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<!-- -->Pazha Nedumaran claimed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is alive. (file)Chennai (Tamil Nadu): Taking a jibe at Pazha Nedumaran's claim that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was alive, Tamil Nadu Congress chief KS Alagiri…

<!-- -->Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe granted amnesty to eight Tamil prisoners.Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday granted amnesty to eight Tamil prisoners after each of them spent over 10 years in…

The government has wound up the 24-year-old Multi-Disciplinary Monitoring Agency (MDMA) constituted to probe the wider conspiracy into the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, officials have said. MDMA was working under the…

COLOMBO: The beleaguered Rajapaksa family received a much-needed shot in the arm as two dissident members who had resigned over the government's handling of the current economic crisis have returned to the party fold, even as widespread…

Operatives of the Japanese organised crime syndicate, also known as the yakuza, recently conspired to acquire surface-to-air missiles for Myanmar’s ethnic armed groups, according to a news report by Nikkei. The yakuza operative would pay…

COLOMBO: A Buddhist monk in ochre robes, with a black mask and a colourful umbrella, stood on the road next to the Bank of Ceylon in Colombo on Thursday, handing out blessings and goodies from a wide-mouthed steel bowl. His hefty build is…

India has told the UN that it is in Sri Lanka's own interest that expectations of Tamils for equality, justice, peace and dignity within a united country are fulfilled, underlining that as a friend and immediate neighbour, New Delhi has…