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India watching Lanka’s offer to investors over airport at strategic site

India watching Lanka’s offer to investors over airport at strategic site
india news
Published on May 15, 2026 06:40 am IST

Sri Lanka hands over bodies of 45 Iranian sailors to embassy

Sri Lankan navy personnel evacuating rescued Iranian sailors from the IRIS Dena frigate after a US submarine attack off Sri Lanka's southern coast in Galle. (AFP)
world news
Updated on Mar 13, 2026 02:22 pm IST

Sri Lanka holds delayed local elections in first test for Dissanayake's govt

Over 75,000 candidates are in fray in Sri Lanka local government election
world news
Updated on May 06, 2025 10:06 am IST

Sri Lanka urges India to stop fishermen from trespassing into its waters

Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation Bimal Rathnayaka said the Indian action would be deeply appreciated by the people in northern Sri Lanka as fishing is the only livelihood for them. (File)
india news
Published on Mar 06, 2025 11:23 am IST

Sri Lanka fails to strike deal with sovereign bondholders for USD 12 billion debt restructuring

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us news
Updated on Oct 03, 2025 04:10 pm IST

Why are Sri Lankan fishermen protesting against their Indian counterparts?

Representative Image: A fisherman posts black flag on a boat during a protest demanding for the immediate release of the Rameswaram fishermen who are languishing in Sri Lankan prisons, in Rameswaram.
india news
Updated on Mar 03, 2024 08:07 pm IST

Sri Lankan parliament votes on controversial online safety bill: What is it

Sri Lankan social media activists hold placards with slogans against the proposed Online Safety Bill during a protest near the Parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
world news
Published on Jan 23, 2024 02:47 pm IST

Sri Lanka to unveil new SOP for visits by foreign ships, aircraft

The Indian Naval Ship 'Khanjar', an indigenously built missile corvette of the Khukri-class, mission deployed in South Eastern IOR arrives at Trincomalee to enhance close ties and interoperability between the Indian Navy and Sri Lanka Navy. (ANI)
india news
Updated on Sept 30, 2023 07:23 am IST

Sri Lanka responds to Indian concerns, drafts SOPs for visiting foreign ships

File photo of Yuan Wang 5 Chinese missile tracker off Sri Lanka in 2022. (File)
india news
Published on Sept 28, 2023 07:25 pm IST

Protests in Sri Lankan provinces over anti-terror bill

On April 1, Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told reporters that the new counter-terrorism law will be introduced later this month. (File)
india news
Updated on Apr 25, 2023 02:57 pm IST

Sri Lanka hikes power prices by 66% in a bid to gain IMF support

The IMF agreed to loan Sri Lanka $2.9 billion in September.
world news
Published on Feb 16, 2023 02:11 pm IST

'Lanka’s China ties don’t detract from special relations with India’: GL Peiris

Sri Lankan foreign minister GL Peiris said the financial assistance by India in recent weeks “helped immensely” to tide over a very difficult phase. (Photo courtesy/Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
india news
Updated on Feb 07, 2022 10:44 pm IST

Muthiah Muralidaran biopic: Makers clarify the film doesn’t make any political statement

Vijay Sethupathi as Muthiah Muralidaran in the biopic of former cricketer.
entertainment
Updated on Oct 15, 2020 03:27 pm IST

Sri Lanka abandons project to build a new cricket stadium

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cricket
Updated on May 21, 2020 10:12 pm IST

Sri Lanka drops Tamil national anthem from Independence Day celebrations

For the first time since 2016, there will be no Tamil national anthem at the 72nd Independence Day celebrations in Sri Lanka
world news
Published on Feb 03, 2020 01:32 pm IST

Sri Lanka rebuts Pakistan’s claim on its stand over Kashmir situation

Sri Lankan Speaker Karu Jayasuriya had a meeting with Deputy Chairman of Pakistan’s Senate, Saleem Mandviwalla in Colombo.
india news
Updated on Sept 20, 2019 11:12 pm IST

Sri Lanka ‘reassessing’ Pakistan tour after security threat

Sri Lankan team members celebrate their win over New Zealand.
cricket
Updated on Sept 11, 2019 09:35 pm IST

Faith in the time of terror: Ground report from Sri Lanka

Fathima Joshinka outside the boundary wall of St Sebastian’s church, Negombo, where over 100 people were killed in the Easter bombings on April 21.
world news
Updated on Jun 14, 2019 08:21 pm IST

NIA raids in Tamil Nadu over suspected links with Sri Lanka bombers

In April this year, the NIA had arrested Riyas Aboobacker in connection with the terror module case.
india news
Updated on Jun 12, 2019 10:21 pm IST

Sri Lanka government defies Maithripala Sirisena to resume parliamentary probe into Easter blasts

President Sirisena last week asked the Cabinet to halt the hearings, citing national security concerns.
world news
Published on Jun 11, 2019 07:52 pm IST

India and Japan can provide an alternative to BRI

After having surrendered the control of Hambantota port to a Chinese firm, Sri Lanka became the poster child of all that could wrong with BRI investments
editorials
Published on May 21, 2019 07:38 pm IST

TN Islamic group linked to Lanka Easter blasts decries ‘terrorist’ tag

B Abdul Rehman, vice-president of Tamil Nadu Thowheed Jamaath, says his organisation does not believe in violence.
world news
Updated on May 16, 2019 04:27 pm IST

Sri Lanka orders mosques to clamp down on extremists after Easter bombings

The Sri Lankan government on Friday ordered mosques to clamp down on extremists and to submit copies of sermons in new fallout from the Easter suicide bombings that left 258 dead.
world news
Updated on May 10, 2019 06:33 pm IST

New age terrorists are better educated and far more resourceful

Security personnel inspect the interior of St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, April 22, 2019, a day after the church was hit in series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.
analysis
Updated on May 10, 2019 11:11 am IST

Sena mouthpiece calls for burqa ban

Sri Lanka banned any form of face covering after the coordinated blasts hit three churches and three luxury hotels, killing over 250 people and injuring more than 500 others.
india news
Updated on May 02, 2019 01:07 am IST

Shiv Sena demands ban on burqa in public places, cites Sri Lanka

The Shiv Sena on Wednesday called for a ban on the use of the burqa as it threw its weight behind a similar plan being mulled by the Sri Lankan government in the wake of the Easter terror strikes which claimed over 250 lives.
india news
Updated on May 01, 2019 12:52 pm IST

One Indian among 13 foreigners arrested without valid visa in Sri Lanka

One Indian among 13 foreigners arrested without valid visa in Sri Lanka
world news
Published on Apr 29, 2019 02:03 pm IST

‘Avoid non-essential travel to Sri Lanka’: India issues advisory to citizens

Sri Lankan Naval soldiers stand guard as authorities started clearing the debris from inside of the damaged St. Anthony's Church after it was targeted in a series of Islamic State-claimed suicide bombings that killed hundreds of people during Easter Sunday.
india news
Updated on May 06, 2020 04:40 pm IST

‘We are very, very sorry’: Sri Lanka government apologises for failure to act on intel input

The Sri Lankan government has apologised for its failure to act despite receiving advance intelligence inputs about the possibility of terror attacks .
world news
Updated on Apr 23, 2019 04:02 pm IST

Sri Lanka never expected bombings of such magnitude: Defence Secretary

The Sri Lankan government never expected the Easter Sunday bombings of such magnitude, Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando said
world news
Published on Apr 23, 2019 12:43 pm IST
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