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  • Tamil Nadu wants Sri Lanka to return Katchatheevu

    Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has reiterated that Katchatheevu, the fishing islet has to be retrieved back by India in an endeavour to provide a permanent solution to the problem of Indian fishermen. In a letter to Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today, Jayalalithaa has recalled the various instances in which fishermen were harassed for fishing near Katchatheevu, which is often ...

  • Take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu Jayalalithaa tells PM

    Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to retrieve Katchatheevu and surrounding areas from Sri Lanka. In her letter to Manmohan Singh, she also urged him to redraw the Indian Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) so that Indian fishermen could fish in their traditional waters. Jayalalithaa cited the continued attacks on Indian fishermen by Sri ...

  • Sri Lankan trade unions claim strike a success govt. calls it a big flop

    While the Coordinating Committee of Sri Lanka's Trade Union Alliance (CCTUA) maintained that their token strike against the electricity tariff hike was successful all round the country, the Sri Lankan government said that overall attendance in public sector institutions had, in fact, increased by 3.5 per cent yesterday. Former Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP and Co-convener of the ...

  • Unidentified body found in Kiribathgoda

    An unidentified body was found in the Kiribathgoda area by the police in a canal near a shop, police stated. The body is that of an unidentified person around 50 years of ...

  • Supreme Court takes up petition by Apple Watta residents

    The Supreme Court has taken up the fundamental rights petition put forward by the residents of ...


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"Things didn't go exactly as planned," says Ronna near the end of Doug Liman's "Go," essentially summarizing the movie's theme. If "Go"--a "Pulp Fiction"-like triad of stories that take place more or less simultaneously in one 24-hour period--has any thematic coherence, it is precisely summed up in that statement. A botched drug deal, a failed drug bust, and a crisis in Las Vegas--nothing in "Go" ... ...

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  • Youth drowns in Bandaragama

    A youth has drowned in the Gammanpila Lake in Bandaragama while swimming in the lake with his friends, police stated. The victim was an 18 year old resident of the Walgama ...

  • Sri Lanka Indian housing aid to be used for demographic genocide in East

    A part of the 50,000 housing aid promised by New Delhi for the war-affected people in the North and East is planned to be used for demographic genocide in the East at the village of Kachchat-kodi in the Paddip-pazhai division of Batticaloa district, according to Eastern Provincial council member R. Thurairatnam. The village, which was predominantly Tamil a few years ago and was affected by ...

  • Sri Lanka Serious Doubts On Inquiry Into Mass Graves

    Serious doubts have emerged regarding the future investigations into the mass grave at Matale where the remains of 156 persons have been found. In today's press it was reported that the Judicial Medical Officer in charge of the investigation has been transferred (JMO in charge of Matale mass grave also to be transferred -- Sri Lanka Mirror, May 20, 2013). Furthermore, it is also ...

  • Sri Lanka Concern Over Appointment of Commission

    The standing committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) on Rule of Law at its meeting on 10th May decided to express its concern on the appointment of a commission regarding the unearthing of the mass grave in Matale, when in fact what is necessary is to proceed under the normal Law of the Country. Commissions of inquiry has throughout our history has been a modus adapted to ...

  • Sri Lanka Colombo brings 1500 Sinhalese from South to Mannaar

    Stepping up the process of colonisation of the country of Eezham Tamils, the occupying Sri Lanka has brought in 1,500 Sinhalese in buses to Musali DS division in Mannaar District, which is bordering the North Western and North Central provinces. The occupying Colombo government had already planned to settle down five thousand Sinhalese families from the South in Mannaar district in an attempt to ...

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