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

March 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
NUWARA ELIYA (SRI LANKA), March 18: The widely welcomed Lahore Declaration suddenly became the most contentious issue at the 21st SAARC f...
Fri, Mar 19, 1999
March 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
NUWARA ELIYA, March 18: As Indian External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh prepares to meet his Pakistani counterpart Sartaj Aziz on Frida...
Fri, Mar 19, 1999
March 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
NUWARA ELIYA (SRI LANKA), March 18: The widely welcomed Lahore Declaration suddenly became the most contentious issue at the 21st SAARC f...
Fri, Mar 19, 1999
March 09,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, March 8: Three Indian fishermen were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy and their dhow loaded with fuel supplies taken into custody...
Tue, Mar 09, 1999
March 01,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Feb 28: Sri Lanka's main national issue, the resolution of the prolonged ethnic conflict, has been pushed to the sidelines as th...
Mon, Mar 01, 1999
February 26,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Feb 25: Sri Lanka will carry out its first census since 1981 in areas controlled by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ee...
Fri, Feb 26, 1999
February 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
HANGURANTEKA (CENTRAL SRI LANKA), FEB 12: As a henchman of the assassinated Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa prepares to inject ...
Sat, Feb 13, 1999
February 09,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Feb 8: Sri Lanka has begun preparing for another round of local polls with the announcement on Monday that elections to five pro...
Tue, Feb 09, 1999
January 29,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, JAN 28: With the government putting up a bellicose defence against accusations of malpractices in a local government election, t...
Fri, Jan 29, 1999
January 25,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, JAN 24: Amidst warnings of violence and rigging, Sri Lankans will vote on Monday in an important local government election that ...
Mon, Jan 25, 1999
January 25,1999 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, JAN 24: Mystery still shrouds the return to Sri Lanka of Tamil politician Varadaraja Perumal who lived the last nine years in Ra...
Mon, Jan 25, 1999
December 21,1998 00:00:00 AM
Those advocating that Tamil should be the medium of education in schools in Tamil Nadu and that fluency in it should be considered an ess...
Mon, Dec 21, 1998
December 17,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Dec 15: Sri Lanka's new army commander who assumed charge on Wednesday said there would be no military pull-out from any part of...
Thu, Dec 17, 1998
December 17,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, DEC 16: Sri Lanka's cricket fans, still recovering from the Dhaka and Sharjah defeats, have been hit once again. This time by th...
Thu, Dec 17, 1998
December 13,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, DEC 12: The World Bank-backed World Commission on Dams(WCD) concluded its first hearings here on Friday on a euphoric note, with...
Sun, Dec 13, 1998
November 27,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Nov 26: Voice of Tigers (VoT), the clandestine radio service of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, has launched a Sinhala servic...
Fri, Nov 27, 1998
November 23,1998 00:00:00 AM
Fearing that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has already penetrated the highest echelons of the South African establishment and ...
Mon, Nov 23, 1998
November 19,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Nov 18: Sri Lanka is jubilant over South Africa's reported assurance that it would not allow the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (...
Thu, Nov 19, 1998
November 17,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, NOV 16: As the controversy over President Chandrika Kumaratunga's gaffe on the origins of Sri Lankas minority Tamil community hotte...
Tue, Nov 17, 1998
November 11,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, NOV 10: Undersecretary of state in the British foreign office, Derek Fatchett, said on Tuesday there could be scope for third party...
Wed, Nov 11, 1998
November 10,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Nov 9: More than two months after Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga allegedly said on South African television that the mi...
Tue, Nov 10, 1998
November 08,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Nov 7: In a virtual admission of defeat in the face of terror tactics by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lankan Pr...
Sun, Nov 08, 1998
November 02,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Nov 1: Sri Lanka is using civilians as a human shield for transporting troops and materials to and from the war zone, a Tamil parli...
Mon, Nov 02, 1998
October 31,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, OCT 30: Fifteen Sri Lankan seamen were reported missing after a navy Dvora-class gunboat was sunk by a LTTE Sea Tiger suicide bo...
Sat, Oct 31, 1998
October 27,1998 00:00:00 AM
COLOMBO, Oct 26: The Sri Lankan government, which is trying to regain through propaganda what it has lost in the battlefield to the Liber...
Tue, Oct 27, 1998



