old political enemy Rajapaksa a favour by not letting the ousted PM prove his majority in Parliament.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.