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Lanka T10 Super League 2024 live streaming: When and where to watch T10 games online, on TV in India?

Sri Lanka Cricket is set to introduce a brand-new franchise league Lanka T10 Super League 2024 which will feature six teams and star international cricketers battling for the glory in Pallekele. Lanka T10 Super League 2024 venues The Lanka T10 Super League 2024 matches will be played at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele. Indian cricket fans can enjoy the …

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1 month ago

Padma Rao Sundarji | ‘Honeymoon year’ for Sri Lanka’s new govt

Deccan Chronicle

Fed up of nepotism, corruption and a staggering economic crisis and for the first time in their history, Sri Lankan citizens last week voted a largely unknown political party, the National People’s Power, with a landslide two-thirds majority in their Parliament. The JVP has consistently rejected all attempts to grant greater autonomy to Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern and Eastern provinces, …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Tamil Nadu: 21 Indian fishermen released from Colombo prison arrive at Chennai airport

Deccan Chronicle

The 21 Indian fishermen whose release was secured by the Indian High Commission in Colombo arrived at the Chennai airport on Saturday morning. 21 Indian fishermen have been successfully repatriated and are on their way to Chennai from Colombo," the Official handle of the High Commission of India in Colombo, Sri Lanka earlier posted on X.On Thursday, the Indian High …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

Politics aside, why Katchatheevu matters

India Today

Katchatheevu means 'barren island' in Tamil. While the ‘Indo-Sri Lankan Maritime Boundary Agreement of 1974' gave away the island to Sri Lanka, Indian fishermen were still allowed to access Katchatheevu. "The Indian Ministry of Defense must strengthen INS Parundu naval air base at Uchipuli and Thanjavur Air Force to thwart the growing Chinese presence near the Sri Lankan island of …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

With China out, Indian firm to build Sri Lanka power project

The Hindu

Three years after objecting to a Chinese energy projectin northern Sri Lanka, barely 50 km off Tamil Nadu, India is set to implement a hybrid power project in three islands off Jaffna peninsula with a $11-million grant. Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, the Government of Sri Lanka, and Indian company U-Solar Clean Energy Solutions on March 1 signed the contract …

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1 year, 2 months ago

India-Sri Lanka ferry service: Embarking on new diplomatic chapter, says PM Modi

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: India and Sri Lanka are embarking on a new chapter in diplomatic and economic relations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday as he hailed the launch of a ferry service between the two nations as an "important milestone" in strengthening ties. Addressing the event to launch ferry services between Nagapattinam in India and Kankesanthurai in Sri Lanka, …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Launch of India-Sri Lanka ferry service truly big step: External Affairs Minister Jaishankar

The Hindu

“The launch of a passenger ferry service from Tamil Nadu’s Nagapattinam to Kankesanthurai near Jaffna in Sri Lanka is a “truly big step” for boosting people-to-people contacts,” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on October 14. In his remarks at a virtual ceremony on the launch of the ferry service, Jaishankar said that New Delhi has a "generous and far-sighted …

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1 year, 4 months ago

How China's absence in Sri Lanka's economic meltdown creates strategic opening for India

Firstpost

China, not quite an iron brother of Sri Lanka’s like Pakistan, surprisingly stayed in the wings during Colombo’s economic meltdown last year, creating strategic space for New Delhi. During Sri Lanka’s first sovereign default in April 2022, approaching IMF for bailout of $3 billion and the rescue efforts including debt treatment China preferred to stay out allowing India to take …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Tamil National Alliance ‘categorically rejects’ Sri Lankan President’s offer of 13th Amendment minus police powers

The Hindu

The Tamil National Alliance on Tuesday “categorically rejected” Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s offer to implement the 13th Amendment sans police powers, terming his proposal for development and power devolution “another hollow promise”. ‘No police powers’ A small section in the 16-page dossier that dealt with devolution said that the 13th Amendment would be implemented “with the exception of police …

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2 years ago

Chennai-Jaffna flights to resume after nearly three years of Covid break

The Hindu

Alliance Air will resume its flight services connecting Chennai and Sri Lanka’s northern city of Jaffna next week, after a nearly three-year, pandemic-induced break. Prior to the service, residents in northern Sri Lanka had to travel south to capital Colombo, either by train or a nearly eight hour-road trip, to take a flight out of the country. Aslo read: Ground …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties skeptical of Ranil’s outreach

The Hindu

Reaching out to Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties in Parliament on November 10, President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited them for a discussion this week, and pledged to resolve their pending issues before the island nation’s 75th Independence Day falling on February 4, 2023. Sumanthiran said despite known differences among Tamil parties, the TNA invited them for a discussion this week, “as we …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Jaffna University students condemn China for supporting Sri Lanka on war crimes at the UN, resist China’s bid to make inroads in Tamil areas

Op India

On August 30, students of the Jaffna University lashed out at Qi Zhenhong, the Chinese envoy in Sri Lanka, for extending support to the government of Sri Lanka’s stand on war crimes. In a letter issued by University Students’ Union, University of Jaffna, they called the tweet by the Chinese Ambassador irresponsible and condemned the support China extended to Sri …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Seven more Sri Lankan Tamils reach Dhanushkodi

The Hindu

Two families, comprising seven persons, from Sri Lanka’s Jaffna and Trincomalee districts reached here by illegal vessels in the early hours of Tuesday. Preliminary inquiries revealed that the two families had paid ₹1 lakh each to the fishermen in Sri Lanka and reached Indian waters at Arichalmunai around 3 a.m. They were identified as Mary Agastha, 44 and her sons …

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2 years, 6 months ago

India will support democracy, stability in Sri Lanka: PM Modi

The Hindu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday that India will continue to stand with the people of Sri Lanka and support democracy, stability and economic recovery in the neighbouring country. Noting Sri Lanka was passing through difficult times, Mr. Modi, who was in Chennai to inaugurate and lay the foundation for several schemes involving an investment of over ₹31,000 crore, …

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2 years, 8 months ago

India Comes to Sri Lanka's Rescue But Colombo Continues Seeking More Funds From China

News 18

As Sri Lanka’s economic crisis deepened, political instability erupted in the form of large-scale protests. The Indian High Commissioner has been too preoccupied with shuttling between Colombo and New Delhi, conveying signals from Sri Lankans to the Indian government, and has pushed India to supply everything to Sri Lanka strategically to keep China at bay. There will also be an …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Sri Lankan Tamil families flee to India citing economic crisis

The Hindu

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has forced two ethnic Tamil families to flee the island nation. According to a senior official who questioned them, the Sri Lankan nationals got into a boat around 10 p.m. on Monday and crossed the International Maritime Boundary Line past midnight. It identified six Sri Lankan nationals — one male, two females and three children — …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Why India and Sri Lanka need to take a closer look at fishing issue, again

Firstpost

At a time when the Sri Lankan government has sought and obtained Indian help to address the overwhelming forex crisis, the decision to auction 105 fishing trawlers and other vessels from Tamil Nadu and Karaikal enclave in the Union Territory of Puducherry has the potential to rock the same. For now, EAM Jaishankar has obtained freedom for 56 Tamil Nadu …

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3 years, 1 month ago

India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre awaits inauguration

The Hindu

Nearly two years after its construction, the India-funded Jaffna Cultural Centre in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province awaits inauguration, amid persisting uncertainty over who will run the facility. “We hope to open it soon,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a rally in Chennai in February 2021, referring to the Jaffna Cultural Centre. As per the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Northern Sri Lankan fishermen seek India’s action over disputes

The Hindu

Sri Lanka’s northern fishermen want authorities in India and Sri Lanka to urgently step up action to resolve the long-persisting conflict in the Palk Strait, fearing tensions with Indian fishermen could escalate. In a letter submitted at the Indian Consulate in Jaffna last week, the Federation of Jaffna District Fishermen’s Cooperative Society Unions pointed to the perils of bottom-trawling and …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Rolling Stone controversy: Canadian rapper Shan supports Arivu, criticises Pa. Ranjith

The Hindu

Canadian Tamil rapper Shan Vincent de Paul, of Neeye Oli fame from Pa. Ranjith’s Sarpatta Parambarai, has spoken out about the controversy regarding the recent Rolling Stone India issue that he was a part of. The triumphant South Asian artists have been at the front of erasing border lines with songs like "Enjoy Enjaami" and "Neeye Oli" respectively, released via …

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3 years, 5 months ago

How India Lost Lanka to China—Starting with Strategic Blunders during Indira Regime

News 18

Amid all their stress and tension over the Chinese entanglements up in the Himalayas, the wise mandarins of the South Block seem to have been napping even as the Dragon waded through the Palk Strait off Tamil Nadu. At a time when Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene was among the weakest heads of state in the Asian continent and …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Sri Lanka clears Chinese energy project, 50 km off Tamil Nadu

The Hindu

Sri Lanka’s recent decision to pull out of the East Container Terminal deal with India and Japan is not the only challenge to New Delhi’s interests emerging this year. A week before reneging on the 2019 Colombo Port terminal agreement, Sri Lanka cleared a Chinese energy project in three islands off Jaffna peninsula that are barely 50 km from the …

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Padma Rao Sundarji | ‘Honeymoon year’ for Sri Lanka’s new govt

Tamil Nadu: 21 Indian fishermen released from Colombo prison arrive at Chennai airport

Politics aside, why Katchatheevu matters

With China out, Indian firm to build Sri Lanka power project

India-Sri Lanka ferry service: Embarking on new diplomatic chapter, says PM Modi

Launch of India-Sri Lanka ferry service truly big step: External Affairs Minister Jaishankar

How China's absence in Sri Lanka's economic meltdown creates strategic opening for India

Tamil National Alliance ‘categorically rejects’ Sri Lankan President’s offer of 13th Amendment minus police powers

Chennai-Jaffna flights to resume after nearly three years of Covid break

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties skeptical of Ranil’s outreach

Jaffna University students condemn China for supporting Sri Lanka on war crimes at the UN, resist China’s bid to make inroads in Tamil areas

Seven more Sri Lankan Tamils reach Dhanushkodi

India will support democracy, stability in Sri Lanka: PM Modi

India Comes to Sri Lanka's Rescue But Colombo Continues Seeking More Funds From China

Sri Lankan Tamil families flee to India citing economic crisis

Why India and Sri Lanka need to take a closer look at fishing issue, again

India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre awaits inauguration

Northern Sri Lankan fishermen seek India’s action over disputes

Rolling Stone controversy: Canadian rapper Shan supports Arivu, criticises Pa. Ranjith

How India Lost Lanka to China—Starting with Strategic Blunders during Indira Regime

Sri Lanka clears Chinese energy project, 50 km off Tamil Nadu