CEREMONIAL RECEPTION IN COLOMBO

       
       Bilateral relations under the regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa had a pronounced chill as both sides differed strongly on rehabilitating minority Tamils and restoring their political rights.

       One was to indicate that India will hereon take its responsibilities as a significant maritime power seriously, particularly since China is making known its ambitions plainly. Second was to repair frayed ties with Colombo and, third, to gesture to Sri Lankan Tamils that India was not about to let up on lobbying for their rights.

       India was the first port of call for Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was received at the airport in the wee hours of the morning by Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during a visit marked by customary fanfare.

Mr. Narendra Modi’s visit, also to the island nations of Seychelles and Mauritius, arguably had three objectives.

Karnataka on state formation day PM Modi greets.

                 

                    New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated today greeted the people ofKarnataka on their state formation day or Kannada Rajyotsava.

Prime Minister Modi said "Greetings to people of Karnataka on Kannada

Rajyotsava. May Karnataka scale new heights of progress in the years to come,".

On this day in 1956, the Kannada speaking regions came together to form thestate of Karnataka. Every year the day is celebrated by organising literary and cultural fest.

 Those who contributed for the enrichment of Kannada language and culture are honoured by the Chief Minister.The state government earlier on Sunday had issued a notification changing anglicised names of 12 cities including Bangalore, Mysore, Belgaum and Mangalore. These cities will hereafter be known as Bengaluru, Mysuru, Belagavi and Mangaluru.

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