The European Union's decision to renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) plus scheme provided for Sri Lanka's exports for another three years from January 2009, despite its adverse..Read More
Sri Lankan Navy Commander Vice Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda has said that the cooperation between the navies of Sri Lanka and India was 'extremely successful' in countering the Liberation Ti..Read More
Defence Minister A.K. Antony said here this morning that the Indian Navy was keeping a close watch on the coastal waters to prevent any LTTE cadres moving into Indian territory.He further said that al..Read More
The United States of America has handed over a radar-based maritime surveillance system and several rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) to the Sri Lankan Navy aiming to enhance its maritime surveillan..Read More
After a gap of a year, India has sent more radars to Sri Lanka to help it ward off the threat of airborne attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Defence Ministry sources said. India h..Read More
The Sea Tigers, the naval arm of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) carried out a successful strike on the Sri Lanka Naval detachments located in Delft Island (Nedunthivu in Tamil) on the nig..Read More
India has mounted the tightest ever surveillance along the southern coast after Intelligence reports of a probable attack by the air and naval wings of the LTTE on a few Sri Lankan camps close to the ..Read More
India on Monday said that the air offensive launched by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka was a "cause of concern."In his comments on recent strikes by LTTE`s Air Tigers, the Defenc..Read More
A permanent base of the Border Security Force (BSF) would become operational near here by October this year to cater to the emergency security needs of Tamil Nadu and neighbouring states.A Shillong-ba..Read More
The Indian Navy and the Indian Coast Guard carry out intensive patrolling under Operation Tasha using hovercraft, surface ships and aircraft.The patrolling is done on the Indian side of the Internatio..Read More
In the wake of "spillover of ongoing skirmishes between the Sri Lankan Navy and the Sea Tigers of the LTTE into Indian waters," the Indian Navy has increased surveillance in the Palk Strait, a top Na..Read More
Sri Lanka’s air force is shortly to take delivery of five advanced fighter aircraft from Russia to counter the threat posed by the LTTE’s air wing, The Nation newspaper reported Sunday. In addition t..Read More
The Indian Air Force (IAF) will set up an enclave in the Rameswaram region, according to Air Marshal Y.R. Rane, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Air Command, Thiruvananthapuram.He made the an..Read More
Liberation of Tamil Tigers Elam (LTTE) rebels launched a second air attack on a Sri Lankan military base in Jaffna Peninsula, in which at least six army personnel were injured.The ground fire forced ..Read More
The Sri Lanka Air Force carried out air raids against a Tamil Tigers training base north of the island Tuesday, said the military.'We took identified LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) targ..Read More
Sri Lanka's military said on Wednesday it had killed "at least" 20 Tamil Tiger rebels in retaliation for mortar attacks, while the Tigers said they killed up to 10 government troops in overnight ..Read More
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas are not a threat to India even though they posses an air wing but only an irritant, the new Indian Air Force (IAF) chief said Monday.At his first media meet aft..Read More
Indian Navy has decided to install radars at seven places covering around 500 km along Tamil Nadu coast to monitor activities at the sea in the aftermath of increased attacks on Indian fishermen.Offic..Read More
Sri Lankan air force jets bombed and destroyed the headquarters of the Tamil Tigers' naval arm in the far northern district of Mullaithivu, the military said on Wednesday, but the rebels said a l..Read More
The Indian Air Force (IAF) is keeping a close watch on the security scenario in southern India, as it is near to Sri Lanka, following acquisition of some air power by LTTE.Speaking to reporters here o..Read More
Indian Naval Seaward Defence Boat-T. 56, has arrived at the Rameswaram coast, to boost security in the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar, following attacks on Indian fishermen and the recent developm..Read More
At least 16 persons, 15 civilians and a soldier of the Sri Lanka Army, were killed and 25 others injured as a blast ripped through a passenger bus on the outskirts of Amparai town in the east on Monda..Read More
Sri Lanka Saturday pressed for a collective fight against terrorism and underlined the need for legal measures to curb this scourge at a meeting of the SAARC foreign secretaries here in New Delhi.In t..Read More
The Sri Lanka military on Wednesday claimed to have captured Kokkadicholai, one of the "nerve centres" of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE), to the south of Batticaloa in the east. A ..Read More
In a fresh offensive, Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka today drove a tractor trolley packed with explosives into an Army camp in the eastern Batticaloa district killing seven people, including four sol..Read More
At least 12 persons, four soldiers and eight Tamil Tiger cadres, were killed as the LTTE attacked four army camps and checkposts in the Batticaloa district on Wednesday. Military spokesman Prasad Sama..Read More
At least eight Tamil Tiger cadre were killed in air raids on "identified targets" by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Batticaloa district on Tuesday. A Defence Ministry statement said the precisi..Read More
The military on Friday claimed to have captured four "major" bases of the Tamil Tigers north of Trincomalee even as the LTTE complained of displacement of 70,000 civilians in areas under its control i..Read More
Sri Lanka's Air Force bombed Tamil Tiger guerrilla positions in the volatile north on Friday, a pro-rebel Web site said, as the military accused the rebels of attacking government security posts...Read More
Sri Lanka will seek greater cooperation from New Delhi to patrol their maritime boundary in a bid to prevent cross-border terrorism and discuss the island's peace process during President Mahinda..Read More
Sri Lanka's air force bombed two training bases of Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's north-west today."We can confirm that the air force hit two training camps of the Sea Tigers" in the di..Read More
Sri Lankan navy boats destroyed seven Tamil Tiger vessels in a sea battle, killing at least 35 rebels, a naval spokesman said on Saturday, as President Mahinda Rajapakse appealed for peace. Sri Lanka ..Read More
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a Sri Lankan naval convoy on Monday, killing at least 92 people and deepening pessimism over this month's planned peace tal..Read More
The Sri Lankan military today claimed to have killed over 200 Tamil Tiger rebels in heavy fighting that also left at least 72 soldiers dead and over 510 injured. Fighting along the de facto front line..Read More
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said they might pull out of peace talks planned later this month if the military continues a new offensive in the east, as sporadic artillery duels continued on Saturday...Read More
Sri Lankan war planes today bombed Tamil tiger territory in the island's north where a Norwegian envoy was trying to arrange peace talks between the warring parties, officials said.Israeli-built ..Read More
Over 200 civilians have been killed due to intensified fighting between the Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in the past two months, the island's truce monitors today said and asked the p..Read More
Sri Lanka's navy sank 11 Tamil Tiger vessels and killed dozens of rebels in a fierce five-hour battle overnight, the military said on Monday, a fortnight after the foes agreed to resume peace tal..Read More
LTTE rebels today launched long-range mortar bomb attacks on a remote Sri Lankan army camp in the island's east, a day after accusing the government of scuttling a new Norwegian peace bid.The Lib..Read More
The Sri Lankan military captured LTTE's Forward Defence Line (FDL) at Muhamalai in the Jaffna peninsula in a fierce battle that killed at least 28 soldiers and 150 Tamil Tigers.A Sri Lankan milit..Read More
Sri Lankan troops began making an advance out of their forward defence lines towards the Tamil Tigers in the northern Jaffna peninsular early Saturday morning, a defence official said.Military source ..Read More
Sri Lankan military resumed its key push towards securing a strategic area in the east of the country, the National Security Media Centre (NSMC) said here Monday.The troops fired multi-barrel rockets ..Read More
Sri Lanka's navy sank 12 LTTE craft overnight in a fierce naval battle off the island's northern tip. Military spokesperson revealed that it believed dozens of Tamils were also killed. "It w..Read More
In a significant move, the Prime Minister announced Wednesday that India would not extend any military aid to the Sri lankan Government, which is embroiled in a bloody ethnic conflict against Tamils i..Read More
Sri Lankan troops carried out execution-style killings of 17 French charity workers and also waged a bombing campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels, truce monitors have said.The Swedish-led Sri Lanka Mon..Read More
News agency Reuters reports the death of atleast 20 Tamil civilians in Sri Lankan air strikes in the Trincomalee region. Trincomalee is a strategic port in the eastern section of the Islad. "There are..Read More
Sri Lankan Air force jets today bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions in an area in the northeast where the rebels have a clandestine airfield, reports said on Friday.Kfir jets hit Tiger positions at..Read More
Eight persons have been charged with multiple crimes, including conspiring to bribe US public officials to remove Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from the US State Department&..Read More
News website TamilCanadian.com reports that Pakistani agencies have started radicalizing the Muslim community in Sri Lanka hoping to create a new front against India.Pakistan's Inter-Services Int..Read More
Sri Lanka Air force fighters destroyed a boat manufacturing yard of the LTTE terrorists this evening (Friday the 18th of August) by aerial bombardment.The Media Center for national Security says the b..Read More
At least as 98 Tamil Tigers were killed and about 100 wounded on Wednesday when government forces repulsed a major attack on Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula.Nine Lankan soldiers were also k..Read More
At least seven persons were reportedly killed and eight injured in a powerful explosion in the heart of Colombo on Monday.The bomb went off at the Liberty Plaza roundabout, metres away from the offici..Read More
At least 127 combatants were killed and another 280 wounded in heavy fighting between the Sri Lankan Army and Tamil Tiger rebels in northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka today, the military claimed...Read More
Sri Lankan army and the LTTE rebels shelled each other in the island's north on Friday, the rebels and truce monitors said, as the battlefront of the worst fighting since a 2002 truce spread.The ..Read More
India is ready to arm Sri Lanka to build up its defensive deterrence capabilities but not offensive ones. And it has also asked Colombo to avoid doing anything that leads to negative political fallout..Read More
Upset with the International Community for not doing more to curb the Tamil Tigers (LTTE), Sri Lanka is seeking military arsenal and support from India and is promising that Indian weapons will not be..Read More
The Sri Lankan armed forces today restarted shelling Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) strongholds in the island's embattled northeast region.This operation comes a day after the LTTE offer..Read More
LTTE rebels pounded military bases in northeastern Sri Lanka today with heavy artillery, sparking a battle with government troops in which at least 20 civilians were wounded, officials said.The Tigers..Read More
Sri Lankan Air Force jets bombed suspected Tamil Tiger targets in north-eastern part of the island on Saturday for a fourth straight day, killing at least eight rebels, the LTTE said.The stepped up ai..Read More
The Sri Lankan air force bombed Tamil Tiger rebel territory in the island's northeast for a second day on Thursday amid a spat over water supplies, officials said, but there were no immediate det..Read More
Colombo: At least 16 persons including 12 soldiers of the Sri Lankan Army were reportedly killed in a major confrontation between the military and the LTTE in Vakaneri (Batticaloa) on Friday mo..Read More
New Delhi: Sri Lanka's new navy chief, Vice Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda, is visiting India amid concerns in both countries about spiralling violence in the island.The admiral, making his ..Read More
Unhappy over Sri Lanka’s devolution package, India fears that the island state is rapidly sliding towards a civil war with major security implications for this country.Already, fifty Tamil families ..Read More
Colombo: Five sailors and 16 rebels were killed in a sea battle between the navy and Tamil rebels off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka ahead of a crucial meeting of monitors that will discus..Read More
New Delhi: After about six years, India has resumed its defence ties with Sri Lanka with the commissioning of two military radars to secure the island-nation against low-level aerial attacks. T..Read More
Colombo: A Sri Lankan army general was today assassinated in a powerful bomb attack outside the capital Colombo. Major General Parami Kulatunga was driving along a highway when the bomb set up ..Read More
Bangalore: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said there was no military solution to the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, which has to be resolved through "dialogue, discussion and give-and-take"..Read More
Chennai: Security has been intensified in the coastal districts of Tamilnadu following the high-pitched battle between Lankan troops and the LTTE in the neighbouring country, beyond the souther..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lankan police were on Sunday investigating a new type of sea mine developed by Tamil Tiger rebels to target naval craft, police chief Chandra Fernando said.Police questioned four o..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lankan navy today confronted with a flotilla of Sea Tiger boats at sea off Mannar early this morning and has reportedly destroyed five LTTE boats, military sources here said. Quo..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lanka's air force on Friday launched a second day of strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel positions in the country's north, a senior insurgent leader said, a day after a bus bomb..Read More
Islamabad: Sri Lanka is looking to Pakistan for help to bolster its military capabilities, as the ceasefire between the government and rebels appears increasingly fragile, specialist publicatio..Read More
Chennai: At least 15 Tamil Tiger rebels were killed when a rival faction launched an attack against their defence lines in Sri Lanka's north-eastern district of Trincomalee today, military..Read More
New Delhi:The threat to Sri Lanka's fragile peace process triggered by the LTTE's attack on the army commander was on the top of the agenda during foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lanka today ordered air strikes against a suspected Tamil Tiger truck as the navy attacked a rebel flotilla off the island's northwestern coast and sank at least one craft, th..Read More
New Delhi: When Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera arrives here on his third visit in six months, he will learn that India has no objection to Colombo shopping for military hardwar..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lanka's army said it killed seven suspected Tamil Tigers after an attack on a checkpoint on Thursday, while the rebels raised new objections to a government plan aimed at endi..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lankan troops today raided Tamil Tiger bases in the northeast for the second straight day and vowed to carry out more coordinated strikes, raising the spectre of a full-scale war. ..Read More
New Delhi: The Indian government held strategy sessions Wednesday in the wake of the deteriorating security situation in Sri Lanka while keeping a 'very, very close' watch on the isl..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lanka's military launched new strikes on Tamil Tiger areas in the island's northeast on Wednesday, a day after a deadly suicide bomb attack blamed on rebels shattered a f..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lanka's military launched airstrikes on Tamil rebel bases on Wednesday after navy craft came under attack, and a pro-rebel Web site reported at least 12 people killed as the ..Read More
Colombo: In a virtual collapse of the peace process in Sri Lanka, the Air Force, Navy and Army today bombed LTTE positions in Northeast shortly after a bid on the life of the Army chief by a wo..Read More
Colombo: Air force fighter jets dropped bombs on an area controlled by the Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, hours after a suspected female suicide guerrilla pounced on the ve..Read More
Colombo: The Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, Sarath Fonseka, was injured in an attack by an LTTE woman suicide bomber inside the Army Headquarters complex in Colombo on Tuesday afternoon, the ..Read More
Colombo A Lankan military officer was killed and five seriously wounded in a claymore mine explosion in the eastern part of the country as Norway's attempt to break the stalemate between t..Read More
Claymore: At least four Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and seven more wounded when the their truck was hit by a claymore mine explosion this morning in the Northern Vavuniya district."The army..Read More
When the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, an outspoken critic of LTTE, was assassinated on Aug 12, 2005, it was ascribed to the LTTE almost near unanimously. This surmise was based u..Read More
Colombo: Sri Lankan military today began recruiting Muslim youths for the country's first exclusively Muslim infantry battalion to provide protection to those living in a troubled eastern ..Read More
Much expected talks at Geneva between the LTTE and the government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) is over. It is exactly after four years of signing the ceasefire agreement (CFA) that both parties met on 22-23 Fe..Read More
Colombo: Suspected suicide LTTE attackers blown up an Israeli-built Dvora Fast Attack Craft (FAC) of the Lankan Navy with 15 sailors on board, triggering off fears of the resumption of a full s..Read More
Colombo: Amid an upsurge in violence in the island nation, Sri Lankan security forces today cordoned off several areas of the capital Colombo for a surprise house-to-house hunt for suspected Ti..Read More
Colombo: Scandinavian truce monitors in Sri Lanka today issued a stern warning that the island could slip back to war unless the latest wave of violence was arrested and the parties resumed pea..Read More
On the likely scenarios involving the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the face of the repudiation by President Mahinda Rajapakse of the commitments made by previous governments to work for a polit..Read More
Colombo, Dec. 14. The Indian and Sri Lankan navies are conducting their first joint naval exercise off Colombo, the state-run Daily News reported.The exercise, code-named SLINEX was described by the n..Read More
Sri Lanka's new hard-line president, Mahinda Rajapakse, wants a confederation with India to push political, economic and military relations to the highest plane.Routed through diplomatic channels..Read More
Colombo: Commander of the Indian Army's Southern Command Lt. Gen. V.S. Thakar, who arrived here last night, met the heads of Sri Lankan security forces today. The senior Indian officer hel..Read More
Dhaka: Coming together in a delayed Summit, leaders of SAARC countries today agreed on a united effort to combat terrorism with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asserting that there should be "zer..Read More
Dhaka: Outlining a new vision for SAARC, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asserted that there should be "zero tolerance" for cross-border terrorism among member states and made far-reaching ..Read More
With the presidential race heating up and promises a close finish in Sri Lanka, much has been written about the chances of the two front runners – Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse of the ruling UPFA a..Read More
New Delhi: In trying to push for greater economic integration in South Asia, India will be proposing an open skies arrangement at the SAARC meet in Dhaka much on the lines of what exists with A..Read More