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Scientists switch on the world's largest 'artificial sun' The bright experiment could lead to new forms of clean energy Photo engineer Volkmar Dohmen stands in front of xenon short-arc lamps in the DLR German national aeronautics and space research center in Juelich, western Germany AP Scientists have just turned on the "world's biggest artificial sun". The huge structure could help sed light on new was of making green fuels, among other technologies, the engineers behind it hope. In all, the sun is made up of a honeycomb of 149 spotlights, which together make the structure known as "Synlight". Inidividually, they are the kinds of xenon…

The Tamil-Canadian artist talks finding space in the international music scene and the controversy over his appearance on Rolling Stone India Gajan Balan Last summer, Toronto singer Witch Prophet and her producer Sun Sun pulled up to rapper Shan Vincent de Paul’s downtown studio out of the blue. They were there to hand him an award, just for being dope. “It meant a lot,” says Vincent de Paul, on a Zoom call from that same studio, describing the one-off gesture that Witch Prophet and Sun Sun bestowed on a handful of local artists. Vincent de Paul’s never been shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize or nominated for a Juno, never mind the bangers he’s be…

How the United Nations failed Sri Lanka By: Rosie DiManno Mon Nov 04 2013 (Injured civilians are seen in a make-shift hospital in this photograph released by the pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) group "Mercy Mission to Vanni" April 20, 2009 showing what they say are wounded that were fleeing from an area still controlled by the LTTE in the "No Fire Zone" near the village of Putumatalan in Puthukkudiyirippu, northeastern Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government has repeatedly accused the LTTE and its sympathisers of trying to manufacture a civilian crisis to build international pressure on a cease-fire, especially when the Tigers are suffering military…

colombo ­­­ De Srilankaanse politie en het leger hebben zaterdag acht wijken in de hoofdstad Colombo afgezet en bij invallen in woningen 920 mensen opgepakt. Ruim vijftig van hen zijn na verhoor in hechtenis genomen. In de betreffende wijken wonen veel Tamils. De operatie volgt op een opleving van het geweld tussen de rebellenbeweging Tamil-Tijgers en het leger in het noorden en oosten van het land, die dreigt het land opnieuw in een burgeroorlog te storten. Bij verscheidene aanslagen vonden in december 45 militairen en zeven rebellen de dood. நன்றி:Trouw krant

An Interview with Sri Lanka’s C.V. Wigneswaran Taylor Dibbert C.V. Wigneswaran is the chief minister of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka and a member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Maithripala Sirisena became president three years ago. What are the principal challenges for people living in the Northern Province? No doubt the earlier environment is no more. Democracy, to a great extent, has returned. But our expectations have not been fulfilled. Over sixty thousand [acres of] private and state lands are still occupied by the armed forces nine years after the end of t…

President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Cabinet that intelligence on the Galle attack by the LTTE had reached defence circles including Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa two days ago and security was stepped up from Pottuvil up to Galle. However he said that according to the intelligence the attack was expected to take place at night and the police were on the lookout till 6.00 a.m on that day. http://www.dailymirror.lk/2006/10/20/index.asp

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa won Sri Lanka’s bitterly contested presidential poll, bringing with him a family of strongmen that could shift the island nation back toward China and reignite racial tensions that have divided the country for decades. Rajapaksa, 70, won 52.3% of the vote, while the ruling alliance candidate Sajith Premadasa trailed with 42% at the final count, according to state-run television station Rupavahini. He is due to take the oath of office Monday where he will face a parliament led by rival and current Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, potentially setting off another constitutional standoff that may not be resolved until parliamentary elections due a…

Sri Lankan Kfir jets bomb LTTE controlled area in Trincomalee [TamilNet, April 25, 2006 13:00 GMT] Sri Lankan Kfir jets have been bombing LTTE controlled Sampoor, Ilakkanthai and Kattaiparichchan villages in Muttur, Trincomalee district from 5:00 p.m Tuesday. Casualty details are not available at the moment. There are also reports about multibarrel artillery fire. Sri Lankan Dvora attack crafts and gunboats were surrounding the LTTE controlled coastal areas in Trincomalee, civilian sources said. With the Colombo bomb attack Tuesday, the duration of curfew has been advanced to 4 p.m.till 6 a.m. next day, police said. Eighteen-hour curfew has been clamped…

TAMIL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - TCHR/CTDH CENTRE TAMOUL POUR LES DROITS DE L'HOMME (Established in 1990) (UN accredited NGO to the World Summit on Information Society) www.tchr.net Ref : EH074/PR/2006 10 May 2006 Ethnic cleansing and mass murder in the name of Buddhism and tolerance ".. I do not want to hide the fact that I am a Buddhist and remind them the Buddha taught us tolerance of persons of other religious views” said Sri Lanka's former Prime Minister and present President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (www.mahindarajapaksa.com - 1 October 2005) Is it necessary for any President or even t…

Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) and former Army Commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that depriving him of his right to exercise his franchise by the Elections Commissioner with a presidential election on the horizon demonstrated that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was scared of facing him in a presidential contest. Addressing a news conference at Kotte, the war winning general challenged President Rajapaksa to face him at the forthcoming presidential election. "The Democratic Party will not give in to the repressive action of the President and his cohorts and there are persons in our party who could garner more votes than I and we will take a dec…

ஆசியாவில் மக்கள் குடியேற்றம் எப்படி நிகழ்ந்தது? மானுடவியலாளர்கள் உலகில் நிறைய பிரச்சினைகளை எழுப்பிய ஒரு அறிவாளர் கூட்டம். தெளிய வைத்ததை விடப் பிரச்சினைகளை மேலும் கூட்டி பலவகை நாசங்களுக்கு வழி வகுத்த ஒரு துறை மானுடவியல். இதற்குத் துறையைக் குறை சொல்ல முடியாது. அந்தத் துறையில் ஆய்வு முறைகளை யார் பயன்படுத்தினார்கள், எப்படி அறிவைப் பிரசாரம் செய்தார்கள், என்ன நோக்கோடு செய்தார்கள் என்பனவற்றை ஆராய்ந்தால்தான் உண்மை புரியும். மேல் சொன்ன யூரோப்பிய காலனிய ஆக்கிரமிப்பாளர்களின் படைகளைப் பின் தொடர்ந்து பல நாடுகளில், குறிப்பாக ஆசியா, ஆப்பிரிக்கா, தென்னமெரிக்காவில் நுழைந்த மானுடவியலாளர்கள் விட்டுச் சென்ற பலவகைக் கருத்தியல் அறிக்கைகள் இன்னமும் பல நாட்டு மக்களிடையே பெர…

(Adds second tsunami warning lifted) By Ahmad Pathoni JAKARTA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake of 8.2 magnitude struck Indonesia's Sumatra region on Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings in the Indian Ocean, sparking panic in coastal areas across Southeast Asia and causing at least two deaths. Indonesia issued two tsunami warnings, one after the first quake, and the second after a smaller tremor a few hours later in the same area. However, the Indonesian warnings and most others in the region had been lifted by 1600 GMT. An official at Indonesia's meteorological agency had said gauges measured a wave surge of 1 metre after the first qua…

Rice expensive for Mahinda; But not for Prabha Lanka-e-News, 2008 Feb 02, 5.15 AM) The rice price in Vanni dropped drastically as low as Rs. 20 per kilo since the LTTE issued the rice stocks of the Jordan ship abducted by the Tigers. Today, the livelihood of many of the people in Vanni is trading rice brought from Vanni in Vavuniya. The photo depicts people enter into Government controlled territory with bags of rice on their shoulders near Omanthai entry exit point. The LTTE checkpoint is in the backdrop. Rice is sold around Rs. 100 per kilo in south these days.

Stating that she shared the concerns of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam chief M Karunanidhi regarding Sri Lankan Tamils issue, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi has told him that she "shall take up the matter" with the external affairs minister. "I share your concern regarding the disturbing developments in Sri Lanka vis-a-vis the Tamils. I shall take up the matter with the Minister of External Affairs (Salman Khurshid)," she said in her January 30, 2013 letter to Karunanidhi. The Congress president's response to a January 19, 2013 letter by Karunanidhi was posted on DMK leader's page in micro-blogging site Twitter. In identical letters to Gandhi …

The Tamil Tigers organization hopes to use Canada as a strategic base to continue the fight against the government of Sri Lanka, according to an authority on the alleged terrorist group. "I cannot think of any other country that is more important for the Tamil Tigers as Canada, to regroup and continue their campaign against Sri Lanka," said Prof. Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research, a Singapore-based think-tank. Gunaratna is advising the Canadian government as it investigates the 75 Tamil migrants currently in immigration custody in Vancouver. The men were found aboard a ship seized off the coast of B…

I only watched ‘No Fire Zone’ by chance. But its revelations about Sri Lanka are surely unmissable How can it be that the message of this documentary hasn't got through? By Memphis Barker Monday 4 November 2013 About two minutes in to No Fire Zone and holding the remote control I asked my mum if she wanted to change the channel back to Was It Something I Said, the comedy quiz show the family sometimes takes in after Homeland on Sunday nights. The answer was no. As a result, we watched this report on how in 2009 Sri Lanka’s government ushered Tamil civilians into “safe zones” – before subjecting them to sustained fire from heavy weaponry. Neither of us had heard …

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12 SLN troopers killed in Claymore attack in Trincomalee [TamilNet, April 11, 2006 07:23 GMT] At least 12 Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) troopers were killed in a Claymore attack near Thampalakamam on 9th Mile Post on Trincomalee - Kanthalay Road around 1:50 p.m. Tuesday, according to military sources in Colombo. Eight SLN personnel were seriously wounded in the Claymore attack that targeted an SLN convoy. Further details are not available at the moment.

இன்று நாட்டில் ஏற்பட்டுள்ள பதற்ற சூழலைடுத்து பெருமளவான வாசகர்கள் இணையத் தளங்களை நோக்கிப் படையெடுத்துக் கொண்டிருப்பதால் புதினம் மற்றும் தமிழ் நெட் இணையத் தளங்களைப் பார்ப்பதே மிகக்கடினமாக இருக்கிறது. எனவே அவ்வுூடகங்களிற்குச் செல்லும் வாசகர்கள் அச் செய்திகளை உடனுக்குடன் இங்கே பதிவு செய்யுங்கள். நன்றி

Josy Joseph Sunday, June 11, 2006 23:16 IST NEW DELHI: Pakistan has opened a massive $250 million credit line for supplying Sri Lankan military equipment, including many offensive weapon systems such as tanks, say authoritative sources. The figure contradicts recent reports about Pakistan providing around $50 million military assistance to Lanka. Indian sources insist that an eager Pakistan is stepping it up to $250 million, raising several new uncomfortable questions for India. The report comes at a time when India is worriedly looking at Pakistan planning to gift two of its old submarines to Bangladesh. With China too exhibiting interest in cultivating India…

Oil sanctions are only hurting us and helping Putin — there’s a better way The sanctions policies have created a bizarre situation in which the United States and its allies are paying more at the pump, while Russian is earning more money.Getty Images After Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, Western nations, including the United States and those in Europe, were quick to slap punitive sanctions on the country. The idea was to punish Russia for the invasion by collapsing its economy. President Biden told the public the goal was to “reduce the ruble to rubble.” Eight months later, it is cle…

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Sri Lanka: A Glimpse Into Our Apocalyptic Future?by Tom Plate, AsiaMedia News Daily, November 30, 2006 Tom Plate says, in our global village, we can't afford to turn away from the town burning next door Los Angeles --- You can, as smugly as you want, view the savage, desperate, dire deterioration in Sri Lanka as little more than a flashback to the past -- a kind of backslide into the dank grave of history. Those silly little Sri Lankans, how they kill one another over there in the shadow of the island's beauty, in their half-forgotten country, off the coast of India, about which no one really cares. Or -- more alertly, more sagely -- you could view th…