India and Sri Lanka signed a comprehensive agreement on April 5 to augment ties between the two nations as Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off a three-day visit to the island nation the day before. This was a kind of a reciprocation of Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who had visited India in December 2024. It had been his first state visit to a foreign country since his election in September. Modi’s visit was also the first by a foreign leader to Sri Lanka since Dissanayake unexpectedly led his leftist National People’s Power to victory. The two visits mark a welcome enhancement of ties between the two neighbouring countries after a period of troubled diplomacy when Ranil........

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