When the chilling new photographs of LTTE supremo Velupillai Pirapaharan’s 12-year-old son Balachandran captured and held in a sandbag bunker of the Sri Lankan Army and executed in cold blood and photographed again were published […]
NEW YORK (TIP): A reception to celebrate the Commonwealth Day was organized at Sri Lanka mission here on 11th March. Sri Lanka, UK and Australia cohosted the event. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was among […]
NEW YORK (TIP): National Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs’ (NACSAA’s) “Thomas Jefferson’s Eternal Vigilance” Awards were presented to Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon and Ambassador Hardeep Singh Puri on March 8, 2013, at the Roosevelt […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Against the backdrop of demands by Tamil parties that India should vote against Sri Lanka at the UN on human rights, government on Wednesday, March 6 remained evasive on the stand it […]
Ajanta and Ellora are the pride of Maharashtra. The rock-cut caves of both these sites are world famous and illustrate the degree of skill and artistry that Indian craftsmen had achieved several hundred years ago. […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Has the BCCI missed a trick by not including Virat Kohli in the Rest of India squad for the Irani Cup, or even the India A and Board President’s XI teams which […]
The Republic of India is a large South Asian country rich in ethnic diversity,with over one billion people speaking hundreds of languages. Politically it is the world’s largest liberal democracy. The Indian economy is the […]
MOHALI (TIP): As Virat Kohli had promised before the match, the Indian team didn’t leave anything to chance and sealed the one-day series right here with a comprehensive five-wicket win over England. With this win, […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Jan 15 appointed his cabinet’s legal adviser as the country’s new chief justice to succeed Shirani Bandaranayake, whose impeachment created much furore both inside and outside the […]
KOTTAYAM,INDIA (TIP): Asharp decline inarrival of foreigntourists to Keralais causing concernin the tourismindustry. Thedeclining trendthat started a fewyears agocontinuesunabated.T. Damu,director of Taj group of hotels and resortsin Kerala, said that foreign tourist arrivalshave declined considerably […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A human rights group on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to formally charge or release four university students detained on allegations of terrorism for honoring Tamil Tiger rebels who died during the country’s bloody […]
A little over three years ago I wrote in The Hindu that at a time when interest in India and India’s interest in the world are arguably at their highest, Indian scholarship on global issues […]
One must congratulate the Government of India for taking the bold step of joining the 138 nations voting ‘Yes’ for the resolution to upgrade Palestine to a non-member observer state in the United Nations. What […]
The list mostly includes US and European countries but China’s neighbours in South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka are missing BEIJING (TIP): China announced a 72-hour visa free stay in Beijing […]
England raced to a famous 10-wicket win over India in the second Test after Monty Panesar finished with a career-best match haul of 11 for 210. The tourists’ series-levelling victory was achieved principally on the […]
LONDON (TIP): A leaked draft of a highly critical internal United Nations report says the global body failed in its mandate to protect civilians in the last months of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, the […]
The issue that I’ve been asked to address today — India’s rise and the promise of U.S.-Indian partnership — is one of those rarest of Washington species, especially ten days before a Presidential election, a […]
DUBAI (TIP): The International Cricket Council (ICC) today suspended the six umpires caught in a TV sting, which alleged that they were willing to fix Twenty20 matches, pending the completion of an inquiry against them. […]
Welcome to the land of the Buddha. A breather from most other religious destinations, which, ironically, reel under chaos, Kushinagar – the place where Gautam Buddha breathed his last – is a place where you […]
Sri Lanka 139 for 4 (Jayawardene 42, Dilshan 35) beat Pakistan 123 for 7 (Hafeez 42, Herath 3-25) by 16 runs COLOMBO (TIP): On a crumbling, turning, brute of a pitch by Twenty20 standards, Mahela […]
COLOMBO (TIP): India is out of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament despite beating South Africa in the final match of the Super Eights stage. Compounding India’s misery, its exit ensured that great rival Pakistan qualified […]
Pallekele (TIP): Tillakaratne Dilshan, who had scored 76 off 53 in regulation time, set himself under the ball at long-off, turning side ways to make sure he knew where the boundary cushions were – they […]
BHOPAL (TIP): The police have arrested politician Vaiko and his supporters on the border of Madhya Pardesh and Mahrashtra, about 350 kilometres away from Sanchi. They were protesting against the visit of Sri Lankan president […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa met President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on September 20 evening. Official sources said the meetings consisted of discussions in a restricted format, followed […]
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