Sri Lanka slams US` `intrusive` rights resolution move

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 21:45

Sri Lanka slammed "intrusive" US move to sponsor third resolution against it at the UN rights body criticising its post-war reconciliation and said such action only serves to polarise the country.

Indira Gandhi asked Thatcher to stop helping Lanka militarily

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 18:11

Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had asked her British counterpart Margaret Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka with military advice to crush the separatist Tamil Eelam movement in the 1980s, according to newly declassified documents.

Rights group calls for international pressure on Lanka

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 11:55

Sri Lanka made little progress in 2013 in accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the country`s civil war, Human Rights Watch has said and called for an international probe to provide justice for victims.

Little progress on rights in Sri Lanka: Report

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 16:28

Sri Lanka made little progress in 2013 in accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the civil war that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Relatives of 1998 Lanka air crash victims identify belongings

Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 21:46

Relatives of the victims of an air crash in Sri Lanka attended a public display today to identify their belongings, over 15 years after the tragedy.

Sri Lanka to display air crash victims` belongings

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 13:55

The Sri Lankan police will put on public display items salvaged from an aircraft with 55 people onboard that was shot down by the LTTE 16 years ago.

Indo-Lanka ties in 2013 affected by Tamil issue

Last Updated: Sunday, December 29, 2013, 16:36

India-Sri Lanka ties in 2013 were affected by differences over alleged rights abuses in the war against the LTTE and giving political rights to Tamils, even as Colombo held provincial polls after 25 years in the Tamil-dominated north as part of reconciliation.

TNA to push for international probe into Lanka war crimes

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 14:30

Sri Lanka`s main Tamil party has said it will push for an independent international probe into alleged war crimes committed during the final phase of the civil war against the LTTE in 2009.

Singapore man deported from US in LTTE arms plot

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 10:49

An Indian-origin Singaporean has been deported home from the US, after he had completed a jail term for offences related to trying to buy arms worth USD 900,000 for Sri Lanka`s outlawed separatist group LTTE.

DMK has struggled for SL Tamil cause since early days: Karunanidhi

Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 23:24

Refuting criticism that his party had done little for the Sri Lankan Tamils cause, DMK president M Karunanidhi on Saturday said it had struggled for the ethnic minority since the early days, with even his party led governments being dismissed in the light of the issue.

Opposition leader of Lanka northern council held for murder

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 18:03

An opposition leader in Sri Lanka`s newly established Northern Provincial Council was on Wednesday arrested for his alleged role in the murder of a member of his own party, the first political murder in the region since LTTE`s defeat.