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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 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 ...


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Like his previous film, the slow-burn, emotionally rending masterpiece Take Shelter (2011), Jeff Nicholss Mud balances precariously on a characters intense belief in something that may or may not be so. The stakes are decidedly different in the two films, although emotionally they are very ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Npc Moves To Bmich

    The Head Office and the Colombo District Office of the National Police Commission (NPC) will be shifted to a new office premises located in BMICH, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo with effect from June 1, National Police Commission release said. The new address and the telephone numbers are as follows: National Police Commission, Building No. 06, Bandaranaike International Memorial Conference ...

  • Bombay being created in Sri Lanka for Ranbir-Anushka film

    Anushka Sharma will start shooting for Anurag Kashyap's 'Bombay Velvet'. However, the film will not be shot in Mumbai, but in Sri Lanka. Reason being that the skyline of the island city has changed over the decades and the upcoming monsoon could affect the ...

  • Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers

    By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred people joined the demonstrations, coordinated by the political opposition and trade unions, despite ...

  • State Minister for Foreign Affairs Receives Sri Lankan Ambassador

    Manama, May 21 (BNA)-- State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ghanim bin Fadhl Al-Buainin received today Sri Lankan Ambassador to Bahrain Anura Mudiyanselage Rajakuruna. They discussed bilateral relations and issues of common interest. A O Q BNA 1753 GMT ...

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