The anti-Muslim violence that followed three weeks after the Easter Sunday blasts was a dangerous reminder of the 1983 riots against the Tamil community, where mobs made up of members of the majority ethnic group Sinhalese burned Tamil homes and businesses to the ground.
Both countries vowed to ensure a rules-based order in the Indian Ocean.
A Muslim leader said that admonishing a whole community of two million for what the terrorists did was unjustifiable.
Islamic State terrorist organisation had claimed the responsibility of the attack.
There has been a spate of violent incidents against Muslim minority in Sri Lanka after the recent terror attack.
According to the Gazette the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), the Jamaathe Millaathe Ibrahim (JMI), and the Willayath As Seylani (WAS) organisations have been banned.
The blockade comes a day after Sri Lankan police imposed curfew in the country's western coastal town of Chilaw where a mob attacked a mosque and some shops owned by Muslims in a dispute that started on a Facebook post by a Muslim shop owner.
Jayasundara, a performance analyst at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has been provisionally suspended with immediate effect.
Cricket Australia has announced the schedule for the 2019/20 season and It will be the first time since January 1994 that no international game will be played on Australia Day.
Nine suicide bombers, including a woman, carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and three luxury hotels on April 21, killing 253 people and injuring over 500 others.
There is no record to suggest that any of the suicide bombers who carried out the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka had visited Kashmir as claimed by the Army chief of the island nation, officials of central security agencies said here on Saturday.
It is the first time that a top Sri Lankan security official has confirmed the militants' visit to India which had shared intelligence inputs with Colombo ahead of the attack.
Siddiqui Ahamad Danish, who works for Reuters news agency and is based in New Delhi, was arrested when he allegedly attempted to forcibly enter a school in Negombo city to speak to its authorities.
Jacqueline Fernandez urges people to unite for Sri Lanka for the sake of humanity, says, "Let's put aside nationality, caste, ethnicity, and religion and come together as one."
According to the Sri Lankan Information Department, President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to lift the ban on Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and other popular platforms from April 30.
Hours after Abu Bakr al Baghdadi released a video promising revenge, Rural Catholic church defied Sri Lanka threats and held a Mass.
During interrogation, Riyas disclosed that he has been following speeches/videos of the Sri Lanka attack mastermind for more than a year and has also followed the speeches of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik.
The man said to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the video also claimed the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka which killed over 250 people were "part of the revenge" that awaits the West.
Muslim women in Sri Lanka will not be allowed to wear any form of face veils in public from Monday under new regulations announced by President Maithripala Sirisena who used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings.
On March 29, Muslim women had spent 29,000 Sri Lankan rupees (USD 166) to purchase nine sets of such clothes from a textile shop in Giriulla.
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