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Tamil Nadu Extends Covid Relief To Non-Camp Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee Families
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday launched a scheme to provide monetary assistance of Rs 4,000 each to 13,553 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee families living outside refugee camps to alleviate their difficulties in view of COVID-19.
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Centre To Ensure Tamil Refugees In Sri Lanka Live In Peace: Rajnath Singh
Asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a "personal relationship" with Tamil Nadu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the central government is committed to ensuring that Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka live with peace, equality and dignity.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Urges Centre To Grant Citizenship To Over 1 Lakh Lankan Tamils
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and national award winning lyricist Vairamuthu on Tuesday batted for providing citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the country for more than three decades.
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Failed Asylum Seekers Safe To Return Home: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickremesinghe
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Wednesday that failed asylum seekers held in Australian-run detention centres in the South Pacific will not face prosecution or harm if they return home.
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Former Tamil Politician Claims Second Torture Camp Found in Sri Lanka
An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.
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Sri Lankan Police Warns Against Commemorating LTTE Heroes' Day
Sri Lankan police today warned against organising events eulogising the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after posters commemorating the Heroes' Day tomorrow surfaced in the country's Tamil-dominated North.
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5 Arrested with Cyanide, Satellite Phones in Tamil Nadu
Two Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were among five persons detained after police seized a satellite phone, GPS equipment and cyanide from their car during a vehicle check in the district on monday.
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Lankan Tamil refugees arrive by illegal boat service, one held
A Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, who arrived today by an illegal boat service, has been taken into custody for questioning and a massive hunt launched for other refugees, police said.
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120 Lankan Tamil refugees rescued from sea, arrested
One hundred twenty Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka were on Saturday rescued by the Coast Guard from a stranded vessel in the sea and arrested.
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DMK leaders discuss Tamil refugee issue with Rajapaksa
A grand welcome in Rashtrapati Bhawan's forecourt for Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who's on his first visit to India, since his re-election in January this year. "My visit will help the bilateral relationship to get more strengthened. So, because we are the closest, Sri Lanka's closest neighbour is India," said the Sri Lankan President, ...
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Free distance education for Lankan refugees
The University of Madras has chalked out a programme that will offer free distance higher education to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Indian and Sri Lankan camps.
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Child survivor of Lanka's horror
Desperate to escape the warzone in Sri Lanka, a group of 21 people set out from Mulaitivu on April 21.
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Lanka war: The human casualty
Caught in Sri Lanka's 25-year old war, displaced time and time again from their homes, the Tamilians have forgotten what is called home.
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Humanitarian crisis hits war-torn Lanka
The horror of being trapped by the LTTE is over. However, horror of another kind has only begun.
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29 Lankan Tamil refugees reach India
In the largest influx of refugees since the last few months, a batch of 29 Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees arrived at Dhanushkodi near Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on Saturday, officials said. The refugees said they had paid Rs 15,000 per head to be ferried to India. Officials said the influx of refugees proved that the fighting in the Island's north had i...
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Tamil Nadu Extends Covid Relief To Non-Camp Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee Families
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Saturday launched a scheme to provide monetary assistance of Rs 4,000 each to 13,553 Sri Lankan Tamil refugee families living outside refugee camps to alleviate their difficulties in view of COVID-19.
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Centre To Ensure Tamil Refugees In Sri Lanka Live In Peace: Rajnath Singh
Asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a "personal relationship" with Tamil Nadu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said that the central government is committed to ensuring that Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka live with peace, equality and dignity.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Urges Centre To Grant Citizenship To Over 1 Lakh Lankan Tamils
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and national award winning lyricist Vairamuthu on Tuesday batted for providing citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in the country for more than three decades.
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Failed Asylum Seekers Safe To Return Home: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Wickremesinghe
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Wednesday that failed asylum seekers held in Australian-run detention centres in the South Pacific will not face prosecution or harm if they return home.
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Former Tamil Politician Claims Second Torture Camp Found in Sri Lanka
An illegal detention centre similar to the one discovered by UN experts in eastern Sri Lanka has been found in the country's northern Jaffna district, a former Tamil lawmaker has said, alleging that civil war detainees including Tamils were tortured in the camps.
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Sri Lankan Police Warns Against Commemorating LTTE Heroes' Day
Sri Lankan police today warned against organising events eulogising the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after posters commemorating the Heroes' Day tomorrow surfaced in the country's Tamil-dominated North.
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5 Arrested with Cyanide, Satellite Phones in Tamil Nadu
Two Sri Lankan Tamil refugees were among five persons detained after police seized a satellite phone, GPS equipment and cyanide from their car during a vehicle check in the district on monday.
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Lankan Tamil refugees arrive by illegal boat service, one held
A Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, who arrived today by an illegal boat service, has been taken into custody for questioning and a massive hunt launched for other refugees, police said.
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120 Lankan Tamil refugees rescued from sea, arrested
One hundred twenty Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka were on Saturday rescued by the Coast Guard from a stranded vessel in the sea and arrested.
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DMK leaders discuss Tamil refugee issue with Rajapaksa
A grand welcome in Rashtrapati Bhawan's forecourt for Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who's on his first visit to India, since his re-election in January this year. "My visit will help the bilateral relationship to get more strengthened. So, because we are the closest, Sri Lanka's closest neighbour is India," said the Sri Lankan President, ...
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Free distance education for Lankan refugees
The University of Madras has chalked out a programme that will offer free distance higher education to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in Indian and Sri Lankan camps.
-
Child survivor of Lanka's horror
Desperate to escape the warzone in Sri Lanka, a group of 21 people set out from Mulaitivu on April 21.
-
Lanka war: The human casualty
Caught in Sri Lanka's 25-year old war, displaced time and time again from their homes, the Tamilians have forgotten what is called home.
-
Humanitarian crisis hits war-torn Lanka
The horror of being trapped by the LTTE is over. However, horror of another kind has only begun.
-
29 Lankan Tamil refugees reach India
In the largest influx of refugees since the last few months, a batch of 29 Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees arrived at Dhanushkodi near Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on Saturday, officials said. The refugees said they had paid Rs 15,000 per head to be ferried to India. Officials said the influx of refugees proved that the fighting in the Island's north had i...
