Sri Lanka

1. President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his three brothers — Defence Secretary Gotabhaya, Basil, who controls politics and economic policies, and the soft-spoken Speaker of the Parliament, Chamal — are the arbiters of their country’s destiny.


2. It is clear from the policies the Rajapaksa brothers have pursued since the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009 that their principal objective has been to prevent forever the emergence of a similar organisation. Now, the surest way to ensure that objective would be to take steps to erode, if not eliminate, separatist sentiment among the Tamil

India - Sri Lanka

India - Sri Lanka Relations

• India and Sri Lanka signed two separate agreements on combating international terrorism and avoidance of double taxation on 22Jan 2013.
• Also discussed the emotive issue of fishermen and rehabilitation process of Tamils in Sri Lanka besides the 13th Amendment of the Lankan constitution that gives autonomy to provinces.
• India-aided housing project UN-HABITAT is one of the three implementing agencies selected by the Indian authorities.
• Justice Verma(former Indian CJI) was to head an international fact-finding mission to assess the legal issues involved in the impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake.But due to visa rejection the delegation was to cancel visit.