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It’s safe to assume that nobody expects Wimal Weerawansa to die. Maybe wither, shrivel and droop a little, but not to really, really, really die..

It is also safe to assume that few, if any, think our Wimal embarked on this epic journey with the specific and precise intention of biting the biscuit at the end [...]

A 30-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil fisherman was deported by Immigration officials on Sunday morning after his name was appeared in the ‘Look Out Circular’.
The officials said the fisherman, Zion, strayed into the Indian waters in 2007. He was arrested and lodged in a refugee camp in Chengalpattu. He was deported to Sri Lanka after sometime. [...]

HOUSTON:  Six people are dead and four others were injured in a shooting at a fiber optics factory Monday in New Mexico State in the United States, police said.

Editor: ya (Xinhua)

MOGADISHU:  Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamist movement has claimed responsibility for the deadly Kampala twin bomb attacks, a senior official from the movement said on Monday.
So far, more than 70 people have been killed after twin bomb explosions targeting football fans rocked local restaurants in Kampala, Uganda’s capital, on Sunday night.

Editor: yan (Xinhua)

 Photo: A distraught woman [...]

G. Madhavan Nair, former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has termed the launch of PSLV C15 as ‘a great success’ as it was the 16th consecutive successful launch of the vehicle.
“We will come to know of the functioning of the satellites by tomorrow,” he said while interacting with the academic community at [...]

Fee levying Universities in Sri Lanka is on the cards with a 20 percent share from the total intake being allocated as Scholarships for needy local students, Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake said. The Minister Sunday hinted that introduction of such a market-oriented mechanism to the existing University education system may come into effect by [...]

Bangalore:  Self-styled godman Nityananda Paramahamsa resumed his religious preaching and delivered a talk on freedom at his Bidadi ashram on Monday, Jul 12 two days after the Karnataka High Court lifted the restriction on his spiritual activities.
He recalled his life in prison and expressed his outrage during the first preaching. “The internet has been jammed [...]

Dear Readers,
We wish to share with you the following statement from Women Action Forum
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AHRC-FST-056-2010
July 12, 2010
A Statement from Women Action Forum forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: A woman was sentenced to death by stoning through a Jirga
8 July 2010 – Khawateen Mahaz-e-Amal (Women’s Action Forum – National) is outraged [...]

Two people died and over 100 people were injured in Spain in the celebrations that followed the country’s first ever World Cup win
Madrid: Two people died and over 100 people were injured in Spain in the celebrations that followed the country’s first ever World Cup win, local officials said Monday.
In Algesiras in southwestern Spain a [...]

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Iran was moving closer to having the potential to create nuclear weapons
Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday that Iran was moving closer to having the potential to create nuclear weapons.
“Iran is moving closer to possessing the potential which in principle could be used for the [...]

New Delhi: The Central Public Works Department, the main construction arm of the government, today said that upgrading of all venues for the Commonwealth Games will be completed in a fortnight.
“We have already completed 7 of the 10 Games venues. The remaining three will be completed in a fortnight,” Director General of CPWD B K [...]

During the recent past, an armed group had arrived in white Vans and three wheelers, and had abducted 12 individuals in Maligawatte and Kotahena areas.
Three wheelers instead of white Vans being used for abduction is the latest fad.
Even after two years since the war ended, these abductions and disappearances by white Vans and three wheelers [...]

All-party meet for independent probe into death of civilians

In a two-pronged strategy to defuse the current crisis in Jammu and Kashmir, an all-party meeting on Monday called for an independent inquiry into the death of civilians, and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to give a fillip to “internal and external dialogue.”
The meeting, convened by Chief [...]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe who met today have agreed to continue talks on constitutional reforms and also reached a consensus in principle to abolish the executive presidency and replace it with an executive premiership responsible to the Parliament
The two leaders, flanked by senior members of their parties held talks today at Temple Trees [...]

KAMPALA: The death toll of the twin blasts in Ugandan capital city of Kampala late Sunday night has risen to 70, including over ten foreigners, police spokesperson confirmed here on Monday.
Judith Nabakooba, local police spokesperson told reporters at Mulago Hospital that the first explosion in Ethiopian Village restaurant, south of Kampala, killed 15 people, including [...]

The police in Sri Lanka have filed another civil case against the former military commander, Gen Sarath Fonseka.
In the latest case, Gen Fonseka is accused by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) of recruiting army deserters, and paying them salaries, during the run up to the 26 January presidential election.
The authorities say they have evidence that [...]

GENEVA:  The Swiss authorities will announce a decision on Monday on whether to extradite to the United States film director Roman Polanski, who had pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
The Swiss Justice Ministry said on Monday that it would hold a news conference at 1200 GMT on the Polanski case.
Polanski [...]

இலங்கையிலிருந்து சென்னைக்கு கடத்திவரப்பட்ட ரூ. 28லட்சம் மதிப்புள்ள தங்க பிஸ்கட்டுகள் பறிமுதல் செய்யப்பட்டன. இதையொட்டி 2 இலங்கை வாலிபர்கள் கைதுசெய்யப்பட்டுள்ளனர். இலங்கை தலைநகரம் கொழும்பிலிருந்து ஒரு விமானம் நேற்றுமுன்தினம் காலை சென்னை மீனம்பாக்கம் விமான நிலையம் வந்தது. இதில் வந்த பயணிகளை சுங்கத்துறை அதிகாரிகள் சோதனையிட்டனர் அப்போது இலங்கையில் இருந்து சுற்றுலா விசாவில் வந்திருந்த 2 வாலிபர்களின் பெட்டிகளை சோதனையிட்டனர். அதில் ஒன்றும் இல்லாததால் திருப்பி அனுப்பினர். அந்த 2 வாலிபர்களும் விமான நிலையத்தை விட்டு வெளியே [...]

வட பகுதியை துரிதமாக அபிவிருத்தி செய்ய நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும்-பிரதமர்..!
பயங்கரவாதம் காரணமாக அழிவுற்றுள்ள வட பகுதியைத் துறைவாரியாகத் துரிதமாக அபிவிருத்தி செய்வதற்கு நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்பட்டிருப்பதாக பிரதமர் டி.எம். ஜயரட்ன நேற்று முன்தினம் வவுனியாவில் தெரிவித்துள்ளார். வடபகுதியைத் துறைவாரியாகத் துரிதமாக அபிவிருத்தி செய்வது தொடர்பாகப் பல நாடுகளுடன் பேச்சுவார்த்தை நடத்தப்பட்டிருப்பதாகவும் அவர் தெரிவித்துள்ளார். இச்சந்திப்பின்போது பிரதமர் டி.எம். ஜயரட்ன தொடர்ந்தும் உரையாற்றுகையில், பயங்கரவாதம் காரணமாக வட பகுதியில் எல்லாத்துறைகளுமே அழிவுற்றுள்ளன. விவசாயம், மீன்பிடி, உட்கட்டமைப்பு என்பன அவற்றில் பிரதானமானவை அதனால் [...]

வெளிசக்திகளுக்கு இடங்கொடாமையால் பயங்கரவாதம் ஒழிந்தது-ஜனாதிபதி..!
வெளிசக்திகளுக்கு இடமளிக்காததன் காரணமாகவே இலங்கையில் பயங்கரவாதத்தை ஒழிக்க முடிந்ததாக ஜனாதிபதி மகிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ தெரிவித்துள்ளார். பாதுகாப்புத் தரப்பினருக்கு உரிய இடத்தை வழங்கி, உரிய நோக்குடன் செயற்பட்டதால் இலங்கை வெற்றியடைந்தது எனவும் அவர் கூறியுள்ளார். பிலிப்பைன்ஸ் மெனிலா டைம்ஸ் நாளிதழுக்கு வழங்கிய செவ்வியில் அவர் இதனை குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார். பயங்கரவாதத்தை தோற்கடித்த நாடுகள் உலகில் இலங்கையை ஏற்றுக்கொண்டுள்ளமை குறித்து மகிழ்ச்சியடைவதாகவும் இலங்கை தற்போது அபிவிருத்தியை நோக்கி முன்னேறிக் கொண்டிருப்பதாகவும் ஜனாதிபதி மகிந்த ராஜபக்ஷ குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.
தமிழர்கள் மட்டும் [...]

BERLIN:  No more World Cup, no more octopus oracle.
Paul, the octopus who became a pop culture sensation by correctly predicting the outcome of as many World Cup matches as he has legs — all seven of Germany’s games plus the Spain-Netherlands final — is going to retire.
The intuitive invertebrate will “step back from the official [...]

FOR PUBLICATION
AHRC-ART-068-2010
July 12, 2010
An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission
INDIA: AFSPA may be pious, but India is not a theocracy Lt. Gen Jaswal
Avinash Pandey
The Kashmir valley in India has witnessed more than 15 deaths in June alone, all of them caused by Indian security forces firing upon the protesting crowds. These crowds [...]

BEIJING: China has achieved obvious results in protecting citizens’ rights and freedoms, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday, rejecting a U.S. report that criticized China.
Spokesman Qin Gang made the remarks when asked to comment on a U.S. State Department report that criticized China’s democracy- and human rights-status.
The Chinese government protects its citizens’ basic rights [...]

With the advent of the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration, culture has become a pivotal concern in policymaking. Many regulations have been formed, reformed and revised with the aim of ‘purging’ the existent ‘Western evils’, such as the use of alcohol and cigarettes, with varying degrees of success and failure. The latest in the list is the [...]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday said that Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will visit the country on July 15 for bilateral talks.
“On the invitation of Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Indian External Affairs Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, will visit Islamabad for bilateral talks scheduled to take place on 15 July 2010,” a brief Foreign [...]

Tamil Film director and founder of Naam Thamizhar Iyakkam Seeman was arrested in Chennai today for his alleged inflammatory speech at a protest meeting recently.
Taking part in a protest meet organised to condemn the Sri Lankan government in Chennai a couple of days ago, Seeman had reportedly delivered a speech against which a police complaint [...]

Beijing:  More than 9,000 people were evacuated today from Golmud City in northwest China’s Qinghai province as water level continued to rise in a nearby reservoir following days of heavy rains.
The municipal government has set up 900 tents, four toilets and tap water supply for the evacuated people from 2,000 families near the Wenquan Reservoir, [...]

The way you sit has an effect on your spine. Here are some tips to help you avoid a pain in the back.
If u r one of those who sits at their desks in front of a computer for at least seven hours a day, bad posture is surely a part of your daily life. [...]

DOHA: Organizers of a Libyan-commissioned aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip said the boat will continue its voyage to the Palestinian enclave despite Israeli warnings that it will intercept the ship before reaching its intended destination, Al Jazeera TV reported on its website Sunday.
Carrying a large amount of food and medicine, the Moldova- flagged [...]

The mid wives at the Jaffna hospital have come to duty to the hospital wearing blank bands protesting over the alleged murder of a mid wife.  The mid wife was allegedly murdered by a doctor last week. According to reports, the doctor had tried to stage the death as a suicide to cover up the murder.  - By N. Parameswaran [...]

If the Aquino administration is to deliver on its promise to crush the decades-long insurgencies in the Philippines by 2013, it might be worthwhile to study Sri Lanka’s success in defeating terrorism. On July 3, newly appointed military Chief of Staff Ricardo David Jr. said the Aquino government hopes to crush the communist New People’s [...]

15 years ago, Serb troops killed thousands of Muslims
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina | Hoisting hundreds of coffins aloft, a line of weeping relatives stretched for at least a mile Sunday as they honored Srebrenica massacre victims on the 15th anniversary of the worst atrocity in Europe since World War II.
A whole hillside in the eastern Bosnian town [...]