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Probal DasGupta 09:54 PM | September 21,2009
Insecure ports, scattered islands and easier access to coastal towns present opportunities for transnational connivance between terrorists, pirates and mercenaries with help in hardware from rogue nation-states
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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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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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12:44 AM | May 20,2009
Unless Tamil grievances are given attention, this problem has the potential to resurface in the years to come
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Reuters 05:01 PM | May 12,2009
Fury, blame and recriminations from both sides have flared in the closing days of Asia’s longest modern war, after LTTE said hundreds of civilians were killed in artillery barrages starting Sunday
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Policy Track | S. Narayan 09:35 PM | May 10,2009
Irrespective of the coalition that comes to power and quite irrespective of the groups that vie for positions in power, the priorities for the nation have shifted, and are shifting
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Policy Track | S. Narayan 09:34 PM | May 10,2009
Irrespective of the coalition that comes to power and quite irrespective of the groups that vie for positions in power, the priorities for the nation have shifted, and are shifting
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12:48 AM | May 01,2009
‘The Times’ of London reports that the US is threatening to block a $1.9 billion emergency loan from the International Monetary Fund to Sri Lanka
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11:40 PM | April 21,2009
The situation would not have arisen if the Sri Lankan government had allowed journalists access to the war zone
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11:46 PM | March 04,2009
From a Sri Lankan perspective, it was imperative to respond to India’s ”interference” on the Tamil issue; cricketers as ambassadors of goodwill came in handy after India refused to play in Pakistan
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10:32 PM | February 09,2009
There are signs that an end to the decades-long civil war between the Sri Lankan federal forces and the LTTE, could lower inflation, which was more than 20% in 2008 due to massive military spending
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Ravi Nessman / AP 01:09 AM | February 05,2009
The Tamil rebel group Prabhakaran founded is so centralized that without a leader it would spin into disarray
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11:00 PM | January 26,2009
More than 70,000 people have died since 1983 and millions have been displaced in Sri Lanka because of the civil war that has been raging on for more than 25 years
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10:15 PM | January 13,2009
Public memory is short and from time to time, companies such as Satyam crop up and dupe investors of their hard-earned money
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Amal Jayasinghe and Paul Tighe AFP / Bloomberg 11:18 PM | October 22,2008
The guerrillas had used three suicide boats and one of them capsized and the navy managed to capture it without its occupants, who were believed to have been killed in the naval firing
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