Indian PM’s secretary meets Sri Lankan president

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Actor-turned-politician and DMDK chief Vijayakant and his supporters observed a day-long hunger strike here Tuesday demanding "full freedom" for Sri Lankan Tamils in the island nation and protection for Indian fishermen against attacks by the Sri Lankan Navy. Hundreds of DMDK cadres travelled to Delhi from different parts of Tamil Nadu to participate in the strike that began at 9 a.m.

September 28th, 2009 CHENNAI - Actor turned politician Vijayakant, president of DMDK, and his cadres will Tuesday observe a day-long hunger strike in Delhi demanding protection to Indian fishermen from attacks by the Sri Lankan navy and full freedom to Sri Lankan Tamils on the island. Vijayakant and his supporters will fast from 8 a.m.

September 16th, 2009 Obama meets with Canadian prime ministerWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking part in both public and private events on Wednesday. In the morning, he's conducting a one-on-one session with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

May 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - India's National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Thursday met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and sought a political solution to the Tamil question.

May 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - India's National Security Advisor M.K.Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon will meet Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday over breakfast. Their discussions will mainly focus on the humanitarian needs and rehabilitation of the lakhs of people displaced during the ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka.

April 24th, 2009 Sri Lankan president meets with Indian envoysCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Mahinda Rajapaksa has met with two top Indian officials to discuss the bloody fighting in Sri Lanka's recent offensive against ethnic Tamil rebels. A government official says Rajapaksa met with India's National Security Adviser M.

April 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Indian fishermen inadvertently crossing over into Sri Lanka's territorial waters are sometimes subjected to harassment by the Sri Lankan Navy, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said here Sunday. He also said killing fishermen is not acceptable in any circumstances.

March 10th, 2009 CHENNAI - Former Tamil Nadu chief minister and Leader of the Opposition J. Jayalalitha Monday said her party supported Sri Lankan Tamil's self-determination struggle within the island nation's constitutional framework.

March 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - The Indian cricket board Tuesday expressed its shock over the dastardly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. 'The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) expresses its sorrow and anguish over the dastardly attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team at Lahore.

February 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - At least 10 Indian fishermen have been arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, a naval official said Friday. The fishermen were arrested off the island's north-western coast of Thalaimannar.

February 19th, 2009 COLOMBO - At least 10 Indian fishermen have been arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy, a naval official said Friday. The fishermen were arrested off the island's north-western coast of Thalaimannar.

February 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Members of various civil society groups Monday demanded that the Indian government pressurise Sri Lankan authorities to take steps to save lives of nearly 250,000 Tamil civilians caught in the fighting in the north of that country. 'The ongoing war between Sri Lankan government and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in north Sri Lanka has posed a great danger to around 250,000 civilians, who are Tamils, caught in the midst of war,' Tapan Bose, general secretary of South Asia Forum for Human Rights, told reporters here.

January 22nd, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan Navy has arrested at least 22 Indian fishermen with six boats while fishing illegally in Sri Lanka's northern sea waters off Kankesanthurai (KKS), official sources said here Friday. The sources told IANS that the Sri Lankan Navy has arrested these Indian fishermen trespassing into the Sri Lankan territorial waters late Thursday and handed them over to the KKS police for investigation.

January 8th, 2009 RAMESHWARAM - Some Indian fishermen have alleged they were beaten up by Sri Lankan Navy personnel near the Kachchatheevu island in the early hours of Friday but there has been no official confirmation of the attack. 'We were fishing around Kachchatheevu island and the Lankan Navy suddenly surrounded us and beat us up.

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal Friday met Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to discuss ways to defuse the growing tensions between the two countries in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, media reports said. Pal was recently in New Delhi for consultations with external affairs ministry officials on India's response following the Mumbai carnage.