| Myanmar’s military ruler arrives on India visit |
Myanmar's military ruler General Than Shwe on Sunday began a five-day India visit with plans to pray at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya in Bihar. The general landed at the Gaya aiport around 10.30 am. Shwe, 77, is scheduled to pray and then visit the Bodi tree under which Lord Buddha is said to h... |
| 26.07.2010 - 02:13 |
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From R. Vasudevan - Reporting from New Delhi |
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| Wanted Gujarat Ex- minister arrested after high drama |
Former Gujarat minister of state for home affairs Amit Shah, who has been playing hide and seek with the CBI was arrested on Sunday, though he denied charges of being involved in the case of a fake encounter killing of a gangster and his wife.
Shah had been missing since Thursday after the CBI issue... |
| 26.07.2010 - 01:16 |
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From R. Vasudevan - Reporting from New Delhi |
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| Muttiah Muralidaran Highest Test Wicket Taker in the World |
The greatest cricketing son of Sri Lanka Muttiah Muralidaran collected his Eight Hundreth (800) Test Wicket on 22nd July 2010 at 1.55 pm at the Galle.
International Cricket Stadium and engraved his name in gold in the world cricket history as the world’s highest wicket- taker . He established thi... |
| 23.07.2010 - 01:38 |
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Premasara Epasinghe Reporting from Colombo |
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| US Assistant Secretary Robert O. Blake, Jr. in Colombo |
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake, Jr. arrived in Colombo, today.
He met with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a breakfast meeting at the President's House. President Rajapaksa and Blake exchanged views on bilateral relations during th... |
| 21.07.2010 - 17:54 |
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| 60 killed as trains collide in West Bengal |
At least 60 people were killed and over 90 passengers injured when a train in high speed tore through the rear of another at the Sainthia station in Birbhum district of West Bengal, after it apparently overshot the signal early Monday morning.
Driver M C Dey and assistant driver N K Mandal of the S... |
| 20.07.2010 - 00:38 |
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From R. Vasudevan - Reporting from New Delhi |
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| Sri Lanka re-designs its Executive Presidency to an Israeli style ‘Executive PM’ |
In the latest personification of the future head of state of Sri Lanka in its ongoing constitutional reform saga, the country has now decided to do away with the Executive Presidency altogether and to introduce a hybrid “Executive Prime Minister.’
Sources close to the government said that the govern... |
| 19.07.2010 - 01:26 |
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By Joseph Thavaraja |
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| India rebuffs Pak Minister Qureshi’s claim |
While there were different media interpretations on the India, Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ talks in Islamabad, Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao on Saturday rebuffed Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's claim that his Indian counterpart had supported him in his criticism of Home Secretary... |
| 18.07.2010 - 02:33 |
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From R. Vasudevan—Reporting from New Delhi |
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| Rajapaksa’s order to officials touches Tamils' heart in Sri Lanka & abroad |
After the historic first cabinet meeting ever to be held outside Colombo, and political headquarters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Kilinochchi, the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa made an historic statement which touched the Tamils in the bottom of their hearts, reports rea... |
| 15.07.2010 - 13:40 |
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Sathyalaya Ramakrishnan from Chennai |
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| Director Seeman arrested |
Film Director and Naam Thamizhar Party Founder Seeman was today arrested by the city police for allegedly making inflammatory speech ''aimed at inciting violence among religious groups.'' Police sources said Seeman was arrested at the Chennai Press Club where he came to address the media to explain... |
| 13.07.2010 - 09:53 |
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Sathyalaya Ramakkrishnan – reporting from Chennai |
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| Commonwealth tells Maldives: “Resolve crisis within Maldives” |
The Commonwealth Secretariat has said “stakeholders within Maldives themselves need to resolve” the country’s political crisis.
“We recognize that this is a situation which the stakeholders within Maldives themselves need to resolve and hope for an early resolution,” Commonwealth Secretariat Spokesp... |
| 10.07.2010 - 03:55 |
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By Poorna Rodrigo |
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| Wimal Weerawansa launched his fasting campaign today |
A cabinet minister of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance Government and the leader of the National Freedom Front Wimal Weerawansa started his fast unto death resistance campaign, around 11 AM in the morning.
A huge crowd shouting “Jeya Wewa” thronged the Baudhaloka Mawatha, located in... |
| 08.07.2010 - 14:10 |
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| Cabinet reappointed midst opposition protest |
The Maldives cabinet was reappointed yesterday midst opposition protest over the move, in the backdrop of the US as well as Lanka mediated talks to break a deadlock between the executive and the legislature.
“The impasse is over now,” President Nasheed’s Press Secretary Mohamed Zuhair told the Asi... |
| 08.07.2010 - 09:32 |
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By Poorna Rodrigo |
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