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Monday, May 11, 2009

381 civilians killed in Lankan offensive

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Three days before Tamil Nadu goes to the polls, at least 381 Tamil civilians were killed and more than 1,100 injured in alleged indiscriminate shelling by the Sri Lankan army (SLA) inside the no fire zone (NFZ) on Saturday night.

The SLA and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are said to be locked in a pitched battle in a 3 sq km sliver of land in Mullaitivu.

Officials and doctors functioning inside the NFZ told HT over telephone that they could see bodies strewn across when the smoke cleared.

According to the pro-rebel website, TamilNet, 67 children were among the dead.

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Prabhakaran is a friend: Karunanidhi

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Electoral compulsions in Tamil Nadu appear to have driven DMK president and chief minister M. Karunanidhi to say on Sunday that LTTE chief V.Prabhakaran was a friend.

"Prabhakaran is my good friend," said the 84-year-old DMK leader during an hour-long interview to NDTV at his residence.

And then he added, practically in the same breath, "I am not a terrorist".

The Sri Lankan army has cornered said it has Prabhakaran in a small area of his former stronghold and that the Tamil Tiger chief is using civilians of the area as a human shield for his own protection.

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Friday, February 20, 2009

Jaya seeks Congress hand

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They were friends once, and then they were foes. AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa wants to be friends again with the Congress, and on Thursday urged it to dump its Tamil Nadu ally — and her sworn enemy — the DMK.

Jayalalithaa said the DMK regime in Tamil Nadu was like a person “mired in quicksand” amid mounting charges of corruption and lawlessness against it. If the Congress stayed with the DMK, she warned “it too will go under”.

The AIADMK chief recalled her “cordial relations” with the Congress leaders including late Rajiv Gandhi and said she considered Indira Gandhi as “my mother”.

The Congress reacted cautiously “We have not decided . (on joining any) front with any body including Jayalalithaa,” , said Congress’s M. Veerappa Moily “Our alliance with the . DMK is quite strong.”

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Friday, June 27, 2008

Sam Bahadur , The Legend, Passes Away

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Field Marshal Sarn Manekshaw, who led India to victory in the 1971 India Pakistan war, passed away late on Thursday.

Manekshaw, 94, India's first field marshal, undergoing treatment in the hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, had slipped into coma on Wednesday evening.

Fondly called Sam Bahadur because of his close association with the Gorkha Rifies, Manekshaw was suffering from pulmonary fibrosis, a condition in which the air sacs of the lungs become replaced by fibrotic tissue affecting the ability to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. A team of doctors from the army was supervising his treatment.

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Friday, June 20, 2008

Delhi students may lose out on top courses

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Applicants from the city far out number outstation students seeking admission to Delhi University this year. But outstation students stand a better chance of getting the top courses in the sought-after colleges.

An analysis of the centralised common pre-admission forms reveals that the ratio of local and outstation applicants is around 70:30 this year. "After introducing pin codes in the optical mark reader forms this year, we've tracked the number of applications coming from Delhi, which does not include NCR. We have 64,090 forms from Delhi and 27,000 from outside Delhi," said Suman Verma, Joint Dean (students welfare).

Regional affiliations don't guarantee city students a seat in Delhi University's top courses or popular colleges, say principals.

"A lot of Delhi candidates do apply but the best courses are taken by outstation candidates with high scores," said Sri Ram College of Commerce Principal P Jain. "We have applicants .C. from Tamil Nadu and West Bengal Boards with scores of 95 per cent and more. Since boards across the country have witnessed good results this year, Delhi students are bound to lose out."

In 2007, only 110 students from Delhi made it to SRCC against 203 outstation ones. Ramjas College Principal Rajendra Prasad confirms a strong representation of outstation candidates this year. "We have numerous candidates from state Boards with 92 per cent and above and they will definitely land good courses at DU."

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Friday, November 30, 2007

Malaysian minister snubs Karunanidhi

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"This is Malaysia, not Tamil Nadu." THAT'S WHAT Malaysia's Justice Minister Nazri Aziz had to say after Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi expressed his "pain" at the way Malaysian policemen thrashed ethnic Indians last Sunday Aziz told Karunanidhi to mind his own business after the chief minister complained about Malaysia's treat- ment of its ethnic Indian minority, a chunk of which is made up of Tamils. "This has got nothing to do with him... lay off," Reuters quoted Aziz as saying. In Chennai, Karunanidhi defended himself saying, "I don't want to reply to his (Aziz) remarks. It is my duty to defend Tamils.

If there is any punishment for doing the duty, I am prepared to accept it." The issue disrupted proceedings in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, with MPs cutting across party lines asking the Centre to take up the issue with the Malaysian government. Speaker Somnath Chatterjee rejected this demand saying that members should not say anything that would affect relations with the friendly country Earlier: the chief minister wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to intervene on behalf of ethnic Indians, who gathered in a 10,000strong rally to protest against their living conditions in Malaysia last Sunday.
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