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

July 27, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 26: The tricky issue of disarmament, to which ritualistic obeisance is paid at every SAARC summit, finds no place in the dr...
Mon, Jul 27, 1998
July 26, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 25: Smaller member countries of the SAARC have resigned themselves to watching another round of wrangling between their two...
Sun, Jul 26, 1998
July 25, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 24: A treaty reaffirming the commitment of member countries to a South Asian Free Trade Area is likely to be adopted at the...
Sat, Jul 25, 1998
July 22, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 21: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is planning civilian protest marches in its strongholds to coincide with th...
Wed, Jul 22, 1998
July 20, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 19: Deputy Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte on Sunday issued a powerful threat that he would relinquish responsibility f...
Mon, Jul 20, 1998
July 18, 1998 00:00 IST
Colombo, July 17: Hacks, forget about that exclusive at the SAARC summit this month end. Just be grateful for the briefings. If the secur...
Sat, Jul 18, 1998
July 17, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 16: In spite of New Delhi's insistence that India and Pakistan must sort out their differences within a strictly bilateral ...
Fri, Jul 17, 1998
July 14, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 13: Is there a Bosnia lurking under the red soils of Jaffna? Is there a mass grave of Tamil civilians in Chemmanai in the nort...
Tue, Jul 14, 1998
July 05, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 4: A Foreign office spokesman on Saturday said there was no information here that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan ...
Sun, Jul 05, 1998
July 02, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, July 1: If smiles could speak, Arjuna Ranatunga would have probably said: ``Sweet revenge.'' World champions Sri Lanka on Wednesday...
Thu, Jul 02, 1998
June 26, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, June 25: The political drama over the Sri Lankan Presidential elections continued on Thursday with the government announcing that t...
Fri, Jun 26, 1998
June 25, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JUNE 24: Seeking to dispel the impression fast gaining ground that she is afraid of elections, President Chandrika Kumaratunga has ...
Thu, Jun 25, 1998
June 24, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, June 23: A severe shortage of teachers in schools on Sri Lanka's Tamil-majority tea estates has prompted a senior politician repres...
Wed, Jun 24, 1998
June 23, 1998 00:00 IST
A prominent member of the Sri Lankan cricket team once confessed to friends that his greatest fear was being declared Man of the Match becau...
Tue, Jun 23, 1998
June 22, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, June 21: President Chandrika Kumaratunga's attempt to install a civilian administration in North Jaffna is crumbling with many loca...
Mon, Jun 22, 1998
June 20, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JUNE 19: The bands fell silent at the Premadasa Stadium here as India cruised to a facile win over Sri Lanka in the opening day-nig...
Sat, Jun 20, 1998
June 11, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, June 10: Deputy Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte on Wednesday admitted before the Sri Lankan parliament that the army had suffer...
Thu, Jun 11, 1998
June 06, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, JUNE 5: Sri Lanka on Friday imposed censorship on all local and foreign media including newspapers, radio and television a day afte...
Sat, Jun 06, 1998
May 25, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, May 24: Last week, a deserter who was loitering at a railway station in Badulla in south-central Sri Lanka, jumped before an approa...
Mon, May 25, 1998
May 25, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, May 24: Indian Information and Communications Minister Sushma Swaraj reiterated today that her government would offer no support to...
Mon, May 25, 1998
May 25, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, May 24: The first meeting of communication ministers of SAARC countries concluded here on Sunday with an unanimous agreement to low...
Mon, May 25, 1998
May 14, 1998 00:00 IST
Operation Jaya Sekuru, Sri Lanka's most ambitious military campaign launched to secure a highway between the north and south of the island t...
Thu, May 14, 1998
May 10, 1998 00:00 IST
Colombo, May 9: In a move described by the Board of Cricket Control here as "restructuring", Sri Lanka's coach Bruce Yardley was r...
Sun, May 10, 1998
May 04, 1998 00:00 IST
Colombo, May 3: As Sri Lanka still grapples with memories of the violent years of the late 80s when an armed Sinhalese rebellion and a subse...
Mon, May 04, 1998
April 27, 1998 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, April 26: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party foreign policy advisor, Nagendra Nath Jha's remark that the new government would support th...
Mon, Apr 27, 1998




