India extends $15 million grant for promotion of Buddhist ties with Sri LankaThe grant will assist in deepening people-to-people linkages between the two countries in the sphere of Buddhism, inter-alia, through const...
26 Sep, 2020, 05.53 PM IST
India hosts 160 Sri Lankan defence personnel, families in GayaOne C-17 aircraft of the Indian Air Force brought the Sri Lankan delegation comprising of personnel from all three services and their famil...
25 Jun, 2018, 10.32 PM IST
Sri Lankan President removes PM Wickremesinghe as law and order minister after communal riotsTensions between Muslim groups and the majority Sinhalese Buddhist community in the country have escalated since the end of the civil war i...
08 Mar, 2018, 01.22 PM IST
- India woos Sri Lanka, seeks to check China with Colombo-Kashi flight
Not only will the flight make the journey from PM Modi’s constituency to the Sri Lankan capital cheaper by about 40%, it will also reduce t...
08 Sep, 2017, 12.28 PM IST
Air India’s Varanasi-Colombo maiden flight takes wingAir India will fly 180-seater Airbus 320-Neo, for the all-economy class flights twice a week, Fridays and Sundays, airline spokesman Dhanan...
04 Aug, 2017, 08.41 AM IST
Sri Lankan government pledges autonomy to TamilsTamils, who live predominantly in the north and east of Sri Lanka, form the largest minority group in the country constituting for 11.1 per...
05 Jul, 2017, 10.10 PM IST
Sri Lanka to remove wasp nests in Dickoya ahead of Narendra Modi's visitBoth the Lankan leaders President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe are to accompany the Indian leader to the hi...
09 May, 2017, 01.22 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka on May 11Vesak, the most important day in the Buddhist calendar, marks commemoration of Lord Buddha's birth, enlightenment and passing away
07 May, 2017, 01.58 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka in MayPrime Minister Modi will make his second visit to Sri Lanka in the second week of May, Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said.
19 Apr, 2017, 05.23 PM IST
Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga calls on Sushma SwarajThe Sri Lankan politician is here to attend the 'Samvad- Global Hindu Buddhist Initiative on Conflict Avoidance and Environment Consciousne...
03 Sep, 2015, 09.20 PM IST
Mahinda Rajapaksa fears LTTE revival in Sri LankaMahinda Rajapaksa, who is mounting a political comeback, has expressed fears that the separatist Tamil Tigers could regroup and revive terr...
30 May, 2015, 05.35 PM IST
China lauds Sri Lanka for not permitting Dalai Lama's visit"Sri Lanka is friendly neighbour of China and Sri Lankan side respects and understand relevant concerns of China on this issue."
03 Apr, 2015, 03.32 PM IST
Buddhist monk to challenge Mahinda RajapaksaReformist monk Maduluwawe Sobhitha said given an opportunity, he is ready to fight Rajapaksa as the common opposition candidate.
19 Jun, 2014, 05.19 PM IST
New Indian envoy to Lanka keen to further tiesY K Sinha called on both main leaders of the two Buddhist chapters in Kandy who wield considerable power in the Buddhist-majority island.
09 Aug, 2013, 10.03 PM IST
- No place in Lanka for religious extremism or racism: Mahinda Rajapaksa
Rajapaksa said any attempt to promote religious extremism would supply ammunition to those elements who want to spread false accusations.
31 Mar, 2013, 12.11 PM IST
Sri Lanka may pull its mission out of Tamil NaduFaced with growing anti-Sri Lankan sentiments in Tamil Nadu, Colombo may shift its deputy high commission office out of Chennai, a report s...
24 Mar, 2013, 10.31 PM IST
- Attacks on Sri Lankan monks in Tamil Nadu isolated incidents: India
India today said that the recent incidents of assault on Sri Lankan Buddhist monks in Tamil Nadu were "isolated".
23 Mar, 2013, 09.35 PM IST