Delhi High Court refused to meddle in Kachchativu (Comment)
September 18th, 2012 - 4:30 pm ICT by IANS
A long time ago, I had moved the Delhi High Court challenging the Indian government's decision to give away the Kachchativu island to Sri Lanka.When the transfer happened, in 1974, I ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka to set up body to monitor N-radiation from India
June 23rd, 2011 - 11:22 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, June 23 (IANS) Sri Lanka will set up a body to deal with radiation emergencies that may arise in the event of any accident at nuclear power plants in ... Read more...
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Jayalalithaa seeks PM’s help to free fishermen (Lead)
June 21st, 2011 - 8:30 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 21 (IANS) Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Tuesday urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to secure the early release of the 23 fishermen from Tamil Nadu taken into custody ... Read more...
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Railways plans massive development of vacant land
March 11th, 2011 - 10:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 11 (IANS) The railways plans to utilise some of its 1.13 lakh acres of vacant land to set up factories, cold storages and perishable cargo centres, Minister ... Read more...
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Archaeologists discover gateway to the Viking Empire in Germany
August 28th, 2010 - 5:39 pm ICT by ANI
Berlin, Aug 28 (ANI): Archaeologists have found a gateway to the Viking Empire, which they believe was built to protect an important trading route."Like wild hornets," reads an ancient description; the Vikings ... Read more...
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Hurricane winds will hit Bermuda on Wednesday
February 10th, 2010 - 4:57 am ICT by BNO News
BERMUDA (BNO NEWS) – Hurricane force winds are expected to sweep over the Island nation of Bermuda on Wednesday and Thursday, meteorologists said on Tuesday.Wednesday will likely start off with strong wind ... Read more...
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India beefs up security at Nepal and Bangladesh borders to check arms smuggling
November 19th, 2009 - 1:01 pm ICT by ANI
Panitanki / Siliguri/ Fulbari (WB), Nov 19 (ANI): India has stepped security along the 'Chicken Neck area', a narrow strip of land in West Bengal wedged between Nepal and Bangladesh, to keep ... Read more...
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Ravi Shankar for citizenship rights for Tamil refugees
August 4th, 2009 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 4 (IANS) Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Tuesday said the more than 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils living as refugees in 112 camps in Tamil Nadu should be given immigrant ... Read more...
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UN demands halt to civilian casualties in Sri Lanka
May 12th, 2009 - 1:51 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, May 12 (DPA) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called on the Sri Lankan government and Tamil rebels to avoid further civilian casualties in the conflict in the north of the ... Read more...
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LTTE asks Ravi Shankar to facilitate ceasefire
May 5th, 2009 - 12:16 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi May 4 (IANS) Sri Lanka's beleaguered Tamil Tiger guerrillas Monday urged Indian spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to facilitate a ceasefire in the island nation.
The appeal was made in ... Read more...
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Rajapaksa rules out truce with Tamil Tigers
April 30th, 2009 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 30 (IANS) Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Thursday ruled out halting the fight-to-finish military campaign against the Tamil Tigers and said the time was running out for the rebels to ... Read more...
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Tamil rebels resume fighting after truce call rejected (Lead)
April 27th, 2009 - 2:15 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 27 (DPA) Sri Lankan military and Tamil rebels started fighting again around the last LTTE-held area in north-eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of civilians remain trapped, after the government rejected ... Read more...
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Military push for last LTTE area in Sri Lanka: Rebels
April 27th, 2009 - 11:48 am ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 27 (DPA) Government forces have stepped up operations to capture the last LTTE-held area in northern Sri Lanka after rejecting a unilateral ceasefire offered by the Tamil Tigers, a ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition sweeps provincial poll (Lead)
April 26th, 2009 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 26 (IANS) Sri Lanka's ruling coalition Sunday swept elections to the Western Provincial Council, that includes the capital Colombo, after a high pitched campaign seeking support for the military offensive ... Read more...
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Rajapaksa’s party wins key local election
April 26th, 2009 - 3:12 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 26 (DPA) President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling party won a key local election in the capital city and its outskirts that was regarded as an endorsement of the Sri Lankan military ... Read more...
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Indian envoys meet Rajapaksa, no word on truce (Lead)
April 24th, 2009 - 6:49 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, April 24 (IANS) Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan Friday held talks with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and then flew back home, with Colombo hinting ... Read more...
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Lanka cease-fire ends
April 15th, 2009 - 12:51 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, Apr.15 (ANI): Sri Lankan troops have resumed their offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) in the northeast, ending a 48-hour ceasefire early Wednesday.News agency reports quoted a ... Read more...
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Tamil supporters protest over Sri Lankan issue in Mumbai
March 1st, 2009 - 10:10 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, Mar 1 (ANI): Tamil supporters took to the street on Sunday demanding the intervention of the United Nations (UN) to ensure safety of the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka.The protesters ... Read more...
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Army shells Tamils, LTTE prevents their flight: rights body
February 20th, 2009 - 6:27 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Feb 20 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government should immediately cease indiscriminate artillery attacks on civilians in the north and its policy of detaining displaced people in internment camps, Human Rights ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka Govt. says 10,000 civilians have escaped from war zone
February 8th, 2009 - 3:06 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, Feb.8 (ANI): The Government of Sri Lanka on Sunday said that at least 10,000 civilians have escaped from the island-nations war zone in the last four days.
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Sri Lanka strike hits Puducherry, life normal in Tamil Nadu
February 4th, 2009 - 2:51 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Feb 4 (IANS) More than 500 protestors were arrested in Tamil Nadu Wednesday to foil an opposition-sponsored strike against civilian deaths in Sri Lanka that seriously hit life in neighbouring Puducherry.Tamil ... Read more...
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Foreign secretary Menon’s trip to Lanka important: Karunanidhi
January 16th, 2009 - 9:16 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Jan 16 (IANS) Foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon's ongoing Colombo trip to solve the ethnic minority's tangle in Sri Lanka is important from a Tamil Nadu perspective, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said ... Read more...
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Lawyers jailed for celebrating Prabhakaran’s birthday
November 27th, 2008 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Nov 27 (IANS) A magistrate Thursday ordered two lawyers jailed for publicly celebrating the birthday of Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, Chennai Police Commissioner K. Radhakrishnan said.The lawyers were sent to ... Read more...
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Two more LTTE operatives held in Chennai
August 6th, 2008 - 2:21 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Aug 6 (IANS) Two more cadres of Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were arrested early Wednesday here and sent to judicial custody, the police said. K. Uma Ramanan, ... Read more...
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Indians admit they fish in Sri Lanka’s troubled waters
August 1st, 2008 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Indian fishermen under attack from Sri Lanka's navy admit they frequently fish in the island nation's waters, but argue that they have no other ... Read more...
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Centre says, Rama Sethu not a national monument
July 29th, 2008 - 6:22 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, July 29 (ANI): The Centre today told the Supreme Court that it does not consider the Rama Sethu a national monument.Senior advocate Fali S. Nariman, appearing for the Centre, ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka approves power deal with India
July 25th, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
By P. Karunakharan
Colombo, July 25 (IANS) Sri Lanka has approved a proposal for a mega underwater power transmission deal with India to meet a major part of the soaring power needs in ... Read more...
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Assam, Meghalaya fight over forgotten village
June 10th, 2008 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Langpih (Assam), June 10 (IANS) Assam and Meghalaya are locked in a bitter border row with the two states adopting a belligerent posture over a small village where people ... Read more...
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Trade through Nathu La begins amid fresh border row
May 19th, 2008 - 12:33 pm ICT by admin
By Syed Zarir Hussain
Nathu La (Sikkim), May 19 (IANS) Bilateral trade between India and China opened Monday through the fabled Silk Road amid a fresh border row, with Beijing claiming a strip ... Read more...
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West Bengal police arrest three suspects in Siliguri blast
April 4th, 2008 - 10:20 pm ICT by admin
Siliguri, April 4 (ANI): The West Bengal police on Friday arrested three persons suspected to be involved in the bomb blast that took place in Siliguri, killing three people.According to the ... Read more...
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Chilling images of ice-shelf collapsing in the heat
March 26th, 2008 - 4:24 pm ICT by admin
New York, March 26 (IANS) A US satellite has captured chilling images of over 400 square kilometres of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf collapsing because of rapid climate changes. The area is ... Read more...
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CCPA to take a final decision on Setusamudram affidavit
February 28th, 2008 - 1:22 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, Feb 28 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) is likely to meet today to take a final decision on an affidavit that the Government will file before the ... Read more...
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SC grants four weeks time to Centre to file affidavit on Sethusamudram project
January 31st, 2008 - 5:41 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, Jan 31 (ANI): The Supreme Court has granted four weeks time to the Centre to file its affidavit on Sethusamudram project on Thursday.Juctice K G Balakrishnan headed the bench.Next ... Read more...
Jayalalithaa should approach competent authority on Ram Sethu: Supreme Court
January 28th, 2008 - 5:42 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi , Jan 28 (ANI): The Supreme Court has asked former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to approach competent authorities for declaring the Ram Sethu a monument of national heritage.Jayalalithaa, ... Read more...
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TN requests Centre not to shelve Sethusamudram project
January 23rd, 2008 - 8:19 pm ICT by admin
Chennai, Jan 23 (ANI): The Tamil Nadu Government has requested the Centre not to shelve the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project because of the issues raised by some people for their political gain.
In ... Read more...
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