It's time for U.S. policy toward Sri Lanka to be more symmetrical

The Tamil Nadu assembly Friday urged India to take back Katchatheevu, an island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974, to protect Indian fishermen from attacks by the Sri Lankan navy.The assembly passed a resolution describing the ceding of the island as illegal and ...

Sri Lanka today reacted strongly to the recent Tamil Nadu assembly resolution against it, saying it was "disturbing" and asked the critics to visit the country to see the progress on the ground instead of going by "exaggerated" allegations of human rights ...

With no political backing on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue, the government has only been posturing for a resolution, reports Renu Mittal After the withdrawal of support by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from the UPA government, both the houses could not transact any business with a serious question mark over whether the Rajya Sabha would be able to pass the anti-rape bill, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. On the one hand, the two houses were disrupted by the DMK and the All India ...

On May 3, the resolution by the asking the Centre to retrieve Katchatheevu, ceded by India to Sri Lanka in 1974, has not come as a surprise to many. For decades, the cessation of the tiny, uninhabited island (measuring less than 300 acres) by India ...

Washington, Apr 15 (PTI) The US today strongly condemned the attack on a Tamil newspaper in the northern Sri Lanka and asked the countrt''s government to conduct a credible investigation into the attack on the freedom of the press."We condemn the ...

Despite standing by the Congress-led UPA II over the Sri Lanka resolution, Trinamool Congress demanded immediate resignation of the Union government, which it claimed is in minority.

Chennai, Apr 6 : DMK President M Karunanidhi today reiterated his demand that the proposed CHOGM meet in November this year should not be held in Sri Lanka which had indulged in genocide of Tamils during the final phase of war in 2009. In a ...

DMK, TESO to strive to shift CHOGM out of Sri Lanka UNHRC's resolution watered down and useless: Karunanidh... DMK not toning down stand on Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu for referendum in Sri Lanka Chennai, April 15 (IANS) The DMK-backed Tamil Eelam ...

Hardening its stance after India backed a UN resolution against Sri Lanka, Colombo has indicated that a decade-old MoU on a strategic oil tank farm in the island nation would have to be re-negotiated to include a Lankan partner in its operation. In ...