Sri Lanka United Nations Help

The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

UN chief Antonio Guterres sought India's support in mobilising G20 nations to help out developing countries saddled with debt, including three of India's neighbours.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking urgent United Nations help to build a stockpile of essential foods, the prime minister's office said Friday, after authorities warned of looming starvation.

Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said on Thursday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations.

A long-awaited UN report on Wednesday detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and said the country needed international help to probe the crimes to enable reconciliation.

The DMK, which quit the government this morning, has said two moves by the government could help it reconsider. Firstly, it wants India to introduce strong language in a US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Secondly, the DMK wants the Indian Parliament to adopt a resolution against Sri Lank...

Slamming the building of a victory memorial in northern Sri Lanka as an "uncivilised act" by the island government to "deliberately hurt" sentiments of Tamils, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said such memorials would not help the peace efforts claimed to have been made by Colombo.

The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisis in bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million.

UN chief Antonio Guterres sought India's support in mobilising G20 nations to help out developing countries saddled with debt, including three of India's neighbours.

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka is seeking urgent United Nations help to build a stockpile of essential foods, the prime minister's office said Friday, after authorities warned of looming starvation.

Sri Lanka should bring in international prosecutors and judges to help investigate alleged atrocities in the civil war that ended in 2009, a task force said on Thursday in recommendations that were welcomed by the United Nations.

A long-awaited UN report on Wednesday detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka's civil war and said the country needed international help to probe the crimes to enable reconciliation.

The DMK, which quit the government this morning, has said two moves by the government could help it reconsider. Firstly, it wants India to introduce strong language in a US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Secondly, the DMK wants the Indian Parliament to adopt a resolution against Sri Lank...

Slamming the building of a victory memorial in northern Sri Lanka as an "uncivilised act" by the island government to "deliberately hurt" sentiments of Tamils, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said such memorials would not help the peace efforts claimed to have been made by Colombo.