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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.

Most Indian`s still do not have access to modern sanitation: for example, rural sanitation coverage was estimated to have reached only 21% by 2008 according to the UNICEF/WHO joint monitoring programme. There continue to be a number of innovative efforts to improve sanitation including the community led Total Sanitation Campaign and the monetary rewards under the Nirmal Gram Puraskar.

Tempers flared and the Sri Lankan national flag was ripped to pieces by a group of angry protesters this morning who demanded an apology from the Sri Lankan deputy high commissioner who had apparently insulted Malaysia.



Armed with placards, the protesters, who gathered outside the high commission here, claimed that on Dec 27, Sunil Vikramesing had chased a group of protesters from the commission`s grounds allegedly shouting profanities.

Engineers say that Kolkata`s landmark Howrah bridge is in danger because gutkha chewing tobacco spit is corroding its pillars. Now activists are trying to ban the acidic tobacco.

It was first reported in 2010 that the pillars of Kolkata`s landmark Howrah bridge were being used as spittoons by pedestrians who chewed gutkha a tobacco product popular with millions in India.

Engineers who surveyed the cantilever structure then reported that the struts supporting the girders of the bridge had already lost half of their metal casing: The corrosion was apparently caused by acids in the gutkha.

Rape has been common occurrence in India. Since independence no government took any notice, leave alone any substantial step, to deal with this burning issue. Over the years rape has become accepted norm in the society that there are around 100 members in Lok Sabha accused of rape and murder.

However the conscious of the nation was kindled following the senseless and brutal gang rape of a 23 year old medical student, returning with her male friend from the cinema on a bus in Southern New Delhi on Dec. 16.

We Tamizhs are forever grateful to Channel 4 for telecasting the graphic images of Stinkies going on a killing spree including VP Chief`s son, which resulted in massive outcry among Tamils forcing Delhi to vote against Sinhala lanka..

This Grand Finale at upcoming UNHRC Session is all set to appoint International Impartial Independent Investigating Committes which will be used to destroy War Criminals & Sinhala lanka..!

Murder of thousands of Tamils including the Top Political Ltte leaders who surrendered,arrested by sinhala army will be in focus on this edition of Channel 4 Videos !

POLICE in northeast India say they believe workers on a tea plantation who bludgeoned their boss and his wife to death last month also ate parts of their bodies.

A crowd of 1000 workers at the privately-owned M.K.B. Tea Estate in the state of Assam surrounded the plantation owner`s bungalow last week. A mob then set it on fire in violence blamed on festering labour unrest in the region.

`Our investigations say that at least five plantation workers ate the flesh of the tea planter and his wife after they were brutally killed,` Numol Mahatao, deputy police chief of Tinsukia district, told journalists.