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

October 10, 1999 00:00 IST
At the grandly named General Sir John Kotelawala Defence Academy on the outskirts of Colombo, cadet officers are swotting in class, still...
Sun, Oct 10, 1999
October 10, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 9: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has begun a final campaign to save the lives of the four persons whose appeal...
Sun, Oct 10, 1999
October 05, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 4: Nine years after India went home, there is fresh agonising over foreign mediation in the island's ethnic conflict as the ...
Tue, Oct 05, 1999
October 03, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 2: Nine years after India went home, there is fresh agonising over foreign mediation in the island's ethnic conflict as the ...
Sun, Oct 03, 1999
October 01, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 30: From being one of the most popular foreigners in Sri Lanka, cricket commentator and former England captain Tony Greig h...
Fri, Oct 01, 1999
October 01, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 30: From being one of the most popular foreigners in Sri Lanka, cricket commentator and former England captain Tony Greig h...
Fri, Oct 01, 1999
September 30, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 29: Two days after being asked to "mind its own business" by Sri Lanka and not make comments relating to the coun...
Thu, Sep 30, 1999
September 28, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 27: The role of the United Nations (UN) in Sri Lanka came under strong attack as foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar blast...
Tue, Sep 28, 1999
September 25, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 24: A powerful claymore mine explosion triggered by the LTTE killed 18 soldiers and injured 14 others, including two civili...
Sat, Sep 25, 1999
September 24, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 23: Two communities, two different reactions -- that about sums up the national response to last week's twin tragedies, one...
Fri, Sep 24, 1999
September 21, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 20: Two communities, two different reactions - that about sums up the national response to last week's twin tragedies, one ...
Tue, Sep 21, 1999
September 21, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 20: Two communities, two different reactions - that about sums up the national response to last week's twin tragedies, one ...
Tue, Sep 21, 1999
September 18, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 17: In a country deeply divided along ethnic lines and desensitised by long years of war, the Air Force bombing that killed...
Sat, Sep 18, 1999
September 17, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 16: Twenty-two Tamil civilians were reported killed and more than 30 wounded when Sri Lankan combat aircraft bombed a crowd...
Fri, Sep 17, 1999
September 15, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 14: The Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have suffered massive casualties in two days of hea...
Wed, Sep 15, 1999
September 15, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 14: For the past 15 years, Sri Lanka's Jaffna peninsula has seen so much of death that residents cynically say that they wo...
Wed, Sep 15, 1999
September 11, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 10: Australian captain Steve Waugh and pace bowler Jason Gillespie were both badly injured after they collided full speed i...
Sat, Sep 11, 1999
September 11, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 10: Australian captain Steve Waugh and pace bowler Jason Gillespie were both badly injured after they collided full speed i...
Sat, Sep 11, 1999
September 09, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 8: The killing of a newspaper editor outside his home late Tuesday night rocked the Sri Lankan parliament on Wednesday and ...
Thu, Sep 09, 1999
September 09, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 8: The killing of a newspaper editor outside his home late Tuesday night rocked the Sri Lankan parliament on Wednesday and ...
Thu, Sep 09, 1999
September 03, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 2: Sri Lanka's continuing saga of violence claimed more victims on Thursday when a significant player in the country's ethn...
Fri, Sep 03, 1999
September 03, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 2: Sri Lanka's continuing saga of violence claimed more victims on Thursday when a significant player in the country's ethn...
Fri, Sep 03, 1999
September 02, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 1: A key suspect in the assassination of parliamentarian Neelan Tiruchelvam in July has fled to India, according to newspap...
Thu, Sep 02, 1999
September 02, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, SEPT 1: A key suspect in the assassination of parliamentarian Neelan Tiruchelvam in July has fled to India, according to newspap...
Thu, Sep 02, 1999
September 01, 1999 00:00 IST
Yamuna Jeevanthi is a 12-year-old girl living in a low-income suburb outside the Sri Lankan capital. Like thousands of other Sri Lankan w...
Wed, Sep 01, 1999





