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Exclusive: Telecoms company is loss-making and it is locked in long-running VAT dispute with HMRC Almost 90% of the UK workforce at the telecoms company Lycamobile have been told they could lose their jobs, the Guardian has learned, in an announcement that leaves more than 300 staff fearing for their roles shortly before Christmas. The company, owned by the multimillionaire Tory donor and British-Sri Lankan businessman Allirajah Subaskaran, sells pay-as-you-go sim cards popular with low-paid workers wanting to make cheap phone calls to family overseas, as well as in the UK. On Friday, staff at the Lycamobile’s headquarters in the City of London…

The US Seventh Fleet has claimed in a Facebook post on Monday that its guided-missile destroyer, USS Barry, launched a live missile during an exercise in the Philippine Sea on Thursday last week. In the meantime, Hong Kong-based newspaper, South China Morning Post (SCMP), which is owned by a Chinese multinational technology company, described the development as an “unusual drill” on Tuesday. The paper said military observers in Beijing believed that it was a “signal to the PLA that American forces can counter advanced threats.” Also, the English version of the paper operated by the Communist Party of China (CPC), Global Times, on Sunday blamed the Trump Administration as …

Kogularamanan Arulanantham, 33, was granted refugee status in Canada in 2006 but has been waiting for years for permanent residency because he's deemed inadmissible for working at a retail story run by a terror group. As a “protected person,” Kogularamanan Arulanantham cannot be removed from Canada to Sri Lanka. As someone deemed “inadmissible” to Canada as an alleged member of the Tamil Tigers, the Brampton man cannot become a permanent resident and must renew his temporary permit to remain here every year – unless he is granted a reprieve from Public Safety Minister Steve Blaney. Border officials’ broad definition of membership means a person can be cons…

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Left, DMK demand India vote against Sri Lanka at UN rights meeting Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja on Thursday said India should demand an impartial and international inquiry on the war crimes committed by Sri Lankan military on Tamils as well as should vote against the island nation in the current meeting of UN Human Rights Council. Raja said the assurances by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or external affairs minister Salman Khurshid has no meaning unless India takes a pro-active role in the current session of the UN Human Rights Council meeting at Geneva. "And India should see whatever resolution brought by US or …

Scientists confirm meteorite crash-landed into New Jersey home https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/scientists-confirm-meteorite-crash-landed-new-jersey-home-99292637 A New Jersey family made an out-of-this-world discovery this week. After a mysterious black rock was found in a Trenton-area home that had apparently damaged the ceiling and floor, the homeowner and his children went searching for answers. Christine Lloyd points to where the meteorite came through the ceiling in her father's home. WPVI Suzy Kop found the metallic rock on Monday in an upstairs bedroom in her father's …

CNN)At least one person was killed and six injured in a shooting Sunday evening in West Baltimore, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said. Authorities asked for the public's help in identifying the gunman and more potential victims. A gunman opened fire while two cookouts were taking place near the 2500 block of Edmondson Avenue, Harrison said in a news conference. It appears that the gunman targeted someone in the crowd, Harrison said. Investigators are trying to determine if the two cookouts were connected. https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/28/us/baltimore-shooting/index.html

India’s Ramanathapuram District police have arrested five people, including three Sri Lankan Tamils with arms such as air-guns, sickles and crowbars when they were proceeding to Madurai after visiting Rameswaram in a car, The Hindu newspaper reported. Accompanied by S. Vijayakumar (52), an assistant director in the Kerala film industry, who was reportedly facing cheque bounce and criminal cases, the Lankan Tamils, who came from Chennai, were on their way to Kerala via Madurai after visiting a friend in Mandapam and offering worship at the Rameswaram Temple, when the police arrested them at the check post. The check post police, who were routinely checking …

Forbes magazine recently released their annual list of the Richest People In the World, which includes two Tamil billionaires. Here are the two richest Tamil people in the world, according to Forbes magazine's 2019 list. #82 Shiv Nadar (India) $14.6 B USD #261 Ananda Krishnan (Malaysia) $6.2 B USD https://tamilculture.com/tamil-billionaires-forbes-richest-people-of-2019

We live in an age of strongman leaders whether it is in India, China or the US. And Sri Lanka has also elected such a leader as President. The emergence of strongman politics is a reflection of the contemporary global order, which is constituted by the geopolitics of tensions and negotiations, rather than an order determined by global rules and norms. However, it is not that the global order was ever committed to equality; historically, global rules and norms were always lopsided towards the powerful. The big powers chose the time and chance for exceptions as they impinged on their interests, and that is also why we have seen the many confli…

Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek sparks market turmoil Peter Hoskins & Imran Rahman-Jones Business & technology reporters Getty Images Shares in major US technology firms have plunged after the rapid rise of a low-cost chatbot built by a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm. The DeepSeek app, which was launched last week, has overtaken rivals including OpenAI's ChatGPT to become the most downloaded free app in the US. US tech giants including AI chipmaker Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta all saw their share prices drop on Monday. In a separate development,…

The US is sending $1 billion every year to Russia's nuclear program, despite pledging to cripple its economy with sanctions Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers speech in Moscow, Russia, on March 16, 2023. Contributor/Getty Images US companies are sending $1 billion each year to Russia's state-owned nuclear agency, despite President Joe Biden pledging to cripple Russia's economy, according to a report in …

INTERVIEW-Rescued sex slave writes to Indian PM with plea to free others "There were many girls like me there. I didn't see any of them escape or leave" By Roli Srivastava MUMBAI, Aug 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 29-year-old Indian woman who was sold into sexual slavery as a teenager has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to rescue hundreds of thousands of other girls who are trapped in brothels and raped daily. In a two-page letter written in Hindi, the woman - who identifies herself as Tavi - described how she was duped and trafficked to a brothel in …

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In Sri Lanka, the Military Still Runs the Show The international community has a part to play in ending its culture of impunity. By Viruben Nandakumar, an editor at the Tamil Guardian. The Sri Lankan flag is lowered; beneath it stand people in military uniforms. Military personnel in ceremonial uniform lower the Sri Lankan flag at Galle Face Green, a park in Colombo, on July 23. ARUN SANKAR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES In the early hours of Friday, July 22, hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers marched through the country’s capital. They were preparing for a brutal crackdown on anti-government demonstrators who slept in tents at Galle Fac…

The End? Tisaranee Gunasekara on 05/10/2022 Photo courtesy of BBC “The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.” Auden (September 1, 1939) “We must love one another or die,” wrote Auden in September 1, 1939 as the world slid into calamity. Gotagogama and the nationwide anti-Rajapaksa struggle it pioneered and symbolized seemed to be animated by this spirit of compassionate solidarity Auden was pleading for on the advent of the Second World War. Gotagogama resistors prided themselves o…

Inaugural Chair in Tamil Studies looks to establish U of T Scarborough as a global hub for Tamil scholarship Professor Sidharthan Maunaguru appointed Chair in Tamil Studies at U of T Scarborough (Submitted Photo) FacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail Thursday, November 30, 2023 Don Campbell The newly appointed Chair of Tamil …

More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says. The report says the majority of children have been killed by bombs or shells in their own neighbourhoods. It wants fighters trained in how not to put civilians' lives at risk. Analysis Lyse Doucet Chief international correspondent This report is the first major examination of how children are being killed in Syria. It confirms what has long been regarded as one of the …

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Dyson has received an order from the UK government for 10,000 ventilators to support efforts by the country's National Health Service to treat coronavirus patients. James Dyson, the company's billionaire founder, confirmed the order in a letter to employees shared with CNN on Wednesday. "A ventilator supports a patient who is no longer able to maintain their own airways, but sadly there is currently a significant shortage, both in the UK and other countries around the world," Dyson wrote. Dyson said the company had designed and built an entirely new ventilator, called the "CoVent," since he received a call 10 days ago from UK Prime Mini…

UNHRCThe Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has strengthened its investigation on the war in Sri Lanka by adding more clauses to the terms of reference which includes a clause on the assistance expected for foreign governments and the basis under which findings of the investigation will be accepted. The new clauses note that consistent with the practice of other United Nations fact-finding bodies, the OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) will base its findings on a "reasonable grounds to believe" standard of proof. The terms of reference states that there are reasonable grounds to believe that an incident or pattern of violations or…

CNN)Can you spell history? The 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee had an epic ending with eight co-champions. The spelling bee was finally over after it went 20 rounds, which included a run of 47 correct words. Thursday night's unprecedented decision was made after round 17, when it was announced that while there were plenty of words left in the dictionary, there were only enough challenging words for three final rounds. The eight co-champions are: Rishik Gandhasri; Erin Howard; Saketh Sundar; Shruthika Padhy; Sohum Sukhatankar; Abhijay Kodali; Christopher Serrao; and Rohan Raja. …

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COP26 Cop26: Rude awakening as Tamils tracked foe to Dunblane Sri Lankan president was not the only world leader holed up in the sleepy town’s hydro Under the cover of darkness Tamil activists marched on the DoubleTree Hilton where Gotabaya Rajapaksa, president, was staying TAMIL GUARDIAN Marc Horne Friday November 05 2021, 12.01am, The Times Share …