India's new envoy takes charge, presents credentials to Sri Lankan presidentSantosh Jha, a senior diplomat, was India's Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium & Luxembourg before taking up his assignment in Colom...
22 Dec, 2023, 03.51 PM IST
Sri Lanka issues tenders choosing India over China for power projects near JaffnaThe Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) recently called for tenders to execute the hybrid power projects in three northern islands of Sri Lanka ...
06 Aug, 2023, 07.10 AM IST
Chinese high-tech ship leaves Sri Lanka's Hambantota portThe ship left the port at 4 pm local time, harbour master Nirmal Silva told reporters.
22 Aug, 2022, 05.28 PM IST
China silent on details of talks with Sri Lanka as its high-tech ship set to berth at Hambantota port"As you said, Sri Lanka has given Yuan Wang-5 the permission to berth at its port," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a m...
15 Aug, 2022, 08.48 PM IST
Sri Lanka allows docking of Chinese research ship at Hambantota port from August 16-22The Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship, 'Yuan Wang 5', was earlier scheduled to arrive on Thursday and remain at the por...
13 Aug, 2022, 08.30 PM IST
Chinese embassy seeks urgent meeting with Sri Lankan authorities as Colombo seeks postponement of research ship's visitThe Chinese embassy in Colombo sought an urgent meeting with the higher Sri Lankan authorities to discuss the issue after receiving the not...
07 Aug, 2022, 07.58 PM IST
Sri Lanka asks China to defer spy ship visit until further talksThe military vessel was to dock at Hambantota for what China says is "replenishment and refuelling" from August 11-17. The permission to do...
06 Aug, 2022, 10.59 PM IST
Biden nominates Indian-American diplomat Rachna Sachdeva Korhonen as his envoy for MaliA career member of the US Foreign Service, Korhonen currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary and the Executive Director of the combin...
16 Apr, 2022, 11.00 AM IST
India to Sri Lanka's rescue after microbes in Chinese fertiliserLanka has a big demand of nano fertiliser and Beijing's image has taken a beating among the farming community, according to Colombo-based e...
06 Nov, 2021, 06.31 AM 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
Indian-American ambassador presents credentials to Sri Lankan President Maithripala SirisenaIndian-American Atul Keshap, the new US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, today presented his credentials to President Maithripala Siri...
21 Aug, 2015, 10.59 PM IST
India to help in evacuating Sri Lankans from YemenIndia has acceded to Sri Lanka's request to evacuate stranded Sri Lankans along with Indian nationals from strife-torn Yemen, the Foreign M...
02 Apr, 2015, 12.20 PM IST
Sri Lanka's new President Maithripala Sirisena 'upbeat' about enhanced ties with ChinaSirisena is "upbeat" about strengthening ties with China and has assured implementation of "outcomes" reached during last year's visit here...
17 Jan, 2015, 01.01 PM IST
- Indians across the world celebrate Independence Day with gusto
Indians across the globe donned patriotic colours as they celebrated the country's 66th Independence Day today by unfurling the national tr...
15 Aug, 2012, 02.41 PM IST
- WikiLeaks: In 2007, Indian official said SL condition beyond bleak
Two years before Sri Lanka completed a crushing military defeat of the LTTE, a top Indian official had said the situation was "beyond bleak...
18 Dec, 2010, 03.53 PM IST
- Security of Indian assets, workers high on Karzai talks agenda
Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived here on Sunday night on a two-day visit during which the security of Indian assets and workers in Afg...
03 Aug, 2008, 11.38 PM IST
- Get ISI to work towards tackling terror: US tells Pak
In a virtual indictment of ISI's involvement in the bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul, the US on Sunday asked Pakistan to get its intellig...
03 Aug, 2008, 08.57 PM IST