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372 matching reports found. Showing 81 - 100 [TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 May 2011, 00:21 GMT]Resettled Tamil families in Kudumpimalai village in Koa'ralaippattu south DS division in east resettled about two years ago have complained to non-governmental organizations that they are not being provided with basic facilities. NGO representatives who visited the village recently were told that about 150 families were resettled but only 25 houses constructed by NECCDEP had been handed over to the families. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 11 April 2011, 06:45 GMT]A group of Sinhala hoodlum led by a Buddhist monk had chased away a group of Tamil famers who have been doing paddy cultivation in the fields in Muthalai-madu and Padukaadu in Seruwila division in Trincomalee district for the last four decades. Tamil farmers are from villages Paddiththidal, Ma'natcheanai and Ki'liveddi, who possess deeds for their paddy fields in Muthalai-madu and Padukaadu and have been doing cultivation since 1963. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 06 April 2011, 12:11 GMT]Tamil National Alliance MP for Batticaloa, Pakiaselvam Ariyanethiran, Tuesday night told media that Sri Lankan forces were staging search operations in the three districts of Eastern Province to justify Colombo's “need” to extend the Emergency in the island. The Sri Lanka Army with the SL Police on Tuesday launched major cordon and search operation simultaneously in all the three districts of the Eastern province for the first time since the end of Vanni war. Meanwhile, Tamil residents of border villages in the East said the SLA had put up new road blocks and had issued warnings asking for details of those who were protesting against Sinhalese being settled along the border villages. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 00:43 GMT] The grassland or thicket of Alangium lamarckii trees
The tank of Alangium lamarckii trees or Lantana indica plants Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 07 March 2011, 18:27 GMT] The Young Men Hindu Association (YMHA) of Thirunelveali in Jaffna that was started in April 1911 celebrates its centenary next month. Its members of old times met in London Sunday to observe the centenary. Located at the Thirunelveali Junction, where the Aadiyapaatham Road crosses the Palaali Road, the institution played an important role in the social, political and cultural history of the people of Thirunelveali village. An academic of the University of Jaffna writes on Thirunelveali, the anthropology of civil institutions and changing times in Jaffna. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 05 February 2011, 16:35 GMT] The open land of the deity Vairavar holding a head on his hand Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 03 February 2011, 13:17 GMT]Uprooted Tamil families from Champoor village in Moothoor East in
Trincomalee district during military offensive launched by the Sri
Lanka Army in April 2006 and sheltered in welfare centres at Ki'liveddi,
Ma'natcheanai and Paddiththidal have not been supplied with dry ration
relief for the last two months by government. On Thursday activists
of the Canada-Moothoor Development Association
distributed some relief to them that could enough for their one day
need. Full story >> [TamilNet, Friday, 21 January 2011, 12:51 GMT]The dead body of a woman recovered earlier this week from a well at Munaippulam located near Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) base in Pungkudutheevu, an island off Jaffna, was identified Thursday as that of Uththamakumari Thurairajasingham, a teacher at Ariyaalai Anantha Viththiyaalayam, who was reported missing since 16 November 2010, more than 30 km away from the island. The body of 40-year-old teacher had cut injuries in neck, medical sources said. Her clothes, bound to a stone, were located at the bottom of the same well, where her naked body was found. The SLN base in Pungkudutheevu, the largest base for the occupying military in the islands, gained notoriety after villagers accused SLN soldiers for the gang-rape and brutal murder of 29-year-old Sarathambal, the wife of Saiva priest Saravanabavanatha Kurukkal, 10 years ago, in December 1999. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 17 January 2011, 19:42 GMT]The Village Officer of Aaraiyampathi S.Suresh was assaulted by a group of persons led by P. Prashanthan, a TMVP person and a councillor of the Eastern Provincial Council Sunday morning in the presence of a police officer. The TMVP - Pillayan group has assaulted the Mr. Suresh while he was supervising the distribution of relief goods to flood-affected families sheltered in Ramakrishna Mission Mahaa Viththiyaalayam. Full story >> [TamilNet, Thursday, 13 January 2011, 21:41 GMT] The hill having a summit resembling a traditional hair-knot on the head
The hill having a pointed top
The hill having a crown-like top
Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 05:22 GMT]In Batticaloa district alone 1,32,000 acres of paddy and subsidiary
crops have been completely destroyed due to the torrential rain now
being experienced in the eastern province, according to the latest
figures issued by the Regional Disaster Management Centre . Meanwhile
Eastern Provincial Council (EPC) member R.Thurairatnam, in a
memorandum sent to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, has
requested that farmers in the district who have incurred heavy loss
including their capital due to the flood should be paid full
compensation by the government.
Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 10 January 2011, 03:39 GMT]Heavy rain fall since Saturday night has brought the normal life in
the three districts of East, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampaarai, to standstill
and almost all the villages including DS offices are under water. According to latest figures, in Batticaloa district alone 421,851 persons from 112,039 families have
been affected. The two districts, Trincomalee and Batticaloa, were experiencing
heavy rain with strong winds till Sunday evening amid fears that it
might develop as a cyclone. Several thousand villagers
including uprooted and sheltered in transit camps in Trincomalee
district awaiting resettlement in Champoor in Moothoor East are again
displaced and sought refuge at various places and desperation prevails in many divisions of the Eastern Province. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 January 2011, 13:30 GMT]Jeyaseelan Jegan, 15, a student at the Thampiluvil Maththiya Maha Viththiyaalayam and residing in Kaayaththiri village in Vinaayakapuram division with his parents, has been reported missing since January 2, according to complaints lodged with the Thirukkoayil Police in Ampaa'rai district by his relatives. Full story >> [TamilNet, Monday, 27 December 2010, 03:18 GMT]Continuous rain for the last one week has disrupted the normal life in several parts of the Trincomalee district, especially the refugees uprooted from Champoor in Moothoor East in 2006 military operations by the Sri Lanka Army and currently sheltered in temporary transit camps in Ki'liveddy, Manatcheanai and Paddiththidal, civil society sources in Trincomalee said. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 18 December 2010, 18:51 GMT]Two Tamil youths, both residents of Katpaanaik-ku'lam in Aayiththiyamalai police division in Paduvaankarai area in Batticaloa district were taken into custody Friday by about ten persons in Sri Lanka Army (SLA) uniform who arrived in army jeep and three motor bicycles. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 18 December 2010, 11:40 GMT]A 13-year-old Tamil boy who was playing near Karaveddi playground on Tuesday was hit by gunfire by Sinhala policemen who were on meat hunting 5 km west of Batticaloa town. Policemen on hunting have been firing indiscriminately on animals in the area causing panic among the civilians who live in the hamlets. The injured boy, Baskaran Vijayakumar, a 9th grade student at Naavatkaadu Naamaka'l Viththiyaalayam, has been admitted at the Batticaloa Teaching Hospital. Policemen targeting pigs in the jungle area use automatic rifles and fire several rounds, the civilians in the area complain adding that the residents in the densely populated areas have been hit by gunfire also on earlier occasions. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 20:14 GMT]The Buddhist of the Vaazhaichcheanai Buddha Jayanthi Vihara last week demolished 80 meter long boundary wall that divided the Vihara's land from the adjacent Pi'rai-thu'rai-chenai Ahar Viththiyaalayam and annexed the playground of the Muslim school with Buddhist Vihara's land, blamed M.S.M.Subairdeen, the principal of the school in a writ application filed in Vaazhaichcheani Court last Wednesday. Meanwhile, Eastern Provincial Council member Java Hirshali accused the police for assisting the Vihara in erecting a fence annexing the school property with Vihara. Full story >> [TamilNet, Saturday, 11 December 2010, 18:17 GMT]The Chief Priest of Murukamoorththi Temple in Changkaanai of Valikaamam and his two sons were fatally injured Saturday evening when unknown gunmen, who attempted to rob the temple, opened fire on them. 56-year-old Niththiyantha Sharma, the chief priest and 32-year-old Sivananda Sharma and 27-year-old Jegananda Sharma, were rushed to Jaffna Teaching Hospital and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, medical sources in Jaffna said. Meanwhile, civilian movement has been heavily restricted in Changkaanai by the Sri Lankan military that has rounded up the area, residents said. Journalists are denied access to the area. Recently, a temple musician playing Naathasvaram at a temple in A'laveddi in Valikaamam was also fired at by gunmen. Full story >> [TamilNet, Wednesday, 01 December 2010, 00:09 GMT] How the number of Tamils in Valikaamam in Jaffna district has dwindled during the last 20-years due to Sri Lankan genocidal onslaught on Tamil homeland became evident when only 970 families registered for resettlement in the three villages of I'lavaalai and Viththakapuram in Valikaamam North, bordering the Sri Lanka Army declared High Security Zone, civil sources in Jaffna said. 1746 families were registered in the same area in 1990, according to the statistics by Thellippazhai divisional secretariat. The uprooted civilians, who were allowed to visit their villages last weekend and later denied of proper access-route to their villages, also complained that even the few properties that remained in their houses and temples have been robbed away after they were allowed access to the villages. Full story >> [TamilNet, Tuesday, 30 November 2010, 09:03 GMT] Education department sources have warned that schools in Vanni
are facing closure due to continuous torrential rain. Majority of
schools including in Ki'linochchi, Mullaiththeevu, Mannaar, and
Vadamaraachchi East have been functioning in temporary shelters. Classrooms have been under water due to rain. Members of several families have also sought refuge in
temporary shelters put up in schools as their houses are also under
water. Hence education authorities have asked students not to come to
schools which are located in rain affected areas. Full story >>
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