![]() | Sri Lanka announces plans to downsize military by half by 2030The defence allocation of 539 billion rupees in the budget 2023 drew criticism as the island nation faced its worst economic crisis since 1948. |
![]() | Rajiv’s assassins: ‘Innocent’ Tigers get a free passThe 10 final frames were a photographic record, not just of the moments before the carnage on the night of May 21, 1991, but of the men and women who made it happen. |
![]() | Formula One drivers criticise penalty points, seek change for 2023The penalty points system was introduced in F1 at the start of the 2014 season, but no driver has yet collected the 12 points needed for a ban. |
![]() | Tamil Nadu: No default bail to Sri Lanka nationals linked to LTTEThe Madras High Court denied default bail to a few Sri Lankans who were part of an LTTE operation to steal `40 crore from the bank account of a dead woman in Mumbai by fabricating documents. |
![]() | UNHRC adopts resolution against Sri Lanka's rights record; India abstains from voting |
![]() | Sri Lanka's crisis a result of past impunity for human rights abuses and economic crimes: UN reportThis is also the first time that the top UN body has linked the economic crisis with Sri Lanka's gross human rights violations. |
![]() | Salem arms seizure: NIA begins probe on suspected LTTE sympathisersSources said M Naveen alias Naveen Chakravarthy (25) and J Sanjay Prakash (24) were intercepted by Salem police near the Puliyampatti bus stand in Omalur on May 19. |
![]() | Sri Lanka holds political lessons for IndiaLanka is petrified at possibility of a return of Sinhala-left insurgency & ethnic Tamil militancy, both of which owe their birth to competing socio-economic aspirations fuelled by electoral compulsion |
![]() | Aftermath of the Rajiv assassination: The ‘M-word', loose ends and the terrorist in the tankerAnd his conviction that “nothing more was to be found” is unshaken. “All the loose ends were tied up,” he told this correspondent over the phone. |
![]() | Madras HC confirms conviction of three LTTE supportersAccording to the prosecution, in an attempt to revive LTTE, the trio had procured arms and cyanide capsules and were preparing to carry out attacks in Sri Lanka. |
![]() | Armed forces ended civil war with LTTE through 'humanitarian operation': Sri Lankan PresidentRajapaksa, who is also the defence minister, asserted that the armed forces, who 'safeguarded the freedom and territorial integrity' of the country will never be forgotten. |
![]() | Sri Lanka says it is probing Indian media report on LTTE planning attack on May 18The Sri Lankan defence ministry in a statement said " Hindu' newspaper has published a report on May 13 quoting Indian intelligence that the LTTE is planning to launch an attack in Sri Lanka on May 18 |
![]() | Will end economic crisis like we ended LTTE, says Lankan PM RajapaksaThe LTTE, which led a separatist war for a separate Tamil homeland, was crushed by the Lankan military in 2009 with the death of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran. |
![]() | Russell's turn to show Mercedes boss what he can do in F1His opportunity comes next Sunday when the Formula One season begins in Bahrain. |
![]() | Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas on pole for British Grand PrixThe Finn, who is 31 points adrift of defending five-time champion Hamilton in this year's title race, clocked a track record fastest lap |
![]() | Centre tells Supreme Court that Rajiv Gandhi killers can't be releasedGovernment told the court that the former prime minister's assassins cannot be released and that the President of India has earlier already rejected a proposal to release the convicts. |
![]() | Formula One racer Valtteri Bottas shines on troubled day for Mercedes and Lewis HamiltonValtteri Bottas allowed himself a roar of delight on Saturday when he claimed pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix. |
![]() | Sri Lanka's LTTE removed from European Union's terror blacklistThe court, however, removed Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam from the 28-member bloc's terror list, BBC reported. |
![]() | Sebastian Vettel claims Valtteri Bottas start at Austrian GP was 'un-human'A headstrong Sebastian Vettel, rejecting the evidence of official data, accused the victorious Valtteri Bottas of jumping the start at the Austrian Grand Prix. |
![]() | Valtteri Bottas beats Sebastian Vettel to win Austrian Grand PrixValtteri Bottas converted pole position into his second win since joining Mercedes in the Austrian Grand Prix. |
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