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Kundakulum: Questioning India`s Capability To Guarantee Nuclear Safety Analysis

Is India's technologically capable as well as stable to prosper as a responsible nuclear power?

(NEW DELHI) - The sudden re-emergence of a hue and cry in the Sri Lankan media regarding radiation emitted by the India nuclear plant at Kudankulam could not capture much attention around the world.

The news however did raise certain issues especially in view of the incidents of tritium leakage in India.

A Ship About to Sink

Neither Singh nor Pranab Mukherjee, nor anyone else is capable any more of saving this Government. It’s neck deep in its own sticky sleaze.

(LONDON) - I like Manmohan Singh. He has immaculate credentials. It’s these credentials that have seen the UPA through its most stormy years.

If Singh wasn’t Prime Minister, the Government would have collapsed a long time back.

Bangladesh: Blueprint of Alternative Political Force

Former President H M Ershad has been considered by many to be an unpredictable character in Bangladesh politics.

(SALEM) - Former President and Jatiya Party Chairman H M Ershad recently met India's newly-elected President, Pranab Mukherjee, and was the first Bangladeshi politician to do so.

Suddenly Bangladesh's ex-martial law administrator becomes a much more important ally for India.

Will Sri Lanka`s President Fetter the SEC?

Investigations into stock exchange mafia...

(COLOMBO, The Island) - The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) and its officials who have come under severe pressure for trying to stamp out illegal market practices in the Colombo Stock Exchange.

The has government yet to make public its stance regarding the issue as market manipulators gleefully watch the pendulum swing their way.

India: Sexual Assault by the Central Reserve Police Force in Odisha

William Gomes contacts the National Human Rights Commission over sex abuse by police in the Bargarh district in Odisha of India.

(SALEM) - Members of the Central Reserve Police Force in India are accused of sexually assaulting local females and now the reports include police coercing sex crime victims.

In one case, police would only accept a report about the incident after nearly 150 local gathered in protest.

Tamils Should Protest Against UN, Demand Referendum: May 17 Movement

The demonstration was organized by TN political activists to convey solidarity with the demands of Eezham Tamil youth activist Gobi Sivanthan.

(CHENNAI, India TamilNet) - Criticizing the UN for collaborating with vested interests of world powers in denying a just political solution for the Eezham Tamils, Thirumurugan Gandhi from the May 17th Movement said that Tamils should direct their protests against the UN.

They're asking for an internationally monitored referendum to resolve the national question of the genocide affected Eezham Tamils.

New Book Examines History of the Tamil People`s Struggle for Self-Determination

Ridenour is a long-term activist in solidarity with Cuba and other Latin American revolutions and a regular contributor to Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal.

(CHENNAI, India) - Ron Ridenour‘s latest book is a very informative history of the struggle for self-determination by the Tamil people on the island of Sri Lanka.

Ridenour explains the reasons why many Tamils took up arms to fight for an independent Tamil state. He shows the history of racism in Sri Lanka and the violent repression carried out by successive governments against peaceful Tamil protests.

Independence Day!

Does it matter whether India sings ‘Jana Gana Mana’ or God Save the Queen’?

(NEW DELHI, India) - The British Indians who have never been proud of their own history, culture, civilization, technological achievements, and their own truly nationalist leaders, will celebrate 65th Independence day on 15th August.

The true Indians who feed the British Indians still slave for Rs 28 per day as officially conceded. Rupees 27 means they are poor, one rupee extra means they are not.

The Meaning of 9^th August

Gandhi taught the people a basic law of governance: when you buy something, say spuds, you get the spuds first and then pay. When you buy freedom, you pay first, and then get it.

(NEW DELHI, India) - 70 years ago, as first lights crept up the horizon, the British Indian Police entered Gandhi's home to arrest him, his wife [Kasturba Gandhi] and his secretary [Mahadev Desai].

The day was 9th August, 1942. Time: around 5 AM. Place: Bombay.

Reincarnation/Rebirth of the Indo-Lanka Accord

It is obvious that no Sri Lankan government will find a viable political solution to the Tamil question in the Island.

(PARIS, France) - Reading this headline, extreme Singhalese may say, ‘another....... paving the way for a separate state’, extreme Tamil nationalists may say, ‘another one going against the independent state’, but the wisest may say, ‘the right thinking at the right time’.

Twenty five years ago, the India's PM Rajiv Gandhi and the Sri Lanka Pres. J. R. Jayawardene signed the Indo-Lanka accord..