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India ready to play role in Lanka peace process India ready to play role in Lanka peace process Saturday December 31 2005 08:23 IST NEW DELHI: With the ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE rebels under "strain", India has indicated that it is ready to "encourage" parties to bring the peace process back on track. As Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse concluded his official business and flew out of Delhi on Friday, India felt that he gave a sense of being "flexible" on the question of devolution of power. In a joint press statement issued on Friday, India felt that ceasefire violations should be stopped and also hoped "a politi…

ndia yesterday renewed its commitment to the sustenance of peace and development in Sri Lanka as the giant neighbour documented over $ 1.3 billion in post-war support. 'As Sri Lanka strives towards a peaceful future, the Government and the people of India remain committed to assist Sri Lanka in its endeavours of rehabilitation, reconstruction and reconciliation,' Indian High Commissioner Y.K. Sinha said yesterday at the launch of brochure titled 'India and Sri Lanka: A partnership that transcends time' with Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa. 'India and Sri Lanka share a dynamic and multifaceted bilateral relationship that is rooted in close soci…

India seeks to back non-intrusive resolution against Lanka at UN rights Council DMK workers laid siege to the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner's office in Chennai on Match 5, 2013 demanding United Nations Human Rights Council probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. (TOI photo by C Suresh Kumar) RELATED DMK seeks referendum in north, east Lanka NEW DELHI: The US circulated a draft resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka on Thursday, which, if supported by India, could upend many of the fundamental "no-go" areas of Indian foreign policy and complicate New Delhi's efforts to honour the sentiments of Tamil MPs while maintaining it…

India should lift ban on LTTE, says Kuldip Nayar PK Balachandran Colombo, November 2, 2006 Kuldip Nayar, the noted Indian journalist and head of the Indian Peace Mission to Sri Lanka said in Colombo on Thursday, that India should lift the ban on the LTTE and engage it politically in order to bring lasting peace to war-torn Sri Lanka. "I am of the view that the ban should be lifted," Nayar said when newsmen asked him how India could play a constructive role in the Sri Lankan conflict if it was barred from interacting with one of the two parties in the conflict - the LTTE - because that group was banned in India. Nayar went on to say that banning organ…

Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam speaking about Indian media allegations of a Pakistani diplomat in Colombo involved in spying India and planning attacks in Chennai, said that it is an effort to create a wedge between Pakistan and Sri Lanka as the two countries have excellent relations with fruitful discussions on strengthening bilateral relations and increasing economic ties. She termed 'irresponsible' the recent statement of India's new Army Chief threatening Pakistan of dire consequences of infiltration attempts. She said that terrorism is a common enemy afflicting entire region and concerted efforts must be made by all sides for combat…

India's foreign policy is very clear and will not agree to any foreign power interfering in Sri Lanka's internal matters, a senior leader of India's governing Bharatha Janatha Party (BJP) Dr. Subramanian Swamy said. Speaking at the last day sessions of Sri Lanka's three-day defense meet, Defense Seminar 2014, at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo on the topic 'India - Sri Lanka Relations' , Dr. Swamy said India's 'national interests' are the most prioritized and India will not favor one particular ethnic group. "India's foreign policy is very clear and will not agree to any foreign power interfering Sri Lanka's internal matters, nor it will intervene in any such…

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India's CIA spy scandal India's external intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has launched a major internal investigation for possible moles following the apparent defection of a senior officer recruited by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Indian government fears that the defection of Rabinder Singh, who held the senior rank of joint secretary and who headed the agency's Southeast Asia department, is only the tip of the iceberg in a possible infiltration operation by the CIA and Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service. The focus of the investigation will be RAW, as well as the Intelligence Bureau, which handles co…

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…

India’s opinionated feminist and her viral wedding ad Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi 2 hours ago Image caption, The wedding ad that has gone viral and also riled many Matrimonial advertisements in newspapers are not where Indian feminists generally go looking for a match. Most of them are classified according to religion and caste, they often carry details of physical attributes such as skin colour, height and shape of the face, and many boast of six-figure incomes, family wealth and properties. So, last week when an ad seeking "a non-farting, non-burp…

India's Peace and War [TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 01:24 GMT] The now defunct Ceasefire Agreement in Sri Lanka was mooted and shadow-managed by the BJP government, according to Indian journalist, M.R. Narayan Swamy. Wickramasinghe and Pirapaharan were aware of this top secret mission of India, supervised by Vajpayee's Advisor Brajesh Mishra, but not J.N. Dixit who succeeded him with the change of government in May 2004. Dixit had to learn it from Wickramasinghe. The CFA signed in February 2002 was unilaterally withdrawn by the Sri Lanka government in January 2008. Swamy's revealing and the chronology of events implicate the Congress establishment and the eg…

India's Sri Lanka policy - a projection Is India going to be pushed, prodded or propelled, in its policy towards Sri Lanka, down the very path that it took in the 1980s? Dayan JAYATILLEKA STANCE: The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has joined the raucous voices emanating from Tamil Nadu, calling for a more vigorous and one-sided policy on the part of New Delhi towards Colombo. While it goes against India's interest to be even handed between the LTTE, which perpetrated an act of foreign terrorism on its soil, and Sri Lanka, a friendly neighbour, voices such as that of the AIBA actually argue for a policy that is lopsided: against the Sri L…

Indian and Eelam Tamils are Hindu terrorists: Musharraf. [ Gjd;fpoik, 27 bnrk;gH 2006 ] [ fpU;zg;gps;is ] Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says he is against use of the term Islamist terrorists or "Islamo-fascists" as such labelling can then be used for other terrorist outfits as well, like the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka who are Hindus. "Does one call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists? Why is Pakistan's bomb called an Islamist bomb? Why is India's bomb not called a Hindu bomb and that of Israel as a Jewish bomb?" Musharraf asked. "Pakistani people are certainly for fighting terrorism, but they somehow are not happy with relations with the United S…

India’s Ramanathapuram District police have arrested five people, including three Sri Lankan Tamils with arms such as air-guns, sickles and crowbars when they were proceeding to Madurai after visiting Rameswaram in a car, The Hindu newspaper reported. Accompanied by S. Vijayakumar (52), an assistant director in the Kerala film industry, who was reportedly facing cheque bounce and criminal cases, the Lankan Tamils, who came from Chennai, were on their way to Kerala via Madurai after visiting a friend in Mandapam and offering worship at the Rameswaram Temple, when the police arrested them at the check post. The check post police, who were routinely checking …

India on Monday asked its envoy in Geneva to return for consultations on the US resolution on Sri Lanka, the IANS reported. Dilip Sinha, ambassador and permanent representative of India to the UN in Geneva, will be in New Delhi on Tuesday to brief the government on the resolution, external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said. The issue has gained urgency with political parties and activists in Tamil Nadu urging the government to back the resolution — like last year — and even amend it to denounce Colombo for the "genocide" of Tamils. The resolution is expected to come up for voting at the 47-member UNHRC session in Geneva March 21. The forei…

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…

[size=5]Salma Yusuf in candid conversation with Shri Rahpal Malhotra, the distinguished mover-and-shaker in India’s Prime Minister’s Office having advised former Indian leaders including Indhira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. [/size] [size=5]He is Executive Vice-Chairman of the Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID) in Chandigarh, of which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is Chairman. He currently provides suggestive advice to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, both personally and institutionally.[/size] [size=5]-------------------------------------[/size] [size=5]Q: There have been three main schools of thought regarding India’s vote in favo…

Indian military aid condemned "Indian government, or more specifically the Hindi politicians who dominate the Indian parliament and thus control Indian foreign policy and military decisions, is somewhat afraid of Tamil Nadu's reaction to its military aid to Sri Lanka. [Note: Hindi politicians do not have a majority in parliament but have the highest number of members. They are able to astutely control major decisions in alliance with other groups.] So the Indian government provides the military assistance covertly while issuing public statements that it has a hands-off policy towards the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. If and when such assistance is exposed, India routin…

சீன அரசு சார்பு ஊடகமான குலோபல் ரைம்ஸ் ல் இன்று வந்த கட்டுரை. எங்கள் பூகோள அரசியல், இராசதந்திர அறிவு விருத்திக்கும் புரிதலுக்காகவும் மட்டுமே இங்கே இணைக்கப்படுகிறது. (கோடிடுதல், Bold ஆக காட்டுதல் என்னால் மாற்றப்பட்டது) Indian mission to Sri Lanka's referral to Taiwan question reveals some politicians' speculative illusion: analysts China will not compromise on other issues while dealing with Taiwan Straits tensions By GT staff reporters Published: Aug 29, 2022 09:10 PM China India Photo:CFP It is wrong and a speculative illusion for a group of politicians in India to think that it…

INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA Genocide '83 'A tourist told yesterday how she watched in horror as a Sinhala mob deliberately burned alive a bus load of Tamils... A mini bus full of Tamils were forced to stop in front of us in Colombo' she said. A Sinhalese mob poured petrol over the bus and set it on fire. They blocked the car door and prevented the Tamils from leaving the vehicle. 'Hundreds of spectators watched as about 20 Tamils were burned to death'." On 24 July 1983, and in the succeeding weeks, around two thousand Tamils were killed - some were burnt alive - over a hundred thousand were rendered homeless Sinhala mob dancing around a Tamil youth, stri…

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Indiscriminate Attacks strengthen case for Tamil self-rule- Aussie MP [TamilNet, May 05, 2006 10:10 GMT] "Whatever the provocation, targeting Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government clearly demonstrates that it does not regard the Tamil people to be part of its population. It thus strengthens, in my view, the Tamil people's case for self determination," said Australian parliamentarion John Murphy, Member for the Federal State of Lowe, in a media release issued Friday. For full report, please visit: http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=18020

Ferry service between Sri Lanka and Rameswaram in India could resume next year after restoration of the northern railway line to Talaimannar by December, Indian Government undertaking IRCON International, which is restoring the line said. IRCON Additional General Manager V. K. Jayasankar said that the reconstruction of rail track from Madhu Road station to Talaimannar pier had been completed now, but the Mannar Bridge was still under construction. He said that the 63 km stretch from Madhu Road to Talaimannar reconstructed under the Indian Credit line by the IRCON had been completed ahead of time, but the pier was still under construction. "The new pier at …

The much expected moves to weaken and ultimately topple Sinhala Nationalist Rajapakse government is well and truly underway under the auspice of the International Community (read USA and India). A partnership with the traditional pro-Western UNP is very much expected along with the help of few other fringe political groups like CWC whose leadership is remote controlled by the policy makers across the Palk-straight. It’s also fair to expect the Muslim polity and the labour unions to rattle when they are instructed to do so by their handlers. To the eyes of the ordinary people, the unexpected players who are already active yet almost invisible are the elements within t…

Inside a hijack: The unheard stories of the Pan Am 73 crew IMAGE SOURCE,PAN AM CREW FACEBOOK PAGE Image caption, The crew of Pan Am Flight 73 (three of whom are pictured here with their colleagues) were all in their early to mid 20s at the time of the hijack. By Megha Mohan BBC News Nearly 30 years after the hijack of Pan Am Flight 73 at Karachi airport, six of the plane's crew have spoken to the media for the first time. …