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

October 26, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 25: Run machine Aravinda de Silva has broken the hearts of his female fans with the announcement of his engagement to model ...
Mon, Oct 26, 1998
October 24, 1998 00:00 IST
NUWARA ELIYA (Sri Lanka), Oct 23: In the epic Ramayana, the demon king Ravana spirits away Ram's wife Sita to Lanka. Her prison was the b...
Sat, Oct 24, 1998
October 16, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 14: Sri Lanka is rapidly losing control over the northern Jaffna peninsula with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ...
Fri, Oct 16, 1998
October 10, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 9: After the recent feat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), people are willing to buy any story about the separ...
Sat, Oct 10, 1998
October 10, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 9: After the recent feat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), people are willing to buy any story about the separ...
Sat, Oct 10, 1998
October 09, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, OCT 8: Sri Lanka's defence ministry on Thursday released its final death count at Killinochchi but its effort to play down the s...
Fri, Oct 09, 1998
October 05, 1998 00:00 IST
Waiter, there's a maldive in my salad!" Thus has many a hungry vegetarian in Sri Lanka expressed anguish that even the one can-eat i...
Mon, Oct 05, 1998
October 04, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 3: Sri Lanka managed to convert an opportunity to reach out to the Tamils into a demonstration of utter callousness for the ...
Sun, Oct 04, 1998
October 03, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 2: Dead bodies of soldiers killed in the fighting earlier this week are still being collected by the truckload from the conf...
Sat, Oct 03, 1998
September 22, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Sept 21: Sri Lanka is seeking to offset its rising defence spending by asking all government employees to donate a week's salary...
Tue, Sep 22, 1998
September 20, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Sept 19: The Sri Lankan press has been accused of war mongering, racism and ignorance about the country's ethnic conflict in a s...
Sun, Sep 20, 1998
September 13, 1998 00:00 IST
JAFFNA, Sept 12: The killing of Mayor Pon Sivapalan and 11 others in a powerful explosion here on Friday is yet another blow to President...
Sun, Sep 13, 1998
September 10, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Sept 9: Rejecting the demand of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that the government talk to it unconditionally, Pres...
Thu, Sep 10, 1998
August 21, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, AUG 20: Sri Lanka, which has so far been unsuccessful in opening a land route to Jaffna, is dependent on merchant ships to trans...
Fri, Aug 21, 1998
August 19, 1998 00:00 IST
HATTON, August 18: Frustration is written all over Vel Rajamurthy's face. He is 27-years old and unemployed. With his secondary education...
Wed, Aug 19, 1998
August 17, 1998 00:00 IST
In a quiet corner of the Dalada Maligawa, the Temple of the Tooth Relic, away from the bustle of worshippers and tourists, a room has bee...
Mon, Aug 17, 1998
August 11, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Aug 10: A priceless painting that adorned the walls of the President's House in Sri Lanka recently surfaced at a well-known Lond...
Tue, Aug 11, 1998
August 06, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Aug 5: Hours after the imposition of an island-wide emergency, the Sri Lankan Government indefinitely postponed elections to fiv...
Thu, Aug 06, 1998
August 05, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, August 4: President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Tuesday imposed an island-wide emergency making way for a postponement of the month...
Wed, Aug 05, 1998
August 01, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 31: Diplomatic gloves came off on Friday as foreign secretary-level negotiations here between India and Pakistan to break t...
Sat, Aug 01, 1998
July 31, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 30: Talks between the Indian and Pakistan foreign secretaries on a methodology for resumption of talks appeared to be stale...
Fri, Jul 31, 1998
July 31, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JULY 30: Same day, same place, another year, an Indian Prime Minister believed, mistakenly as it turned out, that he would go do...
Fri, Jul 31, 1998
July 30, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 29: In the first formal contact between India and Pakistan after the nuclear tests, Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee an...
Thu, Jul 30, 1998
July 29, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 28: Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif arrived here today, a day ahead of their first meeting, holding o...
Wed, Jul 29, 1998
July 28, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 27: India won a quiet diplomatic victory on Monday when Pakistan's insistence on the inclusion of a reference to regional `...
Tue, Jul 28, 1998



