ChennaiP: The death row politics over Rajiv Gandhi's killers is heating up in Tamil Nadu. Almost 1000 Youth Congress workers are on a day-long fast in Chennai demanding that the death sentence for Rajiv Gandhi killers be carried out. The Congress workers are protesting against the Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution calling for mercy for the assassins of the former prime minister. Already several members have courted arrest and have gathered...
11:54 AM, Sep 06, 2011
Chennai: Three convicts sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have filed a petition in the Madras High Court. Chandrashekharan N filed a petition on behalf of the three convicts - Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan - on grounds of executive delay of over 11 years before rejecting the mercy plea of the prisoners. The court will hear the petition on Tuesday. Advocates Ram Jethmalani and Mohit Choudhary will...
12:04 PM, Aug 29, 2011
Colombo: Sri Lanka on Thursday announced the lifting of the state of emergency imposed nearly 30 years ago to confront the threat from the Tamil Tigers. The announcement was made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Parliament saying, "I am satisfied that the state of emergency is no longer required. So we will not extend it". Rajapaksa said, "Today I propose to this assembly the withdrawal of the emergency laws to...
03:33 PM, Aug 25, 2011
Chennai: With President Pratibha Patil rejecting the clemency petitions of three killers of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the mother of one of them on Friday demanded a 'fresh and transparent trial' and claimed her son was not at all connected with it. "While A1 (prime accused) Nalini's punishment was reduced to life imprisonment from death, why can't the same be applied to my son (Perarivalan) who is only 18th...
07:31 PM, Aug 12, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil has rejected the clemency petitions of three killers of Rajiv Gandhi whose death sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court in 2000. The apex court had sentenced members of the banned Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) Murugan, Santhan, Perarivalan and Nalini to death in 1999 for the assassination of the former prime minister in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991. A Rasthrapati Bhavan spokesperson said...
03:53 PM, Aug 11, 2011
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said that she has always maintained that DMK was indirectly behind the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. She said that she has always lived under death threats while referring to the claims made by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) former international arms procurer and V Prabhakaran's right hand man, Kumaran Pathmanathan, that if the LTTE had a chance...
12:13 PM, May 24, 2011
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12:08 AM, May 24, 2011
New Delhi: The revelations by K Pathmanathan have brought the Justice Jain commission report on Rajiv Gandhis assassination into sharp focus. The report had given proof of DMK's tacit support to LTTE. The revelations of K Pathmanathan have brought back memories of an earlier era - that of the MC Jain Commission of Inquiry in 1997 and its indictment of the DMK in Rajiv's assassination. Justice Jain said,"The evaluation of ...
10:20 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: The revelations by K Pathmanathan have brought the Justice Jain commission report on Rajiv Gandhis assassination into sharp focus. The report had given proof of DMK's tacit support to LTTE. The revelations of K Pathmanathan have brought back memories of an earlier era - that of the MC Jain Commission of Inquiry in 1997 and its indictment of the DMK in Rajiv's assassination. Justice Jain said,"The evaluation of...
10:20 PM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) former international arms procurer and V Prabhakaran's right hand man, Kumaran Pathmanathan, has revealed the reason behind former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. Kumaran Pathmanathan spoke exclusively to VK Shashikumar of THL-Mediagrove. Prabhakaran was deeply influenced by DMK ideology and the party's anti-Brahmin outlook may have driven the Tamil Tiger supremo to kill Rajiv Gandhi, said Kumaran Pathmanathan. He said that he...
08:00 PM, May 23, 2011
Chennai: In Tamil Nadu, will Jayalalithaa unseat Karunanidhi. The election was fought in the shadow of corruption allegations in the 2G scam and the promise of freebies like laptops and grinders. The CNN-IBN - The Week poll predicts a victory for the Jayalalithaa alliance. It's a close fight but a decisive edge for Jayalalithaa according to the CNN-IBN - The Week CSDS post polls. The DMK alliance is projected to...
06:56 AM, May 13, 2011
United Nation: A UN panel has said killing of tens of thousands of people in the final stages of the Sri Lankan civil strife could amount to "war crimes", but Secretary General Ban Ki-moon insisted he would only launch an international investigation if Colombo agrees or member states call for it. A UN statement publicly releasing a report by a world body panel said that Secretary General has been advised...
12:46 PM, Apr 26, 2011
Geneva: Members of the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers group allegedly extorted millions from ethnic Tamils in Switzerland to fund their armed revolt against the government in Colombo, Swiss newspapers reported on Sunday. The allegations formed the basis for a series of police raids on Tuesday against Tamil individuals and companies across Switzerland, Zurich weeklies NZZ am Sonntag and SonntagsBlick said. Prosecutors announced earlier this week that 10 people were arrested...
09:56 PM, Jan 16, 2011
Chennai: Voicing concern over Sri Lanka government "not doing enough" for the Tamils there, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he would ensure that they get justice. "We are concerned that enough is not being done for Sri Lankan Tamils by the government there," the AICC General Secretary said during a brief interaction with a group of intellectuals in Chennai. Gandhi said he would take up the matter with...
02:53 PM, Dec 22, 2010
Colombo: The government on Saturday softened its stance by allowing an UN experts panel probing alleged war crimes in the country to make representation before a Sri Lankan commission looking into the ethnic conflict that ended last May. The government assures that it will make arrangements for the UN experts panel to make representation before the government-appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the external affairs ministry announced. "This position...
05:02 PM, Dec 18, 2010
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunandhi are on the hit-list of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Sources have told CNN-IBN that Intelligence Bureau has warned that LTTE might attack Singh and Karunanidhi when the Prime Minister visits Tamil Nadu in January 2011. The sources claim that some LTTE terrorists have entered India through the southern coast and are hiding in Tamil Nadu....
06:53 PM, Dec 15, 2010
Colombo: Sri Lankan security forces are set to launch a drive to arrest around 50,000 military deserters amidst reports of their involvement in crime and other illegal activities. Military officials said the deserters would be arrested and prosecuted. In the past, military coordinated with police to apprehend the deserters and the same method is likely to be repeated. The military had earlier offered deserters several amnesties to surrender both during...
06:47 PM, Dec 14, 2010
New Delhi: Sri Lanka has reacted strongly to Britain's Channel 4 airing a video of war crimes - which shows Lankan army personnel stripping and executing who LTTE claims are Tamil sympathisers. Britain's Channel 4 had aired a shocking video of the Lankan army carrying out war crimes on Thursday. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is touring Britain has called the video false and said the country will take...
09:04 AM, Dec 03, 2010
Tiruvananthapuram: A documentary screened a few days back at a hall in the heart of Trivandrum city has sparked suspicion that the LTTE might be regrouping in parts of Kerala. The film exhibitors were questioned by the Kerala Police who fear that it could be a garb for the outfit to regroup. Mullaiteevu Saga, a film about Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka towards the end of the civil war has...
08:43 AM, Dec 03, 2010
The general who led the war against the LTTE was found guilty of making irregular purchases by a military court. ...
11:48 AM, Oct 01, 2010
