Lanka War And India

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G L Peiris has told his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar that his country is working to address the post-ethnic war issues, including releasing LTTE prisoners and revisiting a controversial anti-terror law.

A mass grave with 38 skeletons has been discovered in Sri Lanka's former war zone where the government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in pitched battles in 2009, officials said today.

Around 195 files including documents relating to relations between India and Sri Lanka at the peak of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led civil war have been destroyed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), sparking concern among archivists and researchers.

Colonel Anil Kaul, 66, has written several letters to the army headquarters, but says he is still to receive a satisfactory response. He is a war veteran, who lost his right eye and left hand while saving 250 soldiers in a rescue mission in Sri Lanka's Jaffna in 1987. He got a Vir Chakra for his bravery, but says that the institutional support need...

Asserting a war was not an option between India and Pakistan, Sri Lanka today said cross-border terrorism was a core issue on the table for SAARC and the members of the eight-nation grouping have to discuss it and its impact before moving forward.

The Tamil Nadu assembly today adopted a resolution for an international probe against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations and war crimes committed in 2009, coming just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Sri Lankan government deciding to renew efforts to resolve the ethic issue in the is...

A little war of sorts is brewing between Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh. But before you jump to any conclusions, this war has nothing to do with the sport and will most definitely not be held on a cricket pitch.

Sri Lanka continues to violate human rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, six years after the end of civil war in the country that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to a new independent report.

Making a historic visit to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in the island nation, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected British PM David Cameron's demand for an international inquiry and said Sri Lanka must be trusted to conduct its own probe.

British television journalists who have reported on war crimes allegations in Sri Lanka were stopped from reaching the north of the country on Wednesday by protesters who blocked their train, the TV station and local police said.

Days after its inauguration, officials today demolished the compound wall and removed a park at the Mullivaaikal Memorial, built in honour of Tamil martyrs in the war in Sri Lanka.

A memorial for Tamil victims of the 2009 Eelam war in Sri Lanka was unveiled in Thanjavur today by World Tamil Confederation President and noted pro-Tamil leader Pazha Nedumaran.

Tamil Nadu has asked the Centre to boycott the Commonwealth meet in Colombo next month over Sri Lanka's alleged war crimes against Lankan Tamils and the arrest of fishermen from the state for straying into Lankan waters.

The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Cabinet Secretary, Government of India to respond to three queries on the proposed sale of two war ships to Sri Lanka before October 8. The court wants to know about the "mechanism and arrangement" of these ships, why the sale at a time there are strained relations between both countries, ...

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G L Peiris has told his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar that his country is working to address the post-ethnic war issues, including releasing LTTE prisoners and revisiting a controversial anti-terror law.

A mass grave with 38 skeletons has been discovered in Sri Lanka's former war zone where the government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels were engaged in pitched battles in 2009, officials said today.

Around 195 files including documents relating to relations between India and Sri Lanka at the peak of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) led civil war have been destroyed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), sparking concern among archivists and researchers.

Colonel Anil Kaul, 66, has written several letters to the army headquarters, but says he is still to receive a satisfactory response. He is a war veteran, who lost his right eye and left hand while saving 250 soldiers in a rescue mission in Sri Lanka's Jaffna in 1987. He got a Vir Chakra for his bravery, but says that the institutional support need...

Asserting a war was not an option between India and Pakistan, Sri Lanka today said cross-border terrorism was a core issue on the table for SAARC and the members of the eight-nation grouping have to discuss it and its impact before moving forward.

The Tamil Nadu assembly today adopted a resolution for an international probe against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations and war crimes committed in 2009, coming just a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Sri Lankan government deciding to renew efforts to resolve the ethic issue in the is...

A little war of sorts is brewing between Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh. But before you jump to any conclusions, this war has nothing to do with the sport and will most definitely not be held on a cricket pitch.

Sri Lanka continues to violate human rights of its religious and ethnic minorities, six years after the end of civil war in the country that resulted in the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to a new independent report.

Making a historic visit to Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a region once ravaged by strife, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for equitable development and respect for all citizens in the island nation, seen as an oblique reference to Tamils who had suffered during the war between the LTTE and forces.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected British PM David Cameron's demand for an international inquiry and said Sri Lanka must be trusted to conduct its own probe.

British television journalists who have reported on war crimes allegations in Sri Lanka were stopped from reaching the north of the country on Wednesday by protesters who blocked their train, the TV station and local police said.

Days after its inauguration, officials today demolished the compound wall and removed a park at the Mullivaaikal Memorial, built in honour of Tamil martyrs in the war in Sri Lanka.

A memorial for Tamil victims of the 2009 Eelam war in Sri Lanka was unveiled in Thanjavur today by World Tamil Confederation President and noted pro-Tamil leader Pazha Nedumaran.

Tamil Nadu has asked the Centre to boycott the Commonwealth meet in Colombo next month over Sri Lanka's alleged war crimes against Lankan Tamils and the arrest of fishermen from the state for straying into Lankan waters.

The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Cabinet Secretary, Government of India to respond to three queries on the proposed sale of two war ships to Sri Lanka before October 8. The court wants to know about the "mechanism and arrangement" of these ships, why the sale at a time there are strained relations between both countries, ...