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...
The new Maldivian president, Mohamed Muizzu, is perceived as a pro-China leader.New Delhi: The new Maldivian government of the pro-China president, Mohamed Muizzu, has cancelled an agreement that the Maldives National Defence Force signed with the In...
Rajnath Singh defers his Sri Lanka visitNew Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who was scheduled to leave for Sri Lanka on Saturday, had to defer his visit to later date.Citing unavoidable circumstances for the development, the defence ministry s...
New Delhi: The navies of India and Sri Lanka have begun their annual bilateral maritime exercise SLINEX-2023 at Colombo from April The 6-day exercise is being conducted in two phases —- harbour and sea. It is the 10th edition of the exerci...