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2012:
2012 May 28 17:51      Child abductions on rise in Jaffna
2008:
2008 May 28 22:02      Sea Tigers raid SLN camp close to Jaffna city
2008 May 28 14:57      Teacher shot dead in Jaffna
2008 May 28 14:29      Journalist slain in Jaffna
2008 May 28 11:52      Gotabhaya 'warns' activists of state-owned media
2008 May 28 11:33      Five suspects discharged in Kadirgamar murder case
2008 May 28 11:31      Disarm Pillaiyan group- NMC
2008 May 28 11:29      JVP to launch trade union action next month
2008 May 28 11:27      Youth shot dead in Nelukulam identified
2008 May 28 10:32      300 families displaced in Ea'raavoor
2000:
2000 May 28 18:11      Police arrest Tamil journalist
2000 May 28 15:32      SLA silence stymies UNHCR effort
1999:
1999 May 28 19:57      Madhu refugee clearance completed
1999 May 28 19:53      Body of Muslim youth found in jungles
1999 May 28 11:26      SLA-LTTE clash in Vadamaradchi
1999 May 28 08:09      Cholera patient dies in the Vanni
1998:
1998 May 28 23:59      Three council members resign in Velanai
1998 May 28 23:59      Increased security in Jaffna islands
1998 May 28 23:59      Ratwatte visits Jayasikurui areas
1998 May 28 23:59      Batticaloa youth hit by TELO fire
1998 May 28 23:59      No Jaffna team for 'mini-Olympics'
1998 May 28 23:59      Jayasikirui resumes
1998 May 28 23:59      Police patrol ambushed
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Know the Etymology: 332
Place Name of the Day:
(332 of 500 revised)

Koyilā-maṉai/ Kōyilā-maṉai
Koyilaa-manai

The temple house; or the house of the temple servants

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[28.04.23]
Taraki Sivaram remembered: TamilNet remembers with pride the service rendered to the media by Maamanithar Dharmeratnam Sivaram (Taraki), the well-known political analyst and senior editor of TamilNet, on the 18th anniversary of his assassination.
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[05.03.18]
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[15.02.18]
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[20.01.18]
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[15.01.18]
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[01.01.18]
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[25.12.17]
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[17.12.17]
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P. Ramasamy
[13.11.17]
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SL vision for 2025
[08.10.17]
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Sathasivam Papers
[20.09.17]
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[04.07.17]
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CEPA
[08.06.17]
Netherlands-funded CEPA project wages political ‘counter-insurgency’ on Tamils: Colombo-based NGO outfit, Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA), is tasked to recruit gullible and opportunistic sections of the diaspora expanding Rajapaksa-time ‘KP-Diaspora’ programme. The programme is funded by the foreign ministries of the USA, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
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Tamil Genocide Book
[20.02.16]
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Durban Conference
[11.11.15]
South Africa to Singapore: global Tamils grasping geopolitics to act: The South African conference held in Durban has come out with many demands that are dear to the heart of Tamils, such as demilitarisation, stopping Sinhala colonisation, repeal of the 6th Amendment to facilitate free negotiation etc. But the slip was still showing when the conference avoided the term genocide. What was more ironical that betrayed the deception was the slogan of the conference organizers that called the country they want to salvage as ‘Sri Lanka’, boldly written in Tamil.
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1915 Anti-Muslim Pogrom
[04.11.15]
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[06.05.15]
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[05.05.15]
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