Bharat Express

Sri Lanka

The travel to Sri Lanka marks Jaishankar's first bilateral tour since becoming external affairs minister for the second time on June 11

A series of coordinated bomb attacks on three star hotels in Colombo and three churches carried out by ISIS suicide bombers on Easter Sunday in 2019.

Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe is one of the guests who will attend the swearing-in ceremony. The ceremony is likely to take place on June 8.

5 fishermen from Tamil Nadu, who were detained by the Sri Lankan Navy earlier, have been successfully repatriated from the island nation.

Highlighting India's close ties with its allies, on April 3, India permitted an additional 10,000 tons of onions to the United Arab Emirates.

While campaigning in Karnataka, PM Modi started this row as he mentioned that Congress party gave the island to Sri Lanka without thinking about Indians and the fishermen of the area.

A total of 19 fishermen from Tamil Nadu were sent to Chennai in an Air India passenger flight from Sri Lanka's Colombo.

The Sri Subhuthi Maha Viharaya in Waskaduwa is home to 21 relics of Lord Buddha, carefully preserved over generations.

PM Modi shared a statement from the late DMK MP Era Sezhiyan expressing displeasure over the India-Sri Lanka Maritime Agreement signed during the tenure of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Last year in August, during his response to a no-confidence motion debate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticized the Congress for politically dividing "Maa Bharati" into three parts.