Kollam: Over 150 Sri Lankan refugees have been detained from a boat near the Kollam coast. The refugees include 19 women and 22 children. The police say they paid between Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to an agent who promised to take them to Australia but brought them to India instead allegedly for trafficking. The agent is now absconding along with the boat's driver and a helper. All...
09:38 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Colombo: A batch of 75 former LTTE members rehabilitated by the government was on Saturday released to their families in the northern Sri Lankan town of Vavuniya. "Out of the 12,000 sent for rehabilitation we have already released 11,000. Around 700 only remain to be released from four rehabilitation centres. "There are also another 600 suspects in custody who would be sent for rehabilitation", A Dissanayake, the secretary to the...
08:54 PM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: The government is likely to discuss and approve on Thursday the revised tax information sharing treaty between India and Sri Lanka, in its aggressive bid to hunt black money stashed abroad. "The India-Sri Lanka Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) is listed for tommorow (Thursday). The approval is for revising the terms of existing DTAA," a source said. In 2005, India had signed tax information exchange treaties with other...
10:24 PM, May 30, 2012
Colombo: While Sri Lanka's state media chose to ignore Sarath Fonseka's release from prison, pro-government newspapers said on Tuesday that the former Army Chief had become a "political pawn" in the hands of foreign countries against President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The story of Fonseka's release on Monday dominated the local media on Tuesday, with many a speculation about the war hero's future political plans. The English, Sinhala and even Tamil press...
12:00 PM, May 22, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday ordered the release of his former Army Chief turned political rival Sarath Fonseka, paving the way for him to walk out of prison after two years. Rajapaksa signed the papers ordering for the release of Fonseka prior to his departure to Qatar, presidential spokesman Bandula Jayasekera told reporters in Colombo. The papers were handed over to presidential chief of staff Gamini Senarath...
10:27 AM, May 20, 2012
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has praised Sri Lanka's plan to implement the post-conflict recommendations made by an independent commission recently, during a meeting with her Sri Lankan counterpart, GL Peiris. During their 45-minute meeting, Peiris outlined the mechanism adopted by Sri Lanka's presidential secretariat that will be used to implement recommendations made by the independent Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), which examined the country's successful conflict...
10:03 PM, May 19, 2012
Washington: Sri Lanka will conduct investigations into the allegations of war abuses, its Foreign Minister said while presenting a detailed reconciliation plan of the island to the US. The visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, GM Peiris, presented to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a detailed reconciliation plan and said that Sri Lanka itself would conduct investigations into allegations of war abuses, which includes those by the security forces. The...
01:01 PM, May 19, 2012
Colombo: A member of parliament in Sri Lanka said on Wednesday he believed President Mahinda Rajapaksa would soon order the release of the country's former army chief Sarath Fonseka, revered by many of his compatriots for helping end a 25-year civil war. The jailing of General Fonseka has prompted criticism in Western countries, and if he were freed it would be seen as a sign that Colombo is addressing concerns...
02:24 AM, May 17, 2012
Colombo: The Indian policy on Sri Lanka in the 1980s, the formative years of the LTTE, provided encouragement to the separatist group, a new book has claimed. The book, 'Gota's War', talks about India's "covert" role in LTTE's growth as the outfit carried out frequent terrorist strikes in the island. The book authored by C A Chandraprema was launched on Monday in the presence of president Mahinda Rajapaksa. It delves...
04:54 PM, May 15, 2012
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government has decided to release the information on war detainees, a step seen as a response to the country's reconciliation commission report. The ministry of defence in Colombo on Sunday said that a decision has been made to release information on the detainees, saying the details will be revealed only to the close relatives. "A round the clock mechanism has been established by the Terrorist Investigation...
11:58 AM, May 13, 2012
Malacca, Malaysia: India thrashed Sri Lanka 11-0 in their opening match of the 7th Junior Men's Asia Cup Hockey Tournament here on Friday. India, two-time champions, scored through skipper Akashdeep Singh (3rd, 62nd), Amit Rohidas (6th), Satbir Singh (21st, 29th), Malak Singh (27th, 39th, 44th), PL Thimmanna (34th, 41st) and Prabhdeep Singh (67th). India took only three minutes to open scoring through skipper Akashdeep, who deflected in a cross from...
10:02 PM, May 04, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lanka has rejected an Indian offer to upgrade a refinery that is built to refine only Iranian oil, a minister said on Sunday. Petroleum Minister Susil Premjayantha said the offer to upgrade the Sapugaskanda oil refinery had come from the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) but Colombo rejected it. He said since IOC already operates a majority of fuel stations in Sri Lanka and as a result increases the...
04:21 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Colombo: A Sri Lankan minister has threatened to take some 5,000 fishermen to India to protest against poaching by Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan waters. Government Minister Douglas Devananda said he would lead the protest to give a message to India that livelihood of the country's fishermen was affected due to poaching by Indian fishermen. "The Indians enter Sri Lankan waters illegally in large trawlers and engage in large scale...
10:50 AM, Apr 23, 2012
Colombo: Sri Lanka must address the issue of reconciliation with the Tamil minority in the country with "a sense of urgency", Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj said in Colombo. Swaraj, who is leading a 12-member Indian parliamentary delegation in Colombo, said she had told Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa that the current stalemate and the deadlock on the talks with the main Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance...
09:03 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Chennai: Terming as 'fruitful' talks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on issues including devolution of powers to Tamil-speaking areas, a Congress MP, who was part of the parliamentary team that visited the island republic, on Saturday said a report would be submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. On their return from Sri Lanka to assess rehabilitation of internally displaced Tamils, EM Sudarsana Natchiappan, one of the four Congress MPs...
07:59 PM, Apr 21, 2012
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