India Lanka Pacts

Sri Lanka will restart negotiations on trade pacts with India, China and Thailand after a four-hear hiatus, an official said on Thursday, as the crisis-hit country races to seal deals to help it rebuild its economy.

India has established a bilateral air bubble arrangement with Sri Lanka for operation of special international passenger flights between the two countries, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Saturday.

Calling the India-Nepal ties as "tall as the Himalayas and as deep as the Indian Ocean," Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Thursday said India's goodwill towards its neighbour comes with "no strings attached", however, without naming China, CDS Rawat warned Kathmandu to be cautious when signing agreements with "other countries" in the r...

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday told the state assembly that dual citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees was "possible" and that wants the centre to sign a pact with Sri Lanka to facilitate it.

Sri Lanka's cabinet cleared a revised agreement for its Chinese-built southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, the government said, after terms of the first pact sparked widespread public anger in the island nation

The killing of a 22-year-old Indian fisherman shot dead near Palk Strait allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy personnel has put the focus back on a tiny island of Kachchatheevu that the Tamil Nadu government alleges was wrongly ceded to Sri Lanka through two pacts signed between New Delhi and Colombo in the 1970s. Sri Lanka has denied its Navy was involved...

Canadian smartphone firm BlackBerry today said it has inked a pact with Optiemus Infracom for manufacturing BlackBerry Android handsets in India. This follows Apple Inc, which has decided to start manufacturing its popular iPhone in Bengaluru. Blackberry have also decided to make phones locally in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. The exclusive, lon...

The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday said it would allow its Sri Lankan counterpart to draw up to $700 million over a maximum period of three months under a new special currency swap agreement signed by the two central banks.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Sri Lanka next month during which the two sides will sign several agreements including a pact on combating money laundering and terrorism financing, officials said today.

Keen on promoting connectivity in the South Asian region, India is set to build a sea-bridge and tunnel connecting Sri Lanka while a pact has been inked with Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal for seamless flow of traffic and passenger vehicles, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today.

Post acquisition, Quess will have presence in 8 countries with a strong presence in Asia Pacific, Thomas Cook said in a filing to BSE.

The United States has welcomed the signing of civil nuclear cooperation agreement between India and Sri Lanka, saying it is consistent with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and other international standards and practices.

India has sealed a nuclear energy agreement with Sri Lanka , its first breakthrough with the new government of its neighbouring island where China has been building ports and highways in a diplomatic push in recent years.

India and Sri Lanka are standing at the threshold of an "unprecedented opportunity" to take the bilateral relationship to the next level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after his talks with visiting Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) have entered into a bilateral agreement that enables CBSL to further diversify its reserves management activities into Indian rupee-denominated assets.

Sri Lanka will restart negotiations on trade pacts with India, China and Thailand after a four-hear hiatus, an official said on Thursday, as the crisis-hit country races to seal deals to help it rebuild its economy.

India has established a bilateral air bubble arrangement with Sri Lanka for operation of special international passenger flights between the two countries, the Civil Aviation Ministry said on Saturday.

Calling the India-Nepal ties as "tall as the Himalayas and as deep as the Indian Ocean," Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Thursday said India's goodwill towards its neighbour comes with "no strings attached", however, without naming China, CDS Rawat warned Kathmandu to be cautious when signing agreements with "other countries" in the r...

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday told the state assembly that dual citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees was "possible" and that wants the centre to sign a pact with Sri Lanka to facilitate it.

Sri Lanka's cabinet cleared a revised agreement for its Chinese-built southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, the government said, after terms of the first pact sparked widespread public anger in the island nation

The killing of a 22-year-old Indian fisherman shot dead near Palk Strait allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy personnel has put the focus back on a tiny island of Kachchatheevu that the Tamil Nadu government alleges was wrongly ceded to Sri Lanka through two pacts signed between New Delhi and Colombo in the 1970s. Sri Lanka has denied its Navy was involved...

Canadian smartphone firm BlackBerry today said it has inked a pact with Optiemus Infracom for manufacturing BlackBerry Android handsets in India. This follows Apple Inc, which has decided to start manufacturing its popular iPhone in Bengaluru. Blackberry have also decided to make phones locally in Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh. The exclusive, lon...

The Reserve Bank of India on Tuesday said it would allow its Sri Lankan counterpart to draw up to $700 million over a maximum period of three months under a new special currency swap agreement signed by the two central banks.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Sri Lanka next month during which the two sides will sign several agreements including a pact on combating money laundering and terrorism financing, officials said today.

Keen on promoting connectivity in the South Asian region, India is set to build a sea-bridge and tunnel connecting Sri Lanka while a pact has been inked with Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal for seamless flow of traffic and passenger vehicles, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said today.

Post acquisition, Quess will have presence in 8 countries with a strong presence in Asia Pacific, Thomas Cook said in a filing to BSE.

The United States has welcomed the signing of civil nuclear cooperation agreement between India and Sri Lanka, saying it is consistent with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards and other international standards and practices.

India has sealed a nuclear energy agreement with Sri Lanka , its first breakthrough with the new government of its neighbouring island where China has been building ports and highways in a diplomatic push in recent years.

India and Sri Lanka are standing at the threshold of an "unprecedented opportunity" to take the bilateral relationship to the next level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after his talks with visiting Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) have entered into a bilateral agreement that enables CBSL to further diversify its reserves management activities into Indian rupee-denominated assets.