Balliol College, in Oxford University, UK is setting up a graduate scholarship scheme in honour of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, an alumni and one time president of the Oxford Union.

Lakshman Kadirgamar befriended me after the death of his friend, my father Mervyn de Silva, in 1999. At some event he had suddenly turned around – he told me – because he heard a laugh just like ...

The Writer, Ajita Kadirgamar, wrote a biography in honour of his father’s memory, named ‘The Cake that was Baked at Home’ (2015) The writer emphasises the importance of documenting and archiving ...

The Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI) held an almsgiving today to invoke merit to the late Lakshman Kadirgamar, PC, former Minister of Foreign ...

On becoming prime minister in February 2002, Ranil Wickremesinghe entered into a Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The CFA was brokered by the Norwegians, who ...

The European Union has banned delegations from Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers from visiting its 25 member states and is considering listing the rebels as terrorists. Sri Lanka's government has rejected Oslo ...

The assassination of Sri Lanka’s foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar last Friday has greatly heightened political tensions throughout the country and the danger of a return to civil war. Kadirgamar, ...

World leaders yesterday strongly condemned the assassination of Sri Lanka's foreign minister, blamed on Tamil rebels, and expressed fears for the island's shaky Norwegian-led peace process. UN ...

With the eruption of open fighting between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), it is timely to reexamine a key turning point in the slide towards renewed civil war ...