Courtesy : Government Information Department Sri Lanka Wednesday blamed India for the Tamil separatist war which dragged for 30 years on the island. The information department quoted Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as telling the local media that India could never absolve itself of the responsibility for creating terrorism in Sri Lanka. Had the then Indian […]

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Dilrook Kannangaraƒ”š‚  What happens in Kuragala is a national shame. Ancient Buddhist monastery, archaeological sites, Devanagala rock inscription and the historical tunnel have been claimed by a Muslim sect as belonging to Arabs in the past. They argue an Arabic sage lived and died at the location close to a thousand years ago. These claims […]

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Asada M Erpini Interim Self Government? The expression sounds eerily familiar. Ah! Yes, that is the Eelam by another name that the LTTE proposed in 2003. Oddly enough, that had one more word: it was called Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA), and now, ten years later, a member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the […]

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B Sivakumar, TNN Courtesy The Times of India CHENNAI: Did India compensate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after the 1987 Indo-Lanka pact and the dispatch of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka? The US administration believed so, according to a cable sent by its embassy here and released by Wikileaks. A […]

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Byƒ”š‚  Srian Obeyesekere Courtesy The Nation The Golden Key Depositors Union (GKDU) yesterday claimed that the Attorney General had failed to issue an extradition order on the second suspect Sicille Kotelawala despite a court ruling. President, GKDU, Dushyanthi Hapugoda, speaking to “ƒ”¹…”The Nation’ said, “No extradition order has been issued by the Attorney General’s Department […]

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Tax officials raid Nokia campuses in Chennai & Lots of Questions! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-28/nokia-says-indian-court-grants-stay-on-unpaid-tax-demand.html 2013/01/09/india_nokia_tax_demand/ 1. Place Tax bill for UKƒ”š‚£340m 2. Barter loudly for 20 minutes, with much hand waving and posturing 3. Settle on bill for ƒ”š‚£24.50 plus ƒ”š‚£1,000 in cash to each inspector for their “expenses” CHENNAI: Income Tax officials are raiding the premises […]

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M. Kalyanaraman B. Kolappan Courtesy The Hindu A week into the Emergency when the relationship between the Congress government at the Centre and the DMK government in Tamil Nadu was becoming increasingly hostile, Labour and Housing Minister K. Rajaram asked a U.S. diplomatic representative in Chennai whether the U.S. would give assistance to the State […]

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