Cornering Prabhakaran

It’s only when you fly over the Wanni jungle do you begin to understand why it’s taken the Sri Lankan armed forces months to wrest territory from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

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Top issues for United States presidential candidates

The main candidates have declared international relations, Iraq, security, energy and climate, Immigration, the economy, trade, education, and health care as top issues. Few opinions were comparable and the rest were differing from each other.

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Protecting the troubled waters

Now that the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has beaten a strategic retreat in double quick time on the ultimatum he gave on ceasefire-or-else, focus has inevitably shifted, among other things, to the question of the plight of the fisherfolk. This is a perennial. New Delhi seems to have wrested a huge concession from the Lankans who are in the process of designating areas in their territorial waters where our fishermen can go and fish.

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