Private institutions can no longer conduct trials for driving licence tests

Concerns in India over Avant Garde vessel

Concerns have been raised in India over the?Avant Garde ship which till recently was operating a floating?armoury, The Hindu newspaper reported. The case of m.v. Avant Garde, a ?floating armoury?, has acquired a new dimension since the Sri Lankan Navy boarded the vessel on October 6 to discover a massive stash of weapons on board. The discovery has sounded a security alarm as the vessel, before being rested at the Galle harbour in eastern Sri Lanka, had been to the Indian territorial waters wh

20 Nov, 2015

China contributed almost USD 10 billion to Lanka

China has contributed almost USD 10 billion to Sri Lanka so far, China?s Ambassador to Sri Lanka Yi Xianliang said?today. ?Sri Lanka being located in the middle of Indian Ocean does not mean there is (special) investment advantage. There are other coastal countries in this region at the same time having same advantages as Sri Lanka. But China still attaches importance on the China-Sri Lanka cooperation,” he said. Ambassador Xianliang was addressing the inauguration event of the first China Pro

20 Nov, 2015

Jayalalithaa writes to Modi on fishermen in Lanka

A day after 14 Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy for crossing the International Maritime Border Line (IMBL), chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Friday sent a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his immediate intervention, the Times of India reported. “It is unfortunate that, in yet another incident, 14 fishermen who set sail from the Rameswaram and Mandapam fishing bases in Ramanathapuram district on three boats were apprehended by the Sri Lankan navy in the lat

20 Nov, 2015