Blacklist ISI as a terrorist entity, demands Afghan National Security Council:
The Afghan National Security Council (ANSC) on March 3 strongly demanded that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) should be declared a terrorist entity. Rehmatullah Nabil, Afghanistan's...
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Drug haul: Vijender to be quizzed, Ram Singh expelled
Patiala, March 11: Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh will be questioned in connection with the recent recovery of 26 kg of heroin worth Rs 130 crore, Punjab police said on Sunday as his sparring...
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Sri Lanka: Comments on India and resolution in UNHRC
| by Col R Hariharan[This summary contains comments made by Col Hariharan to different print and TV media from 5 to 7 March 2013 on specific issues raised by them on India’s response to the U.S. draft...
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Sri Lanka preparing for another international embarrassment
| by Dr.Paul Newman( March 9, 2013, Geneva, Sri Lanka Guardian) The 2nd draft resolution was taken up on the 8th afternoon for discussion by the US. The preamble and the operational part were clearly...
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Delhi, Geneva and the Hambantota Commonwealth
| by Tisaranee Gunasekara“Whatever is that distant rumble that I dimly hear?”Christopher Hitchens (Arguably: Essays)( March 10, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It is now a virtual certainty. Barring...
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Will MR make the same mistake as Prabhakaran?
| by Upul Joseph Fernando "If the LTTE chooses to abandon peace, however, we want it to be clear they will face a stronger more capable and more determined Sri Lankan military. We want the cost of a...
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Student protests across Tamil Nadu intensify against US resolution and urging...
[TamilNet, Monday, 11 March 2013, 20:41 GMT]While the students of Loyola have been coerced to end their hunger-strike after their arrest in early hours of Monday, their three day fast has sparked off...
View ArticleUS resolution ‘guides’ UK Labour to support Sri Lanka venue of CHOGM
[TamilNet, Monday, 11 March 2013, 20:23 GMT]The US draft resolution at Geneva that is based on Sri Lanka’s LLRC recommendations and that neither welcomes international investigation nor initiates any...
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Tutu, Robinson call for shift of CHOGM venue
[TamilNet, Monday, 11 March 2013, 02:12 GMT]Nobel laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu and the first female President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, both members of The Elders, a group of independent leaders...
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Academics criticize R2P, emphasize inapplicability to Eezham Tamils
[TamilNet, Sunday, 10 March 2013, 20:12 GMT]Even as certain groups of the establishments are suggesting the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine to the Eezham Tamils, the concept has come under...
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American Giant: The problems of being an overnight success
By Kate DaileyBBC, San FranciscoBayard Winthrop describes the day his company's sales went through the roof After only eight months in business, everything at online fashion company American Giant was...
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Tamil women in UK begin campaign to highlight genocidal sexual abuse by Sri...
[TamilNet, Sunday, 10 March 2013, 09:04 GMT]Seeking to inform the British public on the sexual abuse perpetrated on Tamil women by the Sri Lankan state forces, Tamil women activists in the UK began a...
View ArticleMadras Miscellany - The gentle Gentleman
S.MUTHIAHMano Selvanathan receiving the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards 2011 from President Pratibha Devi history Two persons I met several years ago in the course of two projects were in the news...
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Age of super-secret banks: Is the Swiss Bank sinking? ET
Age of super-secret banks: Is the Swiss Bank sinking?By Bennett VoylesA grim silence hung in the air of the boardroom of Evil Inc when they heard the news: Wegelin &Co, Switzerland's oldest private...
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Tamil Nadu students burn US draft resolution
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 00:28 GMT]Protest started by the Loyola College students in Chennai against an empty US resolution on Sri Lanka at Geneva and the Tamil Nadu State Government action...
View ArticleColombo deploys former LTTE members to twist opposition to US resolution
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 07:32 GMT]While the Tamil Nadu students in an unprecedented international approach have risen up targeting the hollow resolution tabled by the USA at Geneva, and have...
View ArticleCommonwealth day brings to focus war crimes, Sri Lanka, CHOGM
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 12 March 2013, 11:14 GMT]Canada's Liberal leader Bob Rae, Former Conservative foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, Labour's former foreign secretary, David Miliband, and Labour’s...
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Keep Your ‘Kiribath’, Mr. Gammanpila
By Hameed Abdul Karim -HameedHameed Abdul KarimReading the preamble of Mr. Udaya Gammanpila’s article titled ‘Halalization and end of Sri Lanka food culture’ (‘Ceylon Today’ 24 February, 2013) I got...
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