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Sri Lanka has given a big push to illegal immigration involving Sri Lankan Tamils in India. There is a sudden spurt in Sri Lankan Tamils illegally crossing over to India to take a flight abroad...Airport authorities have caught at least 40 Sri Lankan...
Tags: sri lankan, lankan tamils, Air India, India Rajesh Ahuja, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Sivapalan, ltte cadres, illegal immigration, Colombo, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Tamil diaspora, Sri Lankan Civil War, Eelam War I, Tamil Eelam, War Conflict
Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu will soon be more than contended if the wind fall of concessions announced from various quarters of late, reach them and start working. If everything works well, for the Tamil refugees’ smile may not be a mile away; the camps...
Tags: Tamil Nadu, tamils nadu, tamils refugees, consular services, Chennai Vadivel Krishnamoorthy, lankan tamils, India, Chennai, Sri Lankan Tamil people, Minorities, Social Issues, Mandapam Camp, Tamil diaspora, War Conflict, Tamil Canadian
The government is of the view that any effort to improve these refugees living conditions would only be an effort to enhance the livelihood of Tamils as a whole, he said. Karunanidhi, who sanctioned Rs12 crore to improve the conditions at the refugee...
Tags: lankan tamils, tamils refugees
Fishermen from Nagapattinam have lodged a police complaint on Monday, alleging that six of their colleagues were attacked in the high seas off Kodiakarai near Vedaranyam by the Sri Lankan navy on Sunday night. Police said the fishermen were fishing in...
Tags: lankan tamils, tamils nadu, lankan navy, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lankan, India, Ariyalūr
While rising up to free people in the internment camps is a spontaneous response, what is of paramount importance is independent political formation of Tamils in order to meet the challenge of the same forces that are now coercing or enticing them to...
Tags: M Karunanidhi, central government, Sri Lankan, lankan tamils
British Aid worker suspends hunger strike [TamilNet, Tuesday, 09 June 2009, 12:08 GMT] Over 500 people gathered in London outside Parliament, for a ceremony to mark the end of a hunger strike carried out by Tim Martin, a British former aid worker and...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Bruce Fein, aid worker, white paper, lankan tamils, Chennai, hunger strike, Jayalalithaa
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to Colombo to apprise him of the ethnic Tamils issue, Sri Lankan Tamil MP Arumuga Thondaiman claimed on Sunday. "An official invitation in this regard will be sent...
Tags: M Karunanidhi, sri lankan, lankan government, Lankan, chief minister, tamils nadu, nadu chief, Colombo, lankan tamils, Sri Lanka
Vaiko under Section 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) for a statement he had made on Friday. A release issued by the police department said that, in a speech at Purasawalkam in a rally taken out by the Sri Lankan Tamils’ Protection...
Tags: lankan tamils, chief minister
Ignoring security concerns and keen to showcase the ‘‘strong friendship’’ between the DMK patriarch and herself, Congress president Sonia Gandhi campaigned with chief minister M Karunanidhi in Chennai on Sunday seeking another mandate for the UPA from...
Tags: Sonia Gandhi, tamils nadu, Congress, India-Sri Lanka, M Karunanidhi, sri lankan, lankan tamils, Tamil Nadu, president sonia, security equal
They are tired and defeated, but what is hurting them the most is the step-motherly treatment being meted out in India. Sri Lankan Tamil refugees at the Goomdipoondi camp, about 45 km away from Chennai on Nellore Road, feel violated. "Why are we being...
Tags: sri lankan, lankan tamils