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

October 10,1999 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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


