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Sri Lanka declares moratorium on research ships for a year amid Indian concerns over Chinese vesselsChina has been trying to expand its influence in Sri Lanka, which is located on one of the world's busiest shipping routes in what India co...
05 Jan, 2024, 06.22 PM IST
Sri Lanka is allowing a Chinese research ship to dock as Indian Ocean security concerns growA Chinese research ship, the Shi Yan 6, has been given permission to dock at a Sri Lankan port for replenishment, raising concerns in neigh...
25 Oct, 2023, 07.13 PM IST
India heeded his request not to seek joint venture to run Mattala airport: Sri Lanka PM Mahinda RajapaksaThe USD 210 million facility, 241km south-east of Colombo, is dubbed the "world's emptiest airport" due to a lack of flights.
10 Jul, 2020, 07.43 PM IST
One of China’s most ambitious projects becomes a corridor to nowhereAlmost seven years after the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor was established, there’s little evidence of that vision being realized. The s...
03 Mar, 2020, 10.52 AM IST
Kenya risks losing port to China casting shadow over India's outreach in Eastern AfricaChina is now the single largest financier for infrastructure in Africa, funding one-in-five projects and constructing every third one, acco...
20 Nov, 2019, 09.06 AM IST
US, Lanka to work together for peace, security in Indo-Pacific regionThe US has conducted a series of "freedom of navigation" exercises in the disputed South China Sea, triggering protests from Beijing over w...
18 May, 2019, 12.37 PM IST
Pentagon seeks sustained engagement with Sri LankaDespite political upheaval, it is in America's interests to continue military collaboration and cooperation with Sri Lankan Forces, US Indo...
13 Feb, 2019, 12.05 PM IST
View: The challenges and opportunities for Indian foreign policy in 20192019 will not only be about India’s elections. India needs to step off the treadmill and on to the escalator.
27 Dec, 2018, 01.32 PM IST
China’s empire of money is reshaping lives across new Silk RoadIf Xi's ambitions become a reality, Beijing will cement its position at the center of a new world economic order.
04 Aug, 2018, 07.10 AM IST
Sri Lanka asks AAI to submit business plan on Mattala airport operationThe airport was officially opened in March 2013. The only international flight operating from there was halted in May due to recurrent loss...
19 Jul, 2018, 02.21 PM IST
India wants to operate world's emptiest airport in Sri LankaMattala airport, named after former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, is dubbed the world's emptiest airport due to a lack of flights.
04 Jul, 2018, 05.27 PM IST