'Sri Lanka's Relations With India At All-Time High'

'Granting the country's highest civilian honour to Prime Minister Modi was surprising as it indicated the government was going out of its way to have India as a close partner.' IMAGE: Prime......

India, Sri Lanka sign major defence pact

Signalling an upswing in their strategic ties nearly four decades after the Indian Peace Keeping Force episode, India and Sri Lanka on Saturday inked a defence pact to institutionalise military......

India, Sri Lanka to ink major defence pact 40 yrs after IPKF intervention

For the first time, India and Sri Lanka are set to sign an ambitious defence cooperation pact during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Colombo next week, in a significant move that comes......

35 Years After IPKF's Return, Tamil Politics Has Changed

Since the IPKF's withdrawal from Sri Lanka in March 1990, the LTTE's once-powerful influence in Tamil Nadu has faded. IMAGE: Members of the LTTE women's wing march in Killinochchi, northern Sri......

Sri Lanka to cancel Indian coal plant deal; proposes LNG instead

Area residents and environmental groups have resisted the coal power plant ever since it was originally proposed in 2006 due to worries about land clearance and pollution Sri Lanka will cancel......

India to help Lanka develop regional petro hub; IOC signs pact

India will help Sri Lanka develop its Trincomalee town as a regional petroleum hub and Indian Oil Corporation has reached a joint-development pact with Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, Prime Minister......

Unfair deals? Lanka halts $1.4-billion Chinese port project

Sri Lanka's suspension of a project to build a glittering skyline on land reclaimed from the Indian Ocean has prompted China to defend its investment, in a test of Beijing's ambitions to fund loans......

Lanka has potential to be India's strongest economic partner: Modi

Image: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing Sri Lanka's business community at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Photograph, Courtesy: PIB   Asking Sri Lanka not to worry about India's......