10/10/2011
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The Hindu
About 42,000 students in Sri Lanka's Northern Province will have better facilities in their schools soon, after the Indian government took up a project to repair 79 damaged ones in the three districts of Kilinochchi, Mullaittivu and Vavuniya.
09/24/2011
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Al-Jazeera
Sri Lanka says it loses more than $50m a year due to poaching by Indian fishermen.
The problem is crippling the country's local fisheries, particularly in the eastern and northern parts of the island, where Al Jazeera shot exclusive photos of Indian trawlers fishing just 4km off the Sri Lankan coast.
India has admitted to "issues relating to the straying of fishermen from both countries into each other's territorial waters" and says it is working to address the problem.
09/21/2011
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The Hindu
The Pattali Makkal Katchi has criticised the Navy's plan to hold joint exercises with its Sri Lankan counterpart.
09/06/2011
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AFP
Sri Lanka and India have finalised a joint venture to set up a $500-million coal-powered electricity plant in the island's former war zone, the two sides announced on Tuesday.
08/26/2011
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Reuters
(Reuters) - India and Western nations on Friday praised Sri Lanka's lifting of tough wartime emergency laws but an opposition party said it was merely a ploy because the government still has the power Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) at its disposal.
08/02/2011
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The Hindu
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a monthly old-age dole of Rs. 1000 to 5,544 Lankan Tamils living in refugee camps in the state.
07/30/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Outgoing Indian Foreign Secretary meets Sri Lanka President (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
07/26/2011
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Kafila
In the event of the Sri Lankan Government appearing before the CEDAW committee, we would like to bring to your notice the extensive report put together by the Coalition of Muslims and Tamils for Peace and Co-existence posted earlier on kafila. We stand by all aspects of the report put together by activists, yet again, in severely adverse circumstances. Through rigorous, grassroot-level work in a sustained manner, this report has been put together in a situation where the government is actively impeding any work by humanitarian agencies and civil society organisations across the country, especially in the north and east.
We address you from our vantage point as women’s rights organisations and feminists based in India who are deeply concerned about the role of the Indian and Sri Lankan governments in Sri Lanka today, especially concerns affecting women who often bear the brunt of oppressions caused due to war meted out to them by state and non-state actors. We would like to completely support our colleagues in Sri Lanka who are often silenced by real dangers of harm to their person on a daily basis and activists working on Sri Lanka based elsewhere. We strongly urge both governments to act upon the following demands:
07/20/2011
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The Wall Street Journal
Even though Indian foreign policy is not the focus of Mrs. Clinton's visit to Chennai, her trip to Tamil Nadu nonetheless flags an important issue: the dismal state of affairs across the Palk Strait in neighboring Sri Lanka.
The island nation's problems are not entirely of India's making. But New Delhi has failed to slow Sri Lanka's rapid slide toward authoritarianism, protect the rights of minority Tamils, or stem rising Chinese influence. This raises an awkward question about India's quest for great-power status. Simply put, how can India expect more clout on the world stage when it wields so little influence in its own neighborhood?
07/20/2011
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Associated Press
CHENNAI, India (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says India's example of multicultural democracy should serve as a model for neighboring Sri Lanka.