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Thousands of people took part in Heroes Day amidst SL military intelligence trying to ‘discipline’ the students and the people from not attending the memorial event on Wednesday. The people were determined to proceed with the event despite showering heavy rains at the grounds where Tamil war heroes (Maaveerar) lie buried in the occupied Tamil Eelam. Self-mobilised grassroots organised the remembrance events. Alternative locations were chosen for the war cemeteries (thuyilum-illam) grounds, which the occupying SL military was continuing to use, in an uncivilised manner, as the grounds for their cantonments. Sinhala soldiers were seen snatching the photos from the parents w…

New York (CNN Business)Joe Tsai, the billionaire co-founder of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba, and his wife Clara Wu Tsai, have donated 2.6 million masks, 170,000 goggles and 2000 ventilators to New York — the US epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. The supplies were split into two shipments. The first arrived on Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport, while the second arrived on Saturday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. "We kept hearing cries for (personal protective equipment) from our community and wanted to help," Clara Tsai told CNN in an interview. The state will allocate the second shipment but "it's our intention to help the most …

AUDACITY OF HOPE IN A BROKEN CITY The Northern Province is in a state of economic isolation. While the state is in a political dreadlock, ordinary people have taken charge June 28, 2017 By Devin Jayasundera 16 min read For the last three months, Kamalnath*, 26, has been arriving to work in Chunnakam two hours late, leaving two hours early and spending his free time at a friend’s home in Nallur. He works at his family’s fancy goods store, retailing beauty accoutrements like bangles, hairpins …

22 November 2013 Khuram Shaikh was killed while on holiday in Tangalle in 2011 The news a trial date has been set for six men charged over the murder of a British aid worker in Sri Lanka has been welcomed by the victim's MP. Red Cross worker Khuram Shaikh, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, was shot and stabbed on holiday in 2011. Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said it was "encouraging" in a case which was a "test of Sri Lanka's credibility". He said he had been told six men, including a Sri Lankan politician, were expected to go on trial on 2 December. They have been accused of offences including murder, possessing unlawful weapons and the rape of …

Breaking ranks with EU, Hungary says ready to pay for Russian gas in roubles By Krisztina Than , Gergely Szakacs and Nina Chestney …

வாக்குறுதிகளையும் வழிகாட்டல்களையும் கூட்டமைப்புக்கு வழங்கியுள்ளது இந்தியா மாவை எம்.பி. உதயனுக்குப் பேட்டி இனப்பிரச்சினைக்கு அர_டன் பேசித் தீர்வு காண்பது தொடர் பில் தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்புக்கு வாக்குறுதிகளையும் வழிகாட்டுதல்களையும் வழங்கி உள்ளது என்று தெரிவித்தார் யாழ். மாவட்ட நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் மாவை சேனாதிராசா. யாழ்ப்பாணம் வந்திருந்த அவர் உதயன் பத்திரிகைக்கு வழங் கிய விசேட பேட்டியில் இதனைத் தெரிவித்தார். நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் மாவை சேனாதிராசாவிடம் எழுத்து மூலக் கேள்விகள் வழங் கப்பட்டன. அதற்கு அவர் அளித்த பதில்கள் வருமாறு: இலங்கை அரசின் செயற் பாடுகளுக்கு ஆதரவு வழங்கு வதாக அறிவித்துள்ளீர்கள். அது எந்த எல்லைவரை என்று கூற முடியுமா? வடக்குகிழக்கில் அரசின் அ…

Ben Wallace: Ukraine has 'tragically become a battle lab' for war technology IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES Image caption, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it would be "foolish" to ignore the war strategies being played out in Ukraine By Paul Adams & Francesca Gillett BBC News Ukraine has "tragically become a battle lab", but lessons learned will inform the future of Britain's armed forces, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said. He was speaking ahead of the release of a revised Defence Command Paper, first published before the wa…

Maldives says sinks suspected Tamil Tiger vessel COLOMBO, May 17 (Reuters) - The Maldives coast guard opened fire on and sank a vessel carrying suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Thursday after a 12-hour standoff at sea in their southern territorial waters, the government said. However one man who threw himself overboard before the clash and surrendered spoke the south Indian language Malayalam and not Tamil, and officials were treating the alleged rebel link with caution. "We have sunk the vessel. We have captured the five people aboard," Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed told Reuters by telephone from the Maldivian capital of Male. A government spokesman s…

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By P.K. Balachandran. Colombo, Sri Lanka, 01:02 PM IST The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has indicated that only a demonstration of its military might will change the present international climate in its favour. V. Balakumaran, a senior member of the LTTE, said in an interview to the National Television of Tamileelam (NTT) last week: 'The international community has been vacillating in taking decisive actions on Sri Lanka because they are unable to relate their own interests to the chaotically unfolding political and military situation in Sri Lanka.' 'Only the demonstration of military strength by the Tigers can bring clarity to the situation for …

Brothers and sisters, Please Stand-Up for us (Tamil) and Make Your Voices Heard Brothers and Sisters, let's stand up together and reclaim what's ours!!! Because of the kinship relationship we have with you, we are asking you with pride to support and save Sri Lankan Tamils before Sri Lankan government destroy us from the OUR own land. We are sending these videos contain the sufferings of Tamils because you have the rights to ask the government to stop killing your brothers and sisters. Please share these messages with your neighbors, co-workers and any one in the world who is not aware of what is happening to your brothers and sisters in Sri Lanka. …

Today, November 10th, is International Accounting Day. A day to reflect on what it means to be an accountant and a great opportunity to honour all accountants. It is in honour of Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli, who published the first book about double-entry bookkeeping on November 10th 1494, that International Accounting Day started. His book described the use of journals and ledgers and warned that a person should not go to sleep at night until the debits equaled the credits. Luca Pacioli, “The Father of Modern Accounting” Therefore, each year on November 10th, we pay tribute to the work of Luca Pacioli, “The Father of Modern Accounting”. We also…

23 November 2013 An acclaimed Tamil writer Shanmugampillai Jayapalan has been arrested and detained by Sri Lankan police on Friday (22) while he was on his way to pay homage to his mother at her graveyard in the former war-zone of Wanni. Reports from Jaffna say that the 69-year old Tamil scholar, who is now a Norwegian citizen, has visited Jaffna during the second week of November after seven long years. As a Tamil literary stalwart, he was interviewed by Tamil newspapers in Jaffna and was warmly welcomed by his community. Photographs of him, addressing the media in Jaffna on his latest work in the field of literature, art and South Indian Kollywood film indu…

Electricity, telephone service to Muttur cut off [TamilNet, August 03, 2006 17:44 GMT] The Sri Lankan government has cut off the supply of electricity to Muttur town and other villages in the Muttur division since the fighting broke out between the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). From Thursday noon telephone service to Muttur town has also been cut off, Muttur civilians arrived in Trincomalee Thursday evening with injured civilians said. Telephone service has been cut off after the artillery attack on Muttur Arabic College and Thoppur Al-Noor Mahavidiyalayam which resulted in the deaths of twenty two Muslim civilians sought refuge…

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Civilians flee as rivals say over 110 killed in Sri Lanka fighting. Some 3,000 civilians are fleeing as heavy artillery duels in Sri Lanka's restive northeast killed more than 110 people, including 41 civilians, according to rebels and security forces. The two sides said sporadic mortar bomb attacks and artillery fire continued throughout Sunday along the Trincomalee and Batticaloa district borders. The International Red Cross said more than 3,300 people were displaced Sunday. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in a statement asked both the military and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to comply with international hu…

TNA MPs to join govt. claims Minister President Mahinda Rajapakse at an all party conference meeting Four Tamil National Alliance MPs are among those who have shown interest in joining the government, senior minister claims. Defence affairs spokesman, minister Keheliya Rambukwella said discussions are on between the government and some 18 members of the UNP who are willing to join the government. "These UNP parliamentarians have shown interest to assist the president", he said. Even Sri Lanka Muslim Congress(SLMC) has openly said they would join the ruling party. "These are the information I have and results of these discussions could be seen wi…

Violence drags on in Sri Lanka Email|Print| Text size – + November 14, 2007 ONE OF THE world's most vicious and intractable conflicts has produced a spike in violence in recent days. After a bloody clash last week in the north of Sri Lanka between government forces and the rebel fighters known as the Tamil Tigers, the government boasted of killing 60 Tigers, while the Tigers claimed to have repulsed an attack by helicopter gunships, killing more than two dozen Sri Lankan troops. This battle came a week after government forces killed the Tigers' lead peace negotiator and three weeks after the Tigers attacked a government air base and destroyed several military aircraf…

Over 600 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Chennai staged a protest today demanding citizenship. They also submitted a letter to the Chief Minister’s Cell seeking citizenship and demanding that fines for overstaying in India be reduced. Sri Lankan refugees living outside the camp have to pay up a fine for overstaying in India. While many of refugees want to return home or go visit their relatives, they say the fine amount is very high for them to pay, thenewsminute.com. “We have to pay an amount of Indian Rs 3600 per year from the year we began staying in India and this amount is for per person. Additionally, we have to pay Rs. 13,500 for obtaini…

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சுவிஸ் எங்கும் கடும் பனி காரணமாக பாதிப்பு ஏற்பட்டு பல பாதைகள் மூடப்பட்டு போக்கு வரத்துகள் ஸ்தம்பிதம் அடைந்துள்ளது. எதிர்வரும் செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை வரை இது தொடரும் என காலநிலை அவதான நிலையம் அறிவித்துள்ளது. ஆபத்துகள் தவிர்ந்த நேரங்களில் தனியார் வாகனங்களை பாவிக்க வேண்டாம் என போலீசார் அறிவித்துள்ளனர். மேலதிக விபரங்களுக்கு: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.htm...y=1141565986000

Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims? By Alan Strathern Oxford University Of all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why have monks been using hate speech against Muslims and joining mobs that have left dozens dead? This is happening in two countries separated by well over 1,000 miles of Indian Ocean - Burma and Sri Lanka. It is puzzling because neither country is facing an Islamist militant threat. Muslims in both places are a generally peaceable and small minority. In Sri Lanka, the issue of halal slaugh…

Anyone found guilty on a credible war crimes investigation would be dealt with the necessary punitive measures, Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake said. In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Leader, he maintained that the Army did not treat the appointment of a Three-member Advisory Council as a 'betrayal' of the forces. 'The government has appointed this committee to advice the government and we have nothing to be concerned about as we have only done our duty. We are a professional army and we don't mind anyone investigating our actions as we have done nothing wrong,' he added. He further noted that the Sri Lankan army did what no other a…

தமிழ் மக்களின் பிரதிநிதித்துவத்தை குறைப்பதற்கு அரசாங்கம் முயற்சி - சுரேஷ் பிரேமச்சந்திரன் எம்.பி. குற்றச்சாட்டு [செய்தி பதிவுசெய்யப்பட்டது : 2010-12-26 07:40:58| யாழ்ப்பாணம்] மக்கள் முழுமையாக மீள்குடி அமர்வதற்கு முன்பாக வாக்காளர் பதிவுகளை மேற்கொண்டு நாடாளுமன்றத்தில் தமிழ் மக்களின் பிரதிநிதித்து வத்தை குறைப்பதற்கு அரசாங்கம் முயற்சிப்பதாக தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பின் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர் சுரேஷ் பிரேமச்சந்திரன் குற்றம் சாட்டினார். இலங்கையில் போர் முடிபடைந்து மக்கள் முழுமையாக மீள்குடியேற முன்பாக வடக்கு மாவட்டங்களில் வாக்காளர்பதிவுகளை மேற்கொண்ட அரசாங்கத்தின் நடவடிக்கையானது தமிழ் மக்களுக்கு பாதகமான ஒன்றே என்று தமிழ்த் தேசிய கூட்டமைப் பின் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினரான ச…