Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday said the Tamil minority now wants to live peacefully in one country and slammed the Tamil diaspora for the lack of support in his reconciliation and rebuilding efforts in the former conflict zones.
"Diaspora and the Tamil parties who foster separation still try to take the Tamil society towards destruction", he said while speaking at the Victory Day celebrations marking the fourth anniversary of the military victory over the LTTE.
Rajapaksa said that Tamils now want to live peacefully in a single country. His government had faced various machinations by way of human rights accusations. "The hidden idea was to crush us, how to make us kneel before them," he said.
Rajapaksa, paying tribute to his troops in a colourful military parade, said he would not allow the separation of the land that troops had scarificed to preserve....
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03:30 PM, May 18, 2013
Jaipur: Soaring petrol prices have forced the Army to look for other options in the SUV variant and it started summer trials of Mahindra Scorpio and Tata Safari in Thar desert in Rajasthan on Monday. The vehicles are being driven by Army drivers to test their endurance, fuel consumption, temperature, cross country drive performance with and without load, power-to-wheel ratio among other factors, Army sources said. Two variants of Mahindra...
10:50 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: The Indian Army has decided to phase-out Maruti Gypsy from its inventory with Mahindra Scorpio and Tata Safari in the race to replace the vehicle under a project expected to cost the force more than Rs 3,000 crore. The Indian Army is the biggest customer of the Maruti Gypsy utility vehicles with more than 25,000 such vehicles in service and uses them in all light vehicle operations including...
12:08 PM, May 11, 2013
Mahindra & Mahindra tries to redefine its product portfolio to beat the SUV classification. ...
11:55 PM, May 04, 2013
Mumbai: Mahie Gill, who will next be seen in Satish Kaushik's comedy 'Gang of Ghosts', says films like 'Chillar Party' should be made as audiences are ready to enjoy new kind of cinema. Co-directed by Nitesh Tiwari and Vikas Bahl, 'Chillar Party' won the 2011 National Film Award for Best Children's Film. "I have seen 'Chillar Party', it was a fantastic film made by a friend, Vikas (Bahl). I feel...
11:12 AM, May 04, 2013
Jaipur: BJP Mahila Morcha on Wednesday demanded that President Pranab Mukherjee should sack Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the wake of rape cases and crime against women. A delegation of Mahila Morcha handed over a representation addressed to the President to the district collector in which they raised the demands and sought proper implementation of laws related with women's safety. A five-year-old was brutally raped in Gandhi Nagar area...
09:07 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Scores of BJP women activists were detained on Sunday when they staged a protest outside Congress president Sonia Gandhi's residence against the rape of a five-year-old girl in Delhi. The activists of BJP's Mahila Morcha marched from party headquarters on Ashoka Road to Sonia's 10-Janpath residence. ...
04:36 PM, Apr 21, 2013
The e2o is an electric car developed by the Mahindra Reva Electric Car Company. It's the successor to the Reva India's first electric car. The big question is if India is prepared for a car of its kind. Nearly a decade ago it wasn't but how far have things progressed with the E2O. Styling The e2o looks a bit out of the ordinary, the design is unconventional since its been...
02:04 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Hyderabad: Popular Telugu actor Nagarjuna, co-owner of the Mahi Racing Team India, Monday said he was thrilled over his team winning a second consecutive race at the 2013 World Supersport Championship in Motorland Aragon, Spain, a day ago. Nagarjuna, who along with another co-owner Nandish Domlur is in Spain, said in a statement released here Monday that he was excited over the team's back-to-back win. Mahi team rider, the Frenchman...
11:40 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Kolkata: Sex workers of Kolkata's largest red-light area are being given training by an NGO to identify fake currency notes to prevent them from being duped by some clients. The training programme conducted by Durbar Mahila Samanaya Committee, an NGO working for the sex workers, is the same as that given to visually challenged persons who learn to distinguish between genuine and counterfeit notes through touch and from hearing the...
12:48 PM, Apr 14, 2013
New Delhi: Mahindra & Mahindra will launch its sub-four metre sedan Verito Vibe next month to take on the likes of Maruti Suzuki's Dzire and Honda's newly introduced model Amaze. "The Verito Vibe marks our entry in the high volume sub 4 metre segment," Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd Chief Executive, Automotive Division Pravin Shah said in a statement. The new model will be powered by a 1.5 litre diesel engine...
11:14 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday issued notices to seven persons, convicted in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, following a petition filed by the CBI demanding their retrial. Justice MA Siddiqui issued notices to all seven convicts, seeking replies within four weeks. The CBI in its petition is demanding the retrial of all seven for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304-II of Indian Penal Code. Assistant...
12:45 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Colombo: A Sri Lankan presidential commission will be appointed to investigate a mass grave where more than 150 skulls and bones, most likely of Marxist rebels killed decades ago, were found last year, a government spokesman said on Monday. President Mahinda Rajapaksa had decided to appoint the commission to investigate into the mass grave found at a state-run hospital in the central region of the country, said Lakshman Hulugalle, head...
11:28 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: After successfully launching its first electric car e2o, auto major Mahindra & Mahindra is working on a new platform for a bigger vehicle that could even be used by its Korean subsidiary SsangYong Motor. "After we launched the e2o in March, now we have just started developing a new electric vehicle platform. This will be for higher powered vehicles," M&M President (Automotive and Farm Equipment Sectors) Pawan Goenka...
12:05 PM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: After a 27-year-long innings, the Indian Army is bidding goodbye to the iconic Maruti Gypsy - all 30,000 of them in its fleet. The Army is expected to try out new vehicles. Army sources told CNN-IBN that the force plans to replace the Gypsy with more powerful vehicles in the 800 kilogram class. The Gypsy may be replaced by the Tata Safari or Mahindra Scorpio - vehicles meant...
08:59 AM, Apr 05, 2013
After President Pranab Mukherjee, Goa Governor Bharat Vir Wanchoo has also dropped the "His Excellency" honorific preceding his name for official purposes. The state government issued a circular earlier this week asking all government officials to drop the colonial title preceding the governor's name in all official communication and engagements. ...
04:58 AM, Mar 31, 2013
