COLOMBO, 5 July 2026 India will transfer its visa, passport, and consular processing in Sri Lanka to a new outsourcing contractor on Monday, the High Commission of India in Colombo has announced, reviving an intermediary system that its diplomatic missions had run themselves for the past eight months. Alhind Global Services, an arm of a Kerala-based travel and services group, has been appointed the outsourcing service provider for visa, passport, Overseas Citizen of India (OCI), and attestatio

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — Douglas Devananda, secretary general of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), said on Saturday that Sri Lanka's Tamil people should not expect any government in the country's south to voluntarily grant a political settlement, arguing instead that Tamils must create the conditions necessary to secure their own political rights. Mr. Devananda made the remarks during a meeting with key EPDP figures and party activists from the Nallur electorate. "No government that comes

COLOMBO — China's ambassador to Sri Lanka on Friday used a forum marking the release of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" to press for deeper economic and political cooperation between the two countries, a year before they are to mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Speaking at the China-Sri Lanka Readers Forum at the Hilton Colombo, Ambassador Qi Zhenhong described the volume as an authoritative compilation of President Xi Jinping's latest thinking and sai