Yechuri wants ‘justice’ for Tamils
March 13th, 2012 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 13 (IANS) CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said Tuesday that Tamils in Sri Lanka deserved "justice"."India must exercise its influence... Justice should be given to the Tamil population ... Read more...
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Karunanidhi slams Sri Lanka for scrapping national anthem in Tamil
December 13th, 2010 - 7:23 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Dec 13 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday condemned Sri Lanka's decision to abolish the Tamil version of its national anthem.Citing news reports about the decision, Karunanidhi issued a ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka’s national anthem now only in Sinhala; Tamil version out
December 12th, 2010 - 9:46 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Dec 12 (IANS) The Sri Lankan cabinet has mandated the Sinhala version of the national anthem instead of a Tamil version used in some parts of the country, a media report ... Read more...
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Indian Bank eyes Rs.1.85 lakh crore business this fiscal
September 24th, 2010 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Sep 24 (IANS) Chennai-based Indian Bank is targeting a total business of Rs.1.85 lakh crore in the current fiscal, a top official said here Friday.
"We are targeting a total business of ... Read more...
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Indian aid to Sri Lanka benefiting Chinese: Jayalalithaa
June 18th, 2010 - 5:22 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, June 18 (IANS) AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Friday said the huge Indian financial assistance to Sri Lanka was benefiting the Chinese, who had won all the reconstruction contracts in the country.
Noting ... Read more...
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India, China will now be engaged in new ‘Great Game’ in Indian Ocean
June 10th, 2010 - 5:36 pm ICT by ANI
London, June 10 (ANI): A new "Great Game" between China and India for primacy in the Indian Ocean is likely in the coming decades, especially in the wake of India and Sri ... Read more...
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IIFA charity to rehabilitate affected Tamils in Sri Lanka
May 30th, 2010 - 5:51 pm ICT by ANI
Mumbai, May 30 (ANI): The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) has initiated a charity project to provide rehabilitation measures for the Tamil population of Sri Lanka that suffered due to a ... Read more...
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India to open consulate in Jaffna: Rao
March 8th, 2010 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) India plans to open a consulate in Jaffna town, an important step to spur New Delhi's efforts in the reconstruction of Sri Lanka's war-ravaged north, the government ... Read more...
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Fonseka’s arrest aimed to suppress war crimes: Tamil Canadians
February 9th, 2010 - 11:08 am ICT by IANS
By Gurmukh Singh
Toronto, Feb 9 (IANS) Calling the arrest of former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka "the murder of dissent'' by Colombo, Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada have sought immediate international ... Read more...
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India to open consulate in Jaffna soon
January 29th, 2010 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) With the crushing of the Tamil Tigers, India will soon open a consulate in the Tamil heartland of Jaffna in a bid to spur reconstruction of the ... Read more...
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‘War criminals’ in Tamil asylum seekers’ guise worry Canada
October 23rd, 2009 - 1:19 pm ICT by ANI
Ottawa, Oct. 23 (ANI): Following the seizure of a ship carrying 76 Tamil asylum seekers off Canada's Pacific coast, Ottawa is worried that more vessels - even with some LTTE gunrunner and ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka to go for early presidential elections
October 13th, 2009 - 7:30 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Oct 13 (DPA) Sri Lanka is to hold presidential elections nearly two years before scheduled, an official said Tuesday.
"The presidential elections will be held before April next year," Media Minister Lakshman ... Read more...
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India committed for rehabilitation of Sri Lankan Tamils: PM
September 17th, 2009 - 11:22 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has reiterated the central government's commitment to rehabilitation of internally displaced civilians (IDP) in northern Sri Lanka.
In his reply to Karunanidhi's letters dated ... Read more...
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LTTE announces ‘new transnational government’, says will pursue autonomy
June 17th, 2009 - 12:46 pm ICT by ANI
Bangkok (Thailand), June 17 (ANI): The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eeelam (LTTE), the rebel group recently defeated by the Sri Lankan military, have announced the formation of a "provisional transnational government" to ... Read more...
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Lankan refugee camps are not simply temporary shelters
May 23rd, 2009 - 12:32 pm ICT by ANI
Toronto, Mar 23 (ANI): Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil families in the country's south, who were divided for years by the war and finally able to see relatives in the north, are ... Read more...
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IAF flies medical team, aid to Sri Lanka
May 22nd, 2009 - 3:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 22 (IANS) India Friday dispatched a team of 27 doctors and paramedics to the war ravaged northern Sri Lanka, where the large civilian Tamil population is still reeling under ... Read more...
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After Prabhakaran: Will Sri Lanka finally have peace? (Comment)
May 21st, 2009 - 11:35 am ICT by IANS
By C. Uday Bhaskar
The dramatic albeit gory footage of a dead Velupillai Prabhakaran with a bullet hole through his forehead marks the end of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as ... Read more...
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EU called on Sri Lankan to resolve problems politically
May 20th, 2009 - 4:01 am ICT by IANS
Brussels, May 20 (IANS) With Sri Lanka formally annoucing the defeat of Tamil Tigers Tuesday, the European Union called on Colombo to do all in its capacity to reach a sustainable political ... Read more...
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Post victory over LTTE, Mahinda Rajapaksa assures Tamils of equal rights
May 19th, 2009 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, May 19 (ANI): The Sri Lanka President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his victory speech to the Parliament termed "the victory achieved by defeating the LTTE as the victory of the country" here ... Read more...
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Victory over LTTE is for whole country: Sri Lankan president (Second Lead)
May 19th, 2009 - 12:34 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, May 19 (IANS) The victory "achieved by defeating the LTTE" is the victory of the entire country, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said while addressing parliament here Tuesday. He did not ... Read more...
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LTTE vanquished, victory for our country: Sri Lankan president (Lead)
May 19th, 2009 - 12:07 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, May 19 (IANS) The victory "achieved by defeating the LTTE" is the victory of the country, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said while addressing parliament here Tuesday, adding the Tamil Tigers ... Read more...
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LTTE’s defeat is victory for country: Sri Lankan president
May 19th, 2009 - 11:41 am ICT by IANS
Colombo, May 19 (IANS) The victory "achieved by defeating the LTTE" is the victory of the country, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said while addressing parliament Tuesday.
"Our aim was to protect the ... Read more...
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Election 2009: Numbers game sans big issues
May 15th, 2009 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
By Manish Chand
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Varun Gandhi's hate speech, BJP's attack on Manmohan Singh as "a weak prime minister" and the hitback by the Congress, shoe-throwing by a journalist ... Read more...
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India worried over Sri Lanka but has limitations: PM
May 9th, 2009 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, May 9 (IANS) India was "deeply concerned" over the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka but there were limits to what it could do to end the killings there, Prime ... Read more...
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Lanka President invites UN chief to see Tamil refugee status
May 7th, 2009 - 12:48 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, May 7 (ANI): Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited U N Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit the island nation to see for himself the situation in the camps where ... Read more...
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Canadian academics come out in support of Tamils
May 6th, 2009 - 9:51 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 6 (IANS) Canadian academics have launched a campaign to seek their government's intervention in Sri Lanka to end the conflict between government forces and the Tamil Tigers.
In a letter to ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in making
April 30th, 2009 - 9:50 am ICT by admin
By Bobby RamakantActivists expressed their deep anguish and concern on unabated mass killings in Sri Lanka which is, as they underlined, "no short of a humanitarian disaster in northern Sri Lanka"."We also ... Read more...
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Lanka crisis requires political, not military solution: Experts
April 25th, 2009 - 3:08 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, Apr.25 (ANI): The ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka requires a political not a military solution, says many observers."There has to be a political settlement, otherwise, there is always the danger that, ... Read more...
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Sikh body seeks UN intervention in Sri Lanka
April 24th, 2009 - 7:19 pm ICT by IANS
Amritsar, April 24 (IANS) Expressing its solidarity with the Tamil population in the war-ravaged north Sri Lanka, a radical Sikh organization Dal Khalsa Friday urged the UN to intervene and save the ... Read more...
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Indian Tamils view Sri Lanka with concern, but also apathy
April 24th, 2009 - 2:26 pm ICT by IANS
By TSV Hari and Maitreyee Boruah
Chennai/Bangalore, April 24 (IANS) From indifference to concern - the attitude of Indian Tamils to the plight of their ethnic brethren caught in the fighting between the ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka facing ’serious humanitarian crisis’, says ICRC
March 18th, 2009 - 5:51 pm ICT by IANS
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Sri Lanka faces a "serious humanitarian crisis" and there is an urgent need to halt fighting at least briefly to rescue people in the ... Read more...
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Mukherjee appeals Lanka, LTTE to come to negotiated settlement
February 21st, 2009 - 9:17 pm ICT by ANI
Murshidabad, Feb 21 (ANI): Union External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday appealed to the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to come to a peaceful ... Read more...
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Tamils seek Canadian intervention in Sri Lankan war zone
February 13th, 2009 - 12:30 pm ICT by IANS
Toronto, Feb 13 (IANS) The powerful Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) has again called upon Canada to put pressure on Sri Lanka to stop "genocide" against the civilians in the conflict zone.
"For far ... Read more...
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Take care of Tamils, India tells Sri Lanka
February 8th, 2009 - 2:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) India Sunday urged the Sri Lankan government to take care of the thousands of Tamil civilians caught up in the war between the military and the Tamil ... Read more...
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100,000 Tamils march through London
February 1st, 2009 - 5:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 1 (IANS) Between 50,000 and 100,000 Tamils, accompanied by two influential British MPs, marched through central London in a Tamil rally Saturday demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to the ... Read more...
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