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India condemns suicide attack in Sri Lanka April 26, 2006 02:20 IST Terming the suicide bombing in Colombo, which seriously wounded the Sri Lankan army chief, as a 'brazen act of terrorism,' Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday spoke to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on phone and conveyed India's solidarity with the government and people of the island in its 'difficult hour.' Mukherjee said violence was not the answer to any problem and political dialogue was the only way to resolve outstanding issues, an External Affairs Ministry statement in New Delhi said. He conveyed India's shock at the incident in which Sri Lankan Army Chief Lt…

A talk by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, held at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies on Thursday marked an interesting development in the trajectory of local research activity in international relations. It was the first time such an event was organized jointly by the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) and the LKIIRSS. Introducing the speaker, Sunimal Fernando, Advisor to the President and member of the BCIS’s Board of Studies indicated that the two think tanks planned to work together and ‘provide complementarities’ to each other in the f…

US 'losing media war to al-Qaeda' The US is losing the propaganda war against al-Qaeda and other enemies, defence chief Donald Rumsfeld has said. It must modernise its methods to win the minds of Muslims in the "war on terror", as "enemies had skilfully adapted" to the media age, he said. Washington and the army must respond faster to events and learn to exploit the internet Separately, President Bush said the US should not be discouraged by setbacks in Iraq and must realise it is at war. "We shouldn't be discouraged... because we've seen democracy change the world in the past," George W Bush said. However, he also used his speech in …

Sampanthan off to India TNA Parliamentary group leader R. Sampathan left for India yesterday after the Indian Government wanted him and a few others to come over to India immediately. It is learnt that MP Mavai Senadhiraja is scheduled to meet Mr. Sampathan there Thanks http://www.dailymirror.lk/

By Sonali Samarasinghe The telephone threat made by President Mahinda Rajapakse to the Editor, The Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge and the ensuing furore last week stunned diplomats and shocked civil society. The threat issued personally to the Editor by the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in gutter language was based on some gossip that had reached the ear of Rajapakse that an article had been published regarding a disastrous visit made by the President and First Lady Shiranthi to the famous Guruvayur temple in Kerala. It was a visit he feared would tarnish his image as a Sinhala leader and devout…

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka's elusive Tamil Tiger supremo marks his 52nd birthday on Sunday with a self-imposed deadline to decide the course of Asia's longest-running ethnic conflict. Velupillai Prabhakaran has no official birthday celebrations but his annual speech on Monday will be keenly watched by Sri Lankan leaders as well as those in foreign capitals struggling to broker peace. "There are no official functions or celebrations," said Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Illanthiriyan. "But many people usually have religious observances or share sweets to mark the occasion." Born on November 26, 1954 in the island's arid north, Prabhakaran, a school dro…

இந்தோனேஷியா இந்த கொரோனா வைரஸை பற்றி இவ்வளவு காலமும் ஒன்றுமே கூறவில்லை என யோசிப்பதுண்டு.. Coronavirus COVID-19 has now reached Indonesia, President Joko Widodo confirms By Alan Weedon Posted Yesterday, updated 22h hours ago President Joko Widodo confirmed the country's first cases earlier today.(AP: Achmad Ibrahim) Indonesia has recorded its first cases of COVID-19, after two nationals tested positive for the coronavirus on Monday. Key points: Two women tested positive for COVID-19 and are being treated in a Jakarta hospital President Joko Widodo says the country is well prepared for the outbreak …

Fordømmer norsk dokumentar Oslo (ANB-NTB): Sri Lankas regjering vil forby den norske dokumentarfilmen «Min datter terroristen», som handler om to kvinners liv blant Tamiltigrene (LTTE). Det srilankiske forsvarsdepartementet har gått ut med en pressemelding der de skriver at de har lagt press på det amerikanske utenriksdepartementet og FBI for å stoppe visninger av den norske dokumentarfilmen, skriver Oslo Dokumentarkino. Myndighetene på Sri Lanka mener filmen, hvor vi møter to kvinnelige selvmordssoldater, er med på å promotere terrorisme og frykter at den vil gjøre stor skade. Filmen har blitt forsøkt stoppet i USA i forbindelse med dokumentarfilmfestival…

Three arrested over Tiger ties By Srinath Prasanna Jayasuriya An army captain, a soldier and a Buddhist monk were taken into custody for having close links with a top LTTE leader named Ramesh, alias Charles, who was reportedly involved in the recent bomb blasts in Colombo and the suburbs, police said. A senior police official said that Ramesh, who was arrested along with three other LTTE suspects in the Mattakkuliya area, had revealed the connection with the captain and other two arrested persons, who are all Sinhalese. It was revealed that these three Sinhalese suspects had been promised seven million rupees by Ramesh if they helped the LTT…

India's covert role in Sri Lanka's ceasefire By M.R. Narayan Swamy, New Delhi, Feb 17 : Now that Sri Lanka has jettisoned the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) with the Tamil Tigers, one of India's best kept secrets can be revealed: it was New Delhi that quietly authored the process that led to the Norway-brokered pact. The dominant thinking in India and Sri Lanka, and even elsewhere, is that New Delhi has been a distant watcher to the goings on in the war-hit island barring its interactions with Colombo and countries like Norway as part of a "hands off" policy sparked off by former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's 1991 assassination. While it is true that India to…

தேசவிரோதி துரோகி கருணா பற்றி இலண்டன் கார்டியன் பத்திரிகையில்........ Karuna Amman, the Sri Lankan warlord jailed for entering Britain on a falsified visa and diplomatic passport, will not be prosecuted for war crimes and is likely to be deported soon. The former Tamil Tigers leader would not face further charges, the Crown Prosecution Service said yesterday. Karuna, 45, whose real name is Vinayagmoorthy Muralitharan, has been accused by human rights groups of forcing teenagers to serve as child soldiers, torturing prisoners and killing hundreds of civilians. He was released from prison last Friday after serving three months for immigration offences. Karuna…

Sri Lanka, the “pearl” of the Indian Ocean, is strategically located within the east-west international shipping passageway. Like the old Silk Road that stretched from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian all the way to ancient Rome, modern China’s strategic and commercial supply line extends over the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea to include the focal transit port of Sri Lanka at the southern tip of India. Today, over 85 percent of China’s energy imports from the Middle East and mineral resources from Africa transit through Sri Lanka and other so-called “string of pearls” ports. Beijing seeks to protect these “pearls” as strategic economic arteries anchored all…

Prabhakaran: One man who keeps Sri Lanka burning By IANS Saturday November 25, 07:47 AM New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran will turn 52 Sunday, presiding over a de facto state in the Indian Ocean island and still steering a cause for which he fled from his home over 30 years ago. In the three blood-soaked decades gone by, the once catapult wielding boy has leapfrogged from being the head of a small militant group of the early 1980s to one presiding over the world's deadliest insurgent outfit. The father of three evokes awe and admiration as well as fear and hatred. He is wanted by India and Interpol for the 1991 assa…

European Union under Germany may lift Tamil Tiger ban: Sri Lanka. A lifting of the ban on the LTTE by the European Union (EU) is now a possibility because Germany is going to be EU President (for six months) from January 1, says the Colombo-based The Sunday Times. In a Frankfurt-datelined story, the paper said that at the very least, an EU under Germany would put economic pressure on the Sri Lankan government to abandon its military campaigns and return to the negotiating table for meaningful talks with the LTTE. Germany has already stopped its aid for tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka. Economic Cooperation Minister Heidmarie Wieczorek-Zeul had to…

Letter to Representatives Lowey and Wolf on US foreign operations funding November 7, 2007 The Honorable Nita M. Lowey US House of Representatives 2329 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-3218 The Honorable Frank R. Wolf US House of Representatives 241 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-4610 Via Facsimile Sri Lanka Since the collapse of the ceasefire between the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government in mid-2006 and the resumption of major military operations, civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting. More than 1,000 have reportedly "disappeared." Several hundred …

SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:49 GMT] Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymor…

Balance of power: West v East Seda Punkt - 4/12/2008 World dominant is in question. West, namely, US, EU, and Canada are on one side, East-namely, Russia, and China, are on the other front, where India is increasingly aligning itself with Russia. The breakup of USSR was one of the US's major foreign policy achievements. Now, the lone Russia with Chechnya, is not much of a threat. Tibet, and Xinjiang can give long term headache to China, but breaking up Russia and China is very difficult. But India. Powerful India is a growing trouble for the West, and the solution is breaking up India. India is very similar to Yugoslavia; the 30% of the Hindi spea…

Negative wealth effect By TN Ninan, editor and publisher of Business Standard Published: June 20 2006 06:20 | Last updated: June 20 2006 06:20 The key question to be asked is what effect the gyrations on the stock market will have on the real economy. Will the sharp drop in share prices mean that the real economy too will slow down? That is easy, and the answer is “Yes”. The tricky part is figuring out by how much. To take the macro picture first, a net outflow of portfolio investment means that the dollar inflow, which helped pay for the large deficit on trade in goods and services (more than $20bn a year), is no longer there. This puts pressure on the …

முதலில எனக்கு இந்த தலைப்பை எந்த பகுதில போடுவது என்பதில குழப்பமாக இருந்தது இந்தப் பகுதில பெரும்பாலானவை ஆங்கிலத்தில தான் இருப்பதால பிறமொழி ஆக்கம் பகுதில போட்டிருக்கிறன். அடுத்து .ந்தப்பகுதில ஏதும் குறைகள் இருப்பின் சுட்டிக்காட்டுங்க திருத்த முயற்சிக்கிறேன் ; இந்த பகுதி சம்பந்தமான கேள்விகளை தமிழில கேட்கலாம் பதிலும் தமிழில .ருக்கும் (எனக்கு நேரம் இல்லாமையால தமிழில மொழி பெயர்க்கவில்லை ) Guidance - Students (INF 5) (03/04/06) What is this guidance about? This guidance explains what you will need to do if you want to travel to the United Kingdom (UK) to study, and what the Immigration Rules say. It is only a guide but it aims to answer some co…

CNN)Doctors at a Texas hospital along the US-Mexico border may decide to send coronavirus patients "home to die by their loved ones" due to limited resources, officials say. Government and health officials in Starr County announced this week they are creating committees to review patients' cases at the Starr County Memorial Hospitalin Rio Grande City. At least 50% of the patients admitted in the hospital's emergency room have tested positive for Covid-19, Dr. Jose Vasquez, the county's health authority, said in a news conference earlier this week. "The situation is desperate," he said. …

Published Wednesday 11th July 2007 11:41 GMT China today confirmed it has developed a "Wing In Ground" (WIG) sea-skimming aircraft, state media reports. According to Reuters, the Chinese version of the Caspian Sea Monster is capable of flying at 300km/h (180mph) at a mere half metre above the surface while carrying four tonnes of cargo. It relys on the WIG effect effect whereby, put simply, a wing travelling close to the ground is provided with extra lift by the "cushion" of air compressed under it - thus enabling a combination of greater aircraft weight for less power and/or enhanced fuel economy. Professor Xu Zhengyu, vice-president of the research team a…

2 SLA soldiers killed, 3 wounded in Thenmaradchi [TamilNet, April 16, 2006 05:05 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers were killed Sunday morning and three wounded in a Claymore attack in Mattuvil, Thenmaradchi in Jaffna, SLA sources said. Unidentified attackers targetted a group of SLA soldiers on road patrol west of Kanakampuliyadi junction. The attackers fired gunshots after the Claymore attack, sources said.

The government scents victory; to others, it smells like prolonged war THE Sri Lankan government, and the majority ethnic-Sinhalese population that backs it, are gloating over the death of S.P. Tamilselvan, political commissar of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in an air raid on November 2nd. To them it is proof that the Sri Lankan army has gained the upper hand under the leadership of Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president, and his brother, Gotabhaya, the defence secretary. They believe the latter's boast that his forces know the whereabouts of the Tigers' leaders, and that they will be killed one by one. To government loyalists, Sri Lanka is well on the road to an …

தற்போதைய படை நடவடிக்கைளால் இடம்பெயர்ந்து படைக்கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதிக்குச் சென்ற மக்கள் தங்கியுள்ள முகாம்களிற்கு ஆயுதங்களுடன் கறுணா கும்பலைச் சேர்ந்தோர் ஊடுருவுவதாக சர்வதேச மன்னிப்புச் சபை தெரிவித்துள்ளது. Sri Lanka: Armed groups infiltrating refugee camps Press release, 03/14/2007 Armed groups, some identified as part of a breakaway group of Tamil Tigers known as the Karuna faction, are infiltrating camps for newly displaced people and abducting residents, according to sources known to Amnesty International. Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing their homes after intense fighting in the eastern region of Batticaloa over the weekend, pushing the n…