UAE Foreign Minister to arrive in Sri Lanka

Search in India for Lankan boat

The Indian coastal security agencies launched immediate search operations on Thursday following an Intelligence report that a Sri Lankan fishing vessel was anchored in sea off the Kochi coast. The Intelligence wing from Kollam alerted the Kochi coastal police that some of the persons were being transported in a fishing boat to a Sri Lankan vessel anchored at a distance of one nautical mile off the coast. The security agencies suspect that it would be a bid for human trafficking. There were sim

31 Aug, 2012

Protests resume in Maldives on eve of commission report

A tense situation prevailed in the Maldives capital late Wednesday as the opposition Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) resumed protests on the eve of the releasing of a key report over the transfer of power in February this year. The Commission of National Inquiry (CoNI) will release its findings on Thursday and President Mohamed Waheed is later scheduled to address the nation, a presidential spokesman told Xinhua. However the deposed President and MDP leader Mohamed Nasheed’s representative in

30 Aug, 2012

Commotion as college hosts Lankan students

The Kalai Kaviri College of Fine Arts in Trichy has had to pay a heavy price for hosting Sri Lankan students at its premises. Volunteers of Naam Thamizhar stormed the institution accusing them of harbouring Sri Lankan nationals and conducting cultural programmes with the latter. As soon as the news that about 70 A-level (equivalent to Plus Two) students of Sri Lanka had landed in the college broke out, Naam Thamizhar volunteers staged a dharna in front the college demanding cancellation of all p

31 Aug, 2012