“History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust.”
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ”
Chennai, Dec. 13: Sri Lanka’s former Prime Minister and Opposition UNP’s leader Ranil Wickramasinghe is in Delhi today for talks with Indian external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and other Indian political leaders.
On his way to Delhi, he told the Indian media at Chennai that if Sarath Fonseka is elected President, the Executive Presidency in Sri [...]
Retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, a top United Nations envoy urged Sri Lanka on Friday to release detained Tamil Tiger child soldiers and asked the authorities to re-unite them with their families.
Retired Major General Patrick Cammaert, the UN special envoy on children and armed conflict, said children who had been conscripted by the Tiger rebels [...]
Comrade SK Senthivel, General Secretary of the New-Democratic Party issued the following statement pointing out the need for the Tamil, Muslim and Hill Country Tamil political parties and the left parties to field a common candidate at the forthcoming parliamentary election.
In the present context, the correct choice for the parties of the minority nationalities [...]
Indian Supreme Court on Monday extendend its stay on all further proceedings in Gujarat High Court relating to the killing of teenager girl Ishrat Jahan and three others in a fake encounter with the state police.
A bench of Justices B Sudershan Reddy and G S Singhvi said its Novermber 30 order staying the proceedings would [...]
A few minutes past midnight on Dec 3, 1984, the world’s worst industrial disaster started to unfold. 27 tons of highly toxic gas (MIC) leaked out of a storage tank from Union Carbide’s pesticide factory in Bhopal leaving thousands of people dead and several thousand more maimed for life and generations to come.
For the survivors, [...]