Gender income gap widens in Sri Lanka
November 4th, 2011 - 3:26 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Nov 4 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government should ensure better pay for women, rights activists said here Friday after Sri Lanka dropped 15 spots in the latest World Economic ... Read more...
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Rajiv killers’ pleas adjourned till Nov 29
October 28th, 2011 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 28 (IANS) The Madras High Court Friday adjourned till Nov 29 the hearing on the petitions by the three men convicted for assassinating former prime minister Rajiv ... Read more...
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Pakistan to help de-mining in Sri Lanka
October 25th, 2011 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Oct 25 (IANS) Pakistan will help de-mine parts of Sri Lanka's Northern province, Xinhua reported Tuesday.A 10-member de-mining team from the Pakistani Army Engineering Corps is currently in the ... Read more...
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Five jailed by Hague court for helping LTTE
October 22nd, 2011 - 6:04 am ICT by IANS
Brussels, Oct 22 (IANS) A court in The Hague Friday sentenced five ethnic Tamils to six years in prison for helping finance the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), EuAsiaNews ... Read more...
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Report on Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ to be released
October 18th, 2011 - 1:59 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Oct 18 (IANS) A report commissioned by the Sri Lankan government to probe allegations of war crimes will be released in mid-November, an official said Tuesday.The deadline for the ... Read more...
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Anna condemns attack on Prashant Bhushan, asks for security
October 12th, 2011 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra), Oct 12 (IANS) Anna Hazare Wednesday condemned the attack on his team member and senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan and demanded security for his aides for "some ... Read more...
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Release Rajiv Gandhi killers, appeals Karunanidhi
October 6th, 2011 - 10:44 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Oct 6 (IANS) DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi Thursday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi ... Read more...
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LTTE front groups run weekend schools in Holland: Report
October 4th, 2011 - 10:58 pm ICT by IANS
Brussels, Oct 4 (IANS) Front organisations of the vanquished Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) run some 20 schools on Saturdays in the Netherlands, Dutch media reported Tuesday.The revelations were ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka to free 1,200 former rebels
September 19th, 2011 - 10:34 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Sep 19 (IANS) Sri Lanka will free 1,200 more rehabilitated former Tamil Tiger guerrillas by September-end, Xinhua reported Monday.This would take to 17,000 the number of former members of ... Read more...
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Gandhi accused Nalini breaks down
September 7th, 2011 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 7 (IANS) Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence for the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Wednesday broke down as she was shifted back to Vellore jail ... Read more...
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Hanging of Rajiv killers stayed, Tamil Nadu assembly backs them
August 30th, 2011 - 11:17 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 30 (IANS) The Sep 9 hanging of the three men sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was stayed for eight weeks ... Read more...
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Assembly resolution on Rajiv killers not binding: Khurshid
August 30th, 2011 - 4:57 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) The resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly asking President Pratibha Patil to review the mercy petitions of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's ... Read more...
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Tamil Nadu Congress chief wants Rajiv killers hanged
August 27th, 2011 - 7:29 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 27 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Congress Chief K.V. Thangkabalu Saturday said the law should take its course in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case and the three ... Read more...
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Rajiv Gandhi assassination: three to hang Sep 9 (Lead)
August 26th, 2011 - 8:06 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 26 (IANS) The three men facing death penalty for the 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi will be hanged Sep 9 in Tamil Nadu's Vellore ... Read more...
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Indian MPs slam Sri Lanka for ‘war crimes’ (Lead)
August 25th, 2011 - 5:35 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IANS) The Indian opposition Thursday accused Sri Lanka of ill treating Tamils even after crushing the Tamil Tigers, while a Communist leader also flayed New Delhi ... Read more...
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Will get Sri Lankan Tamils their rights: Jayalalithaa
August 11th, 2011 - 9:01 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 11 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday declared that her government will not rest till Sri Lankan Tamils are rehabilitated, allowed to live in their own ... Read more...
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President rejects mercy petition of Rajiv killers (Lead)
August 11th, 2011 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petition of three men sentenced to death for involvement in former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, an ... Read more...
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President rejects mercy petition of Gandhi killers
August 11th, 2011 - 5:37 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 11 (IANS) President Pratibha Patil has rejected the mercy petition of three men sentenced to death for the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, an ... Read more...
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Probe rights abuses, CPI-M tells Colombo
August 7th, 2011 - 9:15 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 7 (IANS) The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Sunday asked Sri Lanka to probe the "serious allegations" of rights abuses by its military in the war against the ... Read more...
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India for probe into rights abuses in Sri Lanka (Lead)
August 4th, 2011 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) In a move that is bound to upset Colombo, India Thursday said it had sought a probe into alleged human rights abuses when the Sri ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka admits civilian deaths during separatist war
August 2nd, 2011 - 3:26 pm ICT by BNO News
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (BNO NEWS) – The government of Sri Lanka has admitted there were civilian casualties during the final phase of its civil war against the Tamil Tiger rebels, according to ... Read more...
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Tamil newspaper editor attacked in northern Sri Lanka
July 30th, 2011 - 3:37 am ICT by BNO News
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (BNO NEWS) -- The chief editor of a newspaper in northern Sri Lanka was attacked on Friday by an unidentified gang outside his office, police said.The Colombo Page reported ... Read more...
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Canada blacklists Pakistan Taliban
July 6th, 2011 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, July 6 (IANS) Canada Tuesday blacklisted the Pakistan Taliban as a terrorist organisation.The US had designated the outfit - known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) - as a ... Read more...
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India to help Sri Lankan army to build capacities
July 1st, 2011 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) India has agreed to help the Sri Lankan Army in its capacity building by opening up more seats for its officers and men in its ... Read more...
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Withdraw army from Sri Lanka’s northeast, says TULF (Lead)
June 17th, 2011 - 8:07 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 17 (IANS) A Tamil political party has demanded the withdrawal of Sri Lankan troops from the northeast after they allegedly assaulted Tamil MPs at a meeting of another ... Read more...
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Colombo treating us like ‘aborigines’, Tamils tell India
June 13th, 2011 - 7:54 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 13 (IANS) Sri Lanka is treating people in its Tamil-majority northeast as 'aborigines', a Tamil delegation told a team of Indian officials in Colombo."It is very unfortunate ... Read more...
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Tamil Nadu calls for sanctions against Sri Lanka
June 8th, 2011 - 7:06 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 8 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu assembly Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Indian government to impose economic sanctions on Sri Lanka and approach the United Nations to ... Read more...
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Don’t politicise Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination: Congress
May 24th, 2011 - 9:16 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) While not directly commenting on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa's remarks about DMK's alleged links to the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, ... Read more...
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DMK indirectly behind Rajiv assassination: Jayalalithaa
May 24th, 2011 - 4:30 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 24 (IANS) The DMK was indirectly behind the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. ... Read more...
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Don’t attend Sri Lanka military conference: rights body
May 24th, 2011 - 3:08 pm ICT by IANS
New York, May 24 (IANS) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged countries not to attend a Sri Lankan military conference that allegedly seeks to justify the thousands killed during the ... Read more...
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May 21, 1991: The assassination that also killed Tamil Eelam (Comment)
May 22nd, 2011 - 5:03 pm ICT by IANS
When a young suicide bomber dispatched by Velupillai Prabhakaran scripted history by assassinating former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi 20 years ago, it marked the end of the struggle for ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka’s former army commander denies accusing military of war crimes
May 13th, 2011 - 2:18 am ICT by BNO News
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (BNO NEWS) -- Sri Lanka's former Army Commander on Thursday said that his comments to a weekly national newspaper on the final stages of the war had been distorted, ... Read more...
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India to finance major harbour project in Sri Lanka
May 8th, 2011 - 1:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) India will financially assist Sri Lanka to develop Northern Jaffna peninsula's biggest harbour that will facilitate the transportation of goods from nearby Indian ports, said ... Read more...
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Special prayers offered for Osama in Chennai
May 6th, 2011 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 6 (IANS) Expressing their anguish over slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not getting a decent burial as per Islamic rites, around 10,000 Muslims offered special prayers ... Read more...
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Colombo, Tamil diaspora flayed in UN report
April 27th, 2011 - 9:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) A UN report that reported war crimes in Sri Lanka towards the end of the war says both Colombo and the Tamil diaspora are obstacles ... Read more...
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