Colombo: Sri Lanka has rejected moves to block trade with Tamil Nadu and has insisted that economic relations should not be disrupted despite political tensions, an official said on Thursday.
"There were reports regarding a protest by a port employees' organization which said their members will refrain from handling or processing Indian supplies due to the situation in Tamil Nadu," Port and Highway Deputy Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardana said.
"I am confident that such a situation will not arise," Xinhua quoted him as saying.
The pro-government trade union coalition named the "Organization for Protecting Harbor Solidarity" held a protest campaign before the main gate of the Colombo harbour on Tuesday....
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03:54 AM, Apr 05, 2013
A group of unidentified men attacked the office of a Tamil newspaper in Sri Lanka's former war zone on Wednesday, injuring several staffers and damaging equipment at the publication known for its government criticism. ...
05:51 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Trade unions manning Sri Lanka's main port have threatened to block about $2 billion worth of imports and exports to the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, media reports said in Colombo on Wednesday. ...
05:22 PM, Apr 03, 2013
However, both the actors who are currently busy shooting for their upcoming Tamil films, are unlikely to join the fast. ...
02:08 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Reiterating that his party would pull out of the UPA if the government did not press for inclusion of genocide and war crimes on Tamils by Sri Lankan Army and administrators, DMK chief M Karunanidhi said that there is no point in continuing the alliance if the Centre fails to move amendments to US-sponsored resolution. ...
02:19 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Finance Minister P Chidambaram has hinted at a possible vote against Sri Lanka at a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) later in March. This comes barely a day after DMK chief M Karunanidhi warned of pulling out his ministers from the Cabinet over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. ...
09:41 AM, Mar 17, 2013
The DMK on Wednesday again asked the Indian government to support a US-sponsored resolution at a UN body attacking Sri Lanka's human rights record. ...
04:08 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Sri Lanka on Tuesday dismissed as "fabricated lies", a report by a leading rights group alleging that its military used rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected Tamil rebels since the end of the island's civil war in 2009. ...
01:06 AM, Feb 27, 2013
United Nations: UN chief Ban Ki-moon acknowledged the failure of the UN system in meeting its responsibilities to respond to the human rights violations in Sri Lanka's bloody civil war after a panel set up by him criticised the world body for its "grave failure" in handling the situation during the final stages of the conflict. "The United Nations system failed to meet its responsibilities," Ban said after he released...
12:20 AM, Nov 16, 2012
United Nations: The United Nations failed to call proper attention to the plight of hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan civilians during the bloody final stage of the government's war against Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon responded to the report by a review panel he set up to evaluate the UN response during the phase of the Sri Lanka war...
03:20 AM, Nov 15, 2012
New Delhi: In a welcome breather for the DMK, the Madras High Court on Sunday stayed the police order refusing permission to it to hold a pro-Eelam conference. The Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) meeting at the YMCA will now go ahead, albeit subject to conditions. The entire meet is being seen as a desperate attempt by the DMK to assert itself as a champion of the Tamil cause in...
01:26 PM, Aug 12, 2012
Chennai: The Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) meeting is caught in a legal wrangle. The Madras High court will hear the plea on Sunday filed by the DMK against the police's denial to give TESO permission to hold its meeting at the YMCA grounds. Sources say that if the court denies it, then the meeting could be held within the premises of the DMK headquarters. This is the second time...
07:54 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Chennai: City police have denied permission for the pro-Eelam TESO meet, convened by the forum's founder leader and DMK chief M Karunanidhi here on Sunday. Police have denied permission on various grounds but they cannot be divulged as the matter was sub-judice, Chennai Police Commissioner J K Tripathy told PTI on Saturday. Sources said permission was denied on various grounds, including security implications as a large turnout was expected than...
12:06 PM, Aug 11, 2012
Chennai: The sudden volte face by DMK chief M Karunanidhi on his demand for Eelam in the context of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) meeting on August 12 " where no resolution would be passed in support of Eelam " has least angered or even surprised many Tamil rights groups. They feel the manner in which Karunanidhi made his view known has totally exposed his apathy for the sentiments...
11:13 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Chennai: A day after Congress made it clear that it will not support the demand for Tamil Eelam, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Monday made a U-turn on his plan to raise the issue at the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) meet on August 12. As of now, Tamil Eelam is an idea. But the main focus of the TESO conference on August 12 would be to discuss the ways...
12:50 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Chennai: A day after the DMK announced the date for the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) conference in Chennai on August 12, its key ally Congress state unit president B S Gnanadesikan on Sunday said that his party will not support the demand for Eelam. Speaking to reporters at party headquarters Satyamurthy Bhavan after participating in the 110th birth anniversary celebrations of Kamaraj, Gnanadesikan said that Lankan Tamils as of...
12:29 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: The LTTE tortured and killed alleged spies and "traitors" and also looted Tamil shops and homes while fighting the Indian peacekeepers in Sri Lanka, a book by a former woman fighter says. Niromi de Soyza, who joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in early 1987 at age 17 and now lives in Australia, says she quit the group after realising that violence cannot lead to a...
11:52 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Tiruvarur: Making a fresh demand for a separate Tamil homeland, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Wednesday said the August 5 TESO conference will discuss ways and means to achieve it in a peaceful and democratic manner even as he asserted he was ready to die after witnessing its birth. "A long-pending dream of mine, (Sri Lankan Tamil veteran) Chelvanayagam, and slain Tamils is to witness formation of a Tamil Eelam,"...
10:38 PM, Jun 13, 2012
On May 21, 1991, former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi reached Chennai by an afternoon-evening flight. After two hours, he was bound for Sriperumbudur, an industrial centre in Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu and just 40 km from Chennai. Rajiv was busy campaigning for the mid-term elections which had been announced after the VP Singh-led Janata Dal government had collapsed in October, 1990. The Congress was keen to avenge...
01:25 PM, May 21, 2012
CHENNAI : Backing the creation of an independent, sovereign Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, Member of Parliament and president of the Lok Janshakthi Party, Ram Vilas Paswan, on Sunday called upon the international community to ensure that a referendum is conducted to determine the emotions of the Tamil population. Speaking to reporters at a memorial event on the Marina to mark what is now termed the Mullivaykal Massacre that occurred...
08:43 AM, May 21, 2012
