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Failed Predictions about the Future of world famous personalities "It will be years --not in my time-- before a woman will become Prime Minister." --Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969. She became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom only 10 years after saying that, holding her chair from 1979 to 1990. But she wasn’t all that wrong since she is the only woman to have held this post. Maybe she should have added the word “again.” ------------------------------------------------------------- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. It may sound ridiculous now, but the prediction …

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…

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The Canadian government has put forward a bill to make medically-assisted death available to people who are not terminally ill. The bill opens the door to allowing Canadians with degenerative illnesses like cerebral palsy to seek medically-assisted death. Health minister Patty Hajdu said the proposal would protect vulnerable people while giving Canadians autonomy. It was introduced in parliament on Monday and has cross-party support. The legislation was precipitated by a 2019 Quebec Superior Court decision that struck down the requirement for patients to prove their natural death was "reasonably foreseeable" in order to seek to terminate their life. …

Should the Australian cricket team tour Sri Lanka? Yes 11% No89% Total votes: 2618. http://www.theage.com.au/polls/sport/cricket/turning-a-blind-eye-20110707-1h4s5.html#poll

28 Feb 2007 11:37:00 GMT Blogged by: Peter Apps Alert Me | Printable view | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] Keifer Sutherland, star of hit TV series "24". REUTERS/Fred Prouser Accusing violent television of promoting violence may be nothing new, but this article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker brings the debate into the world of geopolitics and human rights. Set in real-time, the TV series "24" pits U.S. federal agent Jack Bauer against a range of conspirators aiming to inflict death and destruction. With the clock ticking to disaster, there is often no time for the niceties. http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/36072/200...28-113722-1.htm The sho…

Google co-founder Page 'to marry' Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, this weekend on a tiny private island in the Caribbean, US media reports say. Six hundred guests are reportedly due to attend the ceremony on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, owned by the best man, Sir Richard Branson. Ms Southworth is a doctoral student at Stanford University in California. Mr Page, who has an estimated fortune of $18.5bn, co-founded search giant Google with Sergey Brin in 1998. Since listing in August 2004 shares in the firm have risen sevenfold and it is now valued at over $220bn. Mr Brin, who is …

OLD VIOLATIONS IN THE NO FIRE ZONE The CHOGM must seek a way between the world’s discomfort with Sri Lanka’s rights abuses and the need for reconciliation, writes Rudra Chaudhuri “Our guilt is killing us,” argued a middle-aged and self-described Tamil-British woman. She lost 17 members of her family to what she claimed were targeted disappearances, an all-too-familiar feature in Sri Lanka’s post-war landscape, at least according to the many Tamil, Sinhala, and Muslim journalists and activists both within and outside the Island state. The lady in question was the last to make her plea. She was one of 200-odd attendees at the London premier of No-…

CHENNAI: The DMK would welcome creation of a separate 'Eelam', a homeland for Sri lankan Tamils, if it was achieved through a democratic process , party president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said on Monday. "We will be glad if a separate Eelam (state) is created (in the Island nation) by people voting for it," he told reporters here. He said that "attempts of some opposition parties in Tamil Nadu to paint the UPA government at the Centre and the DMK government in the state as anti Sri Lankan Tamils" would not succeed. "The opposition parties are trying to create an illusion among the public that my party is against Sri Lankan Tamils," …

By Nicolás Rivero Tech Reporter Published June 30, 2021 Shipping containers are the lifeblood of world trade: Virtually every product and part that circulates through the global economy travels across the seas, railroads, and highways ensconced in their corrugated metal embrace. But lately, those all-important containers are in short supply in the places where they’re needed most. Indian exporters to North America and Europe are complaining that the wait times to find a shipping container can stretch as long as three weeks. British exporters say the shortage has delayed shipments to east Asia for up to two months. And…

The rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka use suicide bombers and go into battle with cyanide capsules around their necks. The EU has labeled them terrorists, but they say it’s the Tamil people who are being terrorized. By Kevin Sites, Wed Jun 14, 12:26 AM ET KILINOCHCHI, LTTE-controlled Sri Lanka — Formed in Sri Lanka in 1976 amid growing ethnic tensions between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, are known as one of the most disciplined, organized and ruthless rebel forces in the world. They are led by a shadowy figure named Velupillai Prabhakaran who is rarely seen, except in photo…

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Lankan HC dodges British summons ~ London Foreign Office wants to lodge official protest over Karuna’s ‘fake’ passport From a Special Correspondent London, Saturday - Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the United Kingdom, Kshenuka Senewiratne, was summoned to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a meeting on Tuesday over issues relating to renegade Tiger guerrilla leader Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna entering Britain with official backing from the Government of Sri Lanka. She, however, did not turn up. FCO sources said she had not intimated to the FCO her inability to turn up on that day. Other sources here said her absence was due to…

Who in Army HQ tipped off bomber? IQBAL ATHAS SITUATION REPORT SUNDAY TIMES/TAMIL LINKS It is easily the worst incident in the two decades of separatist war and interludes of peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). A female suicide bomber infiltrated the heavily-fortified Army Headquarters in Colombo. She threw herself before Army Commander Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka's motorcade. If not for motorcycle outrider Corporal Ruwan Yakandawala, who kicked her, faced the full brunt of the explosion and died on the spot, Lt. Gen. Fonseka would be no more. But he was badly wounded and had to undergo emergency surgery. He is still under inten…

[size=5]= President must intervene to prevent irreparable damage to country's image because of failure by EAM and mission in UN = UN issues statement against impeachment of CJ while composition of UNHRC changes[/size] [size=1][size=5]It was a week of more challenges for the UPFA Government both in Sri Lanka and abroad.�In Colombo, the official process to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake began on Wednesday. The eleven-member Parliamentary Select Committee chaired by Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa held its first meeting in Parliament. Standing Orders of Parliament prevent reportage of proceedings of the Committee.[/size][/size] [size=1][size=5]S…

Conflict: India, U.S, China and Iran; or why the Sri Lanka crisis has to be resolved soon By: GeeKay Source: Northeastern Monthly - July 2006 The focal point of contemporary international politics is the Persian Gulf. Globalisation’s future lies in securing the Indian Ocean, for which a contest is on between the United States of America and its allies on the one hand, and the People’s Republic of China and its friends, on the other. An important part of this contest is the steps taken by the US to contain Iran. Therefore, the reason for the US intensifying its aggression towards Iran is not due to any political tangle between the two countries, but because the la…

Tamil homeland fantasy By Bernard Goonetilleke February 17, 2008 The conflict in Sri Lanka is inextricably linked with the demand for secession, deceptively designed to wrench the sympathy of the international community. Last month, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), urged the United Nations to recognize "Tamil sovereignty" and end the conflict in Sri Lanka. The international community must be told that, beneath a plausible veneer, the demand for a separate state for Tamils of Sri Lanka is rooted in fiction. There never was at any time in Sri Lankan history "a traditional Tamil homeland" in the north and east of Sri Lanka, as claimed by the LTTE. …

Two houses set ablaze by paramilitaries in Batticaloa [TamilNet, August 07, 2006 17:08 GMT] Two houses located along Batticaloa-Kaluwankerni main road were burnt down by a paramilitary group working with Sri Lanka State security forces around 6.30 a.m., Monday. One house belonged to Mylvaganam Arumugam who is the sister of Gnanatheepan, the paramilitary Karuna group cadre who surrendered to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after killing five Karuna group members, including Iniyabarathy, last year. Other house destroyed by the fire belonged to family which has four school going children, sources said. Complaint has been lodged with the Eravur …

By Heather Kelly, CNN updated 11:00 AM EDT, Wed September 26, 2012 | Filed under: Innovations Driverless car now legal in California STORY HIGHLIGHTS Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill that will regulate self-driving cars in California Google co-founder Sergey Brin hopes to have self-driving cars on public roads within five years Brin says self-driving cars address safety, traffic and lifestyle issues (CNN) -- California is the latest state to allow testing of Google's self-driving cars on the roads, though only with a human passenger along as a safety measure. Gov. Edmund "Jerry" Brown signed the autonomous-vehicles bill into la…

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Kung Fu and Kanchipuram -the secret connection Kanchipuram. A small old temple-town in South India that always bustles with Hindu pilgrimage tourists and that is known for its silk saris. Kung Fu. A Chinese martial art that is practiced for self-defense and mental strength, primarily by the Buddhist monks at the Shaolin monastery in China. What could be common to Kanchipuram and Kung Fu? Nothing at all?! You should think again, or should flip some historical accounts- well, not Indian, but Chinese or Japanese accounts! What could that secret connection be?? When you think of Buddhism, al…

கனடாவில் உங்கள் குழந்தையின் எதிர்கால வெற்றிக்கு கல்வி முக்கியம் என்பது உங்களுக்குத் தெரிந்திருந்தும், அதற்கு எப்படி பணம் செலுத்துவது என்பது தெரியவில்லையா. அதற்கான சிறந்த வழி பதிவுசெய்யப்பட்ட கல்வி சேமிப்புகள் திட்டத்தின் (RESP) மூலம் அரசின் பண உதவியைப் பெறுவதாகும். கனடா தேசத்து கற்றல் பத்திரத்தை குடும்பங்களுக்கு அரசாங்கம் வழங்குகிறது. உங்களால் பணம் கொடுக்க முடியாவிட்டாலும் அது உங்கள் குழந்தையின் RESPஇல் சேர்ந்து விடும். உங்களால் எவ்வளவு சேமிக்க முடியுமோ அவ்வளவு பணத்தை அரசாங்கம் வழங்கும். SmartSAVER RESPகள் அல்லது முதலீட்டுகளை விற்பனை செய்வதில்லை. SmartSAVER என்பது டொரண்டோவை மையமாகக் கொண்ட இலாபம்-ஈட்டாத சமுதாய நலத்திட்டமாகும், அது குடும்பங்கள் தங்கள் குழந்தைகளின்…

South Asian Centre Urges Collective Action against Sri LankaSource: ITP - August 8, 2006 London, ITP: Dr. Raymond Philipps, Founder-Director of the South Asian Centre for Racial Equality and Peace (SACREP) has written a strongly worded letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations and to the International War crimes Commission stating that it is time these world bodies acted in favor of the Rule of Law to protect the most oppressed community in South Asia, namely, the Tamils of the proto-State of Eelam. The International community has a responsibility to save them from extinction and annihilation by the lethal Sinhala military machine. Though he was unwill…

2 Tamils plead guilty in NY terror-smuggling trial Buzz Up Send Email IM Share Digg Facebook Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print Mon Jan 26, 11:50 am ETNEW YORK – Two men have pleaded guilty in New York City to charges they and two other men tried to supply missiles and assault weapons to militants involved in the bloody civil war in Sri Lanka. The four Sri Lankan immigrants were charged with terrorism because the State Department considers the rebel force, known as the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist organization. Two of the defendants entered their pleas in federal court Monday. Jury selection was set to begin Mond…

Misery and death stalk Sri Lanka's north JAFFNA, Sri Lanka: The nights are broken again by artillery fire across the black lagoon. The road out of this peninsula has been closed since last August, making the area nearly inaccessible. Today, though food and fuel manage to arrive, the town market shuts by afternoon, and shopkeepers are reluctant to keep stocks, not knowing when they might have to close up and run. By 7 p.m., barely sundown, stray dogs have the run of the streets of Jaffna. Its people are indoors, doors locked, well before an 8 o'clock curfew, which is the most liberal in 10 months. Sri Lankan soldiers linger in the edges of the alleys. Flashl…