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  • Rajapaksa pledges to continue fighting external elements for peace in Sri Lanka

    Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday renewed his pledge to fight all "external elements" seeking to "disrupt" the country's peace at the fourth anniversary celebration of winning the three-decade war. He was alluding to foreign countries, led by the United States, who have been critical of Sri Lanka's human rights record and called for an independent ...

  • Sri Lanka Tamils defy ban on rebel memorial

    Tamil party on Saturday defied a military ban and staged a commemoration of their war dead as the government celebrated the fourth anniversary of defeating Tamil Tiger rebels. ...

  • Sri Lanka SL Police arrests TNPF politicians on Mullivaaykkaal Remembrance Day in Mannaar

    Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) politician and former parliamentarian Selvaraja Kajendran and Visvalingam Manivannan of the TNPF and thirteen other TNPF activists were arrested by the Sri Lankan Police at Mannaar Saturday afternoon while they were on their way to attend a Mu'l'livaaykkaal Remembrance Day function. The SL police is trying to curb the activities of the TNPF ...

  • Sri Lanka Mulli-vaaykkaal survivor speaks out

    [TamilNet, Saturday, 18 May 2013, 11:51 GMT] Mrs Ananthi Sasitharan, who personally witnessed Sri Lanka military taking away her husband, Mr Elilan, a political leader of the LTTE, at the end the Vanni War in May 2009, speaks out her experience from a civilian point of view and as a mother caring for her children during the war and the genocidal onslaught. Still living in Vanni, at ...

  • Sri Lanka German Kurdish federation demands justice for Tamil genocide condemns powers

    YEK-KOM, a Germany based federation of numerous Kurdish organizations, demanding justice for the genocide of the Eezham Tamil nation, condemned the world powers who ...


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William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

In saying, "Lord, what fools these mortals be," Puck (Stanley Tucci), the engagingly meddlesome sprite in "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream," effectively summarizes that play's theme, as well as the major theme in just about all of Shakespeare's best work. Whether it be "Hamlet" or "Macbeth" or "Romeo and Juliet," somehow Shakespeare always pointed out how foolish people are. ... ...

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  • Five-year-old girl allegedly raped by neighbour in Tamil Nadu

    Chennai : A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped in the Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu. A 25-year-old neighbour, a truck cleaner, has been arrested on charges of rape. According to police, the accused allegedly sexually assaulted the little girl on May 12 month in his house. "There was an attempt to hush up the matter initially, but the girl's mother decided to report the matter ...

  • Navy sailor missing after boat mishap during victory parade

    Two navy personnel had fallen off a small Sri Lanka Navy vessel which was involved in an accident during the Victory day Parade at the Galle Face Green this morning.The boat had capsized during the parade causing both sailors to fall overboard. One of them has been rescued while the other sailor is reported missing at sea.Approximately 170 officers and 2700 sailors of the Sri Lanka Navy had ...

  • Two held with firearm and grenade

    Two individuals have been arrested for the possession of a locally ...

  • Businessman stabbed and robbed

    A person was stabbed and injured using a sharp object before being robbed of Rs 350,000 in the Owitigala area in Matugama.The victim was admitted to the Weththawa Hospital and later transferred to the Colombo National Hospital for further treatment.The wounded man has been identified as a businessman from ...

  • Tamils want to live in one country Rajapaksa

    LTTE . Rajapaksa said that Tamils now want to live peacefully in a single country. His government had faced various machinations by way of human rights accusations. "The hidden idea was to crush us, how to make us kneel before them," he said. Rajapaksa, paying tribute to his troops in a colourful military parade, said he would not allow the separation of the land that troops had ...

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