Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said he wishes to see more foreign leaders visiting his country to experience the island's post conflict progress.Rajapaksa commented on the progress of the country while receiving the
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian authorities are on the hunt for more members of the outlawed LTTE after a crackdown on the Tamil militant group led to the arrest of seven persons in the last two months
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today headed towards Bolivia to attend a G77 summit, at a time when the parliament is set to discuss the impending international probe on alleged human rights violations during
New Delhi: The 23-year-old ban imposed on terror group LTTE has been extended by five years by the Government which said the outfit is a threat to India's sovereignty and integrity.The Home Ministry said the
Colombo: Sri Lankan military today said legal redress would be available for 423 individuals, including 32 Sri Lankans currently residing in India, designated as financiers of terrorism in the country. Sri Lanka last week banned
Chennai: The MDMK has promised in its manifesto released Saturday that it would rename the country as the United States of India if it takes part in government formation after the Lok Sabha polls.The party,
Colombo: As many as 16,000 Sri Lankans - who disappeared during the war against the LTTE - will be issued certificates of absence instead of death certificates, head of a probe panel said today.“We have
Colombo: A Sri Lankan family has found the remains of at least nine bodies buried in the garden of their home in the former stronghold of the vanquished LTTE in the north, police said today.Senior
Colombo: India-Sri Lanka ties in 2013 were affected by differences over alleged rights abuses in the war against the LTTE and giving political rights to Tamils, even as Colombo held provincial polls after 25 years
Colombo: A defiant President Mahinda Rajapaksa today once again rejected demands for an international inquiry into alleged war crimes during the military campaign against the LTTE, saying countries should not “dictate” to Sri Lanka.A day
Colombo: After an unprecedented visit to Jaffna, UK Prime Minister David Saturday today set a deadline of March for Sri Lanka to set up an independent inquiry commission failing which he will move the UN
Chennai: India's participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has triggered protests in Tamil Nadu and some pro-Eelam outfits have given for a day-long bandh call tomorrow demanding complete boycott of the meet.About
Chennai: DMK chief M Karunanidhi today described as “cheap tactics” the reported denial of visa to a UK documentary film-maker who had released videos of alleged war-time atrocities against Tamils by the Sri Lankan Army.India
Colombo: Sri Lanka's first elected Tamil chief minister C V Wigneswaran will be sworn in by the President tomorrow after his party secured an emphatic victory in the historic provincial polls in the former LTTE
United Nations : In a rare admission of “systemic failure” of the UN, its chief has said the world body had failed during the final stages of Sri Lanka's ethnic war in 2009 that saw
Colombo : Ballotting began Saturday to elect members of three provincial councils, including the Tamil-majority Northern Province, in Sri Lanka.Over four million people are eligible to vote.All arrangements have been made by the election secretariat
Colombo: Sri Lanka will release a total of 107 rehabilitated LTTE cadres tomorrow, leaving only 232 former Tamil rebels to be reintegrated into the society. The country's rehabilitation officials said today the 107 former Tamil
Colombo: UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has assured the relatives of Tamil people who disappeared during Sri Lanka's war with the LTTE that their grievances would be taken up with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Pillay,
Mumbai, Jul 30: Mumbai crime branch Monday handed over 35-year-old former member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Theva Satesh Kumar to Sri Lanka.Crime branch officers had arrested Theva when he was leaving to
New Delhi: The former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21 in 1991 by a suicide bomber in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai.The suicide bombing was carried out by Thenmozhi Rajaratnam alias Dhanu and LTTE
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