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  India to be Lankan President's first foreign destination

  World | Jan 10, 2015, 09:31 PM IST

  Colombo: India may be the first foreign destination of the newly-elected Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena who today began an exercise in assembling a “national unity” cabinet and invited exiled dissidents back to the country.A

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  Vaiko opposes Lankan President's presence at Modi swearing-in

  India | May 22, 2014, 02:20 PM IST

  Chennai: Narendra Modi's invitation to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for his swearing-in ceremony has rattled its southern ally MDMK, which has expressed "unexplainable grief".MDMK founder Vaiko today said Rajapaksa's presence in Monday's ceremony would