Shops and commercial establishments in Tamil Nadu shut down and the state's roads wore a deserted look as a result of the traders' bandh (shut down) Friday on the Eelam Tamils issue.
Sri Lanka's government rejected the latest a truce offer by the LTTE out of hand demanding they surrender or be destroyed by the ongoing military offensive.
The Indian government may be bereft of all guts to do anything in Sri Lanka. But at least it can render a great service by not talking about the 13th amendment as a basis to resolve the crisis.
A Sinhala-dominated Sri Lanka is not in India’s interests, writes T S Gopi Rethinaraj, a Singapore National University scholar, in the November 2008 issue of Pragati, the Indian National Interest Review.
Ridiculing the war expenditure of the Rajapkse administration UNP parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake says the government has spent over forty million rupees to kill one member of the LTTE since 2004.
Sri Lanka unveiled its biggest ever war budget as it vowed to defeat Tamil Tigers and announced new taxes additional borrowing to plug the gap spiraling government spending and revenue.
The results of the U.S. presidential election this week are more an overwhelming rejection of the way the United States has been run in the recent past, particularly during the Bush administration, than merely a victory for Barack Obama.
The Political Wing of the LTTE, in a statement dated 30 October, condemned the Sri Lankan government for carrying out indiscriminate aerial bombardment and artillery barrage on civilians in Vanni.
The silence of Western media and government has emboldened the majority Sinhalese to embark on a renewed campaign to dispossess and kill the Tamil people.
As the Sri Lankan military inducted a new fighting unit and continued its offensive attacks in Vanni, the LTTE staged air and sea attacks on military targets outside Vanni.
At a time of global financial crisis, Sri Lanka’s reliance on borrowing combined with plunging foreign exchange reserves, spiraling inflation and poor fiscal policies are making Sri Lanka the most vulnerable in the region, according to international monetary experts.
