Death of a President: On #Iran ’s Ebrahim #Raisi & the change at the country's helm that comes at a time of domestic and regional uncertainties - The Hindu editorial today
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Gujarat’s Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) on May 20 arrested four Sri Lankans with alleged links to the banned outfit Islamic State (IS) who were allegedly on a mission to carry out terror activities in India, Mahesh Langa reports thehindu.com/news/national/… via The Hindu

Non Yadav OBCs who switched to BJP in 2014 are shifting away from the party. In their appraisal the Narendra Modi in 10-yrs kept them short of total destitution but cheated them out of the life they had been promised. I report from Eastern UP
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#MadrasBhashai 3 - Poromboku -the first expression of road rage is not because of Lord Pembroke as the Peters would have it. It is a Tamil word.

Watch | Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza strip, has turned into a ‘gigantic refugee camp’, explains Stanly Johny
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“Only those of us who were here know how many children died, how many senior citizens died. I saw how they just stacked up bodies in tractors and dropped them here” | Tamils in Sri Lanka mark 15th anniversary of civil war’s end in Mullivaikkal thehindu.com/news/internati… Meera Srinivasan

Thousands of Tamils on May 17 converged in Mullaivaikkal, along Sri Lanka’s north-eastern coast, to pay homage to their relatives killed in May 2009, in the final battle of the island’s protracted civil war. Meera Srinivasan reports.
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Tamils in #SriLanka mark 15th anniversary of civil war’s end in Mullivaikkal  thehindu.com/news/internati… via The Hindu

#Mullaitivu : 15 years since #SriLanka 's civil war ended.

After the civil war, the stifling impasse in #SriLanka - University of Jaffna academic
Ahilan Kadirgamar writes on the 15th anniversary of the end of the civil war in The Hindu today
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Adani Green Energy’s wind energy project, coming up in Sri Lanka’s northern Mannar and Pooneryn districts, has been challenged in the island’s apex court on grounds of potential environmental impact and 'lack of transparency,' Meera Srinivasan reports
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Suwaseriya- a World Bank report called it one of the world’s most digitally advanced & free ambulance services DumindraRat

But now it's in critical condition.
Suwaseriya is the “last thing” that should be underfunded.

A detailed article by Meera Srinivasan🙏

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A beautiful elephant family sleeps blissfully somwhere in deep jungles of the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu. Observe how the baby elephant is given Z class security by the family. Also how the young elephant is checking the presence of other family members for reassurance.

An India-gifted free ambulance service in Sri Lanka, providing vital pre-hospital emergency care across the island for eight years, appears to be in need of critical support, going by a recent social media post by a public health professional |Meera Srinivasan
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The war crimes tribunal for Rwanda has accounted for the last remaining fugitives indicted for genocide, bringing to an end the court’s 29-year mission to deliver justice for the 1994 slaughter that killed more than 800,000 Rwandans.
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Galeeja-keedu! - Sriram V unpacks Madras Tamil for us

Supreme Court orders release of NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha, declares his arrest illegal

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#replug | #PrabirPurkayastha is no stranger to political harassment & witch-hunts. But his arrest under the draconian #UAPA was viewed as a message to mediapersons, esp. those in the digital media, to fall in line.

T.K. Rajalakshmi writes.

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