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[size=6][/size] [size=5]Sri Lanka, a country of 20 million, has had democratic institutions and practices since 1931, when universal suffrage (including for women) was granted by the British. Sri Lanka was a poor country, but well-educated and with a range of social services and subsidies which reached the majority rural population. Power changed hands peacefully.[/size] [size=3][size=5]Today, there are many disturbing political issues which did not exist 40 years ago. These include the chaos and destruction caused by the long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers.[/size][/size] [size=3][size=5]This marked the end of the steady af…

In this land of the most compassionate Lord Buddha….. Sinhala Buddhists who believe this land belongs to the most compassionate Lord Buddha and constitutionally calls it the "Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka", sing with pride "In wisdom and strength renewed / Ill-will, hatred, strife all ended / In love enfolded, a mighty nation / Marching onward, all as one / Lead us, Mother, to fullest freedom." as their National Anthem. And….. in this compassionate, democratic Buddhist land enfolded with love, in wisdom and fullest freedom, media is forbiden to raise a dissenting voice. Media is forbidden to criticise the "law" of the ruling regime. The media is for…

ஒரு துணையையே வைத்து கவனிக்கமுடியவில்லை என நிறையப்பேர் புலம்பும் பொழுது எப்படி இவரால் இத்தனைபேரை கவனிக்கமுடிந்தது🤔🤔 Ziona Chana (right) poses with members of his family in October 2011.(Reuters: Adnan Abidi) A 76-year-old man who had 39 wives and 94 children and was said to be the head of the world's largest family has died in north-east India, the Chief Minister of his home state says. Key points: With 167 members, Ziona Chana's family is the world's largest, according to local media His family lives in a large, four-storey pink building with about 100 rooms The sect leader said he once married 10 wi…

LTTE cadre, civilian killed in Claymore attack in Mannar [TamilNet, January 03, 2006 12:43 GMT] A cadre of Mannar Political Division of the LTTE, Jeyananthan, and a civilian identified as Vinoth, riding in a motorbike in LTTE controlled area at Valaiyankattu in Mullikkulam, 45 km south of Mannar town, were killed when a Claymore mine was exploded by Sri Lankan soldiers, LTTE sources in Mannar said. The attack took place around 4:00 p.m. Tuesday. The political cadre killed in the Claymore attack was a disabled cadre who had lost one of his legs, the sources added. Further details are not available at the moment. Tamilnet.com

Attack on SLA supply bases defensive - Ilanthirayan [TamilNet, August 02, 2006 06:53 GMT] Liberation Tigers' Military Spokesman, I. Ilanthirayan, said Wednesday that the artillery attack on Trincomalee naval base, providing rear support to Sri Lanka Army (SLA) offensive operation towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled territory down south in Trincomalee, the clash in the seas off Pulmoddai, and the attacks on SLA camps located along the supply route A15 from Muttur to Mavil Aaru offensive site, were defensive attacks that aimed at curbing the artillery attacks towards LTTE controlled villages and aimed at blocking troop movement and supply to t…

Meeting the New Prime Minister BY BILL GATES Narendra Modi has India talking about toilets. As the New York Times put it before his visit to the United States recently, India’s Prime Minister has “pledged to cut through red tape, stamp out corruption, revive India’s economy and restore pride.” But he has also been quite outspoken on a subject you hear much less about: open defecation. It may seem surprising when you think about all the innovation coming out of India, but 630 million people there defecate in the open because they don’t have access to a commode. Worldwide, the number is 2.5 billion people. This is not the kind of issue that most politicians like to ta…

An End to the Voice of Tamil Nation The demise of Dr Anton Balasingham has saddened and shocked the tamil speaking world with concerns about the future of our nation. Being the ideologue of the liberation struggle, he has been the soul of the tamil nation and its liberation. It is a rare phenomenon that a man of his calibre and education is ever willing to sacrifice the whole of his life for the people of his homeland and to relieve them from the immense sufferings they have been undergoing for decades. He was fortunate that Mrs Adele Balasingham was by his side all along in all his endeavours until the last minute of his life. We would like to share our hea…

பங்கு வணிகம் - லாபம் பெறுவது எப்படி? பாலகார்த்திகா .பங்குச்சந்தையில் ஈடுபடும் ஒவ்வொருவரும் லாபமடைய வேண்டும் என்ற நோக்கத்துடன் தான் ஈடுபடுகின்றனர். ஆனால் தொடர்ந்து லாபம் பெறுவது மிகச் சிலரே. பங்குச்சந்தையில், குறிப்பாக நாள் வணிகத்தில் புதிதாக ஈடுபடுபவர்கள் என்னென்ன தவறுகள் செய்கிறார்கள் என்று இந்தப் பகுதியில் பார்த்தோம். நாள் வணிகம் மிக எளிமையானதாகவும் அதிக லாபகரமானதாகவும் தோற்றமளிக்கலாம். ஆனால், எதிரி நாட்டில் உளவு அறியச் சென்றிருக்கும் இராணுவ வீரன் போல் நாம் ஒவ்வொரு கணமும் தயார் நிலையில் இருப்பது அவசியம். நாள் வணிகத்தின்பொழுது பின்பற்ற வேண்டிய சில விதிகள் குறித்தும், நாள் வணிகத்தில் ஆதாயமடைவதற்கு என்னவெல்லாம் செய்ய வேண்டும் என்ன செய்யக்கூடாது என்பது குற…

Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, who is in Geneva, met UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet last afternoon and expressed government’s intention to undertake a review of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), the Foreign Relations Ministry said. Minister Gunawardena reiterated the Government of Sri Lanka’s decision to withdraw from co-sponsorship of resolution 40/1 and the basis for doing so. He recalled that, one year ago, his predecessor the former Minister of Foreign Affairs had also pointed out a number of areas in the resolution that were undeliverable. Notwithstanding the withdrawal from co-sponsorship, he emphasized the Governm…

Bill Gates will never be the same The aura that Gates built over the past two decades may be permanently shattered. By Theodore Schleifer@teddyschleifer May 18, 2021, 10:55am EDT Bill Gates is mired in deep scandal, after decades of bolstering his philanthropic image. Indraneel Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images For decades, Bill Gates has traveled the globe as near-royalty, knighted by Queen Elizabeth and draped in medals by President Barack Obama. And for the last year, the once pugnacious Microsoft founder has reinvented himself as one of America’s clearest, most humane voices on the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Peruvian mum awarded 'Green Nobel' for work to create new national park in Amazon rainforest Posted 2ddays ago, updated 2ddays ago Liz Chicaje Churay was awarded a Goldman Environmental Award for spearheading the creation of a national park in the Peruvian Amazon. (Supplied: Goldman Environmental Prize) As a teenage mother and activist, Liz Chicaje would travel by boat and foot across Peru's Amazon rainforest with her young daughter campaigning to protect the ancestral lands of the Bora indigenous people from illegal logging and mining. Key points: Six grassroots activists received Goldman prizes this year T…

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-…

அமெரிக்காவின் பொருளாதாரம், ஏற்றுமதி இறக்குமதிக்கு இடையிலான இடைவெளி குறைகிறது. http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1...1h48&refer=home சீனாவிலிருந்து இறக்குமதி குறைகிறது என்று ஆனந்தப்பட முடியாது ஏனென்றால் நுகர்வேரின் தேவைகள் (consumer demand) செலவளிக்கக்கூடிய திறன் (spending power)கூடவே குறையும் இக்கட்டான நிலையில் அமெரிக்காவின் பொருளாதாரம்.

PUBLIC AI Index: ASA 37/015/2006 09 June 2006 UA 164/06 "Disappearance" SRI LANKA Rasanyagampillai Sivananthamoorthy (m), aged 35 Markandu Pushpakanthan (m), aged 26 Kandasamy Parimelalakan (m), aged 29 Vaikundavasan Vikunthakumar (m), aged 22 Ratnam Thayaruban (m), aged 19 Ponnambalam Partheepan (m), aged 22 Selvaratnam Sivanantham (m), aged 22 Ramachandran Rasakumar (m), aged 22 The eight Tamil men named above went to a Hindu temple in the north of the country on the evening of 6 May, to decorate it for a religious festival. The following morning they were reported missing and their whereabouts remain unknown. There are grave …

COLOMBO: Ironically enough, the leader of the radicals in a Sri Lankan party which espouses the cause of the island’s Sinhalese community is a Tamil. According to the Daily Mirror, the recent attacks on the moderates in the Sinhalese-Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) were inspired by a senior Tamil leader of the party who had just arrived from Australia after a long exile. The paper did not name the leader, but quoted a dissident MP to say that it was this person who had swung the JVP’s alliance with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1988, when both the JVP and the LTTE were fighting Indian intervention in the island’s ethnic conflict through…

இந்த கட்டுரையின் முதலாவது பதிப்பு (National Geographic)மிகவும் நீண்டகட்டுரை என்பதால் அதன் இணைப்பையும் சமீபத்தில் வந்த கட்டுரையையும் பகிர்ந்துகொள்கிறேன்.. New Species On Human Family Tree Discovered In Ancient Mass Grave Homo naledi had small brains but human-like traits, upending the fossil record Claire Maldarelli || September 10, 2020 In September 2013, two cave explorers on a routine exploration in South Africa happened upon a collection of fossils that would soon question our current understanding of humans’ ancestral history. While probing a narrow fracture system in the Rising Star Cave System in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, the…

Although the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) was pushing extremely hard for an international war crimes probe into the alleged accountability issues in Sri Lanka, with a major conference in the UK parliament scheduled for Feb. 27, the Canadian government had emerged as the leading campaigner against Colombo, ministerial sources told The Island. The target of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s campaign was the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka in November this year, Foreign Service sources said last night. Responding to a query, they said that unlike the GTF campaign, the Canadian action had brought tremendous pressure on…

How Sri Lanka Became a Nation of Beggars Chandrasena Maliyadde on 01/05/2022 Photo courtesy of Asia Times Every economy in the world, developed or developing, is a topic for discussion today. Some economies are being discussed for their sound management, good governance, high growth and overcoming crises while other economies are being discussed for opposite reasons. Sri Lanka’s economy drifted gradually from the former category to the latter. The current government accelerated the process. Exceptionally low rank attached by all international rating agencies, rising foreign debt, gro…

தற்போதும் வாழும் இருதலைப் பாப்பு..! சுமார் ஆறு வருடங்களுக்கு மேலாக இந்தப் பாம்பு உயிர் வாழ்கிறதாம். மிக அருமையான வகையில் பிறக்கின்றன இந்தப் பாம்புகள்..! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4577258.stm

Jul. 4, 2006. 05:17 AM ANDREW MILLS SPECIAL TO THE STAR KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka—In a villa surrounded by tall jak fruit trees and a squad of cadres toting T-56 assault rifles, S.P. Thamilselvan, the political leader of the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, sits pondering the political missteps of Stephen Harper's rookie government. "We know the complexity of the political problems any party would normally come across during a period of transition or a change from one party to another," he says. Thamilselvan says he's been searching for a plausible reason Harper's government ignored Canada's 200,000-strong Tamil community and placed their "freedom-fighting org…

THE FUTURE OF TAMIL PARLIAMENTARIANS IN SRI LANKA - The murder of Parliamentarian Raviraj Sunday, 12 November 2006 Brian Senewiratne M.D,Physician, Brisbane , Australia On 10 November 2006, yet another leading Tamil Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament was gunned down in Colombo by a supposedly ‘unknown’ gunman. This is a new Sri Lankan term which is synonymous with ‘The Armed Forces and their Paramilitaries who do their dirty work’. There are no ‘unknown gunmen’ as such. Nadarajah Raviraj (44), Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian for Jaffna district, one of only a few Tamil MPs who could voice, in English, the suffering of the Tamil people in the…

It's not the fault of the student if he fails, because the year ONLY has 365' days. Typical academic year for a student: 1. Sundays-52, Sundays in a year, you know Sundays are for rest. Days left 313. 2. Summer holidays-50 where weather is very hot and difficult to study.Days left 263. 3. 8 hours daily sleep- 130 days GONE. Days left 141. 4. 1 hour for daily playing- (good for health) means 15 days. Days left 126. 5. 2 hours daily for food & other delicacies (chewing properly & swallowing)-means 30days. Days left 96. 6. 1 hour for talking (man is a social animal)-means 15 days. Days left 81. 7. Exam days- per y…

The Tamils in Sri Lanka: From Tigers Into Lambs Imagine a global nation of people stretched into a diaspora that numbers perhaps 80 million people, more than five times the global Jewish population. Have you heard of the Tamils? They are in South India, Malaysia, Canada, Sri Lanka and around the world. Mostly Hindu, there is a substantial Christian and Muslim population. You're probably familiar with the work of A.R. Rahman from Slumdog Millionaire and M.I.A. from "Paper Planes." You've likely been entranced by the work of film director M. Night Shyamalan and have laughed at the comic timing of Aziz Ansari on Parks and Recreation. You may not be aware of the groun…

As Tamil National reported earlier the Sri Lanka Army has not silenced the gunfire as announced to the world. The Sri Lanka Military attack on no fire zone continues as usual. In today’s attack from midnight till 5 pm, more than 200 civilians were dead and around 300 were injured. Kapilan, a fisherman from Valaignarmadam spoke to Tamil National today. In the interview with us, he narrates the real situation inside the no fire zone. கபிலன் அவர்களின் செவ்வியை கேட்க Courtesy:TamilNational.com

Sri Lanka becomes first Asia-Pacific country in decades to default on foreign debt May 19, 2022 at 5:44 PM http://www.newswire.lk/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/gotabaya-rajapaksha-sri-lanka.jpg Sri Lanka’s central bank has confirmed the country has missed a deadline for foreign debt repayments, the first sovereign default in the Asia-Pacific region this century, according to Moody’s. “A 30-day grace period for missed interest payments on two international…