Japan envoy to meet LTTE

Sri Lanka is expecting a breakthrough to revive the stalled peace talks following the latest diplomatic initiative led by Japan's special envoy Yasushi Akashi, a government official said Thursday.......

External Affairs Minister Swaraj in Lanka ahead of Modi visit

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Colombo on Friday on a two-day trip to set the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka next week, the first bilateral visit to......

Tamil reconciliation will 'take time': Kerry warns Lanka

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday warned Sri Lanka that "true reconciliation" with Tamils will take time, even as he praised the "openness" of the new government in efforts to boost......

India denies R&AW role in Rajapaksa's poll defeat

India has dismissed reports that the Colombo station chief of the Research and Analysis Wing had been expelled in the run up to this month's Sri Lankan presidential election and maintained that he......