Three dead in Muttur?
One person had reportedly died due to drowning and two others had gone missing while they were bathing in the Muttur sea in Trincomalee around 5 p.m this afternoon, Trinco sources said. He added that the three men had gone to the Nadathive beach to bath when one was reported dead due to drowning, while [...]
India on Thursday urged Sri Lanka to immediately release on humanitarian grounds 23 Tamil Nadu fishermen, arrested on charges of entering the island nation’s waters. External affairs minister S M Krishna urged the Sri Lankan government to release the fishermen, who were also accused of ramming into Lankan naval ships, on humanitarian basis immediately, official [...]
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Tamil humanitarian and national activist Mr Gobi Sivanthan is continuing the hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day at the London Olympic village. Gobi Sivanthan, a Tamil youth activist, began his hunger-strike vigil, which will end on the Olympics closing ceremony on August 12 demanding, among others, the immediate halting of land grabs in the [...]
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This month marks the 28th anniversary of what became known as Black July. July 23, 1983 saw the outbreak of massive anti-Tamil riots in the capital Colombo. This chaos was to continue for a week. Also known as Black July. In the prison riots that broke out on July 25, 1983 at the Welikade “high [...]
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Sri Lanka’s May trade deficit edged up 2.1 percent year-on-year to $865 million, central bank data showed on Wednesday, Reuters reports. Gross official reserves were at $5.81 billion by end-May from end-April’s $5.84 billion, and were sufficient to finance 3.4 months of imports. Sri Lanka recorded a peak trade deficit of $9.7 billion last year, [...]
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Sri Lanka’s controversial president will travel to London for the Olympic Games in what could spark mass protests from Britain’s Tamil community, The Independent has learned. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s spokesperson Bandula Jayasekara confirmed today that the 66-year-old president, whose government has been accused of committing war crimes, is planning to come to Britain shortly and may [...]
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A TAMIL asylum-seeker accused of links with the vanquished Tamil Tigers has been deported, despite being the subject of an appeal to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and a pending High Court judgment that could have had an impact on his appeal rights. Dayan Anthony was taken from the Maribyrnong Detention Centre in Melbourne [...]
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A textile shop belongs to the Kanagasundaram was completely burned due to a fire that erupted in a textile shop in Jaffna Muneeswaran road at around 1.30am Yesterday, Jaffna sources said. A large stock of textiles in the shop were destroyed by the fire but there were no casualties. It is believed that a short [...]
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Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will appear in the November issue. However, a series of teasing interviews has provoked a round of condemnation from women’s rights activists who accuse her of undermining the fight against sexual harassment and abuse. Miss Chopra herself has admitted that she has not yet told her mother about the Playboy shoot. “It [...]
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The Syrian army turned its forces on Aleppo on Wednesday, ordering an armored column to advance on the country’s second biggest city and pounding rebels there with artillery and attack helicopters, opposition activists said. As hostilities intensified near the Turkish border, Ankara said it was closing its crossing posts, although the United Nations said refugees [...]
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