Slain LTTE leader Prabhkaran's mother Parvathy is back in Sri Lanka. She was brought from Kuala Lumpur to Colombo on Monday evening.
The US on Tuesday said it is cooperating at the highest level to provide India access to 26/11 accused David Headley even as it maintained Pakistan has to do more to fight terror.
In the local Government elections held in London on the 6th of this month, nearly 50 Sri Lankan Tamils contested and 12 of them have managed to win.
The Tibetan provincial government has objected to the Dalai Lama watching an Indian Premier League (IPL) match. "The religious leader was trying to prove to be a worthy son of India by participating in the country's favourite pastime," it said in an article published in the Communist Party organ, People's Daily.
The English phrase Good things come to those who wait, propounding the virtue of patience, is not a proposition that can be sold easily to sections of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka.
Taking off from the recent SAARC meet in Thimphu, where the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan agreed to take the dialogue process forward, External affairs minister S M Krishna will be going to Islamabad July 15 for talks with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
The Democratic People's Front (DPF) which is an ally of Sri Lanka's main opposition, United National Party (UNP) is to make an official announcement of its withdrawal from the UNP after the (DPF) leader Mano Ganesan was refused a slot in the parliament national list.
Brushing aside Maoists' allegations that the government had incited violence through the use of vigilantes, Home Minister Bhim Bahadur Rawal has said that there were no untoward incidents taken place during the six-day long nationwide general strike enforced by the main opposition party UCPN (Maoists).
Obama administration's understanding that neither sanctions nor engagements have succeeded to influence the Burmese military leadership it decided to undertake a comprehensive review of the United States policy toward Burma and has led, in these seven months of deliberations, toward the launch of pragmatic engagement with that country says U.S. Assistant Secretary of East Asian Affairs Kurt M.
The Sri Lanka Food Festival jointly organized by the Crowne Plaza Hotel and the Sri Lankan Embassy on the occasion of celebrating "Sri Lanka Culture Week" in Kuwait was inaugurated on 28th April at the Al-Ahmadi Restaurant of Crowne Plaza Hotel amidst a gathering of Kuwaiti dignitaries, members of the Diplomatic Corps, media, well-wishers etc.
India's Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday ruled out military operations as an option to tackle the Maoist menace and said it is a matter of "ethical consideration" not to do so.
Tamil Nadu Government has denied irregularities in Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TITCO) signing a Joint Venture (JV) pact with TATA Reality and Infrastructure Limited for setting up a Special Economic Zone(SEZ) for IT Companies at Taramani in Chennai.
Mr David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative party was appointed the new prime minister of the United Kingdom by the Queen last evening after both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives agreed to form a coalition in the interest of the nation. The deal was struck late in the evening by the two leaders after consulting their respective elected MPs.
Sri Lanka's Minister of Fisheries Dr Rajitha Senaratne is planning to install satellite surveillance to safeguard fishermen from straying out into the neighboring country's waters.
Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in New York on Monday night that in the name of humanity, Iran grants visas to mothers of the 3 arrested American citizens in Iran.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has rejected the news reports which said that the slain LTTE leader Prabakaran's Mother rejected the Visa given to her for treatment in Tamil Nadu and flew to Colombo from Malaysia and said that the news were not authentic.
Microsoft founder Bill gates is not new to India and has been a frequent visitor to the rural side, but what made his visit special on Tuesday was that he was accompanied by Rahul Gandhi, son of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi.
King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, has ordered the prosecution of all persons accused of involvement in last year's Jeddah flood disaster that killed at least 123 people and damaged 10,785 buildings.
The Supreme Court of India today(Tuesday) refused to quash the wealth case filed against former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) supremo Ms J Jayalalitha and dismissed a Petition filed by her in this regard. The trial in this case is to commence in Karnataka.
Are the tobacco control laws, as envisaged in the COTPA (Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003) and the Ban on Smoking in Public Places being enforced and followed in the city of Lucknow? And are the citizens any wiser about the hazards of smoking and tobacco consumption?