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

July 24,1999 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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 00:00:00 AM
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

