| Toppling The Present Government – A ramification on India’s concern? |
The sudden resurgence of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who vowed to topple the present government, said to has been made in the backdrop of India’s concern over Sri Lanka’s change in its China’s policy.
But a rhetoric unconcerned about the neighbor’s changing approach to Sri L... |
| 06.01.2017 - 22:16 |
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| Finance Minister announces big bonanza for school children in New Year |
The Minister of Finance Mr Ravi Karunanayake assuring sustained economic development in the New Year said he was delighted to announce the introduction of a bonanza for all school children from 2017.
As envisaged in the Budget – 2017 over 4.5 million school going children in the country from the age... |
| 01.01.2017 - 09:21 |
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| U.S.-engineered Ukraine regime change: Putin stumps Hillary Clinton |
Following the allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally directed efforts to intervene in the U.S. election process by hacking Democratic Party National Committee’s (DNC) secure internal communication system which had classified Hillary Clinton preside... |
| 31.12.2016 - 10:29 |
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By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note |
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| Drought in Jaffna Peninsula, paddy crops in 10226 hectare affected |
Jaffna Peninsula presently bracing a period of severe drought, as the monsoon failed and paddy crops cultivated this year in 10226 hectare affected badly, where the crops, as of today on an average of 72 days old and in the flowering stage.
Even though, there are no big tanks or ponds in th... |
| 30.12.2016 - 11:12 |
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By K.T.Rajasingham |
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| Sasikala Nadarajan – New AIADMK General Secretary |
The crucial General Council meeting of AIADMK held today (on Thursday) chose Sasikala Natarajan as the party's new General Secretary.
The meeting started with paying tribute, by observing two-minute silence tribute to late Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa.
An empty chair in the middle of the stage s... |
| 29.12.2016 - 11:53 |
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| Low-Keyed Ceremony of the Conscrecation of new Church in Kachchathievu |
Sri Lanka and India yesterday dutifully played down the consecration of a new St. Anthony’s Church in the Katchathievu Islet.
A low-keyed ceremony was held yesterday and the Sri Lanka Navy Commander Vice Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne vested the newly constructed St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic... |
| 24.12.2016 - 11:07 |
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| Chief Editor Pays Homage to Jayalalithaa |
The Chief Editor of Asian Tribune visited the MGR Memorial, off Marina Beach, Chennai, to pay homage to the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, laid to rest next to her mentor Dr. M.G.Ramachandran.
The Asian Tribune Chief Editor K.T.Rajasingham was one of the first Sri Lankan celebrities... |
| 18.12.2016 - 02:14 |
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| US’ attempt to Save Prabhakaran: India’s Menon & U.S. Book Confirm |
In a strange coincidence, the United States’ ‘grand design’ to save Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran with its top leadership was disclosed simultaneously by former Indian National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon and a book published in the U.S. – Tamil Tigers’ Debt to America... |
| 14.12.2016 - 05:40 |
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| Budget 2017 passed with two third majority votes |
The Third Reading of the 2017 Budget introduced earlier by the Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake, was passed in Parliament with a majority of 110 votes, while four members, including former president Mahinda Rajapaksa abstaining from voting and staying away. The committee stage debate of the budge... |
| 10.12.2016 - 22:20 |
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| Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa passed away - Her death confirmed |
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa passed away late on Monday evening at Apollo Hospitals, after suffering a cardiac arrest on Sunday. Her death at last is now confirmed.
Seventy-four days after being admitted to hospital here, the general secretary of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhag... |
| 06.12.2016 - 09:09 |
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| Apollo denies Jayalalithaa's death: Hospital says she is under life support |
A section media announced that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has died, following which violence broke out at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai. However, there's has been no official confirmation.
But minutes later Apollo Hospitals released a fresh medical bulletin dispelling the reports of her de... |
| 05.12.2016 - 20:27 |
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| Jayalalithaa just passed away |
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa just passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest, Tamil TV channels reported on Monday evening.
Violence broke out at Apollo hospital as soon as the news started tricking out, even though the hospital has not put out an official statement.
The government has... |
| 05.12.2016 - 19:33 |
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| Vibrant Gujarat connects Gujarat to the world: Bharat Lal |
“Vibrant Gujarat is connecting India to the world," Resident Commissioner of Gujarat in New Delhi Bharat Lal said. "Our objective is to interact with government officials and the business community during this road show in Canada and USA, to attract investors, scientist, and entrepreneurs from all o... |
| 04.12.2016 - 13:29 |
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By Prakash Swamy |
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| Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn - Thailand's New King |
Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 64, became Thailand's new king on Thursday after he accepted an invitation from parliament to succeed his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in October.
Prince Vajiralongkorn, who will be known as King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, according to... |
| 02.12.2016 - 06:49 |
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| Colombia plane crash: 75 dead, Brazil’s Chapecoense Soccer Team Devastated |
Over the mountains near Medellín, Colombia, the plane carrying 81 passengers on board, among them members of a famous Brazilian football team, Chapecoense, from a scrappy industrial city in Brazi, the finalist of the Copa Sudamerican crashed around 10:15 pm local time yesterday in Cerro Gordo in... |
| 30.11.2016 - 07:39 |
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| Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader is no more |
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who maintained an iron grip on Cuban politics for almost 50 years, died Friday at the age of 90.
A towering figure of the second half of the 20th Century, Castro stuck to his ideology beyond the collapse of Soviet communism and remained widely respected... |
| 26.11.2016 - 23:14 |
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