India to grant full cost of Lanka northern port developmentThe Sri Lankan Cabinet has decided to renovate the Kankesanthurai Port in the Northern Province, with India agreeing to fund the entire pro...
30 Apr, 2024, 05.58 PM IST
India-Russia joint venture to manage strategic Sri Lanka airportA joint venture between an Indian and a Russian firm has won a 30-year contract to manage Sri Lanka's Mattala Rajapaksa International Airpo...
28 Apr, 2024, 05.30 AM IST
India gets more space as Sri Lanka amends aviation lawSri Lanka may allow the participation of private companies in ground handling at the airports at the initial stage, said people familiar wi...
18 Apr, 2023, 12.10 AM IST
Sri Lankan Cabinet ministers to resign after all-party government formation: PMOSri Lanka's entire Cabinet of ministers on Monday agreed to resign once an agreement is reached on the formation of an all-party interim go...
11 Jul, 2022, 03.44 PM IST
Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa says government working round-the-clock to overcome economic crisisAmidst a growing pressure on him to quit following the unprecedented economic crisis facing the island nation, the embattled leader address...
11 Apr, 2022, 08.17 PM IST
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa invites independent MPs to discuss economic crisisLast week the entire Sri Lankan cabinet resigned apart from Mahinda at a time when the country was facing its worst economic crisis since g...
11 Apr, 2022, 01.10 PM IST
India will support Sri Lanka in these difficult times: JaishankarIndia on Thursday assured Sri Lanka of its support to tide over "difficult times" even as it welcomed the Trincomalee tank farms project sa...
06 Jan, 2022, 10.45 PM IST
Foreign dignitaries hail Kushinagar airport inauguration, say it will boost tourism"Tourism between India and Sri Lanka has always been very robust. We have a lot of Indians coming to Sri Lanka and also Sri Lankan pilgrims...
20 Oct, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
China-Lanka ties may touch low over Beijing made vaccinesLast month, Colombo had placed an order for 7 million doses of the Sputnik vaccine at $69.65 million. These are on top of 13.5 million dose...
07 Apr, 2021, 11.04 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
Sri Lankan government reworking MoU on airport deal with IndiaDubbed as the "world's emptiest airport" due to lack of flights, the MRIA was built with high interest commercial loans from China by the M...
05 Aug, 2018, 07.11 PM IST
Sri Lanka announces sops to Tamils ahead of Maithripala Sirisena's India visitMaithripala Sirisena is expected to brief the Indian leadership on the conciliatory steps taken by his government for the Tamil minority co...
14 Feb, 2015, 10.10 AM IST
TNA delegation leaves for India on Lanka 13A talksTNA sources said the six member delegation was expected to meet with both India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party chief So...
16 Jun, 2013, 04.09 PM IST
- Sri Lanka reimposes ban on LTTE
Sri Lankan govt to formally ban LTTE, signalling end of peace talks.
07 Jan, 2009, 10.07 PM IST
- 'If LTTE chief caught, India will have to request extradition'
India will have to follow the standard "procedure" for seeking extradition of LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran, wanted in the Rajiv Gand...
06 Jan, 2009, 04.32 PM IST
- Pranab Mukherjee likely to visit Sri Lanka
As Tamil parties continue to build pressure on the government over the Sri Lankan issue, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is like...
19 Oct, 2008, 07.36 PM IST
- Sri Lanka develops cold feet on CEPA
Even as the Centre grapples with the domestic fallout of the war in Lanka, concerns are growing that an economic pact between India and Sri...
17 Oct, 2008, 03.02 AM IST