our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves".
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the Unites States of America
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Tamil Site [BBC Tamil]
relaunched - Tamilosai on
July 2nd, a Tamil-language
news site.
The site is available in Tamil
scripts and provides
highlights of recent World
Service radio programmes,
regional weather and a news
search facility for Tamil
Nadu and Sri Lanka.
"With these new additions,
BBCTamil.com will prove to
be even more popular and
turn into a major
communications hub for all
Tamils, wherever they are,"
said Thirumalai Manivannan,
head of BBC Tamilosai.
'Operation Liberation' to wrest control of Jaffna, the LTTE decided to turn the
tables. Confronted with the firepower of a conventional army replete with its
numbers and hardware - by rough estimates 8000 soldiers and officers took
part in the operation - the Tigers had to dig deep into the reserves and bet on
their advantage.
Weekly Update From the Tamil Press [Sunday Observer]
With the arrival of Norwegian Special Envoy Erik Solheim, Tamil dailies once
again concentrated on talks on peace talks. When the LTTE raised the
Karuna issue with Solheim the tone of the stories was much biased and
personalistic.
The modalities of adapting
Tamil for use in information
technology have been
worked out at an
international conference
hosted by the Tamil Nadu
Government's Task Force
on Information Technology.
[Frontline]
Over 60,000 dead in a two-decade long war and Sri Lanka has not yet learnt
a hard enough lesson to prevent more bloodletting. Or, so it seems. This is
the likely outcome if short-sighted political policies continue and legislation is
passed in the country, banning religious conversions.
If proposed drafts to introduce laws banning religious conversions are indeed
passed repentance no doubt will swiftly follow.
Observer]
Mrs. Sheilanee de Saram a
Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts (RSA) in United
Kingdom has been invited to
attend the Garden Party at
Buckingham Palace with
Queen Elizabeth II of
England and Prince Philip,
Duke of Edinburgh on July
8. The event is organised to
mark the RSA's 250th
anniversary.
The advent of Buddhism to Sri Lanka that took place in 3 BC also made the
then ruler of the island of Lanka, King Devanampiyatissa an instant convert to
Buddhism. Having waged war for decades and experienced a personal
transformation after an encounter he had with a young Buddhist monk,
Negrodha the novice, Emperor Ashoka of India also wished to share the newly
acquired religious wisdom with the ruler of his neighbouring country and his
friend. He sent his son Arhanth Mihindu and six others bearing a message of
Dhamma and to date, King Devanampiyatissa remains one of the most
famous converts to Buddhism of all time.
Members of the citizens group Prathikarana Vedi assembled before the
Kerala assembly saying that Bush calling his cat India was an insult to the
country.
Popular Tamil film actor Vijaykant, who faced the wrath of PMK men over his
reported remarks against the party leadership, today stuck to his plans to
float a political party, but declined to announce a definite timeframe for the
launch.
Expatriate Tamils in Canada gifted a consignment of food, clothes and
learning materials to about sixty students sheltered in "Happy Home," a
children's shelter, located in Chenaiyoor Central College in the Liberation
Tigers controlled Muttur east in the Trincomalee district.
northeast branch Sunday evening honoured selected sixty five Tamil parents
at a function held in Trincomalee St Joseph's' College for having named their
children with 'pure' Tamil names. "Silampam" has been engaged in a
campaign to create awareness among Tamils worldwide to safeguard Tamil
language.
ministry to give equal prominence to southern language films along with Hindi
at an Indian films festival in China.
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