The Indian government confirmed no ongoing discussions for a new fishing rights agreement in the Palk Strait with Sri Lanka.

Dairy farmers in Eastern Sri Lanka are facing challenges as external crop cultivators acquire traditional grazing lands. For ...

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NAGAPATTINAM: The increase in compensation for unrecovered boats from Sri Lanka and the financial assistance ... Some called for permanently resolving the Palk Strait conflict rather than assuring ...

American pop star Lady Gaga will be back in Singapore after 13 years to perform at the National Stadium on May 18, 19, 21 and 24, her only concerts in Asia. Ticket pre-sales start on March 18 and ...

Economist for South Asia Saurav Anand; and Standard Chartered ASA FX Research Head Divya Devesh. Senior Economic Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka Duminda Hulangamuwa delivered the keynote address ...

Let us turn to the ‘affair’ of fishing in the region between the Peninsula tip of India and Northern Sri Lanka (Palk Strait). This shallow sea is ideal for a destructive trawling of the sea-bed and ...

Soon after the island nation declared bankruptcy, all the bilateral lenders suspended their ongoing projects in Sri Lanka due to sovereign debt default. The island nation finalized debt restructuring ...

All but one of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities last year were in Asia, a new study shows. The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India ...

Highways and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan has said the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was firm in its proposal to build a bridge across Palk Strait, connecting Dhanushkodi, the eastern tip of ...

Addressing a March 4 press conference, International Monetary Fund (IMF) senior mission chief for Sri Lanka Peter Breuer raised concerns about rising working-class unrest against the Janatha ...

urging him to put an end to bottom trawling and protect the livelihoods of fishermen on both sides of the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka’s current Minister of Fisheries, Ramalingam Chandrasekar, also weighed ...