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Iran's Finance Minister visits Sri Lanka [TamilNet, Monday, 14 January 2008, 15:14 GMT] Iran's Finance Minister Davoud Danesh-Jafari arrived in Colombo Monday on a formal three-day visit to discuss bilateral economic cooperation between the countries before visiting New Delhi on Wednesday, ministry officials at the Iranian embassy in Colombo told the Iranian news agency, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The visit by the Iranian finance minister was in response to the recent visit by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajpaksa to Iran, according to a news report by the IRNA. Mr. Danesh-Jafari is scheduled to meet the Sri Lankan President during his stay in Colombo…

Exclusive: Telecoms company is loss-making and it is locked in long-running VAT dispute with HMRC Almost 90% of the UK workforce at the telecoms company Lycamobile have been told they could lose their jobs, the Guardian has learned, in an announcement that leaves more than 300 staff fearing for their roles shortly before Christmas. The company, owned by the multimillionaire Tory donor and British-Sri Lankan businessman Allirajah Subaskaran, sells pay-as-you-go sim cards popular with low-paid workers wanting to make cheap phone calls to family overseas, as well as in the UK. On Friday, staff at the Lycamobile’s headquarters in the City of London…

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ITRO condemns SLAF attack on "Peace Village" with 5 orphanages [TamilNet, August 14, 2006 13:42 GMT] Chencholai Valaham is the campus among the orphanages at the Peace Village of Vallipunam, said the International Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (ITRO London), the representative body of the overseas offices of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation in a press statement condemning the Sri Lanka Air Force bombing that killed 61 schoolchildren and wounded more than 129. "The area is well known by all parties: the Government of Sri Lanka, the Government Agent, ICRC, UNICEF and all those who work in the Vanni," the organisation said urging the international communit…

“We Dont Have any Horses, Lamborghinis or Helicopters” -Namal Rajapaksa Speaks out in Candid Interview Hafeel Farisz Namal Rajapaksa, the son of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Hambanthota District parliamentarian, in a candidinterview with the Dailymirror responded to allegations against him, the state of the country, broken promises and the way forward. Excerpts: Q;We are in the last phase of the election campaign. How do you see it progressing as of now and where do you see it headed towards? This has been one of the shortest election campaigns this country has witnessed. This is an election in which the campaign lasts for only 3 or 4 weeks, and I think w…

School girl missing in Jaffna, 3 seek protection [TamilNet, Thursday, 06 December 2007, 15:34 GMT] A ten-year-old girl student of Changkaanai Hindu Primary School was reported missing since Tuesday after leaving to attend school in the morning, according to complaints registered with the Jaffna office of the Human Rights Commision (JHRC) by her family members Thursday. Meanwhile, three family men from different places in Jaffna peninsula sought protection with JHRC Thursday due to death threats from Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troops and SLA-backed paramilitary men. The girl reported missing is Packiarasa Partheepa, 10, a fourth grade student of Changkaanai Hindu Prima…

The economy can take another 18 months of war Recently sworn in as a MP and acting as a Special Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa, believes it is more important to have the support of the people towards the political solution, than trying for a two thirds support in the House. He argues that the 13th amendment failed the last time around simply because it did not win the trust of the people, even if the government had more than a two thirds majority in Parliament. Spearheading the government’s Eastern development programme, he also maintains that the government has successfully handled the displaced civilians in the East. Denying reports of criti…

DAKAR, Senegal — Gambia, the smallest country in continental Africa, took an unprecedented step this week in the realm of international justice: It filed a lawsuit at the United Nations’ top court accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims. The case at the International Court of Justice, which typically addresses disputes between states, raised eyebrows because Myanmar sits roughly 7,000 miles from Gambia, which lacks any tangible connection to the protracted crisis in Southeast Asia. But the story of why such a tiny player chose to tackle a distant conflict is personal. Abubacarr M. Tambadou, Gambia…

Central Bank and Sri Lanka’s embassy in Washington hire expensive PR firms to turn foe into friend; EAM left out of DPL process Moves to improve ties with India also, but New Delhi insists on 13th Amendment and LLRC recommendations By Our Political Editor It was just this week that top government officials scoffed at suggestions that Sri Lanka too play a role in the US pivot, a new foreign policy initiative by President Barack Obama towards East Asia. The suggestion to include Sri Lanka in that endeavour came in an article Jaliya Wickremesuriya, Ambassador to the US, wrote to a US Congressional website and was quoted in this column last week. He called for…

Murugan Worship in Sri Lanka: New Archaeological Evidence Recent archaeological findings underscore the fact that the traditional history of the Sri Lankan Tamils should be reviewed. I consider that these archaeological findings and the pertaining new perspective on them are of significance in two respects. Firstly, though the tradition of employing archaeological evidences in historical studies is in effect for a long time in Sri Lanka, there has been a tendency to associate the archaeological emblems pertaining to Tamils with the Tamils from Tamil Nadu who used visit Sri Lanka then and on rather than relating them with the Tamils living in Sri Lanka. Th…

Mortar attack prompts search operation in Morawewa Soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) with police Tuesday morning conducted a combined cordon and search operation in Morawewa area located about 24 km Northwest of Trincomalee along Trincomalee-Anuradhapura road. The operation followed a mortar attack on the SLAF camp located in Morawewa by LTTE cadres Tuesday early morning, security sources said. Military sources in Colombo said there were no casualties on the security side in the mortar attack and that the Government forces had successfully retaliated the attack

விடுதலைப் புலிகளிடம் இருந்து கருணாவை பிரித்ததும் கருணாவையும் பிள்ளையானையும் மோதவிட்டு பிரித்ததும் கே.ரிறாஜசிங்கம். - நிதர்சனம் கடந்த 3 வருடமாக வெளியிட்ட தகவல்களை உறுதிப்படுத்தி சண்டேலீடர் தரும் விறுவிறுப்பான தகவல். [ Qhapw;Wf;fpoik, 11 etk;gH 2007 ] [ n[auhrh ] Documents on plan to rid Karuna from Lanka surface President and Douglas involved in discussion in Geneva Diplomatic passport number issued to Karuna is D 1944260 President told to get Defence Ministry approval for ouster Document says President promised to do needful in June Shocking documentary evidence has surfaced that the plan to get rid of LTTE renegade commander Karuna was discus…

Sri Lankan monk is condemned to death for murder A Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka has been sentenced to death - the first monk in 50 years to receive such a sentence in the country. Gomadiye Sarana, 37, was convicted for a murder committed before he was ordained into the clergy. His fate is unclear, however, as no death sentence has been carried out for more than three decades in Sri Lanka. Sarana and an accomplice were found guilty of murdering a man 12 years ago by a court in the south of the country. The crime appeared to be linked to a dispute over an affair the monk had with the murder victim's sister. http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-asia-17133192

US loses last perfect credit rating amid rising debt Image source,Getty Images Image caption, Moody's warned in 2023 that the US' triple-A rating was at risk Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News Published 16 May 2025 Updated 17 May 2025 The US has lost its last perfect credit rating, as influential ratings firm Moody's expressed concern over the government's ability to pay back its debt. In lowering the US rating from 'AAA' to 'Aa1', Moody's noted that successive US administrations had failed to reverse ballooning deficits and interest costs. A triple-A rating signifies a country's highest possible credit reliability, and indicates it is considered to be in very good financial healt…

In Tamil Nadu, a book donation drive is underway to restock a Sri Lanka library set afire in 1981 The state government is collecting books in the Tamil language for the new Jaffna Public Library, a symbol of Sri Lanka’s Tamil cultural identity. The Jaffna Public Library was rebuilt in 1994 and opened to the public in 2003. | Adam Jones / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0 Tucked away in a corner of the Directorate of Public Libraries in Chennai are stacks of books in the Tamil language neatly tied up in bundles. The collection features the ancient Tamil grammar book Tolkappiyam, literary classics such as Kurunthogai and Pathupattu, and several c…

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Princeton prof. says 'No' to Sri Lanka child monks - Kyodo News [ tpahof;fpoik, 16 khHr; 2006 ] [ NahfFkhh; ] A campaign by Sri Lanka's prime minister to recruit 2,000 children into Buddhist monastic orders to cope with a shortage of monks has met criticism from a scholar who says child ordination is against Buddhist doctrine. Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropology professor at Princeton University, says the campaign targets children as young as 5 years even though Theravada Buddhism doctrine states that a boy must be at least 15 years of age to become a monk. The Buddha himself ordained at just 5 years his only son Rahula, but this was regarded an exception rather…

Brent Council lost due to Labour-London Criminal R.Jayadevan's link? Sources from London said that the Brent Council in Labour Heartland was lost by the Labour party after 16 years at the helm. Liberal Democrats gained 16 new seats while Labour lost 13 seats at the council. Sources said that the local Labour party office was based on the same site as Eelapatheeswarar Aalayam Limited, which has been in a storm over allegations made against its Chairman London Criminal Rajasingham Jayadevan alias Undiyalaan. Lately, the Labour party has also been in controversy over loans for peerages and other financial scandals. Sources said that repeat protests…

Death toll rises to six from Sri Lanka bus blast, 70 injured AFP The death toll from a bomb attack on a packed bus outside the Sri Lankan capital Colombo rose to six with 70 others injured, officials said Saturday, blaming the blast on Tamil Tiger rebels. The blast late Friday ripped through the passenger bus carrying 80 people near Nittambuwa town as it travelled on the Colombo-Kandy highway during the evening rush hour."This is the work of the LTTE," military spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarsinghe said, referring to the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which is battling for an independent Tamil homeland in the island nation.. There was no i…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing the government of India of involvement in the fatal shooting of a Canadian Sikh leader — a claim that will have seismic effects on an already shaky bilateral relationship. Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar was brazenly shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C. on June 18. Nijjar, a supporter of a Sikh homeland in the form of an independent Khalistani state, had been branded by the Indian government as a "terrorist" and accused of leading a militant separatist group — something his supporters have denied. Now, Trudeau said, Canada's national security apparatus has reason to believe that…

Friday, July 06,2007 COLOMBO: Despite attempts by the Sri Lankan army to patch up differences Karuna, who is hoping to be the leader of the eastern Tamils, has declared war on the Tamils from Jaffna, informed sources said, adding that this new move sharpens the regional differences among Tamils and brings a new element of Tamils fighting Tamils on a regional basis to the ongoing war. Karuna broke away from the LTTE blaming discrimination against the eastern Tamils by the rebel group dominated by Jaffna Tamils. Karuna’s first move in this latest twist is to issue an order to the parents of the members of the Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) led by Minister Doug…

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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 …

Killings escalate in Thenmaraadchi, Jaffna [TamilNet, Friday, 01 February 2008, 09:27 GMT] Unidentified armed men Friday morning shot and killed two civilians in Kodikaamam unleashing panic among the people in Thenmaraadchi which on Thursday witnessed a massacre of three siblings by a motorbike squad allegedly operated by Sri Lanka Army. Friday morning around 7:30 a.m, a 24-year-old female was shot and killed at her house located on Jaffna-Point Pedro-Kachchaay road and a 26-year-old male was gunned down, 1 km away, around 10:00 a.m on Allarai-Kachchaay road in Kodikaamam. The young woman killed was identified as Sivarasa Suki, 24, unmarried. The killers fo…