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Aliens calling? First potential radio signal from exoplanet detected.! An international team of scientists has collected the first possible radio signal from a planet beyond our solar system, emanating from an exoplanet system about 51 light-years away The team led by researchers from the Cornell University in the US also observed other potential exoplanetary radio-emission candidates in the constellation Cancer and Upsilon Andromedae systems( Image source: Cornell Chronicle) An international team of scientists has collected the first possible radio signal from a planet beyond our solar system, emanating from an exoplanet system about 51 light-years …

Apr 26, 2013 NEW DELHI: The doctors, who were part of the medical team attending to the December 16 gang rape victim, told a fast-track court here on Friday that the girl was shifted to a Singapore hospital to provide her with best possible treatment and not because she had died as alleged by the accused. The doctors' response came on the allegation by defence counsel of two accused in the case that the victim was not shifted to Singapore for organ organ transplant or best possible medical care but because she had died and the government did not want the public to know it. Counsel for accused Vinay Sharma and Akshay Thakur made this suggestion while cross-examinin…

A. Anita, Director of Niraimathy Niraimathy is the home for women with intellectual handicap. Presently twenty women and girls are cared for here. They are here because they have lost contact with their families or their families are far too poor to carry the burden of caring for them. The women at Niraimathy are encouraged to progress as far as possible towards learning to read and write. In addition they are provided with many leisure activities that also stimulate their brain development. For a longtime Niraimathy struggled to survive without an adequate building. In 2007, a brand new building was opened with donations collected by CWDR-Switzerlan…

Mr. A Amirthalingam | 1987 Mylapore Academy Speech about Indo Sri Lankan Accord.

Joe Wallen Sat, 28 May 2022, 8:37 pm·7-min read Women in Sri Lanka are having to sell sex to survive - Joe Wallen for The Telegraph A diminutive female figure enters the brightly lit courtyard, tugging a blue Disney-themed dress below her knees and swatting away the mosquitoes. With a sigh, she expresses her disappointment that it is a journalist who has entered the makeshift brothel and not a client. The brothel is housed in a gloomy roadside building in Katunayake, a nondescript industrial zone close to Colombo’s Bandaranaike Internation…

Sri Lankas third Eelam War created a political-territorial division of the island with a resultant dual state structure in the North-East. In the context of the 2002 Ceasefire Agreement and based on earlier institutional experiments, the LTTE is currently engaged in a comprehensive process of state building within the areas they control," says Prof Stokke of Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, in an article which examines the emerging new Tamileelam state structure. He adds that only the "facilitation and dynamics of pro-democracy forces within the LTTE," will determine the transformation from "the"strong and centralized state," that currently…

India's Sri Lanka policy - a projection Is India going to be pushed, prodded or propelled, in its policy towards Sri Lanka, down the very path that it took in the 1980s? Dayan JAYATILLEKA STANCE: The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has joined the raucous voices emanating from Tamil Nadu, calling for a more vigorous and one-sided policy on the part of New Delhi towards Colombo. While it goes against India's interest to be even handed between the LTTE, which perpetrated an act of foreign terrorism on its soil, and Sri Lanka, a friendly neighbour, voices such as that of the AIBA actually argue for a policy that is lopsided: against the Sri L…

A popular Myanmar news website was blocked Thursday by hackers angry at its description of hardline Buddhist monks as “radical”, as the publication said it had received threats of violence over its coverage, the AFP news agency reported. The Irrawaddy saw its main English-language website briefly replaced with a black screen and notice accusing it of being pro-Muslim and slamming a blog it ran in Burmese about Myanmar nationalist cleric Wirathu’s weekend meeting with controversial Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist-majority countries have seen rising religious hate speech and attacks on minority Muslims, with some hardline monks accused of fann…

Ship with Indians on board faces Tiger fury Colombo, Jan. 21 (Agencies): The LTTE today launched a suicide attack on a cargo ship with seven Indians in its crew off the Jaffna coast that left at least six rebels dead, as the Sri Lankan Army continued its onslaught on rebel bases, killing at least 18 fleeing Tigers.

Columns - Situation Report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Army holds jaya pirith, Tigers warn of bloodbath Both sides accuse each other of intensifying hostilities Foreign Ministry issues tough guidelines for visits by diplomats to North, East How the German envoy took Italian Ambassador to hospital By Iqbal Athas The LTTE mortar attack on diplomats, United Nations and Government officials twelve days ago has had its sequel. Colombo-based foreign diplomats have now been banned from undertaking visits to operational areas in the North and East without the express permission of the Ministry o…

Friday June 22, 7:24 PM COLOMBO, June 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's rupee fell to a new life low on Friday on importer demand for dollars while shares fell as retail investors sold select stocks citing high interest rates and uncertainty due to renewed civil war, traders said. The rupee closed at a new all-time low of 111.00/111.02 per dollar, compared to Thursday's close of 110.96/110.99. "There was some demand for dollars in the market because of importers -- importer related transactions," a currency dealer said. The rupee, which hit a previous all time closing low of 110.95/111.00 on May 7, has depreciated around 3.36 percent so far this year, after w…

நான் யாழ் இணையம் பற்றி சற்றுமுன் கூகிளில் தேடல் செய்தபோது தற்செயலாக கீழ்வரும் கட்டுரையை கண்டேன். உங்கள் பார்வைக்கும் இங்கே இணைக்கின்றேன்.. Tamil Tiger cyber terror sponsored by US companies Tue, 2007-06-26 06:13 Colombo, 26 June, (Asiantribune.com): The Sri Lankan government is making preparations to combat the cyber campaign unleashed to glorify terror on a global scale by agents of Tamil Tigers. The Sri Lanka Government has put together its campaign by lodging complaints with the US Justice Department about the US companies hosting pro-Tamil Tiger websites. According to Sri Lanka Government sources there are scores of pro-Tiger websites whose d…

By Saman Gunadasa 30 October 2008 A World Bank report published just prior to a joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting on October 10 included Sri Lanka among 28 countries that are judged to be “highly vulnerable” to the ongoing global financial crisis and credit crunch. The countries listed were mainly small, impoverished and economically backward countries, including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, Madagascar, Nepal, Rwanda, Malawi, Ivory Coast, Fiji, Haiti, the Seychelles and Mauritania. The Seychelles declared on October 1 that the country was in default and could not pay interest on its foreign loans. Speaking in New York prior to the …

[size=6]The Onset Of Eelam War V[/size] [size=5]Successive diplomatic victories and the humiliation of both Rajapakse and elements of his military establishment in the West now ensure a steady flow of funds into organistaions, which are at the vanguard of confronting both. Furthermore, the diaspora have steadily built a formidable political infrastructure that the regime’s missions have failed to counter. Of particular note are posts in Washington DC and London whose senior cadre have been purged of capable professional diplomats. Morale which reached its lowest ebb within the diaspora on the 19[/size]th[size=5] of May 2009 is now buoyant once again.[/size] [si…

Statement by Liberal Leader Bob Rae on the Situation in Jaffna, Sri Lanka TORONTO- Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on the situation in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: “News is slowly emerging of an attack on the men’s and women’s dormitories at Jaffna University, with some fifty students being sent to hospital, and many arrested without warrants. Sri Lanka’s civil peace is still under threat from its own government. The United States government has issued a call for a respect for civil liberties and pluralism. Canadians can hardly do less in the face of continuing attacks on journalists and others expressing their opinions. I had the chance, n…

Election 2020 – An Analysis and Trends HARIM PEIRIS on 08/07/2020 Photo courtesy of srilankamirror.com The general election to parliament is concluded and the official results are out. The anticipated landslide victory to the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) has materialised with the SLPP winning a grand total of 145 seats through garnering a total of approximately 6.8 million votes or 59% of the valid votes cast. Through its stated allies, the SLFP (1 seat), the EPDP (2 seats), the TMVP (1 seat) and others in the pro-government political space, it has effectively reached the two-thirds majority it craved, or 150 seats, in the 225-member l…

S. Karunabavany, Director of Maryillam In the war torn Tamil society young women face problems living alone in society. Maryillam provides a safe house for young women who have lost contact with their parents. CWDR’s goal is to trace the families of these women and reunite them with their families. While at Maryillam women are encouraged to develop their education and also gain vocational training. Women also grow many of their own vegetables in the Maryillam compound. Many have found employment and are able to build up a savings from their earnings, while they make use of the free board provided by CWDR. CWDR has already helped three of the wom…

Journalist killed for reporting on paramilitary abuses- RSF [TamilNet, January 24, 2006 18:23 GMT] Reporters sans frontières (RSF) in a press release issued Tuesday said that Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan, a correspondent of the Tamil-language daily Sudar Oli was killed for writing about "abuses committed in his region by Tamil paramilitary groups," and that in Sri Lanka, "the impunity enjoyed by the instigators and perpetrators of these murders encourages more violence against the press." Full text of the release follows: Reporters Without Borders today condemned the murder of Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan, a correspondent of the Tamil-language daily Sudar Oli …

A temple is not a money making machine. If Undiyalaan wants to buy three houses in London and several other properties across the world, he should get a job. Huge protest against Undiyalaan will be held with special police permission and protection. Time:: From 11 am till 1 pm Date:: Friday, 28 April 2006 Place:: Outside the Eelapatheeswarar Aalayam Limited, Union Road, Wembley, Middlesex. HA0 4AU How to get there:: Tube - Wembley Central by Metropolitan or Bakerloo, Bus - 79 - 83 - 92 - 182 - 224 Car: A406 ring road and then towards Wembley at Hangerlane or A404 Contact:: Rajan - 07751717097

Diplomatic strain between Sri Lanka and Norway Sunday, November 19, 2006, 15:21 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 19, Colombo: A diplomatic brawl has erupted between the Sri Lanka and Norwegian governments, Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry sources said. Diplomatic ties between the two countries have been alternatingly tense and highly cordial since Norway engaged in Sri Lanka's peace process as the facilitator. But several incidents that took place recently have made the situation worse. In one of the incidents, an angry Tamil Norwegian of Sri Lankan origin seeking a visa to travel in Sri Lanka stormed the Sri Lanka Embassy in Oslo and smashed a photograph o…

Germany freezes aid to Sri Lanka The German government has frozen aid to the Sri Lankan government until it resume peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels. The German minister for Overseas Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, has urged other western countries to increase pressure on Sri Lanka government to restart the peace process. The minister said in a newspaper interview (with the daily Tagesspiegel) that due to continuing violence much of Germany's aid to Sri Lanka, especially in rebel held areas, was not reaching the people it was intended for -- the victims of the tsunami of two years ago. The minister said twenty-five million dollar…

A Sri Lankan merchant vessel has come under Tamil Tiger rebels' attack, Naval officials said Sunday. The ship named City of Liverpool was returning to the eastern port of Trincomalee when it came under attack by Sea Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The Navy spotted a cluster of LTTE boats around 3:30 p.m. local time (1000 GMT) off the coast of Point Pedro in the northern Jaffna peninsula, a Naval spokesman said in Colombo. About 20 Tiger boats fired at the ship which was returning after unloading flour in the Jaffna port of Kankesanturi, officials said. At least one of the LTTE suicide boats had hit the ship, Naval officials s…

செக்ஸ் பாவைகள் வட அமெரிக்காவின் ரொரண்டோவில் முதன் முதலாக North America’s first sex-doll brothel opening in Toronto A brothel is set to open in Toronto’s north end, but the sex workers won’t be real women but instead high-tech sex dolls made of silicone. Aura Dolls is launching what it claims is the first sex-doll brothel in North America on Sept. 8 in a plaza on Yonge Street near Shepherd Avenue, which also houses a nail salon, a massage parlour and a dry cleaner. “We operate similar to a brothel where guests come in, they have their own room,” said marketing director Cl…

CNN) — Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner announced on Saturday that three statewide races in Florida would head to a recount. With the margin of unofficial results in the Senate, gubernatorial and agriculture commissioner races below less than half of one percent (0.5%), a machine recount will commence. Related Article: Florida recounts begin as tensions escalate across state Barring lawsuits, delays, and local issues that could lengthen the process, here's a quick breakdown of what to expect over the next week and a half. Machine recount Counties can now begin to re-feed ballots into county or central count t…

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