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Friday, May 17, 2013
A series of incidents has created anxiety among the country’s minority Muslims that they are being targeted by a resurgent Buddhist nationalism
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COLOMBO,
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The first phase of Sri Lanka’s northern railway project — funded by a line of credit facilitated by the Indian government — was commissioned on Friday. Coaches in bright red chugged...
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JAFFNA,
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The country’s 30-year ethnic conflict may have ended four years ago, but for Gunaratnam Selvi — who remained displaced for considerable part of the war — the daily battle for food is far from over...
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KILINOCHCHI,
May 12, 2013
If there is one weapon that Kumaran Pathmanathan now says he has faith in, it is education. “If only I had taken education more seriously, I would have acquired the ability to think and analyse is...
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New Delhi,
May 11, 2013
DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Government of India to retrieve Katchatheevu as part of Tamil Nadu and consequently an integral part of In...
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JAFFNA,
May 10, 2013
Their trawlers very close to our shore, say Sri Lankan fishermen
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LONDON,
May 8, 2013
For the first time in 40 years, the Queen will not attend the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM), to be held in Colombo in November, and will instead be represented by Prince Charle...
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CHENNAI,
May 5, 2013
DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Saturday rejected an allegation by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa that the DMK government did nothing to retrieve Katchatheevu, an island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974.
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London,
April 30, 2013
Accusing Sri Lanka of intensifying a crackdown on dissent, global rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday asked the Commonwealth not to hold its next summit in Colombo unless the country...
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Colombo,
April 27, 2013
Any change in the venue of the Commonwealth Heads of Governments Meeting (CHOGM), scheduled to be held in Colombo in November, has been ruled out despite objections from several member-countries w...
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Melbourne,
April 26, 2013
Several prominent Australians, including former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, have asked the federal government to consider boycotting a major Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka later this year.
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COLOMBO,
April 19, 2013
Plight of 26 fishermen held off Kovilam Point to be known today
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Washington,
April 15, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has proposed a 20 per cent cut in the American aid to Colombo, a move reflecting the unease in their ties over issues related to human rights, reconstruction and...
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RAMANATHAPURAM,
May 11, 2013
‘Action will be taken against erring boat owners’
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COLOMBO,
May 10, 2013
Tamil Nadu has no right to demand Katchatheevu, for it is Sri Lanka’s as per an agreement, Sri Lanka’s Traditional Industries and Small Enterprises Development Minister Douglas Devananda has said.
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COLOMBO,
May 9, 2013
Ravana Balaya has also sought ban on Vijay and Sarath Kumar movies
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Rameswaram,
May 6, 2013
Fifteen fishermen, who put to sea from here, were on Monday attacked allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy when they were fishing near Dhanuskodi.The fishermen were fishing near a sand hillock in In...
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Chennai,
May 3, 2013
The State Assembly on Friday passed a resolution demanding that the Union government take immediate steps to take back control of Katchatheevu, a small island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974.
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Chennai,
April 28, 2013
Slamming the Centre on the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen allegedly by Sri Lankan navy, former UPA ally DMK on Sunday said the government thinks that its job on the matter is over just by ma...
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MANGALORE,
April 27, 2013
Five persons held for alleged involvement in human trafficking
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Colombo,
April 21, 2013
A total of 80 would be asylum seekers to Australia, all of them Tamils, were arrested in Sri Lanka’s northern region by the Navy on Sunday.
The arrest came as the group was departing Poi...
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Colombo,
April 15, 2013
British Airways on Monday resumed flights to Sri Lanka, nearly 15 years after the service was suspended due to the country’s three-decade-long civil war.A British Airways Boeing 777 touched...
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CHENNAI,
April 15, 2013
Reiterating that Tamil Eelam alone could find a permanent solution to the problems of the Sri Lankan Tamils, Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi (VCK) on Sunday demanded a referendum among them to ascer...
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