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Sri Lankan government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella denied Tuesday that his governement will begin unconditional negotiations with the Liberation Tigers. "We will put forward our conditions," Rambukwella told the Associated Press. He criticized Norway for allegedly not having consulted the government before announcing a date and a venue. "The government has not been consulted on any future discussions. Norway, or anybody, can't announce dates and venues," Rambukwella told AP. "We will take it up very seriously, we are a sovereign state, they (Norway) are only facilitators. We have not delegated any of our powers to them," Sri Lankan government spokesman told A…

"Dr. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (PhD)" / மகன் அர்ஜுனன் எதிர்வீரசிங்கத்தின் கடிதம் / தகவல் On Thursday, 18 April 2024 at 11:55 am Dr. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (PhD) passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was surrounded by his family. He was 89 years old. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam (Ethir) was born in 1934 in a one-room hut with a palmyrah palm leaf roof and a mud floor in Periyavillan, a small village on the Jaffna Peninsula. He taught himself to high jump in his backyard by analysing pictures in an athletics book he had won as a prize after one of his first meets at Jaffna Central College. He made a silent promise …

5 killed, 14 wounded in SLA penetration attack in LTTE controlled Batticaloa [TamilNet, June 07, 2006 06:32 GMT] Five civilians were killed and fourteen wounded in a mine explosion inside Liberation Tigers controlled territory in Vadamunai in Batticaloa around 10:00 a.m. Wednesday. Seven of the wounded were in serious state, sources said. Batticaloa District Political Head of the LTTE said Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers, who had moved beyond the Forward Defence Line (FDL) of the LTTE, were behind the attack against the civilian vehicle. Further details are not available at the moment.

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தற்பொழுது தனிபட்டவர்களுக்கு சொந்தமான இந்த நிறுவனம்( private company), அடுத்த வருடம் ஒரு பொதுமக்கள் நிறுவனமாக (public company) பங்கு சந்தை ஊடாக மாற்றப்பட உள்ளது. இதனால் இந்த நிறுவனத்தின் பெறுமதி 50 Billion இருக்கும் என மதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. Facebook has received investments that place the social network's value at $50 billion, according to a published report. Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) and an unnamed Russian investor have invested $500 million in Facebook, the New York Times reported late Sunday, citing people close to the transaction. The investment would make Facebook worth more than media companies such as Time Warner (TWX, Fortune 500), the parent of …

[size=4]Texas to open fastest US highway with 85 mph limit[/size] AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will soon open a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country, giving eager drivers a chance to rip through a trip between two of the state's largest metropolitan areas. The Texas Transportation Commission has approved a speed limit of 85 mph for a 41-mile toll road several miles east of the increasingly crowded Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio. "I would love it," Austin resident Alan Guckian said. "Sometimes it's fun to just open it up." But while some drivers will want to test their horsepower and radar detectors, oth…

Bazeer declares Jihad on Tamil Editors Written by Administrator Wednesday, 26 July 2006 The leader of an Islamic group in the United Kingdom, and the alleged "political theorist" of Sri Lanka based Islamic extremist Jihad Group, Mr. SMM Bazeer has declared Jihad on TamilEditors.com via a paramilitary websites operated by temple thief "Undiyalaan" Rajasingham Jayadevan. Recently Bazeer was contacted by TamilEditors? Islamic Affairs Correspondent Mr. NK. Navaratnam for comments on violent demonstrations held by Muslims in Sri Lanka against the United Kingdom, United States and Israel. Bazeer while refusing to make direct comments to o…

Meet Patricia Narayan – Director, Sandeepha Chain of Restaurants based in a city that simply adores food, Chennai. A proud winner of “[Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry] “FICCI Woman Entrepreneur Award” (2010); after successfully fighting all the odds of failed marriage, addict husband, and taking care of two kids, lives in a well-furnished duplex apartment in Velachery with a shining luxury car parked outside the door. Whatever happened in Patricia’s life which led to her entry into the world of entrepreneurship was evidently not a planned one but was more due to the twist in circumstances that life threw before her. Instead of cribbing and living…

http://youtu.be/TzKAep8Ybb8 Normally all you get after falling for a prank is a sore ego and sprinkle of humiliation. However, one lucky woman ended up with a £25,000 BMW saloon. MORE: Rihanna gives Jimmy Kimmel a rude awakening with spectacular April Fool’s prank Tianna Marsh from Auckland in New Zealand had spotted the fake advert for a free BMW on the front page of the New Zealand Herald. It turned out to be a double bluff allowing her to handover her 15-year-old Nissan Avenir in return for the black car advertised. Woman gets brand new BMW for falling for April Fools' Day prank Let’s partay! Ms Marsh spoke of her experience: ‘We thought…

Foreign Minister: Sweden also to pull peace monitors from Sri Lanka by Sept. 1 By KATARINA KRATOVAC AP STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Sweden decided Tuesday to pull out its 15-strong cease-fire monitoring team from Sri Lanka, joining Finland and Denmark who last week announced similar moves. Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson told Swedish radio he saw no other option but for the Swedish observers to leave the island, where fighting between government troops and separatist Tamils has escalated. The European Union in May designated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, a terrorist group, prompting the rebels to reject the presence of observers from EU m…

India 'has most people with HIV' Prevention strategies are having some effect in India India now has more people living with HIV than any other country, a UNAIDS report has revealed. The report shows that India now accounts for two-thirds of HIV cases in the whole of Asia. An estimated 5.7 million Indians were infected by the end of 2005, overtaking the 5.5 million cases estimated in South Africa. However, While 18.8% of South African adults were living with HIV, the figure in India was 0.9%. Estimates of total deaths in India since Aids was first identified in 1981 range from 270,000 to 680,000. Most of the infections there were caus…

Canada was clear – staging a Commonwealth leaders’ summit in Sri Lanka would be a very bad idea. The Canadians argued strongly against it, eventually deciding to boycott it altogether, and threatening a significant withdrawal of funding from the Commonwealth secretariat. After all it was only last March that the Queen signed the Commonwealth charter committing the organisation to respecting human rights; good governance; democracy; and respect for the rule of law. Selecting a country whose government has been in spectacular breach of each of these commitments to host the first summit after the signing of the charter was bound to leave a strong stench of hypocrisy hanging …

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 A demonstration was held by Colombo’s Fort Railway Station on the 19th of September to highlight the fact that it had been 200 days since Jeyakumari was detained and to call for her release: It received coverage in the Hindu, Lanka Focus, and in Vikalpa (and again). Appallingly no mainstream Sri Lankan media covered the event. Several senior members of opposition political parties and civil society were in attendance, including: Gajen Ponnambalam – President, Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) Siritunga Jayasuriya – General Secretary, United Socialist Party (CWI in Sri Lanka) M.A. Sumanthiran – MP, Tamil National Alliance (TNA)…

Sri Lankan markets bank on early military victory 6 hours ago COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka has downgraded its growth forecast for 2009 in line with a global meltdown, but the local markets are hoping a quick end to the drawn-out separatist war will restore confidence. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka said Friday it was revising GDP projections by a full percentage point to five percent in 2009 compared to the forecasted six percent in 2008, when fighting between troops and Tiger rebels escalated. But Geeth Balasuriya, of privately run HNB Stockbrokers, said the government's capture of the Tamil Tiger political capital Kilinochchi on Friday had made the market b…

The ship 'Vananka mun' on a mercy mission to Vanni with 500 Tons of food and medicine will be leaving the British shores today. A team of Doctors will join the mission from the last port before Mullaitheevu. MIA ( Maya Arulpragasam) has sent her blessing to the mercy mission to Vanni. In her letter she has said "if the aim of the SL Government is to protect the lives of the civilians, then this ship will reach its destination and lives will be saved." Here is her full statement: I just had a baby last month, that's why I can't be there today, but I want to give my support and thanks to the launch of the chartered humanitarian ship Mercy Mission launching March…

தமிழ் கனேடியனில் வந்த செய்தி http://www.tamilcanadian.com/pageview.php?...ID=3826&SID=526 The Government is Creating an Environment for War" TIME talks to Tamil rebels spokesman Suppiah Paramu Tamilchelvan By: Alex Perry Source: TIME - February 13, 2006 Aside from one press conference in 2002, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam [L.T.T.E.] declines all requests for interviews and delegates meetings with all but the most senior foreign diplomats. Since the Tigers agreed a cease-fire with the Sri Lankan government in 2002, the rebels' public face has become Suppiah Paramu Tamilchelvan, a former fighter wh…

JVP protests UN envoy's visit JVP says Nowak should fisrt visit other countries including Iraq A political ally of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has expressed strong reservations over a visit of a UN special envoy to Colombo. The Peoples Liberation Front (JVP) said UN special rapporteur on torture and extra judicial killings should visit many other countries including Iraq, before visiting Sri Lanka. Manfred Nowak arrived in Colombo on Monday for a fact finding mission as Sri Lanka government forces, paramilitaries including Karuna faction and the Tamil Tigers are accused of gross human rights violations. AI reports on Iraq violence …

Two SL Police killed, two injured in Vavuniya claymore attack [TamilNet, June 06, 2006 12:06 GMT] Two Sri Lanka Police officers were killed and two seriously injured in a claymore attack near the Pandarikulam road in Vairavapuliyankulam in Vavuniya at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, security sources in Vavuniya said. The claymore hit the van the officers were travelling, sources said. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers opened fire after the explosion and conducted a cordon and search operation in the area, sources said. No other details are available. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=18413

Sun Aug 5, 2:18 AM ET COLOMBO (AFP) - A top UN official is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka this week to discuss the island's deepening Tamil separatist conflict and the plight of civilians caught in the crossfire, officials said. John Holmes, the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, will hold talks with Sri Lankan leaders and also travel to the embattled northern and eastern regions, officials said. Sri Lankan foreign ministry officials said that he will travel to the Jaffna peninsula in the north and the district of Batticaloa where security forces last month wrested control over the final bastion of the Tig…

Police evict Tamils from Colombo (BBC World News) Police in Sri Lanka have forced hundreds of the minority Tamil community out of the capital Colombo for what they say are security reasons. They launched overnight raids in Tamil areas of the city and forced guests staying in budget hotels onto buses. Police said that Tamils who were in the capital "without valid reasons" were made to board buses bound for the north and east of the island. Police said that the move was necessary amid fears of renewed civil war. 'Bad example' They say that the crackdown is part of continuing efforts to stop the Tamil Tigers infiltrating the city of 600,000…

May 18th will be forever etched in our memories as a day when Tamils around the world watched in horror as the 27 year old ethnic conflict came to a disastrous end. Tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered. Today, we mourn those men, women and children, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, whose lives were taken. While we mark the anniversary of this emotional day with prayers and remembrance activities, it is equally important to ensure that the perpetrators of this massacre, and of the decades-long persecution against Tamils, are brought to justice. We cannot let their suffering and death be in vain. While the past year was meaningful, includ…

CNN)A commercial plane went into the St. Johns River on Friday night, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said. "I've been briefed that all lives have been accounted for," the mayor tweeted. A spokesman from the Naval Air Station Jacksonville said a Boeing 737 slid off of a runway into the St. Johns River at 9:40 p.m. ET. The station told CNN affiliate WJXTthat the plane appears to have skidded off the airport runway while trying to land and ended up in the river. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said in a tweet the plane was in "shallow water," and was "not submerged." https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/03/us/jacksonville-commercial-plane-river/in…

A guerrilla group in Sri Lanka has threatened to attack troops because of the government's "crackdown" on Tamil civilians in the north and the east. The People's Army, which has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in the island in December, made the announcement on a Tamil website. It comes at a time when the government and the Tiger rebels are deciding on dates for a meeting in Switzerland. A Tamil Tiger spokesman said the group was not associated with the rebels. If the group carries out its threat it would end a lull in killings and threaten peace talks between the government and the Tamil Tiger rebels. The Norway-brokered talks…

Saudi crown prince pledges $20b investment PHOTO: PID ISLAMABAD: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has said the first phase of investment of $20 billion in Pakistan has been completed while more investments will be made in the future. Saudi crown prince sees Pakistan as ‘very important country in future’ Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed contracts and Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) pertaining to investments in various projects on Sunday during the crown prince’s maiden visit to the country. The MoUs were signed in diverse fields, inclu…