A meeting between a delegation of Tamil Nadu fishermen and their counterparts from Sri Lanka on Tuesday ended here without making headway into resolving the festering issue of poaching in international waters. HT reports.
A new bunch of Wikileaks cables have firmly put in place pieces of recent Indo-Lanka diplomatic jigsaw puzzles. But many commentators and analysts already knew what the cables seem to confirm. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The unresolved fishermen issue and other diplomatic concerns might be plaguing the two countries but India and Sri Lanka attempted to strengthen their religious and cultural ties this week. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) expectedly swept the local government election held across Sri Lanka on Thursday. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) swept the local government elections held across Sri Lanka on Thursday. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
Recent skirmishes between Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen could escalate into a bigger showdown on the high seas if the issue of trespassing was not resolved, minister for traditional industries and small enterprise development said on Wednesday.
Sri Lankans planning to visit India will be able to apply for their visas online from March 25, the High Commission of India in Colombo said today.
The soft spoken and largely ceremonial Prime Minister DM Jayaratne was quick to retract the statement but not before it left a trail of questions and denials. Last week, he confidently read out from "intelligence reports" in Parliament that new Tamil Tiger recruits were being trained in three Tamil Nadu camps. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
India began sending relief supply to Japan on Sunday. Punjab and Haryana state governments did help in the special procurement for the Ministry of External Affair's initial aid plan to send blankets to the victims in Japan.
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.
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.
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 diplomatic community in Colombo is abuzz with speculation about the telephone call that beleaguered Libyan leader and Lanka’s ally Muammar Gaddafi made to President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The US government has passed a resolution calling upon Colombo, the international community and the UN set up an international mechanism to look into war crimes allegations. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.
The United States' remarks over Sri Lanka's culpability in the killings of civilians during the final stages of the civil war might have come late but it's by far the strongest since the conflict ended in May, 2009. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.