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

July 24, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 23: Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday urged Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga to hold early natio...
Sat, Jul 24, 1999
July 23, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 21: Sri Lankan journalists on Wednesday held an anti-government demonstration and burnt an effigy of the media minister to ...
Fri, Jul 23, 1999
July 21, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 20: Soldiers went on a rampage in a village in Mannar, northwestern Sri Lanka, firing at civilians and setting houses ablaz...
Wed, Jul 21, 1999
July 18, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 17: Sri Lanka's confrontational politics took a turn for the worse on Friday as the opposition United National Party (UNP) ...
Sun, Jul 18, 1999
July 14, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 13: Sri Lanka's new cricket captain Sanath Jayasuriya says he has been promised ``fullest support'' by Arjuna Ranatunga, wh...
Wed, Jul 14, 1999
July 10, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 9: The painful part of the selection process over, Sri Lanka's selectors on Thursday paid tributes to Arjuna Ranatunga and ...
Sat, Jul 10, 1999
June 19, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JUNE 18: Chaiman of the Pakistan Senate Wasim Sajjad is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka next week and is expected to turn the v...
Sat, Jun 19, 1999
June 17, 1999 00:00 IST
JAFFNA, JUNE 16: "I would be shattered if the remains of my son were found buried at Chemmani, but I would be shattered even if they...
Thu, Jun 17, 1999
June 15, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, June 14: The LTTE on Sunday confirmed that one of its top leaders had arrived in London for treatment of a worsening diabetic co...
Tue, Jun 15, 1999
June 01, 1999 00:00 IST
It takes a few visits but it is only after you get used to the physical devastation of Jaffna, the burnt-out shells of houses and buildin...
Tue, Jun 01, 1999
June 01, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, MAY 31: As Sri Lanka's failure at the World Cup began sinking in, disappointed fans turned to Buddha's teachings for solace. ``A...
Tue, Jun 01, 1999
June 01, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, MAY 31: As Sri Lanka's failure at the World Cup began sinking in, disappointed fans turned to Buddha's teachings for solace. ``A...
Tue, Jun 01, 1999
May 24, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, MAY 23: The Sri Lankan Tamils are caught in a piquant situation, fighting shy of the army's drive to recruit them in order to ge...
Mon, May 24, 1999
May 14, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, MAY 13: Sri Lankans are preparing to forget the fighting in their country's north-east to concentrate on a different sort of war...
Fri, May 14, 1999
May 02, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, May 1: A Tamil human rights group has called for an "open-minded" enquiry into the recent discovery of a mass grave at...
Sun, May 02, 1999
April 24, 1999 00:00 IST
JAFFNA, April 23: For Generation X of this town in Sri Lanka's embattled northern peninsula, joining the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
Sat, Apr 24, 1999
April 24, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, APRIL 23: If NATO can bomb Yugoslavia to end the suffering of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, why does the West ignore Sri Lanka, pr...
Sat, Apr 24, 1999
April 23, 1999 00:00 IST
Two virtuoso performers not so long ago became the twin symbols of hope in Sri Lanka. President Chandrika Kumaratunga and cricket team ca...
Fri, Apr 23, 1999
April 14, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, April 13: One thing is clear from last week's provincial council elections: Sri Lanka's minority Tamils and Muslims who had vote...
Wed, Apr 14, 1999
April 11, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, APRIL 10: From the tyre-pyres of the 80s to becoming king-makers, the Janatha Vimukthi Perumina(JVP) which led two unsuccessful ...
Sun, Apr 11, 1999
April 08, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, APRIL 7: The discovery of human skeletons and bones in an abandoned stadium in Jaffna may drag the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (I...
Thu, Apr 08, 1999
April 08, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, APRIL 7: The discovery of human skeletons and bones in an abandoned stadium in Jaffna may drag the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (I...
Thu, Apr 08, 1999
March 27, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, MARCH 26: Tamil leader Varadaraja Perumal has returned to India, the land of his self-imposed exile, after a foray into Sri Lank...
Sat, Mar 27, 1999
March 22, 1999 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, March 21: A newspaper here has published an account of how the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan, assisted by their Sri La...
Mon, Mar 22, 1999
March 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NUWARA ELIYA (SRI LANKA), March 19: Taking forward the process set in motion by the Lahore Declaration, External Affairs Minister Jaswant...
Sat, Mar 20, 1999





