| Sheikh Hasina chosen for Indira Gandhi Peace Prize |
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will get the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development this year for her ‘outstanding contribution to the promotion of democracy and pluralism’, it was announced here on Friday.
The award carries a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh and a c... |
| 20.11.2009 - 02:38 |
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By M Rama Rao, India Editor, Asian Tribune |
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| Milinda forms new party; Pledges support to Rajapaksa |
Justice and Law Reforms Minister and Parliamentarian Milinda Moragoda has formed his own party, the Sri Lanka National Congress in a bid to reach what he called the “nation’s full potential.”
The new entrant into politics however would remain a constituent party of the UPFA led by President Mahinda... |
| 21.11.2009 - 22:09 |
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By Poorna Rodrigo |
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| Tamil diaspora rejects Nediyaven:Rudrakumaran leadership |
New LTTE leadership’s grand idea of a Transnational Eelam Government suffered an inglorious defeat when 90 percent of the Tamil diaspora showed its contempt by abstaining from voting for the transnational government.
The LTTE leader Nediyavan, who succeeded K P as head of the terrorist outfit suffer... |
| 19.11.2009 - 03:12 |
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By Sugeeswara Senadhira (Former Counsellor at Sri Lankan Embassies in Oslo, New Delhi and Paris) |
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| LTTE dug its own grave: Karunanidhi |
The LTTE had dug its own grave through a series of mistakes starting with the killing of fellow Tamils, moderates and militants alike, and climaxing in indirectly helping Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa to win the Nov 2005 presidential election by asking the Tamils to boycott the polls, resulting in the defeat... |
| 18.11.2009 - 18:40 |
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From S Murari Chennai |
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| TNA leaders see IDP camps, express relief, call for more financial aid |
Terming their visit to IDP welfare centres at Menik Farm and other places on Nov 16 as a very good opportunity to have a firsthand assessment .
N.Srikantha, Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian who led a six member TNA parliamentary delegation, said overall there is solid ground for satisfac... |
| 17.11.2009 - 18:55 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| SLFP members unanimously demanded to hold first the Presidential Election |
“Sri Lanka Freedom party is a proud political outfit which has saved the country recently from the scourge of terrorism, and all our party supporters and partners have the right to be proud, said President Rajapaksa.
."We are a proud party that liberated the country,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa dec... |
| 20.11.2009 - 04:59 |
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By Anjana Jayashan in Colombo |
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| General Fonseka’s Indian Missile Drops As Dead Skud |
India has dismissed as baseless and absurd the reported claim of former Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff that Indian armed forces were kept on standby alert at the request of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who expressed a fear of an army coup in the Island nation.
Indian Minister of State for Externa... |
| 16.11.2009 - 05:47 |
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By M Rama Rao, India Editor, Asian Tribune |
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| Retirements make Generals turn jokers |
General Sarath Fonseka’s letter addressed to the President, seeking retire from the Sri Lanka Army, was marked confidential with an annexure which was also marked confidential.
But text of the letter is there every where splashed on the front pages of newspapers. It makes me wonder whether the Gener... |
| 15.11.2009 - 18:19 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| An Elegy for Sarath Fonseka |
When there was a move by some disgruntled group in the army to surreptitiously stage a coup with a view to snatch power through the barrel of gun, Sri Lanka Government rightly turned to India which kept it troops on high alert on the 15th October to overcome any eventually.
This startling... |
| 14.11.2009 - 14:28 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Pranab to visit Colombo |
Pranab Mukherjee, India’s time tested trouble shooter is likely to make a two-day visit to Colombo, which has slipped into election mode.
This will be his second visit to Sri Lanka this year, the first being about ten months back as external affairs minister, when the island nation was waging what w... |
| 14.11.2009 - 03:55 |
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By M Rama Rao, India Editor, Asian Tribune |
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| Pakistani spy agency bombed, 18 killed |
At least 18 people were killed when a powerful suicide car bomb ripped through the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's top spy agency Friday morning at about 6:40 a.m., before the city's rush-hour.
The attack devastated the three-storey Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) provincial headquarters in th... |
| 14.11.2009 - 02:55 |
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By Farzana Shah-Asian Tribune Correspondent in Pakistan |
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| A Rs. 100 cr. aid package for Tamil refugees in TN |
The Tamil Nadu government has announced a Rs 100 crore package to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu that will improve their living condition, and make them beneficiaries of the government’s “free colour TV scheme” and other welfare schemes like the Chief Minister’s Insurance Scheme and mar... |
| 13.11.2009 - 13:39 |
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By Gopal Ethiraj, Chennai |
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| U.S. President with ‘Asia-Pacific Orientation’ in Asian region this week |
With President Barack Obama’s departure to the Asian region on Thursday, November 12, his first official visit to a region he knew well, when he was living in Indonesia as a child his deputy national security adviser for strategic communication Ben Rhodes him as the first U.S. president with “an As... |
| 13.11.2009 - 05:10 |
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Daya Gamage – US National Correspondent Asian Tribune |
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| Myanmar leader General Than Shwe arrives on official tour |
Myanmar’s top leader and Head of State, Senior-General Than Shwe arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake on Thursday morning. He was received on arrival by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, ministers and high officials.
The four-day Colombo visit... |
| 13.11.2009 - 03:50 |
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| General’s quest for credit. And lurking danger for minorities |
In a democracy, the buck stops at the door of the political executive. For good or bad. It is the political executive that faces the music.
Because the political head is accountable to the people, who reposed faith in him (or her) leadership and entrusted the reins of the nation. This is the accepte... |
| 12.11.2009 - 16:56 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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