Nirupama Subramanian is National Editor (Strategic Affairs). She writes on India’s foreign policy and national security issues.
December 29, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Dec 28: A suspected Tamil Tiger guerrilla truck bomb exploded prematurely in the southern Sri Lankan town of Galle near the Magalla...
Mon, Dec 29, 1997December 26, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, December 25: "You give a very bad impression to your employer if they see you chatting/ talking, gathering or laughing with y...
Fri, Dec 26, 1997December 09, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Dec 8: Sri Lanka's Opposition United National Party on Monday reprimanded the Government in Parliament for not yet giving Indian H...
Tue, Dec 09, 1997December 07, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, December 6: Sri Lanka began a gory headcount of its dead soldiers in the latest clash with the LTTE when the International Committ...
Sun, Dec 07, 1997December 05, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Dec 4: Heavy fighting broke out in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday as fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) offer...
Fri, Dec 05, 1997December 04, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, DEC 3: Sri Lankan government on Wednesday announced elections to local government in Jaffna peninsula and other areas of the Tamil...
Thu, Dec 04, 1997November 29, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 28: In spite of a crushing military offensive by the Sri Lankan government that has weakened the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee...
Sat, Nov 29, 1997November 28, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, November 27: Relenting to pressure from various Muslim groups and political parties, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga ha...
Fri, Nov 28, 1997November 28, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 27: The Sri Lankan Government has described as imbalanced an Amnesty International finding that delayed official reaction to r...
Fri, Nov 28, 1997November 23, 1997 00:00 IST
There is this tale of a girl who left the dusty village roads back home to set ablaze synthetic tracks across the world. The girl comes bac...
Sun, Nov 23, 1997November 20, 1997 00:00 IST
Nov 19: As President Chandrika Kumaratunga prepares the ground to implement her proposals to share power with the minority Tamil community ...
Thu, Nov 20, 1997November 18, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Nov 17: At least 25 combatants have died since the military restarted its operation in northern Sri Lanka and captured a key area ...
Tue, Nov 18, 1997November 15, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, NOV 14: A senior minister in the Sri Lankan government revealed deep sexist and racial prejudices when he suggested that star athl...
Sat, Nov 15, 1997November 12, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Nov 11: Assignment Colombo, the memoirs of former Sri Lanka high commissioner J N Dixit of his turbulent years in this country, ha...
Wed, Nov 12, 1997November 12, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Nov 11: More on Sri Lanka's sprint queen and it's best medal hope at the Sydney Olympics: Susanthika Jayasinghe's husband is an al...
Wed, Nov 12, 1997October 23, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Oct 22: There is money to be made after a bomb blast, and after last week's powerful explosion in the Sri Lankan capital, dealers ...
Thu, Oct 23, 1997October 23, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, October 22: President Chandrika Kumaratunga's proposals to develop power to Tamils, scheduled to be presented before Parliament on...
Thu, Oct 23, 1997August 25, 1997 00:00 IST
ARAVINDA DESILVA...Man of the Match. COLOMBO, Aug 24: Invited to savour victory, the Indian side settled for defeat once again. Losing th...
Mon, Aug 25, 1997August 24, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Aug 23: Sheer bad luck this time. India were denied a possible victory and a chance to redeem themselves on this disastrous tour a...
Sun, Aug 24, 1997August 21, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, AUG 20: Someone please tell the Indian side that the Gujral doctrine does not extend to cricket. Sri Lanka beat India by seven wic...
Thu, Aug 21, 1997August 20, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Aug 19: In a severe embarrassment for the Sri Lankan Government, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled as illegal the arrest and dete...
Wed, Aug 20, 1997August 20, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, Aug 19: If India are not to return from Sri Lanka as complete losers, they must more than repeat the performance of the first one-...
Wed, Aug 20, 1997August 13, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, August 12: Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lanka's star athlete and silver medallist at the World Athletics meet at Athens returned on ...
Wed, Aug 13, 1997August 12, 1997 00:00 IST
WARKAPOLA (Sri Lanka), Aug 11: Jamaican athlete Merlene Ottey may not even remember that in 1996, she posed for a photograph with Susanthik...
Tue, Aug 12, 1997August 03, 1997 00:00 IST
COLOMBO, August 2: Over 200 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters were killed when the Sri Lankan armed forces thwarted an attac...
Sun, Aug 03, 1997