Maithripala Sirisena
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Need to find long-term solution to fishermen issue: PM Modi
World | Mar 13, 2015, 12:30 PM ISTColombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the "complex" fishermen issue between India and Sri Lanka involves livelihood and humanitarian concerns and both sides will need to find a long-term solution to the festering
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Lot of expectations from PM Modi's visit: Sri Lanka
World | Mar 07, 2015, 05:50 PM ISTColombo: Sri Lanka has a "lot of expectations" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit next week, top political leaders here said on Saturday while highlighting that a bilateral trip by an Indian premier was long
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Modi to pay tribute to fallen IPKF soldiers in Sri Lanka
India | Mar 06, 2015, 07:51 PM ISTColombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will tour Sri Lanka next week, will lay a wreath at a memorial honouring the IPKF soldiers who died in the country fighting the civil war.Sri Lankan foreign ministry
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PM Modi to visit Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka next week
National | Mar 06, 2015, 11:27 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will will be visiting Seychelles, Mauritius & Sri Lanka from 10th to 14th March. This would be his first abroad in 2015.Modi will first visit Seychelles on 11th March
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Sushma Swaraj on Lanka visit from tomorrow
India | Mar 05, 2015, 08:17 PM ISTNew Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will undertake a two-day visit to Colombo tomorrow to set the stage for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Sri Lanka, the first bilateral visit to the country
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Modi to visit Jaffna, address Parliament during Lanka visit
World | Mar 05, 2015, 07:41 PM ISTColombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit former LTTE-stronghold Jaffna in Sri Lanka's Tamil-dominated north and address the Parliament here during his three-day visit to the country next week.“The Indian Prime Minister will visit Jaffna
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Lanka says it will not allow docking of Chinese submarines
World | Feb 28, 2015, 06:05 PM ISTBeijing: Sri Lanka today said it will not allow Chinese submarines to dock in its ports, a move apparently aimed at allaying India's concerns.“I really don't know under what sort of circumstances the submarines came
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India-Sri Lanka should take economic engagement to next level
India | Feb 17, 2015, 08:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: Appreciating Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena for choosing India for his maiden foreign visit, President Pranab Mukherjee has said it is time to take the economic engagement between both countries to the next
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India-Sri Lanka ink nuclear deal, hope to push back Chinese influence in island country
India | Feb 17, 2015, 08:12 AM ISTNew Delhi: India and Sri Lanka Monday announced a bilateral agreement on civil nuclear cooperation, a move that was stuck for years under the previous government headed by Mahinda Rajapaksa.The announcement comes weeks after a
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Document by Tamil refugees suggests repatriation as the only œdurable solution
India | Feb 16, 2015, 03:10 PM ISTChennai: In the wake of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's maiden trip to New Delhi on Sunday, a group of around one lakh Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have come out with a document explaining “durable
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India-Sri Lanka may sign civil nuclear agreement
India | Feb 16, 2015, 07:22 AM ISTNew Delhi: On his maiden foreign trip after assuming office, Sri Lanka's new President Maithripala Sirisena will today met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.Srisena is on a four-day visit to India seeking a
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Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena to meet PM Modi on Monday
India | Feb 15, 2015, 09:44 PM ISTNew Delhi: A high level meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena is all set to take place on Monday. Both the leaders will chart out a course of action
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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena's India visit to begin today
World | Feb 15, 2015, 07:13 AM ISTColombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will leave for India today on his first foreign trip after assuming charge during which he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discuss key issues including
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India expects substantial talks during Sirisena's visit
India | Feb 13, 2015, 06:50 PM ISTNew Delhi: India expects "substantial talks and outcomes" during new Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena's four-day state visit to the country from Feb 15.This would be Sirisena's first visit abroad since he won the Jan
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Rajapaksa, family reported to Sri Lanka anti-graft watchdog
World | Jan 13, 2015, 05:50 PM ISTColombo: Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family members were today reported to the country's anti-corruption watchdog by a key coalition partner of the new president, Maithripala Sirisena, over graft claims. The Marxist
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India to be Lankan President's first foreign destination
World | Jan 10, 2015, 09:31 PM ISTColombo: 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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Ban Ki-moon welcomes peaceful transition in SL, praises Rajapaksa
World | Jan 10, 2015, 10:36 AM ISTUnited Nations: Welcoming the peaceful political transition in Sri Lanka following the presidential election, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Friday praised an adversary of the world body, Mahinda Rajapaksa, for upholding democracy.Former Sri Lankan President,
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Sonia congratulates Sirisena
National | Jan 09, 2015, 03:41 PM ISTNew Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi Friday congratulated Maithripala Sirisena on his “emphatic and historic victory” in Sri Lanka's presidential election.In a statement, Gandhi extended her greetings to the people of Sri Lanka and applauded
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Won't take revenge, will promote Buddhism: Sirisena
World | Jan 09, 2015, 01:13 PM ISTColombo: Sri Lanka's president-elect Maithripala Sirisena Friday pledged not to take revenge against political foes, after defeating incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa in the presidential election.As he left his home in Polonnaruwa province for Colombo after Rajapaksa
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PM Modi congratulates Sri Lankan President elect Sirisena on poll victory
National | Jan 09, 2015, 10:24 AM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called up Maithripala Sirisena to congratulate him on his victory in the Sri Lankan polls and assured him of India's continued solidarity and support to the country's peace