Nirupama Subramanian is National Editor (Strategic Affairs). She writes on India’s foreign policy and national security issues.

December 11, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, DECEMBER 10: The Tamils of Sri Lanka are faced with the classic Hobson's choice in the December 21 presidential election. Voting ...
Sat, Dec 11, 1999
December 11, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, DECEMBER 10: The Tamils of Sri Lanka are faced with the classic Hobson's choice in the December 21 presidential election. Voting ...
Sat, Dec 11, 1999
December 08, 1999 00:00 IST
Colombo, December 7: An ally of President Chandrika Kumaratunga announced today he was withdrawing from her People's Alliance (PA) coaliti...
Wed, Dec 08, 1999
December 08, 1999 00:00 IST
Colombo, December 7: An ally of President Chandrika Kumaratunga announced today he was withdrawing from her People's Alliance (PA) coaliti...
Wed, Dec 08, 1999
December 05, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, DEC 4: If Ranil wants to "hand over" Chandrika to the Tamil Tigers, Chandrika wants him to hand over his wife to them. ...
Sun, Dec 05, 1999
November 30, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, November 29: The United National Party (UNP) on Monday attacked Sri Lanka President Chandrika Kumaratunga of trying to start sec...
Tue, Nov 30, 1999
November 27, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 26: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced on Friday that as a gesture of goodwill, they would release seven soldier...
Sat, Nov 27, 1999
November 26, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 25: The fall guy of the Indo-Sri Lanka joint venture of 1987 came out of hiding on Wednesday to declare that a separate Tami...
Fri, Nov 26, 1999
November 25, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 24: Opposition Leader and United National Party (UNP) presidential candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday accused Presi...
Thu, Nov 25, 1999
November 22, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 21: Fierce shelling claimed lives of thirty-eight civilians and left nearly 60 injured as the continuing battle for supremac...
Mon, Nov 22, 1999
November 21, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 20: As the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) continues its roll across northern Sri Lanka, the government has blamed t...
Sun, Nov 21, 1999
November 19, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 18: After a fierce battle that has left more than a 100 dead overnight, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Thurs...
Fri, Nov 19, 1999
November 17, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 16: The race for Sri Lanka's top job began officially on Tuesday as a record number of 13 candidates handed in nominations f...
Wed, Nov 17, 1999
November 16, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 15: As the government began a high-level probe into the explosion near the site of a United National Party (UNP) election me...
Tue, Nov 16, 1999
November 16, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 15: As the government began a high-level probe into the explosion near the site of a United National Party (UNP) election me...
Tue, Nov 16, 1999
November 15, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 14: President Chandrika Kumaratunga this week spoke to members of the Tamil community in Bamblipitiya, a well-heeled neighbo...
Mon, Nov 15, 1999
November 14, 1999 00:00 IST
VAVUNIYA, NOV 13: Thousands of people who left this northern Sri Lankan town on the orders of the LTTE over the last three days are now c...
Sun, Nov 14, 1999
November 12, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Nov 11: A grave humanitarian crisis is looming in Sri Lanka as tens of thousands of people, following LTTE orders, emptied out o...
Fri, Nov 12, 1999
November 11, 1999 00:00 IST
Sri Lanka is still picking up the pieces from its worst ever military debacle against the Tamil Tigers in 16 years. As the army shakily g...
Thu, Nov 11, 1999
November 11, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 10: Fear and panic gripped residents of Vavuniya in northern Sri Lanka after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) mad...
Thu, Nov 11, 1999
November 02, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 1: The Sri Lankan police describe him as a Tamil-speaking Indian. He shuttles between Chennai, where he is probably resident...
Tue, Nov 02, 1999
October 30, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 29: Presidential elections in Sri Lanka will be held on December 21 with voters deciding if it should be the present incumbe...
Sat, Oct 30, 1999
October 30, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 29: Presidential elections in Sri Lanka will be held on December 21 with voters deciding if it should be the present incumbe...
Sat, Oct 30, 1999
October 22, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 21: In 1994, when Chandrika Kumaratunga asked the Tamils to vote for her on the promise that she would bring Sri Lanka's eth...
Fri, Oct 22, 1999
October 21, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 20: In a widely anticipated move, President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Wednesday announced early presidential election asking ...
Thu, Oct 21, 1999




