MV Wan Hai catches fire (Photo: Indian Coast Guard)New Delhi: A major fire onboard Singapore-flagged merchant vessel Wan Hai broke out after an internal explosion reported off the coast of Kerala in Kerala on Monday. Of the 22 crew onboard the MV Wan...
Narendra Modi with Anura Kumara Dissanayake. (Photo: X/@narendramodi) New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, began a three-day visit to Sri Lanka on Friday. On the second day of his visit, the two countries signed a defence cooperation ag...
PM Modi emplanes for Thailand and Sri Lanka (PC: MEA)New Delhi: The prime minister, Narendra Modi, left for a four-day visit to Thailand and Sri Lanka on Thursday to participate in 6th BIMSTEC Summit in Bangkok and hold bilateral talks with Sri Lanka...
An Indian and a Lankan soldier during a Mitra Shakti – 2021 drill, which was held in at the Combat Training School in Sri Lanka’s Ampara. (File photo) New Delhi: The 10th edition of the joint military exercise “Mitra Shakti&rdq...
Sri Lanka Navy personnel salute INS Shalki and welcomes her with a band as the underwater warship arrives in Colombo. (Photo: Indian Navy)Colombo: The Indian Navy’s submarine INS Shalki arrived in the Sri Lankan capital, on Friday, for a two-da...
Indian fishermen off the coast of Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu. (File photo for representation.)New Delhi: A fresh escalation of tensions between India and Sri Lanka has erupted following the death of an Indian fisherman in a collision of his fishing boat...
The Katchatheevu island, as shown by the red pin. (Google Earth image)New Delhi: A recent Right to Information query by the Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president, K Annamalai, has rekindled a decades-old issue of the transfer of Katchatheevu (a...
Tharaka Balasuriya. (Photo: X/@TharakaBalasur1)New Delhi: Sri Lanka reaffirmed that it will not allow any other country to use its territory to harm India’s security interests, as a Chinese spy ship was seen in the Maldives waters on the same d...
The Xiang Yang Hong-03 at a port.New Delhi: The Maldives has confirmed the docking of the Chinese research vessel Xiang Yang Hong-03 in Male, on Tuesday, which has raised security concerns in India, as India Sentinels had reported on Monday. The Indi...
Xiang Yang Hong-03. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi: The Maldives has granted permission for a Chinese research vessel, widely suspected of being a spy ship, to dock in its capital Male at the end of this month, despite pressure from India and other co...