Indian Navy teams deployed to assist Sri Lanka Navy operations
Indian Navy diving and medical teams have been deployed to assist Sri Lanka Navy operations in the flood-hit southwestern region, as the death toll from...
India re-affirms position as the most relevant neighbour
India’s swift delivery of relief supplies and personnel to flood and landslide-hit Sri Lanka has re-affirmed its position as Sri Lanka’s most relevant neighbour, and...
Disaster Minister boasts of action plan in Mexico
Sri Lanka's disaster management minister, who has been accused of incompetence during previous disasters, was lecturing on non-existing plans at a conference in Mexico, while...
Why neighbours dislike India
A little under 30 years ago, after Vishwanath Pratap Singh became prime minister, he met with Sri Lanka’s president Ranasinghe Premadasa. Singh, a polite man,...
Delhi pushes Indian Ocean ‘neighbourhood first’ policy
Reinforcing the 'neighbourhood first' policy and boosting New Delhi's role as the provider of security net in the Indian Ocean Region, the Modi government in...
The seasonal climate of Sri Lanka
As Indian medical and emergency teams arrive in Sri Lanka to aid rescue and recovery efforts after devastating floods and landslides, the torrential rains of...
Prosecute not promote
President Maithripala Sirisena should start prosecuting alleged war criminals not promoting them, said the International Truth and Justice Project on the release of the first of its...
Anti-Muslim tension
A manhunt is on in Sri Lanka for a hard-line Buddhist leader after a series of attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses that authorities accuse...
Sex ring in Haiti reveals cracks in UN system
The general sat on a plastic lawn chair in the garden of his mother's home, the scent of tropical blooms filling the air as he...
A country trapped in debt
Normally the roads leading to Asian ports are bustling. Trucks loaded with cargo. Small shops where lorry drivers and workers take a tea break. Hambantota...
Muslims will be compelled to seek international community support
If the incumbent government continued to overlook the racist acts perpetrated on the Muslim community, it would lead to a situation to lodge the complaint...
Plantation Tamils need Administrative power first
Nuwara-Eliya District Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) MP Mylvaganam Tilakaraj in an interview with the Daily Mirror highlights issues confronting plantation-based Tamil minority and their aspirations. He...
India and China’s Tug of War Over Sri Lanka
Unnerved by growing Chinese influence in Sri Lanka, India is seeking to strengthen ties with the Colombo government through economic cooperation as the Indian Ocean...
Pro-Tamil activists detained
Scores of pro-Tamil activists were detained at the Marina here on Sunday when they tried to hold a memorial for Tamil victims of Sri Lankan...
MGR supplied LTTE with money
Former prominent Liberation Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, who was the chief international financier and helped smuggle weapons for the terror outfit, spoke...