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Uttar Pradesh: Two sisters found living with mother's remains a year after her death in Varanasi
Uttar Pradesh | November 29, 2023 23:59 ISTAccording to the police, the sisters had not left their home for the past week, and the door was locked, arousing suspicion among neighbors. After repeated knocks went unanswered, the concerned neighbors informed the police.
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Is Ram Setu man-made or myth?
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UN wants Lanka accountability mechanism before September
World | June 16, 2015 7:48 ISTGeneva: The UN yesterday hoped that Sri Lanka will put in place mechanisms for accountability and reconciliation ahead of its September session when the long-awaited report on alleged human rights violations in the country will
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Will continue to engage with India on fishermen issue: Lanka
World | June 01, 2015 17:32 ISTColombo: Days after rejecting India's proposal to allow its fishermen to catch fish in Lankan waters, Sri Lanka has said it will continue to engage with India on the vexed fishermen issue in the spirit
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Lanka tells India devolving powers to provinces not possible
World | June 04, 2014 21:52 ISTColombo: Sri Lanka today said it had made it clear to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that devolving police powers to the provinces, including the Tamil-dominated areas, was not possible saying “it has nothing to do
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Lanka cannot mislead India under Modi, opposition says
World | May 25, 2014 17:19 ISTColombo: Sri Lanka would no longer be able to mislead India under Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi like it had done with the previous Congress-led UPA government, the country's main opposition party has said.Tissa Attanayake, the
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Lanka hires Pakistan lawyer for UN rights probe
World | May 18, 2014 23:55 ISTColombo: Faced with an impending UN inquiry, the Sri Lankan government has hired a prominent Pakistani lawyer to defend itself over its human rights record and alleged war crimes, a media report said here today.
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Indian women dancers arrested in Lanka for visa abuse
World | January 13, 2014 22:35 ISTColombo: Five Indian women dancers were arrested by Sri Lankan police here today for alleged visa abuse.They were arrested while working in a Karaoke night spot in central Colombo's Borella area early this morning, police
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Lanka in talks to take back oil tanks leased to India
World | December 20, 2013 21:35 ISTColombo: Sri Lanka today said it is mulling to take back some 99 strategic oil storage tanks leased to the Indian Oil Company's local unit Lanka IOC in the eastern port district of Trincomalee in
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Salman Khurshid arrives in Colombo for CHOGM Summit
World | November 13, 2013 14:11 ISTColombo: Notwithstanding the demand of political parties in Tamil Nadu for complete boycott, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid arrived here today on a five-day visit to represent India at the CHOGM Summit. Accompanied by Foreign
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Sri Lanka thrash South Africa by 180 runs
Cricket | July 20, 2013 21:57 ISTColombo, Jul 20: Kumar Sangakkara smashed a career-best 169 as Sri Lanka thrashed South Africa by 180 runs, its second heaviest defeat by runs in one-day international cricket on Saturday.Sangakkara hit six sixes and 18
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Tri-Series: Lankan victory keeps all three teams in fray
Cricket | July 09, 2013 11:24 ISTPort of Spain, Jul 9: Sri Lanka kept themselves in contention for a berth in the final of the tri-nation ODI series with a comfortable 39-run victory over West Indies in a rain-hit game here,
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Rajapaksa sibling as special envoy to India on Lanka 13A
World | June 30, 2013 16:16 ISTColombo, Jun 30: Sri Lanka will send President Mahinda Rajapaksa's younger brother Basil Rajapaksa to Delhi to hold talks with Indian leadership over its controversial plan to tinker with the India-moved thirteenth amendment (13A), government
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Karuna demands that India boycott CHOGM in Lanka
India | May 10, 2013 13:58 ISTChennai, May 10: DMK president M Karunanidhi today described as “important” Queen Elizabeth II skipping the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka in November and once again demanded that India boycott the meet.
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TN assembly passes resolution, asks Centre to move UN Security Council on Tamil genocide
India | March 27, 2013 14:12 ISTChennai, Mar 27: Stepping up pressure on the UPA government on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Tamil Nadu today demanded that India move a resolution in the UN Security Council for a referendum for separate
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Lanka hits out at UN internal report on war with LTTE
World | November 23, 2012 18:25 ISTColombo, Nov 23: Sri Lanka today dismissed as “baseless” the UN's internal report on the failure of the world body to protect Tamil civilians in the final months of country's brutal war against LTTE, saying
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India looks for a series win over Lanka
Cricket | July 30, 2012 15:46 ISTColombo, Jul 30: Having made a strong comeback in their previous encounter, India would look to carry forward the winning momentum and seal the series when they take on gritty Sri Lanka in the fourth
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India thump Lanka, to face Pak in U-19 Asia Cup final
Cricket | June 29, 2012 18:20 ISTKuala Lumpur, Jun 29: Captain Unmukt Chand (116) slammed a sparkling century as India spanked Sri Lanka by six wickets to storm into the final of the Under-19 Asia Cup cricket tournament here today.Chand, who
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Lanka to rehabilitate top LTTE woman leader
World | June 22, 2012 17:34 ISTColombo, Jun 22: A Sri Lankan court today ordered authorities to provide rehabilitation training to Subramaniam Shivathai, the political wing leader of the LTTE women's force.Magistrate Rashmi Singappuli had asked the CID to seek Subramaniam
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Railways To Undertake USD 149 Million Project In Lanka
November 18, 2011 20:49 ISTNew Delhi, Nov 18: Indian Railways today entered into an agreement with Sri Lankan government for a USD 149 million reconstruction project of rail line between Pallai and Kankesanthurai in Northern Province of the island
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