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However, both sides have repeatedly accused each other of violating the truce.

The victory of the coalition of parties with the ungainly name of United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Monday’s General Election will ensure that the changes brought about at the Presidential Election of January...

India opener Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the rest of the Sri Lanka series with a hairline fracture on his right hand. “It was a poor batting performance in the first innings, but we came back”.

Resorting to rhetoric ahead of the first-ever NSA-level talks, Pakistan has accused India of involvement in terrorism, saying “enemy” within the country gets money from overseas to create law and order problem. Modi was speaking about terrorists such as Dawood Ibrahim...

Three civilians were also injured in the firing, a statement from the military’s Inter-Services Public Relations said, adding that Pakistani troops bafflingly responded to the Indian firing.

But Pakistan is unwilling to relent.

The Sri Lankan electorate has voted to sustain the changes that have taken place since the presidential election of January 8, when the common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena scored a surprise victory over Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Sources in the federal government said the prime minister – who held hours long meeting with his aides on Monday to discuss the agenda of the upcoming NSA meeting in New Delhi – finalised the strategy by getting input from the military leadership. Underworld don...

You won’t be shocked to learn that the leading run-getter here is Kumar Sangakkara, with 11 Tests.

The US can not persuade countries like India and China to join the Iranian sanctions regime again, Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said as he warned the Congress against rejecting the nuclear deal with Iran.

Many other such projects will be also checked and investigated. Let us discard the old fashioned politics. Now the island nation is concentrated on him once more.

The two nations must continue to engage in dialogue for a long-term solution to the problem of terrorism.

In the second round of his regional visits after the nuclear agreement, Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in the Lebanese capital city of Beirut Tuesday evening.

Chandimal’s unbeaten century helped Sri Lanka enforce a turnaround and beat India by 63 runs in the first Test after the hosts being in the dumps for the major part of the match.

Describing the task of cleaning up the rivers, including the Ganga, as a “scientific project”, the Prime Minister said it was a challenge to Indian scientists to come up with innovative solutions to achieve this goal.