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India, Pak talks `Very Positive` and `encouraging` - Ban Ki-moon

Ban: "It is the right time for President Mahinda Rajapaksa to address the issues in a speedy and judicious manner"

(UNITED NATIONS) - Terming developments as "very positive" and "encouraging" recent efforts by India and Pakistan to normalise their relations, UN chief Ban Ki-moon today hoped the two neighbours will continue the dialogue.

The UN chief believes both must play a greater role for peace, security and harmony in the region.

Families of Fishermen Forgive Italian Marines

The Kerala high court approved the out-of-court settlement.

(KERALA, India DeccanChronicle) - The two families of fishermen Valentine and Ajeesh Pink, killed in the Italian Enrica Lexie shooting, accepted the Rs. 2 crore compensation, by demand draft, from the Italian government here on Tuesday.

INDIA: BSF Torture Yet Another Person in West Bengal

Salem-News Human Rights Ambassador William Gomes contacts officials in India over police torture allegations.

(HONG KONG) - Chhanarul Mondal survived cruel and dark human behavior; crimes of torture, and the suspects are India's notorious border police.

They are also said to have fabricated charges against the victim was was hospitalized over a week from the torture injuries.

Destroying Confidence

If our efforts to reach consensus are going to be undermined by efforts to sow distrust, then we will certainly have problems.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - Last week, I was told, a mysterious lady approached the President while he was at a funeral, knelt at his feet, and came out with a terrifying story.

The person who told me the story evidently thought of the lady as she who must not be named, but she was nothing like the fictional character who could not be named.

Rage in the Air

Rajasthan: Mobile towers shut down in a Jaipur 
colony following THE WEEK’s report.

(JAIPUR, India) - For a day it seemed Sudhir Kasliwal had won the battle.

The Jaipur jeweller, who had been
campaigning to move cell phone towers out of residential areas, was relieved when Jaipur city authorities took note of THE WEEK's report on the impact of mobile towers (‘Wave of worry', March 11) and shut down operations; only to be restarted the next day.

A Day in The Life of Strawberry Fields and IMAGINING a FREE Vanunu Mordechai

“Reality leaves a lot to the IMAGINATION.”-John Lennon

(CLERMONT, FLA) - Because I have been imagining a FREE Vanunu, a FREE Gaza-Palestine and a Nuclear FREE World since 2005 during my first of 7 trips to the so called Holy Land, I knew I had to do something to mark 21 April 2012.

It begins the first day of the 9th year-on top of 18 years in jail- that Israel’s Nuclear Whistle Blower has been waiting for his right to leave the state.

Colombo Must Persuade TNA to Join Talks: Sushma

The delegation raised the Army's increasingly embedded role in society in the Northern Province.

(CHENNAI, India The Hindu) - Tthe Indian parliamentary delegation, which wound up its six-day tour of Sri Lanka, has emphasised to the government that the stalemate has to be ended.

“We told [Sri Lankan] President Mahinda Rajapaksa that this stalemate has to be broken,” said the leader of the delegation, Sushma Swaraj.

Mahinda Sandwiched Between Two Siblings

According to a close contact of Minister Basil Rajapakse, he has asked the President to influence his rival brother Gota to put an end to the arbitrary conduct of the Defence Ministry.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - The rift between President Mahinda Percy Rajapakse’s siblings Basil Rajapakse and Gotabaya Rajapakse is said to be widening to an irreconcilable position since the Geneva resolution against Sri Lanka on the implementation of the President’s LLRC report.

The relationship between the two siblings has reached the stage of both attempting to score points against the other.

President Instigates Inamaluwe Thero Against Muslims

The Muslim mosque in question is over 40 years old and had been completely renovated recently.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Lanka News Web) - Ven. Inamaluwe Sumangala Thero has organized a protest campaign on the 18th against the construction of a Muslim mosque in the Dambulla city on a Presidential directive, it is reliably learnt.

The Thero had summoned several donors to the temple and said that the protest was being organized on a Presidential directive.

`Never Again` is an Empty Slogan

If Obama is sincere, if ‘never again’ isn’t just an ‘empty slogan’ as he says, he better goes out of his way to restrain Israel’s genocidal inclinations and its belligerent pro-war Lobbies around the world.

(LONDON) - The United States must resolve that ‘never again’ is not just an ‘empty slogan’, said U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday, in a statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Yet, I am left bewildered, what does president Obama refers to? Is ‘never again’ a universal message pointing at genocides in general or did he refer to Jewish suffering only?