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The reconstructed Iranamadu airstrip in the Kilinochchi District was declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa today (June 15), on an invitation extended by the Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrema. Initially constructed by the LTTE and destroyed using bulldozers, the runway was reconstructed by the Air Force to extend up to 1500m with a width of 25 metres. Commander of the Sri Lanka Army, General Jagath Jayasuriya and Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise, Douglas Devananda also graced the event. (Pictures courtesy: Sri Lanka Air Force media unit)

A team of Indian scientists were studying the stray donkeys in Mannar, Mannar Urban Council (MUC) Asst. Chairman James Jesuthas said today. Donkey sanctuary officials from India paid a visit to Mannar to conduct research on the welfare of the donkeys.

The Mannar region had been noted for its presence of donkeys since former times.

A media briefing was held on Friday, June 7 to explain the nature of the visit of the Indian officials.

Eat a plantain, Viji... cos this is as big as it will get... :)

One Wonders who are the real monkeys with standard monkey features & behaviour!!!

CONGRATS ON A JOB WELL DONE!!!

Gurkiren Kaur Loyal`s family said she was being treated for a simple case of dehydration when staff at a clinic gave her a mystery injection which took her life.
Her relatives said they guarded the eight-year-old`s body, meaning her organs could not be taken in time to be used in transplant operations.
But she was then subjected to a `medieval` post-mortem, during which all her major organs were removed in a bid to hide the truth of how she had been killed, the grieving family claim.
It was only once her body was flown home to Britain that they discovered her organs were missing and only her eyes remained, the family said.

Inordinately delayed and mired in controversies of corruption and poor workmanship, the newly built Chennai domestic airport at a cost of Rs 2, 300 crore revealed its true self on Monday morning - 40 panels of its false ceiling fell off. Fortunately, the shameful incident happened in the wee hours and hence didn`t hurt passengers. Three labourers suffered bruises. The new terminal, which was scheduled to open in January 2011, finally became operational last month after considerable delays, cost escalations, controversies and poor quality of construction. The media has reported serious flaws of an outwardly glitzy glass and steel structure. An unusually steep ramp, a faulty extended runway and creaky infrastructure were among the technical flaws that the media reported. Passengers were shocked to see leaky toilets, dripping air-conditioners, chipped tiles, crammed spaces and dusty chairs when it opened. While the swank Delhi and Mumbai airports were built by private companies, the Airport Authority of India curiously fought privatisation in Chennai and chose to build it itself through a consortium. So far, the AAI`s solution has been to dismiss the allegations and media reports through technical explanations. The new international terminal is yet to open. Apparently, it will miss a revised mid-May deadline because of a total lack of facilities and supporting infrastructure. Here are some images of a world-class airport built with tax payers` money.

The claim of Tamil Nadu fishermen that they do not go beyond Kachchativu to fish and that they are attacked by the Sri Lankan Navy in Indian waters is completely fictitious, say Jaffna fishermen.

It is a blatant lie, said an angry K Rajachandran, president of the Ambal Fishermen`s Cooperative Society, Karainagar, Jaffna district.

Tamil Tigers might have threatened the then Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, in 1989 with a significant increase in the level of militant violence in Tamil Nadu if he did not boost their cause, the United States surmised.

While all agree that it would be counterproductive for Karunanidhi to continue overt support for the several losers among the Sri Lankan Tamil political groups, his energetic and unwavering and totally uncritical agreement with the LTTE`s every move is raising numerous eyebrows, and alienating members of his own party... One extreme view, to which we do not subscribe, is that Karunanidhi is interested in a Tamil eelam variant for his Indian state. Another, perhaps more credible theory is that the LTTE has threatened Karunanidhi with a significant increase in the level of militant violence in Tamil Nadu, enough perhaps to lead to the imposition of President`s rule, if he doesn`t boost their cause, says a cable from the U.S. Consulate in Chennai to its Embassy in New Delhi and the State Department (90MADRAS1249_a, CONFIDENTIAL).

The anti-Sri Lanka protests by college students are turning into anti-Congress protests in some parts of Tamil Nadu. A group of students attempted to lay siege the office of Virudhunagar MP Manick Tagore on Saturday and clashed with Congressmen, days after students and Congress workers clashed in Trichy.

I have to inquire about the incident. I was not in my office, Tagore said. But he said the students appeared to be affiliated to political parties. If all the college students stage a protest, we can assume that it is spontaneous. But if only a handful participate, it means they have come not as students but only as party sympathisers, he said.

Sri Lankan legendary spinner, Muttiah Muralidharan has expressed his views on current outrage over Sri Lankans in India, in interviews with Indian media. Political tension in Chennai has forced the IPL governing council to advice franchises not to play any Sri Lankans in Chennai matches.

`It`s sad that the Tamil Nadu government doesn`t want us there. It`s always unfortunate when people in power start mixing politics with sports. So if they don`t want me in Chennai then I won`t go. I can`t do anything else about it,` - Murali told The Indian Express on Tamil Nadu Politicians mixing politics with sports.

The heat, it seems, has been turned on the DMK just a day after its President M Karunanidhi announced his decision to pull out of the UPA government over the Sri Lankan Tamil issue.

The CBI reportedly raided DMK chief M Karunanidhi`s son MK Stalin`s house in Chennai today.

The raids are in connection with the alleged illegal import of cars in Chennai and several other cities. The searches are being conducted on the basis of a complaint by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, say reports.One of the illegally imported cars is allegedly being used by Stalin`s son, reports said.

BHOPAL, India (Reuters) - Four men raped a 39-year-old Swiss woman camping with her husband in an Indian forest, police said on Saturday, turning the spotlight anew on the security of women in the world`s largest democracy.

The attack on Friday night in the central state of Madhya Pradesh comes three months after a 23-year-old physiotherapy student was gang-raped and beaten in a moving bus and thrown bleeding on to the street in a case that sparked outrage in the country. She died later in hospital in Singapore.

This happened in a Chennai Law College (Tamil Nadu, India) where students were brutally attacked for writing an exam on the day some idiots who care nothing about their future and education went on strike inspired by corrupted tamil politicians. Shame!

What`s even worse and embarrassing is to see the Police men stand and watch the attack doing nothing to stop it. Yea for sure, Indians as always could come up with a lot of excuses to the reason why Police had not stopped but they are nothing but the weakness of Indian law to protect its citizens. Indians cannot protect their own citizens. Shame Indians.