Why did Libya's dictatorial leader Muammar Gaddafi call President Mahinda Rajapaksa last week? No one is willing to talk about it. A Presidential aide said it was a chat between two leaders.
The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday argued that there was a need to extend Emergency laws in Sri Lanka as the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were trying to remerge after training in camps in Tamil Nadu. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
A day after India denied that Tamil separatists were being trained in Tamil Nadu, the main Sri Lankan opposition party, the United National Party (UNP), called for the resignation of Prime Minister DM Jayaratne for making the statement in Parliament about the camps.
One pilot was killed after two Sri Lankan fighter aircraft collided midair on Tuesday on while rehearsing for a fly past to be held during the 60th anniversary of the Sri Lankan air force (SLAF) on Wednesday.
The 136 Indian fishermen arrested and remanded earlier this week for straying into Sri Lankan waters were released by a Jaffna court on Friday.
Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The mother of slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader V Prabhakaran passed away on Sunday in a hospital, a media report said. She was 81.
Slain Tamil Tiger leader V Prabhakaran’s mother passed away in a government hospital in Jaffna on Sunday. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
About 2400 fishermen, who put out to sea from here in 600 mechanised boats, were allegedly stopped in mid-sea off this coastal town by the Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday morning and asked to return.
A Tamil Nadu MP and his two associates were deported from Colombo international airport early Tuesday after they attempted to enter Sri Lanka to attend slain Tiger chief V Prabhakaran’s mother’s funeral in Jaffna.
Sri Lanka has sought India’s help in evacuating some of 1200 of its citizens staying across Libya currently facing a wave of violent pro-democracy protests.
Amnesty International (AI), a global human rights watchdog, has urged the United Nations (UN) to investigate new reports of human rights abuses including abductions and killings in northern Sri Lanka.
The arrested Indian fishermen could be released soon, a Lankan diplomat said today even as a Jaffna court remanded the additional 24 Indian fishermen to judicial custody till March 1.
Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
For long-reigning opposition chief Ranil Wickremesinghe, the inaugural session of last week’s Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference was the perfect platform for airing a critique of the government without taking names. S Patranobis reports.
At least 112 Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by the Sri Lankan police after they strayed into Lankan waters on Tuesday evening.
Around 100 Indian fishermen who have been detained by Sri Lankan police are likely to be granted bail today.