Katchatheevu Island: Just ahead of Lok Sabha election, political row erupts over ‘settled issue’

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...

Sri Lanka assures India of its security interests amid Chinese spy ship in Maldives

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...