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100 HEALTHY TIPS 1.Set a goal of trying one new fruit or vegetable every week 2.Keep a bowl of fruit on your desk at work 3.Switch from ice cream to frozen yogurt 4.Substitute sweet potatoes for regular baked potatoes or fries. You'll get more Vitamin A. 5.Get more fiber. Add canned beans or a handful of nuts to your salad. 6.Take the stairs, not the elevator. 7.Don't e-mail your office mate. Walk down the hall and deliver the message personally. 8.Get a dog. Commit to walking 10 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night. 9.Buy a soccer ball. Kick it with your kids or a neighbor. 10.Buy shoes at the end of the day when your feet…

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…

"China is using the space provided by India’s reluctance to sell weapons to Sri Lanka for political reasons to increase its influence in Sri Lanka’s strategic spectrum. So the possibility of the Hambantota project ending up as a remake of the Gwadar episode in Pakistan is very much there". Extracts of the paper presented by Col.R.Hariharan, at the India-Taiwan interaction, jointly organised by the Chennai Centre for China Studies and the Federation of Chambers of Commerce & Industry-Tamil Nadu Chapter at Chennai on August 1, 2008: China is aiming to quadruple its per capita GDP to $ 3200 by 2020 from $ 800 per capita attained in 2000. This would imply an ave…

Sri Lanka civilians caught in conflict lack access to safe drinking water: UN In Sri Lanka, conflict continues in the No Fire Zone, and unconfirmed reports suggest significantly increased casualties, including hundreds of injuries Wednesday and Thursday alone. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - OCHA says more than 60,000 persons have come out of the Vanni over the past five months. Full Report with Voice Worsening humanitarian situation in conflict zone - General Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today discussed the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the north of th…

Madras High Court yesterday dismissed a petition which sought investigation into the role played by former LTTE leader Kumaran Pathmanabhan in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. First Bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice M.Sathyanarayanan rejected the petition by J.Mohanraj, son of late Janata party leader Nellai Jabamani and a member of the Special Investigation Team of CBI that probed the assassination of Gandhi by an LTTE suicide bomber on May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur near here. "In view of the stand taken by the Director of CBI that they are probing into the role played by Kumaran Pathmanabhan and the fina…

[TamilNet, September 03, 2006 13:32 GMT] Artillery shells, fired from LTTE controlled Nagarkovil, during the recent clashes off the Point-Pedro sea Friday night and Saturday morning, had targeted a Sri Lanka Army Intelligence Camp, located in Puloli, Point Pedro, sources in Jaffna said. Several artillery shells fired from Nagarkovil area Tiger positions fell inside the Pallappai SLA military intelligence camp in Puloli, Point Pedro during the early hours of Saturday, sources in Jaffna said. Casualty figures were not available. Two houses near the SLA camp were also hit. No civilian casualties were reported. Meanwhile, a cargo ship, carrying cement from So…

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Selected Writings by Nadesan Satyendra - நடேசன் சத்தியேந்திரா Sathyam Commentary Confronting the Death of Prabhakaran On 18 June 2009, the 31st Day of Prabhakaran's Death [see also Velupillai Prabhakaran - Undying Symbol of Tamil Resistance to Alien Rule ] I have never met Velupillai Prabhakaran. Neither have I ever spoken to him. I did not know him personally. Again, it is not that I have agreed with everything that he said or did. Yet, when he died on 17 May 2009, I felt a deep sense of perso…

Sri Lanka rupee ends firmer, gilt yields remain unchanged ECONOMYNEXT- Sri Lanka’s rupee closed stronger at 181.20/30 to the US dollar in the spot market on Thursday from Tuesday’s closing, while bond yields closed flat, dealers and brokers said. The rupee closed at 181.50/60 to the greenback on Tuesday. Liquidity in the overnight money market was 17.25 billion rupees, down from 31.99 billion rupees at Tuesday. Banks deposited 20.25 billion rupees in the excess liquidity window at Central Bank. In the secondary bond market, yields were flat in dull trading, dealers said. A bond maturing on 15.12.2021 clos…

In an emergency move Sunday, the Federal Reserve announced it is dropping its benchmark interest rate to zero and launching a new round of quantitative easing. The QE program will entail $700 billion worth of asset purchases entailing Treasurys and mortgage-backed securities. Markets responded negatively, with Dow futures pointing to a drop of 900 points when the market opens Monday morning. The Federal Reserve, saying “the coronavirus outbreak has harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States,” cut interest rates to essentially zero on Sunday and launched a massive $700 billion quantitative easing progra…

Carnage continues in Vanni [TamilNet, Thursday, 09 April 2009, 19:26 GMT] Indiscriminate shelling and gun fire by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continued on safe zone Pokka'nai and Valaignarmadam throughout the day on Thursday. Medical officials at Puthumaaththa'lan hospital told media that more than 300 wounded civilians were admitted and 47 of the victims died after admission at the hospital. Many civilians killed in the shelling and gunfire by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) were not brought to the hospital. Total figure of the casualties were not available. 296 civilians were admitted on Wednesday and more than 200 seriously wounded were transferred from the makeshift h…

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Democracy in crisis in Asia's killing fields- AHRC Saying that "Sri Lanka has been the stage of one of the most brutal killing fields," the Asian Hurna Rights Commission (AHRC) in a media release issued Wednesday said, "the problem Sri Lanka faces is much worse than a mere escalation of violence. A country that is already facing a collapse of its basic institutions and living at the lowest ebb of the rule of law is now plunging deeper into an abysmal crisis in all areas of life...crisis in Sri Lanka is a crisis of democracy, with its roots in the authoritarian style of rule that arose as a result of the 1978 Constitution." Full text of AHRC's media release follows:…

New YorkCNN — Americans ramped up their online shopping this past holiday season, splurging on a record-setting $222 billion worth of electronics, toys and other items. The spending haul between November 1 and December 31 marks a 4.9% increase from the previous holiday shopping season, according to an Adobe Analytics report released Thursday. Shoppers were enticed by deep discounts as well as Buy Now, Pay Later options, according to Adobe. The findings add to the evidence that Americans are still spending aggressively — despite telling pollsters they don’t like this economy. Adobe previously reported that shoppers spent …

Sri Lanka ban on incorporating foreign firms over security concern ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has banned the incorporation of companies with foreign shareholders over a security concern and no legitimate investment will be restricted, Senior Economic Advisor to the Finance Minister Nivard Cabraal said. “This is a temporary measure until a clear regulation is issued covering a security concern,” Cabraal told EconomyNext. “It will not restrict any legitimate foreign investments. It will lifted soon.” Sri Lanka’s Registrar of Companies had said no foreign investor owned company could be incorporated until further notice. The agency later revi…

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…

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 …