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Maria Toorpakai: The Pakistani squash star who had to pretend to be a boy
By Bethan JinkinsonBBC World ServiceMaria Toorpakai Wazir is a star squash player with a promising international career. Born in Waziristan, a highly conservative region of Pakistan, she had to...
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Afghanistan's Nuristan province 'at mercy of the Taliban'
Nuristan has few roads and is cut of from KabulMountainous Nuristan is one of the most volatile and inaccessible provinces in Afghanistan, writes the BBC's Bilal Sarwary. It is also one of its most...
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India DMK party ministers leave government
The DMK has protested against alleged atrocities against Sri Lankan TamilsFive federal ministers from the DMK party, a former ally of India's ruling coalition, have submitted their resignations to PM...
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An organisation called Sinhala Ravaya marched from Kollupitiya to the Indian High Commission yesterday to hand over a petition condemning recent attacks on Sri Lankan Buddhist monks in Tamil Nadu. Some...
View ArticleTamil Nadu declared unsafe for Sri Lankans
March 19, 2013, 9:11 pmby Shamindra FerdinandoIn view of continuing violence directed against Sri Lankans, particularly the Buddhist monks in Tamil Nadu, the Defence Ministry yesterday decided to...
View ArticleIndian HC says TN attacks won’t affect people-to-people bonds
March 19, 2013, 9:12 pmExpressing concern over recent attacks on Sri Lankans visiting Tamil Nadu, the Indian High Commission yesterday said that the state government had taken action against those...
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GoSL won’t accept new US resolution
-Prof. PeirisMarch 19, 2013, 9:13 pm In spite of the US watering down its second resolution targeting Sri Lanka in a bid to reach an agreement on the proposal, the government yesterday reiterated its...
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Sonia wants credible probe into HR violations in Sri Lanka
March 19, 2013, 9:14 pmby S. Venkat Narayan Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, March 19: Congress Party President and India’s ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today...
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A debilitating Setback
War on terror revisitedMarch 19, 2013, 8:14 pmPart-119 The loss of the Kandy-Jaffna Main Supply Route (MSR) beyond Vavuniya sent shock waves through the defence establishment. The army never recovered...
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Karunanidhi’s conniptionMarch 19, 2013, 8:08 pmThe Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has pulled out of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in a bid to coerce India into voting against Sri...
View ArticleSri Lanka to see focus change in future Japan aid
Mar 20, 2013 (LBO) - Japan may gradually shift its aid to Sri Lanka from basic infrastructure to areas such as disaster management, health and education and per capita income rises in the future,...
View ArticleSri Lanka carrier halves Chennai flights after attack on monks
Mar 18, 2013 (LBO) - State-run SriLankan Airlines said it was halving flight to Chennai to 14 a week from 28 from Thursday March 21 following an attack on a visiting Buddhist monk by Tamil groups....
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Sri Lanka cautions tourists to Tamil Nadu; India says attackers prosecuted
Mar 18, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka has called upon citizens travelling to "exercise caution" following attacks by suspected Tamil groups on tourists including Buddhist monks, while India said action has...
View ArticleBy Namal Suvendra Sri Lanka media guards top salary secret
Mar 19, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's media, including banned-but-popular news websites, have evidently avoided reporting on the "princely wages" they have just been awarded by a government keen to win over...
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Opinion Is A Neo-LTTE Emerging?
OpinionIs there a neo-LTTE emerging nearly four years after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was wiped out in May, 2009, by the Sri Lankan security forces? That is a question that needs the...
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Adopting draft resolution will violate Genocide Convention, says Boyle
[TamilNet, Thursday, 21 March 2013, 00:01 GMT]Commenting on the draft resolution being circulated by the United States at the the Geneva sessions of the UNHCR, Francis Boyle, Professor at the School of...
View ArticleTamil Nadu boils - WSJ
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 04:26 GMT]Thousands of students across Tamil Nadu have launched protests urging India to move a resolution in the UNHCR meeting in Geneva against Sri Lanka's war...
View ArticleIndian intelligentsia led by The Hindu, CPI-M, failed Tamils: Thirumurugan
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 04:23 GMT]Talking about the two sides of Indian intelligentsia, and from where the struggle in Tamil Nadu is gaining its ideological support, Mr Thirumurugan Gandhi...
View ArticleGerman Left youth group conveys solidarity with Tamil Nadu protesters
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 03:31 GMT]The North Rhine-Westphalia youth wing of the Die Linke leftist political party in Germany conveyed its solidarity with the student upsurge in Tamil Nadu...
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