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01 Dec 08 : 30 | Troops capture fresh LTTE-held town in north: Sri Lanka Sri Lankan troops backed by artillery and mortar bombardment Monday captured yet another Tamil Tiger rebel stronghold amid fierce resistance, defence authorities said here. Source : India eNews 27 hours ago |
28 Nov 11 : 01 | LTTE's overtures to India will fail: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Friday expressed the hope that the request to India by Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran to lift the ban on his group would not be entertained by New Delhi. Source : India eNews |
26 Nov 12 : 31 | Fall of LTTE political capital Kilinochchi imminent: Sri Lanka The fall of the key rebel town of Kilinochchi was 'imminent' with government troops and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) engaged in fierce fighting on its outskirts, the Sri Lankan military said here Wednesday. Source : India eNews |
25 Nov 12 : 30 | Karunanidhi reiterates demand for ceasefire in Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Tuesday once again called for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka despite most of the opposition parties boycotting an all-party meet called to discuss the plight of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka. Source : India eNews |
25 Nov 09 : 01 | Lanka Indian Oil to market bitumen in Sri Lanka Having made its presence felt in retail fuel marketing across Sri Lanka, the Lanka Indian Oil Corp (LIOC) has decided to market bitumen in the island nation from next April, a top company official here said. Source : India eNews |
24 Nov 11 : 00 | Karunanidhi calls all party meet on Sri Lanka situation Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday called for a meeting of all state party leaders Tuesday to discuss 'the worsening situation of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka'. Source : India eNews |
23 Nov 09 : 30 | Sri Lanka war reaches crucial phase; troops zero in on Kilinochchi The long drawn out civil war in Sri Lanka has reached a crucial phase with reports of the fighting spirit of the Tamil Tigers said to be at an 'all time low' after the fall of two of their strongholds even as government troops march in on the rebels' political capital Kilinochchi. Source : India eNews |
21 Nov 13 : 00 | Indian fishermen held in Sri Lanka may be released soon Seventeen Indian fishermen arrested by Sri Lanka for fishing close to the island's shores Nov 18 may be released soon, the central government has informed Tamil Nadu. Source : India eNews |
21 Nov 16 : 00 | Fierce battle on outskirts of key LTTE town: Sri Lanka Sri Lankan ground troops and the Tamil Tiger rebels Friday fought pitched battles on the 'outskirts' of the rebel's key stronghold of Kilinochchi in the north, the defence ministry said. Source : India eNews |
20 Nov 12 : 30 | ICRC, Sri Lanka spar as India hands over relief India Thursday formally handed over to the international Red Cross nearly 1,700 tonnes of relief material meant for civilians displaced by war in Sri Lanka's north, but a top government official insisted that Colombo alone would distribute the aid. Source : India eNews |
25 Nov 11 : 33 | Tamil Nadu opposition boycotts meet on Sri Lankan issue Most of the Tamil Nadu opposition parties Tuesday boycotted an all-party meeting called by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi to discuss the plight of minority Tamils in Sri Lanka. Source : India eNews |
20 Nov 08 : 30 | Sri Lanka fighting continues to dominate Tamil tinsel town In a bid to show his solidarity towards Sri Lankan Tamils, superstar Rajnikant has urged his fans to avoid celebration of his birthday on Dec 12. Source : India eNews |
20 Nov 07 : 01 | Troops capture fresh rebel-held territories in north: Sri Lanka The Sri Lankan army has captured the forward defensive positions of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's north Thursday after fierce fighting, the defence ministry said. Source : India eNews |
18 Nov 15 : 31 | Indian fishermen arrested in Sri Lanka At least 28 Indian fishermen have been arrested in Sri Lanka for straying into that country's waters, police sources said Tuesday. But Sri Lankan diplomats claimed only 17 were arrested and jailed. Source : India eNews |
19 Nov 07 : 31 | Sri Lanka may ban Tamil Tigers soon: PM Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka has said the government may ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) even before the people ask for it. Source : India eNews |
18 Nov 11 : 31 | 28 Indian fishermen held in Sri Lanka: police At least 28 Indian fishermen and seven of their boats have been detained by the Sri Lankan Navy early Tuesday, a police officer said. Source : India eNews |
18 Nov 05 : 30 | Two Sea Tiger boats destroyed in naval battle: Sri Lanka At least two Sea Tiger boats were destroyed and six rebels were killed in a major clash between the Sri Lankan Navy and the Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern waters of the country, military sources said Tuesday. Source : India eNews |
24 Nov 12 : 00 | Lanka says 147 killed as battle rages for key LTTE-held town At least 120 Tamil Tiger rebels and 27 government soldiers were killed and several more wounded on both sides as a fierce battle continued to rage on the outskirts of a key rebel-held town in the north of the country, the Sri Lankan defence ministry said Monday. Source : India eNews |
17 Nov 13 : 32 | Troops capture strategic LTTE bastion: Sri Lanka Sri Lankan troops Monday captured another strategic bastion of the Tamil Tigers in the island's north, the defence ministry said Monday. Source : India eNews |
16 Nov 15 : 30 | Karunanidhi calls for ceasefire in Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Sunday again called for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, saying the military in the island nation was killing 'innocent Tamils' in the name of fighting terrorism. Source : India eNews |
16 Nov 12 : 02 | Tamil leader blasts Tamil Nadu over Sri Lanka resolution A prominent Tamil politician Sunday criticised a resolution passed by the Tamil Nadu legislature seeking a ceasefire in Sri Lanka 'as shocking and totally unacceptable'. Source : India eNews |
16 Nov 11 : 33 | Sri Lanka steps up air raids after seizing rebel town Sri Lankan jets bombed suspected Tamil Tiger positions Sunday, a day after troops captured the last major naval bastion of the rebels on the west coast, military authorities said. Source : India eNews |
15 Nov 06 : 30 | LTTE's strategic naval bastion falls to Sri Lanka army Sri Lanka Saturday claimed that its advancing troops had entered the Tamil Tiger rebels' naval bastion of Pooneryn in the island's north. Source : India eNews |
14 Nov 12 : 00 | Karunanidhi again demands Indian intervention in Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday insisted on a political road map to end Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, saying India needed to take pro-active measures to end the strife. Source : India eNews |
13 Nov 17 : 01 | Sri Lanka assures India about Tamils' safety, ready for Indian relief Sri Lanka Thursday said it was ready to receive a consignment of relief material from India to help civilians caught in the military conflict in the island nation, but underlined that there will be no let-up in military offensive against the Tamil Tigers. Source : India eNews |
13 Nov 13 : 31 | Terrorists smuggling arms, drugs through Bay of Bengal: Sri Lanka As leaders of BIMSTEC countries decided to firm up a pact on combating terrorism in the region, Sri Lanka Thursday said the sea lanes through the Bay of Bengal were being used by terrorists to smuggle arms and drugs. Source : India eNews |
13 Nov 13 : 30 | LTTE cannot be crushed, say Sri Lanka Tamil MPs The Tamil Tigers cannot be crushed, two Sri Lankan Tamil MPs said Thursday, reacting to claims that the rebels were on the verge of losing the dragging war in the island nation. Source : India eNews |
12 Nov 08 : 30 | Tamil Nadu assembly demands ceasefire, negotiations in Sri Lanka The Tamil Nadu assembly Wednesday passed a unanimous resolution asking the central government to press for negotiations between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government as well as an immediate ceasefire in the island nation. Source : India eNews |
10 Nov 13 : 02 | Karunanidhi asks India to ensure ceasefire in Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Monday underlined India's need to bring the two warring sides in Sri Lanka to the negotiation table. Source : India eNews |
12 Nov 14 : 01 | Tamil Nadu assembly demands truce, talks in Sri Lanka The Tamil Nadu assembly Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging India to press for talks between the Tamil Tigers and Colombo and also an immediate ceasefire in the island nation. Source : India eNews |
10 Nov 11 : 03 | No truce, no talks with LTTE until it disarms: Sri Lanka The Sri Lankan government Monday dismissed the Tamil Tigers' readiness to agree to a fresh ceasefire, insisting that the rebels needed to first give up their weapons. Source : India eNews |
10 Nov 06 : 31 | Sri Lanka dismisses LTTE's truce overtures The Sri Lankan government has dismissed the Tamil Tigers' reiteration of their readiness to observe a cessation of hostilities as a 'trap', saying that any truce would be considered only after the rebels are disarmed, a media report here said Monday. Source : India eNews |
09 Nov 19 : 31 | Sri Lanka issue, price rise to dominate Tamil Nadu assembly proceedings The Tamil Nadu assembly session, begining Monday, is expected to witness heated debates as the opposition plans to pin the ruling DMK on various issues, including the Sri Lankan Tamil issue and price rise. Source : India eNews |
09 Nov 11 : 30 | Sri Lanka steps up air raids, LTTE reiterates truce offer The Sri Lankan Air Force Sunday stepped up air raids targeting suspected Tamil Tiger positions in the north amid reports that the rebel outfit has reiterated its consent for cessation of hostilities with the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Source : India eNews |
09 Nov 07 : 31 | Tamil Tigers reiterate their readiness for truce with Sri Lanka The Tamil Tiger rebels, facing a fierce military thrust in the borders of their 'administrative capital' of Kilinochchi in the north, have reiterated their consent for a cessation of hostilities with the Sri Lankan government, a pro-rebel website reported Sunday. Source : India eNews |
07 Nov 15 : 00 | Karunanidhi calls for end to hostilities in Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi altered his stand on the issue of Tamils in Sri Lanka Friday and called for cessation of hostilities from both the warring sides in the island country. Source : India eNews |
07 Nov 09 : 00 | Suicide bombers in guise of beggars in Sri Lanka? Tamil Tiger guerrillas, facing a military onslaught in Sri Lanka's north, have let loose suicide bombers in the guise of beggars and pregnant women in Colombo, a media report said Friday. Source : India eNews |
06 Nov 17 : 30 | Karunanidhi inspects relief materials bound for Sri Lanka Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Thursday inspected 2,000 tonnes of relief material being sent for the Tamil minority in the war-torn northern part of Sri Lanka. Source : India eNews |
06 Nov 08 : 03 | India to send 2,000 tonnes of relief goods to Sri Lanka In what is a sharp departure from what it did in 1987, India will soon ship 2,000 tonnes of relief material to Sri Lanka for tens of thousands of people displaced by war. This time, however, the delivery will be done through the international Red Cross. Source : India eNews |
06 Nov 12 : 03 | US commends Sri Lanka's war against LTTE A top US military official Wednesday commended the Sri Lankan military for its recent successes against the Tamil Tigers, whom Washington has designated as a terrorist group. Source : India eNews |
04 Nov 17 : 31 | Sri Lanka denies 'secret deals' with India Sri Lanka Tuesday denied allegations in political circles here of 'secret deals with India' regarding the military campaign against the Tamil Tigers in the north, and urged people not get misled by such 'mischievous construction'. Source : India eNews |
04 Nov 08 : 00 | 12,000 LTTE cadres killed, says Sri Lanka army chief Sri Lanka's army chief has said that 12,000 Tamil Tiger guerrillas have been killed in the past two and a half years and '80 percent of the war' was over, a media report said Tuesday. Source : India eNews |
03 Nov 03 : 31 | 93 arrested in Sri Lanka for links with LTTE At least 93 people were arrested Sunday for their alleged links with Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka's northwest, the police said. Source : India eNews |
28 Nov 06 : 30 | Special security for Colombo star hotels after Mumbai attack Sri Lanka has decided to enforce a 'special security network' to protect the star hotels in and around capital Colombo after a well-planned terrorist attack rocked neighbouring India's commercial capital of Mumbai. Source : India eNews |
01 Nov 16 : 00 | Protests against Sri Lanka on the wane: Ramadoss Even as the Tamil film industry drummed up support for the ethnic minority in Sri Lanka Saturday, PMK chief S. Ramadoss, one of the staunch supporters of the Tamil minority in the island nation, said the tempo of protests against Colombo was on the wane. Source : India eNews |
01 Nov 06 : 30 | Sri Lanka condemns serial bombings in Assam Sri Lanka Saturday condemned the multiple bomb blasts in India's northeastern state of Assam that claimed 77 lives and said the perpetrators had designed them 'in the most cowardly and cruellest possible manner'. Source : India eNews |
27 Nov 16 : 31 | Vowing to fight on, Prabhakaran asks India to lift ban Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran urged India Thursday to lift the ban on his group even as he pledged to continue his war against Sri Lanka 'till alien Sinhala occupation of our land is removed'. Source : India eNews |
27 Nov 14 : 32 | Tamil Tigers chief asks India to lift ban Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran Thursday vowed to continue his war against Sri Lanka 'till alien Sinhala occupation of our land is removed' and urged India to lift the ban on his group. Source : India eNews |
09 Nov 13 : 30 | '1987 Indo-Sri Lanka pact only solution to Tamil problem' Tamil Nadu Congress president K.V. Thangkabalu said Sunday that the Tamil conflict in Sri Lanka can be resolved only by implementing an accord New Delhi and Colombo signed in 1987. Source : India eNews |
09 Nov 11 : 30 | '1987 Indo-Sri Lanka pact only solution to Tamil problem' Tamil Nadu Congress president K.V. Thangkabalu Sunday said that the Tamil minority's problems in the neighbouring island can only be resolved by applying the terms of an accord signed between India and Sri Lanka in 1987. Source : India eNews |
