Friday, 21st November 2014 This may be a good moment for India and Sri Lanka to clinch negotiations on the question of fishing rights for Indian fishermen from Tamil Nadu in the Palk Straits Sri Lanka President Mahinda ...
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Colombo reaches out
Friday, 21st November 2014 President Rajapaksa’s grand goodwill gesture Securing the release of the five Indian fishermen, who were sentenced by a Sri Lankan court to death on charges of drug-smuggling, marks a huge dip ...
Diplomacy wins the day
Friday, 21st November 2014 The telephone conversation between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Mahinda Rajapaksa capped days of back channel persuasion by a number of emissaries. The unconditional release by S ...
Pope’s Visit Will Go Ahead
Sunday 23rd November 2014 By Easwaran Rutnam The Catholic Church of Sri Lanka says the visit of Pope Francis to Sri Lanka will go ahead as scheduled despite the Presidential elections taking place less than a week bef ...
China/Sri Lanka join hands for peaceful Maritime Silk Road Cooperation
Sunday 23rd November 2014 Participants at Friday’s high level seminar jointly organized by the Pathfinder Foundation (PF) an the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) recognized that the Maritime Silk Route can strengthen the cond ...
Swamy wants Prabhakaran’s birth anniversary celebrations banned
Sunday 23rd November 2014 BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Friday urged Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh to issue a directive to the Tamil Nadu government to ban the move to celebrate birth anniversary of slain LTTE c ...
15m registered voters for polls
Sunday 23rd November 2014 More than 15 million voters will be eligible to vote at the Presidential election on January 8, a senior official of the Elections Department said yesterday. According to the latest fig ...