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Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu brace for coronavirus crisis amid challenging circumstances of camp life
Kavitha Muralidharan •Having survived a civil war, Sri Lankan refugees in Tamil Nadu camps say they are prepared to battle coronavirus crisis: "Covid is only a new dimension to our suffering. We will not allow it to defeat us.”
Jaffna HC summons Sri Lankan Army chief Mahesh Senanayake over disappearance of 24 Tamils in 1996
•A Sri Lankan court has summoned the commander of the country's Army over the disappearance of 24 Tamils since their arrest in 1996
Pranab Mukherjee says Sitaram Kesri's ambition to become PM led to Gujral government's failure in 1997
Ians •Mukherjee released his latest of the trilogy, the first two volumes of his autobiography dealt with the Indira Gandhi era and the turbulent decade post-Indira.
Sri Lanka parties, including TNA agree to accept country as unitary state: PM Ranil Wickremesinghe
•The new Constitution was a key promise of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena during the 2015 elections
World Day Against Child Labour 2017: UN says 170 million kids being exploited; governments need to step up
Rashmesehgal •A recent UNICEF report highlighted that children account for more than half the world’s refugees even as they comprise only a third of the world’s population.
Sri Lanka visit: Rajinikanth should not have capitulated, if he believed in what he was doing
Tssudhir •It is bizarre for Vaiko and company to oppose a move that is going to benefit the Lankan Tamils.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon asks Sri Lanka to speed up return of land to Tamils
•Ban said on Friday that the UN too learnt lessons from Sri Lanka's conflict.
Sri Lanka's Islamic party calls for removing excess army camps from Northern areas
Ians •Sri Lanka government battled Tamil Tiger rebels in a brutal war which saw thousands killed on both sides.
Sri Lanka to enable certificates of absence for 65,000 people missing during war
•In a landmark decision, the Sri Lankan cabinet on Tuesday approved a draft legislation to enable issuing 'certificates of absence' for some 65,000 people, who went missing during the brutal three decade-long war with the LTTE, to settle long-pending issues of property for their kin
India hopes for consensus on resolution at UNHRC on Sri Lanka
Fp Archives •India is hopeful that there will be a consensus resolution on the issue at the UNHRC on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, next week