COLOMBO: A leader of the Tamil Tigers has alleged that Tamils in India are not a free people but are slaves of the Indian state, according to a media report on Tuesday. "In ancient times the whole of India was a Tamil land. And the Chola kings (from Tamil Nadu) ruled over Sri Lanka for 70...
NEW DELHI: In a development that is certain to strain relations with Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday call-ed upon Tamil revolutionaries in the neighbourhood to stop feuding and asserting the rights of...
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON - Britishpolice have arrested three men accused of terrorism offences for allegedly supporting Sri Lanka's separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas....
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } At least 16 people were killed and 40 wounded when a bomb ripped through a packed commuter bus on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital this afternoon, police...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A bomb hidden on the baggage rack of a packed, rush-hour bus exploded yesterday evening outside Colombo, killing 24 people in an attack that the military blamed on Tamil Tiger rebels. Ambulances flooded a nearby hospital, where...
Three men were arrested today by counter-terrorist officers in London and Wales as part of a long-term investigation into the Tamil Tigers. Scotland Yard said dawn raids took place at residential and businessproperties in Newtown, Powys, Mitcham,...
New Delhi: One of Sri Lanka's biggest drug lords has been finally arrested in Tamil Nadu after Indian authorities, who had been pursuing him for years, nabbed him while he was playing his favourite game - cricket. Indian official sources are...
A woman serving a jail term for the assassination of former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi has sought early release. Nalini Sriharan, who is serving a life sentence in a prison in southern India, said in a petition she had already served over 16 years in...
NEW DELHI: Call it an Indiafund for fighting Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. In a step that could have political and diplomatic ramfications, New Delhi is finalising a soft loan package of $100 million (Rs 400 crore) for Sri Lankan defence...
By NANTHA KUMAR entertainment@thestar.com.my TWO nominations at the upcoming Anugerah Industri Muzik 2008 (AIM 2008) this Saturday has got Boomerangx main man Coco Nantha all excited and talkative. Boomerangx has been nominated in the newly...
New Delhi - India has recalled over four million doses of a measles vaccine supplied by a south Indian drug manufacturer after four children died following inoculation with the drug, reports said on Friday. "All state governments have been instructed...
22 minutes ago NEW DELHI (AFP) - India has recalled over four million doses of a measles vaccine supplied by a south Indian drug manufacturer after four children died following inoculation with the drug, reports said Friday....
NEW DELHI: South Indian states, which have the reputation of being pioneer in IT are lagging behind their Northern and Eastern counterparts in terms of adopting IT in the manufacturing units, a study said. Out of the 15 states namely —...
NEW DELHI: The government has decided not to revive the four state-owned vaccine units whose licences were recently suspended. This leaves a large chunk of the Rs 1,500-crore market for the private companies like Panacea Biotec, Serum Institute of...
NEW DELHI: South Indian states, which have the reputation of being pioneer in IT are lagging behind their Northern and Eastern counterparts in terms of adopting IT in the manufacturing units, a study said. Out of the 15 states namely --...
: It's tempting to dismiss as excessive the Indian government's efforts to protect the Olympic torch run last week from Tibetans protesting the Chinese crack down in their homeland - sealing off much of the historic heart of this city, shrouding the...