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Madurai, May 31: Tamil Nationalist Movement President Pazha Nedumaran today demanded that the Centre drop the idea of entertaining joint-patrolling of the strategic Palk-Straits by the navies of India and Sri Lanka, describing it as a ploy by the island nation to engage New Delhi in its fight against the Tamil Tigers.

India is urging Sri Lanka not to buy weapons from China and Pakistan to fight Tamil rebels, New Delhi’s national security advisor said.

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on Wednesday lauded the Government`s endeavour to eliminate terro..

The University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) Sri Lanka (UTHR), founded by two award winning hum..

Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal`s former supreme commander Pillayan allayed fears of the LTTE ever..

The Global Peace Index (GPI) rankings have been released. Of 121 countries studied by the Economist ..

A cat burglar who made the Ragama General Hospital his habitual hunting grounds relieving nurses of ..

Tamil owners of 68 lodges in Pettah (Peaddai) Police Division in Colombo have been instructed by the..

LTTE launched an attack at the police personnel providing security to the Poonthottam refugee camp in Vavuniya last evening (Friday the 5th of January).

Chennai, May 31: National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan Thursday said Sri Lanka, facing frequent air attacks from Tamil rebels, should not approach Pakistan or China for weapons though he added that India cannot supply “offensive military equipment”.

Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels fired mortars and artillery at a village in the north on Thursday, forcing villagers flee the area, defense officials said.

National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan on Thursday asserted that Sri Lanka should source its military requirements only from India and not China or Pakistan. At the same time he declared that India would not provide any ‘offensive’ weaponry to the embattled island nation.

NEW DELHI: The Manmohan Singh government, which allowed its policy towards Sri Lanka to be dictated by the preferences and prejudices of its southern allies, has finally woken up to the threat that Colombo’s closeness with China and Pakistan poses to Indian interests.

Tamil-speaking Muslims from Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu and Malaysia are now re-discovering and re-establishing linguistic, cultural and religious ties which had weakened considerably over the last 400 years. Islamic literature in Tamil has provided the rallying point for the new hands-across-borders movement.

Objecting strongly to indications from Sri Lanka that it would shop for weapons in China or Pakistan for its war against the Tamil Tigers, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan today said the Island Nation should approach only India whatever its requirements . But India would not provide any offensive weaponry and the assistance would only be confined to defensive capabilities, he added …

COLOMBO, May 31 (Reuters) Sri Lanka’s government may scrap what is left of a ‘’flawed'’ 2002 ceasefire pact with the Tamil Tigers within weeks, the island’s defence spokesman said today, a move analysts fear could escalate renewed civil war.

The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and police in a combined cordon and search operation conducted in Battaramulla in Talangama police division in the western province Thursday morning arrested twelve Tamil civilians. They were taken into custody as they failed to provide satisfactory reason for their stay in the location.

Unidentified armed men lobbed hand grenades Thursday around 9:00 a.m. on Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers and Karuna group members jointly engaged in a cordon and search in Meeravoadai Tamil area in Ea’ravoor police division in Batticaloa district, injuring two troopers, sources in Ea’ravoor said. SLA troopers shot death a youth when they fired in retaliation.

Three English-based players will all be available for Sri Lanka’s series against Bangladesh.

Sri Lanka have been boosted with the news that three English-based stars will all be available for the upcoming home series against Bangladesh.

National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan Thursday said Sri Lanka, facing frequent air attacks from Tamil rebels, should not approach Pakistan or China for weapons though he added that India cannot supply ‘’offensive military equipment'’.

Chennai, May 31 (IANS) National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan Thursday said Sri Lanka, facing frequent air attacks from Tamil rebels, should not approach Pakistan or China for weapons though he added that India cannot supply offensive military equipment .

May 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Plantation has launched a program to increase the coconut plantations by 20,000 acres a year.

Chennai, May 31 (ANI): Advising Sri Lanka not to procure weapons from Pakistan and China to fight Tamil rebels, India on Thursday assured the island nation that New Delhi would look after their weapon requirements. National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan told reporters in Chennai that New Delhi would favourably consider any request for military hardware from Colombo. "We are the big power …

May 31, Colombo: The residents of Athawetunawewa village in the Vauniya district, Welioya Defense Colony in Sri Lanka are reportedly fleeing the area due to mortar attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), sources from the area said.