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Actress Anarkalli has been elected to the Southern Provincial Council after coming in 10th for the UPFA with 26,726 votes at the Southern Provincial Council (SPC) polls. Speaking to Daily Mirror online the actress said she was the youngest female to be elected to the Council.

Against the backdrop of Sri Lanka`s unparalleled military victory over LTTE terrorism, foreign powers are lining up to study Sri Lanka`s modus operandi in fighting the LTTE.

Former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka, who spearheaded the war against the LTTE, declared on the Vellimullivaikkal beach that the international community would seek Sri Lanka`s expertise as it was the only success story against terrorism since the British campaign in Malaya in the 1950s. But that was against terrorists armed with 303 rifles, whereas the Sri Lanka army faced a well equipped enemy with sea and air assets.

Sri Lanka will offer specialist counter-insurgency training
Sri Lanka`s army has said it will be happy to give training to members of the Pakistani military.

It says Islamabad has requested the training because of the country`s success in defeating the Tamil Tigers.

In May, the government announced the end to a decades-long war with the rebel group.

The army`s new commander told the BBC that Pakistan had already asked if it could send its military cadets to train in counter-insurgency operations.

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BANGKOK - Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series `Kung Fu` who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.

Washington, May 01, 2009: India is incapable of adequately responding to the threat of terrorism because of poor coordination between regional authorities and an inefficient legal system, the US State Department said in a report released on Thursday.



The State Department`s annual report on global terrorism for 2008 said that India was among the world`s top targets despite a strong government commitment to fighting terrorism.

Hon David Wright Miliband MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
United Kingdom


Sir,

When Libya announced last year that Italy had agreed to pay `billions` as compensation for its three decades colonial rule in the oil rich country, a massive move was already underway in Sri Lanka to demand compensation from Britain for the social, political, economical and ecological damage caused for more than one and half centuries here.

Colombo(PTI): Maintaining that a pause in the military operation against LTTE is `unnecessary`, Sri Lanka has assured Britain that the political process to resolve the ethnic problem in the island nation will be commenced `once terrorism has been eliminated`.

During a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday, Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said the massive exodus of Tamil civilians from the LTTE-held areas has led to a `completely new situation` in the embattled north.

Mon, Apr 20 12:37 PM

Chennai, April 20 (IANS) A day after he reportedly said Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was not a terrorist, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday did a U-turn saying the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was indeed a terrorist outfit.

As Tamil Nadu was hit by a political storm after Karunanidhi made the initial remarks Sunday, the DMK chief said the Tamil Tigers began as a liberation group but turned terrorist later.

Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): Security was on Friday stepped up in all the three international airports in Kerala following an alert about LTTE threat to the key installations, police sources said here.

The Air India security office here received the alert message from its Mumbai office, they said.

The CISF, incharge of airport security, has stepped up vigil at the airports in Thiruvananthapuram, Nedumbassery (Kochi) and Karippur (Kozhikode).

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`LTTE group` arrested in France


The Sri Lankan group is accused of shooting dead a French policeman
Police in France have arrested six Sri Lankan Tamils accused of killing a police officer in Paris, officials said.
Sugeeswara Senadheera, Minister Counsellor, Sri Lankan embassy in Paris, told BBC Sandeshaya that all arrested were members of the LTTE.

The French policeman was shot dead, Mr. Senadheera said, as he questioned the group collecting money for a banned organisation.

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New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) India Wednesday unveiled its intention to play a proactive role in Sri Lanka by asking the Tamil Tigers to give up their weapons and said it was ready to work with Colombo to evacuate civilians caught up in the war zone.

Under pressure to act following widespread reports of civilian suffering in fighting between the military and the Tigers, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha that India was also ready to assist in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Sri Lanka`s war-hit northeast.

LONDON - A baby-faced 13-year-old British schoolboy has fathered a child with his 15-year-old girlfriend, it emerged Friday, triggering debate about the country`s high level of teenage pregnancies.

Alfie Patten, whose voice has not yet broken, admitted he had not thought about how he and girlfriend Chantelle Steadman would support baby daughter Maisie Roxanne, who was born Monday, but vowed to be a good father.

`I didn`t think about how we would afford it. I don`t really get pocket money. My dad sometimes gives me 10 pounds` (11 euros, 14 dollars),` the four-foot (1.22 metre) tall teenager from Eastbourne, southern England, told the Sun tabloid.