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Utpal Bhaskar 10:52 PM | November 09,2009
Belonging to the United People’s Freedom Alliance and a member of Parliament from the Kandy district, Amunugama defended his government’s record on human rights and talked about issues such as new found peace for the island nation
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Utpal Bhaskar 10:39 PM | November 09,2009
Sri Lanka declared victory in May over the the LTTE, ending a decades-old separatist conflict. The island is courting investment as it attempts to boost growth
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AFP 12:25 PM | September 05,2009
The mine-clearing machines imported from Slovakia would be used to accelerate resettlement of people driven out of the area during the height of fighting
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AP 10:38 AM | August 07,2009
Selvarasa Pathmanathan took over as the rebel chief after the group’s defeat in May and the death of its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran
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T V Sriram / PTI 04:25 PM | August 06,2009
Says, there could still be some remnant germs of the militancy that had plagued the country for nearly three decades
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PTI 02:50 PM | July 21,2009
The polls to the local council scheduled for 8 August are expected to be closely watched as they are being considered a test case for handing over power to Tamils
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PTI 05:30 PM | July 19,2009
The submarine found buried 40 feet beneath the sea in the northern Wanni region could accommodate a crew of three to four
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T.V. Sriram / PTI 03:20 PM | July 18,2009
Singh told Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa that he had won the war against the LTTE and can now also win the peace
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War Game | Nitin Gokhale 09:15 PM | June 30,2009
LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran overestimated the ability of European nations and the Tamil diaspora to enforce a ceasefire as they had done in the past. This time, Sri Lanka was not going to listen to anyone
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Bloomberg 10:51 PM | June 25,2009
Sri Lanka is lifting travel alerts for the country after the defeat of the rebel LTTE as it wants to attract tourists to the South Asian island
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High Windows | Mukul Kesavan 12:46 AM | May 29,2009
Whatever the nature of Tamil grievance or Sinhalese provocation, Prabhakaran and the LTTE represented a sectarian, violent and fascist dead end
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Utpal Bhaskar 09:43 PM | May 26,2009
Lanka IOC, which operates 150 retail outlets, has sought the Sri Lankan government’s approval to open 300 more outlets over the next five years at a cost of Rs250 crore
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10:28 PM | May 25,2009
To change the face of the state and bring it on a growth trajectory, both Mamata Banerjee and the Congress need to come together for the 2011 assembly elections
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Reuters 12:16 PM | May 25,2009
The statement was signed by Selvarajah Pathmanathan, the Tigers’s diplomatic chief and for years the man in charge of the acquisition of weapons for the LTTE
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Anupama Chandrasekaran 11:12 PM | May 24,2009
The recent escalation in conflict between the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE hurt exports of auto makers such as Ashok Leyland and Mahindra and Mahindra
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