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Friday, November 1, 2024
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Topic: LTTE

Sri Lankan army says it is ready to face any investigation on war crime

The army along with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have been accused of war crimes during the final phase of a 26-year long military conflict that ended in 2009.

Norway’s former PM visits Kashmir as part of Modi govt’s ‘Glasnost’

Modi govt felt it was ‘time to open up to the outside world’, in the hope that the high-profile visitors would help in changing the narrative on Kashmir.

Sri Lanka’s speaker warns of bloodshed as political crisis deepens

Sri Lankan parliament speaker Karu Jayasuriya fears violence if leadership struggle isn't settled in the legislature.

India’s Blackhawk Down: Incompetence & heroism in a commando raid gone wrong at Jaffna Univ

The Army’s tributes this morning, paying tributes to Lt Col. I.B.S. Bawa, who won a posthumous MVC for operation to rescue commandos trapped in the botched raid 31 years ago, brings back this poignant story

Gandhi family can’t decide fate of Rajiv’s assassins; 14 other Indians died with him

The Gandhi family may or may not forgive them, but they have no locus standi. India is a constitutional state, not a feudal or tribal one with blood money justice.

How ‘armed gangs’ have tried to influence elections in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

A new study by US scholars talks about how 'armed gangs' pursue a ‘diverse array of electoral strategies’ to participate in elections.

Sri Lanka’s lone Tamil woman minister steps down after controversial LTTE revival remarks

The Opposition had sought Vijeyakala Maheswaran's resignation for violating the constitution by espousing LTTE's cause.

Whatever happens in the 2020 election, Colombo cannot play the China card against India

Issues that dominated the political discourse in 2015 are all back in focus, hotly debated in and outside parliament, in the media, and at tea stalls across Sri Lanka.

India’s ‘dirty little war’ in Jaffna, heroism amid ineptitude & new friendships under fire

30 Years after IPKF: The passing away yesterday of Col. Anil Kaul, decorated hero of Op Pawan, brings back the truth of a military disaster.

30 years of IPKF: From finding rebel camps in Tamil Nadu to checking on friends in Colombo

Covering a most brutal fratricidal war for a decade, I had never imagined returning to a serendipitous Sri Lanka as a tourist without fear, writes Shekhar Gupta, Editor in Chief, ThePrint.

On Camera

16th BRICS Summit was about building dollar-free world order. India can use it to expand trade

For New Delhi, a USD-free system is not an immediate priority nor an existential necessity to unconditionally support the China-Russia agenda.

Watch CutTheClutter: Flattening INR-USD rate, and debate on pros and cons of a ‘strong’ rupee

In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.

All about Major Bob Khathing, whose daring expedition & diplomatic parleys secured Tawang for India

The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.

From 2004 to 2024, bad news has come wrapped as good news for Congress

Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.