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NIA arrests 9 Sri Lankan nationals in Tamil Nadu for attempting to revive LTTE in India
Umang Sharma •The National Investigation Agency (NIA) said that the two arrested Sri Lankan men were in regular touch with Pakistan-based drug dealer Haji Salim, who often travelled between Dubai, Pakistan and Iran
Sri Lankan armed forces ended civil war with LTTE through 'humanitarian operation': President Rajapaksa
•A United Nations report has said nearly 40,000 Tamils were killed in the final months of the war. The Sri Lankan government has failed to probe the human rights abuses during the war
Sri Lanka honours Tamil war dead after 13 years after the end of civil conflict
•Any remembrance of Tamil war victims had been banned under Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa family which is currently under siege over the country's dire economic crisis
Rajiv Gandhi assassination: Who is AG Perarivalan, whose mercy plea, has been reserved once again?
Fp Explainers •AG Perarivalan, an LTTE sympathiser, has served over 30 years in jail for buying the two nine-volt batteries that were used in the suicide-bombing belt in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination of 1991
Officer wears bloodstained cap and badge on retirement day; they were evidence in Rajiv Gandhi's assassination case
•IPS officer Prateep V Phillip, who retired as DGP (Training), was allowed possession of the bloodstained cap and badge that he wore on duty that day by a Chennai court recently
Ready to engage with Tamil diaspora for reconciliation talks, says Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa
•Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that he will engage with the Tamil diaspora for reconciliation talks to resolve the country's internal problems and would not hesitate to grant presidential pardon to Tamil youths in jail for LTTE links
Repairing ragged edges of India-Sri Lanka ties may take more work than meets the eye
R Hariharan •President Rajapaksa despite his reassuring words to India, has not endeared himself to India in his actions
Rapper SVDP talks 'One Hundred Thousand Flowers': Why single on Sri Lankan civil war is his most important song yet
Barkha Kumari •34 years after his family fled the Sri Lankan civil war, Toronto-based Tamil rapper SVDP has foregrounded the violence inflicted on his community, with Made in Jaffna, his third album.
Narendra Modi pays tribute to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his 76th birth anniversary
•Gandhi, who was prime minister between 1984-89, was assassinated by the LTTE during an election campaign in May, 1991
Viewing India-Sri Lanka ties through prism of power game with China is reductive, overlooks countries' civilisational connect
Sreemoy Talukdar •It is now commonplace to view India-Sri Lanka bilateral ties through the lens of New Delhi’s great power game with Beijing.