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Sri Lanka Pardons Soldier Who Slaughtered Tamil Civilians
Sri Lanka's president on Thursday pardoned and released an army officer on death row for slitting the throats of Tamil civilians, including four children, during the island's bloody civil war.
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K Palaniswami Seeks Bharat Ratna For Jayalalithaa, Writes To PM Modi
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the Centre again to confer the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on late J Jayalalithaa and Dravidian icon C N Annadurai.
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DMK Seeks Bharat Ratna For Karunanidhi As Tribute To The "Tallest Leader"
The DMK on Friday demanded the nation's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, for party patriarch M Karunanidhi who passed away in Chennai on August 7.
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VK Sasikala Video Submitted As Proof That She Was Allowed To Leave Prison
Wearing a brown outfit, politician VK Sasikala enters the jail in Bengaluru where she is serving four years for corruption on the orders of the Supreme Court. The video is proof that Ms Sasikala gets special treatment as a prisoner according to a police officer who has alleged that nearly 2 crores of bribes paid by the politician allow her illegiti...
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Give Jayalalithaa Bharat Ratna, Nobel Peace Prize, Magsaysay, Says AIADMK
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who died earlier this month, should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay award and India's top civilian honour Bharat Ratna, her party AIADMK said today.
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Tamil Nadu Cabinet Decides To Recommend Jayalalithaa's Name For Bharat Ratna
Tamil Nadu Cabinet on Saturday decided to recommend late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa for India's highest civilian honour, the 'Bharat Ratna'.
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Sri Lanka To Return Military-Held Land Seized From Tamil Civilians
Sri Lanka will return by 2018 all military-held land seized from Tamil civilians during the nearly three decades long civil war with the LTTE, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said today.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Leaders Call For UN Help On 4,000 Missing
Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil leaders today asked the top UN human rights official to help determine the fate of more than 4,000 civilians reported missing in the country's long civil war amid the government's assertion that most of them are probably dead.
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Padma Awards: Rajinikanth, Anupam Kher on List of Awardees
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth will receive the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second-highest civilian honour. Actor Anupam Kher and singer Udit Narayan will receive the Padma Bhushan. Priyanka Chopra and Ajay Devgn will receive the Padma Shri
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MS Viswanathan Should Have Got Padma Award, Says Jayalalithaa
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had recommended MS Viswanathan's name for the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour
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Sri Lankan Soldier Sentenced to Death for Wartime Murders
A Sri Lankan army officer was sentenced to death today for murdering eight Tamil civilians, including four children, in a verdict officials said showed the state was dealing with crimes committed during its 26-year civil war.
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Sri Lanka Fires Military Governor in Tamil Controlled North
Sri Lanka's new president has replaced an ex-military with a civilian governor in the Tamil-controlled north in a sign of improving ties with the ethnic minority following the end of the civil war.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Pledges Fresh War Crimes Probe
Sri Lanka's president, under pressure from his main opponent in upcoming elections, on Tuesday promised a judicial inquiry into allegations that his troops killed thousands of Tamil civilians at the end of the civil war.
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50 bodies discovered in Sri Lanka mass grave
Skeletal remains of at least 50 people have been dug out from a mass grave discovered in northeastern Sri Lanka, amid speculation that the remains were of Tamil civilians who had disappeared during the war with the LTTE.
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Sri Lanka mass grave toll reaches 50
Skeletal remains of at least 50 people have been dug out from a mass grave discovered in northeastern Sri Lanka, amid speculation that the remains were of Tamil civilians who had disappeared during the war with the LTTE.
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Sri Lanka Pardons Soldier Who Slaughtered Tamil Civilians
Sri Lanka's president on Thursday pardoned and released an army officer on death row for slitting the throats of Tamil civilians, including four children, during the island's bloody civil war.
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K Palaniswami Seeks Bharat Ratna For Jayalalithaa, Writes To PM Modi
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging the Centre again to confer the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on late J Jayalalithaa and Dravidian icon C N Annadurai.
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DMK Seeks Bharat Ratna For Karunanidhi As Tribute To The "Tallest Leader"
The DMK on Friday demanded the nation's highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, for party patriarch M Karunanidhi who passed away in Chennai on August 7.
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VK Sasikala Video Submitted As Proof That She Was Allowed To Leave Prison
Wearing a brown outfit, politician VK Sasikala enters the jail in Bengaluru where she is serving four years for corruption on the orders of the Supreme Court. The video is proof that Ms Sasikala gets special treatment as a prisoner according to a police officer who has alleged that nearly 2 crores of bribes paid by the politician allow her illegiti...
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Give Jayalalithaa Bharat Ratna, Nobel Peace Prize, Magsaysay, Says AIADMK
Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who died earlier this month, should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Ramon Magsaysay award and India's top civilian honour Bharat Ratna, her party AIADMK said today.
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Tamil Nadu Cabinet Decides To Recommend Jayalalithaa's Name For Bharat Ratna
Tamil Nadu Cabinet on Saturday decided to recommend late AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa for India's highest civilian honour, the 'Bharat Ratna'.
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Sri Lanka To Return Military-Held Land Seized From Tamil Civilians
Sri Lanka will return by 2018 all military-held land seized from Tamil civilians during the nearly three decades long civil war with the LTTE, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said today.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Leaders Call For UN Help On 4,000 Missing
Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil leaders today asked the top UN human rights official to help determine the fate of more than 4,000 civilians reported missing in the country's long civil war amid the government's assertion that most of them are probably dead.
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Padma Awards: Rajinikanth, Anupam Kher on List of Awardees
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth will receive the Padma Vibhushan, the country's second-highest civilian honour. Actor Anupam Kher and singer Udit Narayan will receive the Padma Bhushan. Priyanka Chopra and Ajay Devgn will receive the Padma Shri
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MS Viswanathan Should Have Got Padma Award, Says Jayalalithaa
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa had recommended MS Viswanathan's name for the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour
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Sri Lankan Soldier Sentenced to Death for Wartime Murders
A Sri Lankan army officer was sentenced to death today for murdering eight Tamil civilians, including four children, in a verdict officials said showed the state was dealing with crimes committed during its 26-year civil war.
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Sri Lanka Fires Military Governor in Tamil Controlled North
Sri Lanka's new president has replaced an ex-military with a civilian governor in the Tamil-controlled north in a sign of improving ties with the ethnic minority following the end of the civil war.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Pledges Fresh War Crimes Probe
Sri Lanka's president, under pressure from his main opponent in upcoming elections, on Tuesday promised a judicial inquiry into allegations that his troops killed thousands of Tamil civilians at the end of the civil war.
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50 bodies discovered in Sri Lanka mass grave
Skeletal remains of at least 50 people have been dug out from a mass grave discovered in northeastern Sri Lanka, amid speculation that the remains were of Tamil civilians who had disappeared during the war with the LTTE.
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Sri Lanka mass grave toll reaches 50
Skeletal remains of at least 50 people have been dug out from a mass grave discovered in northeastern Sri Lanka, amid speculation that the remains were of Tamil civilians who had disappeared during the war with the LTTE.
