NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s total foreign tourist arrivals jumped last year but the number of foreign women travelling to the country slipped during the same period amid concerns about safety of women following the December […]
The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, scored most in foreign policy in his first year in power. No one anticipated Modi’s natural flair for diplomacy, to which he has brought imagination and self-assurance. Modi has been more […]
Singapore has appointed an Indian-origin businessman as its non-Resident High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, the Foreign Ministry announced today. S Chandra Das served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, resident in Singapore, from […]
During his China visit, Prime Minister Modi has been unusually forthright in speaking about the problems that hold back the India-China relationship. He probably feels that his desire to strengthen ties with China being so clear, […]
GENEVA (TIP): India has been ranked at a lowly 100 position on the global Human Capital Index, which measures countries on development and deployment of human capital. Finland has topped the 124-nation list. India is […]
COLOMBO (TIP): As many as 54 Indian fishermen have been arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for allegedly poaching in island’s waters off the coast of Kankesanturai and Talaimannar in the north. Sri Lankan Naval […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A protest staged by lawmakers backing former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa ran into a second day after the country’s bribery commission summoned the ex-leader and his brothers to explain their actions while […]
BEIJING (TIP): Sri Lanka’s new president held talks March 26 with Chinese leader Xi Jinping amid a push to recalibrate his predecessor’s strongly pro-China policies and a review of major Chinese projects in the island […]
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “The Modi government will face the test of managing closer strategic relations with the US, which are in part directed against China, and forging closer ties with China that go against this strategic thrust, besides the […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has again said that his country’s navy has the right to shoot anyone who intrudes into its territorial waters, notwithstanding India’s forthright disapproval. “The Lankan navy has […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan government on Wednesday said it may lift the ban on Tamil diaspora groups imposed by the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa regime to achieve reconciliation with the minority community. Foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera […]
Prime Minister Modi should be congratulated for his bold decision to visit Sri Lanka for a bilateral visit, after Rajiv Gandhi in 1987. Perhaps, Modi has no internal political pressures or coalition objections that had prevented […]
WELLINGTON (TIP): South Africa cruised to a straightforward 146-run win over the United Arab Emirates Thursday to secure a World Cup quarterfinal berth and seal second place in Pool B behind India. The Proteas never […]
COLOMBO (TIP): India and Sri Lanka on March 13 signed four bilateral pacts — agreement on visa, customs, youth development and building Rabindranath Tagore memorial — during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first tour to the […]
LONDON (TIP): A domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan civil war may be set up in less than a month, President Maithripala Sirisena said on his trip to Britain. He, […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done well by focusing on Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka for diplomatic engagement, something that was long awaited. It has been 28 years since an Indian PM made a stand-alone visit […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): As Prime Minister Narendra Modi braces to firm up New Delhi’s bid to countervail Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt One Road” initiative, Beijing has now suggested that India’s own efforts to […]
ZURICH (TIP): Sri Lankan President Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisawa got the good news that his country has been given a six-month reprieve by the UN Human Rights Council during his visit to India this month. […]
CHRISTCHURCH (TIP): The traffic stopped all around the city and everyone on the streets looked up at the night sky which was bathed in a riot of colours. As fireworks lit the skyline, the Kiwi […]
COLOMBO (TIP): A Sri Lankan court on Thursday barred former Tamil Tiger rebel leader Kumaran Pathmanathan, wanted by India in connection with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, from travelling abroad, a lawyer said. Rajiv Gandhi was […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text] It has been said the crooks will always find creeks to enter any system in the world. And when the system is welcoming and benevolent, the infiltration is much easier. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lanka’s new government on January 20 said it will reopen probes into unresolved high-profile assassinations, including that of two Tamil lawmakers, which took pace during the decade-long rule of former president Mahinda […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): A close look at the format of the 2015 ODI World Cup shows a series of lacunae. Much of the tournament will be played for largely inconsequential games. That apart, the teams […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday, January 9 morning conceded defeat in presidential elections held on Thursday, even as trends showed a clear victory for united opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena. Sirisena was […]
COLOMBO (SRI LANKA) (TIP): At least nine people have been killed in mudslides triggered by heavy rains in the central hills of Sri Lanka. Disaster-response officials say more than 60,000 people have been evacuated and […]
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