Cash-strapped Sri Lanka plans to resume mining ilmenite rich sands. The LTTE has vowed to prevent the ''plundering'' of Tamil resources.

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Evidence of a civilisation which reached a high level of development, organisation and cultural advancement from as early as 11,000 years ago is emerging in Tamil Nadu.

US pressure ends hardline Buddhists' drive

The military budget rises 23% to US$700 million and the biggest capital spending will be by the air force.

A paltry US$ 4m rise in record year for inflows into developing countries

Australian Tamils gather in Sydney to support the Resurgence rallies being staged in Sri Lanka''s Northeast.

‘It is thus an absolutely unique structure with no other temple in the world having similar characteristics’

It is unfair and unacceptable to choose one party to the peace talks and penalise it.

Campaigns step as both candidates pledge subsidies and defeats to separatism to woo voters.

Mass protest comes against a backdrop of a protracted delay in peace talks, the non implementation of P-TOMS and demands for troop withdrawals from High Security Zones.

Events were held last week in major towns in the Tamil-dominated Northeast to remember a Tamil hero.

Of the 1350 youths recruited by the Bank of Ceylon and Peoples Bank only 66 have been posted to northeast province. Of these, all but six, are Sinhalese.

Populist manifesto shifts debate to the economy whilst making overtures to Sinhala nationalists.