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Another one from Langasri :)
Wednesday, 2 May 2012 - 2:32 AM SL Time
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SriLanka voted against Indian judge at UN
[ Tuesday, 01 May 2012, 11:50.27 AM GMT +05:30 ]
SriLankan voted against India on selecting judge for international courts in United Nation.
Indian Supreme Court judge Thalweer Pandari also among the contestants.
UN recently holds voting this regard. During the time of voting SriLanka voted against Indian Supreme court judge Thalweer Pandari.
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Amazing INDIA
Wednesday, 2 May 2012 - 3:46 PM SL Time
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Published: Wednesday 18 April 2012
Christian children threatened and abused in series of attacks in IndiaCountry: India, South and East Asia
Christian children were chased by knife-wielding Muslims who threatened to kill them, and a pastor had chilli powder thrown in his eyes by Hindu extremists who gagged and bound his son.
These are just two of a number of violent anti-Christian incidents that took place in India over the last three weeks.
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INDIA on U S watch list for Religious Freedom
Wednesday, 2 May 2012 - 10:32 PM SL Time
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The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom lists India on their Watch List in their Annual Report 2012
India: Progress in achieving justice for victims of past large-scale incidents of communal violence in India continued to be slow and ineffective. In addition, intimidation, harassment, and occasional small-scale violence against members of religious minority groups continued, particularly against Christians in states with anti-conversion laws. While there has been no large-scale communal violence against religious minorities since 2008, and despite the Indian government`s recognition of past communal violence and the creation of some structures at various levels to address these issues, the deleterious pace of the judicial responses and the adopted anti-conversion laws enable impunity.
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20,000 Christian names missing from voters list in Madhya Pradesh (A llegation)
Saturday, 5 May 2012 - 12:22 AM SL Time
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Christian names missing from voters` list in Madhya Pradesh
Posted on May 3, 2012, 5:28 PM
By ucanindia.in reporter, Bhopal
Bhopal:
A Christian ecumenical forum has alleged that names of Christians have been deleted from the voters` list in Madhya Pradesh.
The Isai Mahasangh [Christian group] has constituted a committee to probe into the alleged deletion of names before registering a complaint with the Election Commission of India.
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Langans among arrested over credit card fraud in Canada
Thursday, 10 May 2012 - 11:32 PM SL Time
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Lankans among arrested over credit card fraud in CanadaMay 10, 2012 12:01 pm
The RCMP says it has dismantled a $100-million fraud ring that financed criminal activities abroad through the cloning of debit and credit cards.
The 61 arrest warrants in the Montreal and Toronto area make it one of the largest such busts in Canada. Suspects are accused of funnelling money to Tunisia, Malaysia, Australia and Europe.
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25 Naadu mootans (`paymasters`) deported :)
Sunday, 13 May 2012 - 2:55 AM SL Time
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Sri Lanka immigration and emigration authorities have taken steps to deport 25 Indian nationals who were illegally employed in Batticaloa area of the Eastern Province.
The Indian nationals have been employed in rice harvesting.
During the rice harvesting season, the paddy cultivating districts have a large demand for labor and ground reports say that Indian laborers tend to migrate to the island this time.
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India, USA denying fundamentals reduce Tamils to discuss 13 Amendment
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 - 1:31 AM SL Time
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Saving genocidal state of Sri Lanka as a continuity of the long European colonial order in South Asia has now become an obsession with India and the USA, more than the Sinhala nation. From Congress-BJP-CPM to VCK in India, and from hijacked sections of the diaspora in North America to London, the orchestration is to make the genocide-affected Eezham Tamils to denounce their right to protection, right to self-determination, and most importantly their right to call themselves a nation. Sumanthiran`s TNA, instead of working for an alternative secular state in the North East, only mumbles the gagged situation in between the lines in the presence of Indo-US diplomats in Jaffna. The diaspora still don`t know where to address the issue. Law lecturer Guruparan Kumaravadivel in Jaffna on Sunday aptly brought out the unworkability of India-conceived 13 Amendment.
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Rajiv Gandhi was in support of Tamil Eelam state - Karunanidhi
Wednesday, 16 May 2012 - 4:44 PM SL Time
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Assassinated former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had turned his attention to establishing an independent Tamil Eelam state, DMK leader and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi stated.
Karunanidhi stated that when he had taken oaths as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for the first time he had met with Rajiv Gandhi during which the former Prime Minister had stated that he would give his full support to the establishment of a Tamil Eelam state under the leadership of Prabhakaran, Indian media reported.
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U.K. MPs sign anti-Kudankulam letter to Manmohan
Friday, 18 May 2012 - 1:10 AM SL Time
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British MPs and members of the European Parliament have signed a letter from south Asian anti-nuclear groups to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing deep concern over human rights and environmental issues around the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), which they argue violates the International Atomic Energy Agency`s safety guidelines.
The letter, to be handed to the Indian High Commission after a protest planned outside India House on Friday, also demands withdrawal of police and court cases against anti-KKNPP protesters accusing the security forces of intimidation and harassment .
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TamilNet, Friday, 22 May 2009, 09:49 GMT-News from Head of LTTE`s International Secretariate for Intelligence
Friday, 18 May 2012 - 10:17 PM SL Time
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LTTE leadership safe: Tiger intelligence official
[TamilNet, Friday, 22 May 2009, 09:49 GMT]
Head of International Secretariat of the Intelligence wing of the LTTE, Mr. Arivazhakan, who contacted TamilNet Friday categorically denied the reports that the LTTE leader Mr. Velupillai Pirapaharan has been killed. Mr. Arivazhakan urged the global Tamil community not to trust the `engineered rumours,` being spread by the Government of Sri Lanka and its military establishment.
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British war crime cover-up (Kenya)
Monday, 21 May 2012 - 2:11 AM SL Time
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History teaches us that empire can bring out the worst in people. In Britain we applaud the `civilising mission` of our imperial past, but are less happy to acknowledge the violence and brutality that so often girded our imperial endeavour. It is time we were more honest.
As a nation Brits nurture memories of empire that are deceptively cosy, swathed in a warm, sepia-tinted glow of paternalistic benevolence. The British empire, so the story goes, brought progress to a primitive and savage world. Education, hospitals and improved health, steamships, railways, and the telegraph these were the tools of empire, brought to colonised peoples by the gift of commerce and good British government.
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Sri Lanka`s Sarath Fonseka urges co-operation over war crimes
Tuesday, 22 May 2012 - 5:33 PM SL Time
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Sri Lanka must co-operate with any international investigation into alleged war crimes, ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC, a day after his release from jail.
He said some Sri Lankan leaders were `hiding their faces` over the conduct of the war, as if they were guilty.
But Mr Fonseka, who led the army to its 2009 victory over Tamil rebels, denied thousands of civilians had been killed.
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91% approval rating for President - Gallup pollMay 23, 2012 12:48 pm
Wednesday, 23 May 2012 - 11:15 PM SL Time
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A recent Gallup poll showed that Sri Lanka was among the Asian countries with the highest approval rating for its Chief Executive with 91% of Lankans approving of President Mahinda Rajapaksa`s performance.
Laotians, Cambodians, and Sri Lankans were the most likely to express support for their leaders, with more than nine in 10 saying they approve of their job performance. The 20% approval rating that Pakistanis gave their president was the lowest in the region, the Gallup poll report stated.
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SL to launch first satellite
Thursday, 24 May 2012 - 5:41 PM SL Time
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SL to launch first satellite Thursday, 24 May 2012 09:47
SupremeSAT (Pvt) Ltd. signed the investment agreement with the Board of Investment yesterday with very ambitious plans to take Sri Lanka into the global space race.
With an initial investment of USD 20 million which will be further increased up to USD 320 million, the company`s long-term plan is to utilize the Planned Orbital Slot of Sri Lanka, which is located at 50 degrees East and launch SupremeSAT - the country`s first ever telecommunications satellite.
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Military presence in North and East should resemble other part of SL - UK
Friday, 25 May 2012 - 1:05 AM SL Time
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The UK hopes that the military presence in the North and East of Sri Lanka can move to resemble that in other parts of Sri Lanka, the British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, John Rankin said today.
He also added that it is a good thing that the LTTE are no longer carrying out their terrorist activities and the LTTE remains a proscribed organisation in many countries of the world including the UK.
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CHINA issues its own report on Human Rights status in the UNITED STATES
Friday, 25 May 2012 - 9:58 PM SL Time
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Following is the opening para & the areas it cover
Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011
State Council Infs.ormation Office of the People`s Republic of China
May 25, 2012
The State Department of the United States released its Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2011 on May 24, 2012.
As in previous years, the reports are full of over-critical remarks on the human rights situation in nearly 200 countries and regions as well as distortions and accusations concerning the human rights cause in China.
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Sr i Lanka demands War Crimes against LTTE Terrorists and India s IPKF ???
Sunday, 27 May 2012 - 1:33 AM SL Time
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We have come to a stage in history that we need to put things in its perspective by not shying away from demanding actions on two key areas that now needs to be investigated.
It is only by investigating who the LTTE was, what LTTE was involved in, the players who sponsored and supported the LTTE over the years, LTTE war crimes over 3 decades, victims of LTTE terror (civil and military) as well as investigating the war crimes, rape, looting and indiscriminate firing upon innocent Tamil civilians by the Indian Peace Keeping Force sent by India following India`s intervention in Sri Lanka forcing the signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord that we can derive a plausible conclusion to enable the citizens of Sri Lanka to finally get on with their lives.
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Wetamizh protest in London
Monday, 28 May 2012 - 2:16 AM SL Time
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Eezham Tamils protest UK inviting Rajapaksa to Queen`s diamond jubilee
[Sun, 27 May 2012, 10:48 GMT]
Eezham Tamils in the UK gathered outside the UK Prime Minister`s residence at 10 Downing Street on Saturday demanding withdrawal of an invitation extended to Mahinda Rajapaksa for the upcoming Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth. A petition given to the authorities by the Tamil Coordinating Committee UK (TCC-UK) which had organised the event underscored the significance of Britain recognizing the protracted nature of the genocide of the Tamils in the island stating that given its colonial history on the island, the UK, more than any other international power, is aware that the Eelam Tamils are a nation of people with their traditional homeland in the north and east of the island. Eelam Tamils expect the UK government to recognise this truth which can go a long way in helping halt the genocide. Full story --
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New MINISTRY to address open defecation problem
Monday, 28 May 2012 - 9:08 PM SL Time
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Jul 20, 2011, 18:05 pm IST
New Delhi: India`s youngest ministry has the enormous task of ridding rural areas of open defecation and unsafe drinking water with about 245 million people in the country still without access to sanitation facilities and nearly 76 million still not getting adequate safe drinking water.
The creation of a Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation is expected to accelerate efforts to provide access to adequate potable water in 150,000 rural habitations and access to sanitation to about 30 percent of 833 million rural population lacking these basic amenities, officials said.
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