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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 ...

  • Trade unions say strike a success Govt says otherwise

    A large number of opposition trade unions today staged a token strike demanding that the government to revoke the controversial electricity tariff increase. The Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Alliance stated that over 900 trade unions and 15 political parties joined in the much-hyped strike action.President of the National Trade Union Centre (NTUC) and former JVP MP, K.D. Lal Kantha, ...

  • Fitch Rates Sri Lankas Melsta Regal Finance A+Stable

    Slow Progress on GAAP and IFRS Convergence; Optionality for Impairments Increases Significant differences will remain between the GAAP and IFRS accounting standards in 2013, although cooperation and progress continues on some remaining joint projects, according to Fitch Ratings. The pipeline of new standards promises increasing commonality between the two platforms over coming years. Progress ...

  • Only Congress genuinely interested in Tamils’ welfare – Narayanasamy

    Indian Minister V Narayanasamy today said that only the Congress party ...


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That Hamilton Woman [DVD]

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  • Powerful group behind missing oil shipment - Tissa

    UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake today claimed that a ship carrying fuel designated for Sri Lanka is reportedly lost at sea and that he ...

  • Get Kachatheevu back from Sri Lanka Jaya to PM

    Voicing concern over attacks on Indian fishermen, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday asked the Centre to take urgent steps for retrieval of Katchatheevu islet, ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974, besides redrawing the International Maritime Boundary ...

  • Post-war Sri Lanka – where the victim is the culprit

    by Ranga Jayasuriya ( May 21, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) One should make no apologies to celebrate the victory over one of the most egregious terrorist groups that ever walked the earth. On the sunny Saturday morning, tanks rolled on the Galle Face Green, Kafir interceptors flew overhead and the Navy gunboats paraded in the adjacent sea on the fourth anniversary of Victory Day. ...

  • Jayalalithaa renews demand for retrieval of Kachatheevu

    Voicing concern over attacks on Indian fishermen, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today asked the Centre to take urgent steps for the retrieval of Katchatheevu islet, ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974, besides redrawing the International Maritime Boundary Line.The 1974 Agreement signed between India and Sri Lanka had determined Katchatheevu as a part of Sri Lanka, and it was ceded by the Indian Government ...

  • Woman’s body found on rail track

    The body of an unidentified woman has been found near the 179th post on the Colombo-Badulla railway track.The body of the woman, believed to be around 60 years of age, has been placed in the mortuary of the Badulla Hospital. Badulla Police have commenced investigations into the ...

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