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இந்த கட்டுரையில் வரும் படங்களை என்னால் இணைக்கமுடியவில்லை, ஆனால் இணைத்துள்ள linkல் அவர்களதும், Uluruவினதும், அழகை பாரக்கமுடியும். Thirty years ago, Leanne Liddle had to leave the NT to join the police. Now, she has a plan to change the whole justice system in just five years. By Laetitia Lemke and photographer Michael Franchi. Published 15 Dec 2020, 4:04am Over the drone of the charter plane engine, about 290 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs, Leanne Liddle looks out the window and points to ordered structures emerging on the edge of the Tanami desert. “Yuendumu,” she offers. That one word is heavy with significance but from the air there is n…

Killing Free Education with the Kotelawala National Defence University Bill Kaushalya Ariyarathne on 07/16/2021 Photo courtesy of Ada Derana The debate over the Kotelawala National Defence University (KNDU) Bill has become a scorching issue in the past few weeks. It has been heated not only due to the resistance from civil society and other political parties – mainly the Left – and the intense parliamentary debate on it but also because the government has taken steps to illegally arrest and detain protesters using the quarantine laws and thereby attempted to suppress the voices…

Passionate librarian saved precious volumes of books By Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai Rohini Pararajasingam, a Jaffna Tamil woman is unknown to many. She is soft spoken, and a person with highest qualities, is proud to have saved 35,000 volumes of valuable books during the conflict in the peninsula. She served as the Assistant Librarian, and climbed the ladders with colours and dedicated service, and promoted as the Chief Librarian at the prestigious University of Jaffna. She served for 35 years, as Jaffna Peninsula has witnessed the worst years during the conflict. She was promoted as the Chief Librarian of the University of Jaffna in 1994, and retir…

Pranab Dhal Samanta Posted online: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 0000 hrs lSupplies: Colombo says it desperately needs spares for tanks, aircraft, UAVs NEW DELHI, MAY 2: While India grapples with limited options to somehow save the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka, a desperate Colombo is gradually looking away, and has approached Pakistan for defence supplies after India dragged its feet for reasons rooted in domestic Tamil politics. While Sri Lanka sought to downplay the issue when its President Mahinda Rajapakse was in Islamabad last month, the fact is that Sri Lanka has given Pakistan a long shopping list which clearly shows the effort is to give …

The pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has roped in the Chennai film industry to increase awareness of the Sri Lankan Tamil problem among the people of Tamil Nadu, and to collect money for the rehabilitation of Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka. Three TNA MPs, MK Sivajilingam, S Ariyanethiran and S Pathmanathan, met leading figures of the Tamil Nadu film industry at the Nadigar Sangam (Actors' Guild) in Chennai on February 6. Among the stars present were Sarath Kumar, President of the Nadigar Sangam; veteran actors Manorama and SS Chandran; and the latest heart throb, Abbas. Sarath Kumar and SS Chandran combine political activism with acting. ... http://www.hindustantim…

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. TWO. Marry a man woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other. THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want. FOUR. When you say, I love you, mean it. FIVE. When you say, I'm sorry, look the person in the eye. SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married. SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight. EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much. NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life comp…

தற்பொழுது தனிபட்டவர்களுக்கு சொந்தமான இந்த நிறுவனம்( private company), அடுத்த வருடம் ஒரு பொதுமக்கள் நிறுவனமாக (public company) பங்கு சந்தை ஊடாக மாற்றப்பட உள்ளது. இதனால் இந்த நிறுவனத்தின் பெறுமதி 50 Billion இருக்கும் என மதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. Facebook has received investments that place the social network's value at $50 billion, according to a published report. Goldman Sachs (GS, Fortune 500) and an unnamed Russian investor have invested $500 million in Facebook, the New York Times reported late Sunday, citing people close to the transaction. The investment would make Facebook worth more than media companies such as Time Warner (TWX, Fortune 500), the parent of …

Sri Lanka set for anarchy, warns rights group Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, December 18, 2006|08:49 IST Sri Lanka appears set for anarchy, a leading rights group has warned, adding that the situation in the strife-hit island mirrored the mid-1980s "where people count for nothing". The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) has come down hard on both Colombo and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and raised doubts if President Mahinda Rajapakse is really in control of the state of affairs. "The political outlook for the Tamils is bleak," said a report, "A Note on Current Developments". "There is hardly any space for activists to m…

Swamy wants Lanka to be federal Chennai, May 5: Rejecting the devolution proposals of Sri Lanka's ruling party to solve the ethnic problem, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy today said Tamils must get a federal constitution or a separate Tamil Eelam would become inevitable. He told reporters here "those Indians who have consistently opposed the LTTE terrorism will equally oppose disguised or covert Sinhala hegemonism". The devolution proposals of Sri Lanka Freedom Party had deeply disappointed all well-wishers of the island nation's territorial integrity and unfettered sovereignty, he said. The call for a separate Tamil Eelam in the island h…

Sri Lanka will not depend on aid: president Sri Lanka's president vowed on Wednesday not to depend on foreign aid after Britain said it would suspend debt relief to its former colony until Colombo improves its human rights record.President Mahinda Rajapakse said he would accept "genuine aid," but will not depend on it, his office quoted him as saying during a meeting with local newspaper editors at his residence. "If we are offered genuine aid we will take it. If not we will forget about aid and do our job," the president said. "We will not be dependent on aid."The president's office said he was commenting on the "reported suspending of aid by Britain.""Today, w…

The Cost of Resistance: The interior lives of Tamil activists in the wake of war.by ANUSHANI - "The author is an activist based in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, working with war-affected Tamil communities. This piece draws from conversations with families of the disappeared in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka who have for years been fighting for justice. It seeks to shed light on the inner tumult of those often celebrated as icons of resistance. The author is grateful for the men and women who shared their stories and their courage, and trusted her with their vulnerabilities." The videos are drawn from the Legacies of Conflict In South Asia Archive, a collaborative pr…

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said there will be no compromise on corruption, and sought time for taking action against it. "It has just been eight days, give us some time. We will not spare anyone who is corrupt," Kejriwal told reporters. "There is no question of compromising on corruption. I will put my life at stake, but will not compromise on the issue," he said. Kejriwal was responding to a question on whether the Aam Aadmi Party-Congress tie-up would result in letting off the Congress, which AAP charged of corruption in the run-up to the Delhi polls. "Whether it is Sheila Dikshit, or some minister from the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, or my…

SRINAGAR //JammuKashmir liberation front (JKLF) Chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik has termed the massacreand burning down of Sopore town on 6th January 1993 by Indian forcesas a black day in the history of kashmir and said that Indian occupation onKashmir is written by these kind of brutal massacres and brutalities. Yasin Malikwhile paying rich tributes to Sopore martyrs, expressed solidarity with theirbereaved families. A JKLF delegation comprising of Adv. Bashir Ahmad Bhat, Sheikh AbdulRashid, and Mohammad Sidiq Shah and Abdul Rashid Magloo visited the martyr’sgraveyard Sopare and participated in a condolence meeting held for the martyrs. Meanwhile chairman JKLF in …

2000 Tamils sought refuge in Kappalthurai School [TamilNet, April 17, 2006 14:34 GMT] About two thousand members from four hundred Tamil families of resettled Tamil village Kappalthurai have sought refuge in Kappalthurai government Tamil school. They fled from their houses when soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army assaulted some of them following the claymore mine blast that killed three troopers of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Saturday night, sources said. Kappalthurai village is located along Trincomalee-Kandy main road. Mr.K.Thurairatnasingham, Trincomalee district parliamentarian Monday morning visited the refugees in Kappalthurai School. Victims told him t…

COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka’s hopes of a quick victory over Tamil separatists looked shattered Thursday after Tamil rebels inflicted the heaviest losses on security forces since pulling out of a truce, analysts said. மேலும் படிக்க ..... http://www.orunews.com/?p=764

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The town of Amatrice has been hit by earthquakes several times in recent months Sunday's early-morning quake near the town of Norcia is the biggest in Italy since the Magnitude-6.9 Irpinia event in the south of the country in 1980. Back then, some 2,500 people died and more than 7,000 were injured. Thankfully, we are not expecting loss of life on that scale here. In part this is because of the strides made in recent years in improving readiness and reaction. But the fact that the population of central Italy is currently living on such an acute alert status also will have further limited any dreadful consequences. The first, in August, was a 6.2. This was f…

US envoy to hold talks in Sri Lanka Last Updated 07/01/2006, 20:27:20 The United States says it plans to send a senior official to Sri Lanka to discuss the conflict between government forces and the Tamil Tigers. The announcement comes after talks in Washington between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Sri Lankan counterpart, Mangala Samaraweera. The two foreign ministers discussed the recent increase in attacks in Sri Lanka, and the importance of strengthening the ceasefire. In the latest violence, 15 Sri Lankan sailors were killed when their navy gunboat was attacked near the eastern port of Trincomalee early on Saturday. …

Russia-China trade hits record $59bn in first half of 2014 Reuters / Sergei Ilnitsky / Pool 895210 The EU remains Russia's biggest trading partner and made up half of all trade worth $263.3 billion in the first half of 2014, but China remains the strongest single trade partner at $59.1 billion, Russia’s statistics bureau announced Monday.Russia’s recent trade figures show strengthening ties eastwards, not westwards. Trade with the 28-nation European Union declined 3.2 percent from the same period last year, whereas trade with China increased by 3.4 percent. China is Russia’s second-biggest trading partner after the EU, and total trade between the …

Learn from us, LTTE tells U.S., Iraq (2003) Hakone (Japan) March 21. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) today said the United States and Iraq should learn from its example of making peace with the Sri Lankan Government and urged the United Nations to prevail upon the two warring parties to restore normality. ``It is regrettable that the U.S. attacked Iraq without proper endorsement of the U.N. though we are also against the dictatorship of the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, and his not respecting the U.N. resolution,'' the LTTE's chief negotiator, Anton Balasingham, said. ``The LTTE is known for violence but we are renouncing it and pursuing…

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நாதன் - கிரான் 18 மாசி 2007 இலங்கை ஜனாதிபதி மகிந்த ராஜபாக்ஷவின் சகோதரர் சிசில் ராஜபக்ஷ, மேவின் சில்வா ஆகியோருடன் இணைந்து தமிழ் வர்தகர்களையும், அயல் நாட்டில் இருந்து வரும் தமிழ் பொதுமக்களையும் கொழும்பில் வைத்துக் கடத்தி கப்பம் பெற்று வந்த கருணா குழுவின் பதில் தலைவரும் முதல் நிலை நிர்லாகப் பொறுப்பாளருமான பிள்ளையான் அவர்கள் பெரும்தொகை பணத்துடன் தலைமறைவாகியுள்ளதாக ஊர்ஜிதம் செய்ய முடியாத கொழும்பு தகவல்கள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன. கடந்த ஆண்டு மட்டக்கழப்பிலிருந்து வவுனியா செல்லும் பாதையில் உள்ள புனானை முகாமிற்கு அருகில் வைத்து ரீஆர்ஓ அப்பாவி ஊழியர்களை கடத்தி கொலை செய்த பெருமை இவரையே சாரும்.. பிள்ளையானின் தலைமறைவு பற்றி இனியபாரதியிடவம் வினாவியபோது இதற்கு தனது கருத்து எதனையும் தெரிவிக…

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