Sri Lanka reopens Hambantota airport bid, eyes strategic investorsSri Lanka is seeking investors for the Hambantota airport. This offers a chance for Indian companies to invest in a strategic Indian Ocean ...
18 May, 2026, 12.16 AM IST
Sri Lanka's move to lease strategic airport near China-controlled Hambantota port sparks Indian interestIndia is keenly watching Sri Lanka's move to offer control of Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport to foreign investors. This presents a...
17 May, 2026, 07.14 PM IST
What makes the Rs 90,000-crore Great Nicobar Island project critical for India both militarily and economicallyIndia is undertaking a massive Rs 90,000 crore project in Great Nicobar. This initiative will develop a major transshipment port and intern...
15 May, 2026, 12.24 PM IST
Sri Lanka seeks investors for loss-making Mattala airport built with Chinese loansSri Lanka is seeking investors for Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport. The airport has been a financial drain since opening in 2013. A...
26 Apr, 2026, 02.43 PM IST
India’s Next Smart Bet For Cross-Border Investments: Why Sri Lanka’s City Of The Future Is Creating Waves14 Nov, 2025, 04.17 PM IST
No reference to Adani’s involvement in Colombo Port project during Modi-Dissanayake talks: MEAIndia's Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri clarified on Monday that the involvement of Adani Group in Sri Lanka's Colombo Port project was not ...
16 Dec, 2024, 06.53 PM IST
Adani Ports-led Colombo project right on track: Sirimewan Ranasinghe, Chairman, SLPAThe Adani Ports-led Colombo port terminal project in Sri Lanka is progressing smoothly, according to Sirimewan Ranasinghe, chairman of Sri ...
01 Dec, 2024, 11.58 PM IST
Adani Ports shares up 2.7% on $553 million funding announcement by US DFC for Colombo portThe consortium will develop CWIT on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis for a period of 35 years and after the development of this te...
08 Nov, 2023, 01.21 PM IST
US’ DFC to invest $553 million in Adani-backed Colombo portAdani Ports & SEZ's colossal investment in the Colombo port expanded as the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) pledged ...
08 Nov, 2023, 12.59 PM IST
Need to develop all-weather deep-water port in India, says Tharoor in LSThe Congress MP Shashi Tharoor also questioned the government's policy, saying "there is a piquant situation that India prohibits Chinese f...
24 Mar, 2022, 09.31 PM IST
Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani calls on Sri Lankan PresidentAhmedabad-headquartered Indian multinational conglomerate Adani Group last month entered into an agreement with the Lanka government owned ...
25 Oct, 2021, 11.10 PM IST
India's Adani Group seals deal to develop Western Container Terminal at Colombo PortThe Colombo Port is one of the most preferred regional hubs for transhipment of Indian containers and mainline ship operators with 45 per c...
30 Sep, 2021, 09.51 PM IST
India tells Lanka to honour Colombo port deal, takes up killing of Tamil fishermen“We have taken it (deaths of four fishermen from Tamil Nadu in the island nation) up in strongest terms with the Sri Lankan government and ...
03 Feb, 2021, 10.41 PM IST
India tells Sri Lanka to honour pact after Colombo takes back port contractThe decision comes less than a month after a visit by Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar to Colombo to shore up support for the 2019 dea...
02 Feb, 2021, 03.35 PM IST
Colombo Port workers allege 'Indian pressure', to go on indefinite strike over ECL development"This was a diplomatic agreement with India signed by the last govt - an agreement between President Sirisena and PM (Narendra) Modi," he s...
02 Jul, 2020, 07.33 PM IST
India, Japan, Sri Lanka move to counter ChinaThree countries plan to take up Colombo Port expansion project to balance China’s growing influence in the Indian Ocean region.
27 May, 2019, 07.06 AM IST
India in race for Colombo Port projectKarunanayake was here on a two-day trip within days of assuming charge and held wide-ranging discussions with PM, foreign minister and NSA.
08 Jun, 2017, 11.14 AM IST