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The authorities, however, have made it clear that they intend to recapture all land held by the Tamil Tiger rebels within a few days.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched their first-ever air strike, on an air-force base next to Colombo's international airport.

"They're trying to get rid of the whole Tamil race, " she said, her big brown eyes moist.

One Tamil girl told him she needed an operation for her leg wounds, but there was no such facility here.

Addressing parliament in the Tamil language, Rajapaksa said the war was not waged against the Tamil people.

Norway had a torrid time trying to mediate between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government.

But now, military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

Despite a peace agreement in 2002, a separate Tamil homeland, with its enemies eliminated, was all he would accept.

Tamil demands for equality and for a real devolution of power in the north and east are far from unreasonable.

At least two independent groups as well as the Ministry of Information Technology are currently localizing to Tamil.

Three of the greetings were in languages from her native India: Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.

Beset by accusations of graft, it may soon have to eject a dodgy-looking coalition ally, a Tamil party thumped in a state election in May.

In Tamil-dominated Jaffna, however, presidential portraits, plastered all over the south for the inauguration, are scarce.

This follows protests in the Tamil-majority Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where there has always been sympathy for fellow Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan military said it did not believe the Tamil Tigers, the island's separatist rebel movement, were involved.

Tips: some northern and central parts of the anti-government armed Tamil Tigers, into their sphere of influence must be cautious.

Tens of thousands of Tamil civilians fled the last remaining patch of Sri Lanka controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

His first "political" act, in 1975, was to shoot the mayor of Jaffna at point-blank range for betraying the Tamil cause, as he believed.

In London overnight there were violent clashes outside the Houses of Parliament involving pro-Tamil demonstrators.

Nestling 700ft up in the Palani Hills of Tamil Nadu, this little hill-station town has plenty of expat history.

Fierce army onslaughts finished off the brutal Tamil Tigers, but thousands of civilians were killed, injured or displaced in the process.

They offered to lay down their guns as government forces swept across the last Tamil Tiger strongholds in the northeast.

The Tamil Tigers said the makeshift hospital in Mullivaikal in the rebel-held enclave was hit on Tuesday morning.

"We are all Tigers now, " claimed one British-born, well-educated Tamil protester outside the Houses of Parliament in London this week.

The Tamil Tigers have seen their territory shaved down to less than eight square kilometers amid a final offensive by the military.

The army, meanwhile, claimed to have recaptured the whole of the northern Jaffna peninsula from the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Sri Lanka's army defied calls from foreign governments for a humanitarian pause in its campaign against Tamil Tiger rebels.

Fonseka led the Army to its victory over the Tamil Tigers ending three-decade old armed rebellion.

Celebrations erupted in Colombo today as words spread that the war against the Tamil Tigers is almost at an end.

A suicide-bombing in the south of Sri Lanka, which killed at least 15 people, was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The Tamil side gets many of these images out on the internet.

Analysts, however, are skeptical that the rebels, who have waged a 25-year-long campaign for a Tamil homeland, can be vanquished militarily.

The army's crushing of the rebels at the time also killed, injured or displaced tens of thousands of Tamil civilians.

Sri Lanka this year tightly controlled media coverage of fighting that led to the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The Sri Lankan government has called on civilians trapped in territory held by the Tamil Tigers to move to a demarcated safe zone.

The EU has complained of violations, particularly during this year's final stages of the war with Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sulochana Ramaiah, a Tamil journalist, hopes the end of the war heralds a new era of prosperity.

This was revealed by the Union Minister while he was laying the foundation for Erode Powerloom Mega Cluster in Erode, Tamil Nadu.

But as representatives of a minority seen as suffering discrimination, they still enjoy some support in Tamil Nadu.

Neither should our distaste for the war be interpreted to mean that we support the Tamil Tigers.

The southern state of Tamil Nadu was the first to elect a film star as its chief minister.

He thrilled the home audience by speaking in his native Tamil, closing his second acceptance speech with the evocation: "God is great. "

Sri Lankan pundits are calling this violence "Eelam War IV" : the fourth round in the struggle for an Eelam, or independent Tamil homeland.

The Tamil Tigers, blamed in more than 200 suicide attacks since 1983, are listed as a terror group by the U. S. and the European Union.

NO ONE talks peace while waging war better than Sri Lanka's government and Tamil rebels.

Our intention was to save the Tamil people from the cruel grip of the LTTE.

Sri Lanka is embroiled in an unending civil war, with the Tamil Tigers carrying out endless suicide bombings.

But since it crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam its government has found itself in an unfamiliar position.

In comparison, the number of textile manufacturing units in Tamil Nadu has grown more than 1. 5 times during the last decade.

It has meddled in Nepal's politics, and in the early stages of Sri Lanka's civil war it backed Tamil guerrillas.

The LTTE is fighting for a homeland in northeastern Sri Lanka for the nation's ethnic Tamil minority.

On August 28th a woman in Tamil Nadu burned herself to death to protest against the imminent hangings.

Language: Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil are the official languages. Malay is the national language.

Almost two hundred thousand Tamil civilians in the north have been displaced since fighting intensified in January.

Two years ago Tamil organisations could still raise money freely in Europe.

Demands for preferential treatment for the inhabitants of Trincomalee, whether Tamil, Sinhala or Muslim, may fall on deaf ears.

More than 100 people have died over the past few weeks due to incessant rains in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

In fact, almost half of Colombo, the island's seaside capital of a million people, is Tamil or Tamil-speaking Muslim.

The Sri Lankan army says it has launched the final assault on Tamil Tiger positions in the coastal strip they still hold.

Sri Lanka's government rejected calls from the rebel Tamil Tigers for a ceasefire to allow peace talks.

Several thousand civilians fled fighting in the shrinking patch of northern Sri Lanka controlled by the rebel Tamil Tigers.

The wedding actually took place at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu state, with the dog bride wearing an orange sari and flowers.

The civil actions are by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extrajudicial killings during the Sri Lankan civil war.

In fact, Tirupur and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu are fast displacing Ahmedabad and Surat in Gujarat as the leading textile centres of India.

A Sinhalese-chauvinist government suits Mr Prabhakaran, helping bolster Tamil support for the Tigers.

Conservation experts say a Tamil Tiger bomb attack on Sri Lanka's sacred Buddhist temple accidentally uncovered priceless murals.

All the investment has generated jobs for more than 200, 000 people and accounts for 12% of the economic output of the state of Tamil Nadu.

That term was meted out this week to J. S. Tissainayagam on terrorism charges, after he criticised the army's treatment of Tamil civilians.

By contrast, poorly performing rulers, eg, in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, have been sent packing.

The footage was allegedly filmed in January during the final stages of Sri Lanka's bloody war with Tamil Tiger rebels.

The state accounts for about 70 per cent of the production, the rest mainly coming from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.

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The Sri Lankan government is pressing its military campaign against the Tamil Tiger rebels in the region.

Tamil Nadu has a unique place in the world of Indian science.

Sri Lankan troops captured Elephant Pass, another stronghold of Tamil Tiger rebels in the Jaffna peninsula last Friday.

More than 300 Tamil civilians, including many with family links to the Tigers, have been murdered in Jaffna alone.

The World Bank says farmers using the system in India's Tamil Nadu State are harvesting forty to eighty percent more rice than before.

This is the utility I use on this web site for several of the " Unicode only " languages like Hindi , Tamil , Georgian, and Armenian .

Russia is already constructing two units in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

The Sri Lankan military has built a new divisional headquarters on a former Tamil Tiger graveyard.

His killers were from another Tamil militant group, in the pay of Sri Lanka's democratically elected government.

Tamil Nadu is a beautiful state nestled in the southern Indianpeninsula, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal and the deep blue Indian Ocean.

But the government also promises a political settlement, in which power is devolved and something is done to meet Tamil aspirations.

Urbanicity is associated with the prevalence of several NCD risk factors in Tamil Nadu, India.

Rather than make such misleading statements, it should lose no time to save Tamil lives. ''

Malay is its notional language, but Chinese, English and Tamil are also offical languages.

The vessel is carrying more than 1, 000 people from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.

Some agencies were openly critical of the colossal human loss incurred in the army's final assault on Tamil Tiger rebels in 2009.

Occasionally, such invasions resulted in Tamil rule for extended periods.

Mandarin is Singapore, E nglish, Chinese, Malay and Tamil are the official language, E nglish is the administrative language.

The Tamil Tigers have been fighting for a separate nation for the past 25 years.

Both towns have overwhelmingly Tamil populations.

Sri Lankan government minister has been killed and 10 others wounded in a bomb attack by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels.

Tamil politicians believe the government intends to curb Tamil nationalism through intense security and population transfer.

Sri Lankan state television announced Monday that Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead.

The Old Tamil word for fish is min. But minhas another meaning too - "star" or "planet" .

The Tamil rebels want an autonomous homeland for Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community.

I need a professional male voiceover artist who speaks fluent Kannada and Tamil languages to record 16 seconds of audio clips.

Then he, too, was killed on the election trail in Tamil Nadu by a suicide bomber.

India's economy is expected to grow 9% this year and Tamil Nadu has worked to minimize barriers to investment.

The Sri Lankan government has rejectedana unilateral ceasefire declared by Tamil Tiger rebels.

In Tamil Nadu Jayaram Jayalalitha, a former actress, wowed voters with promises of free rice and other goodies.

Also at the summit Sunday, Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rohitha Bogollagama, defended the military defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels.

Poonam Kaur is an Indian actress and model. She has frequently appeared in Telugu films apart from Tamil and Kannada films.

The official languages are English, Mandarin, Malay and Tamil.

Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels, on the verge of total military defeat, have declared a cease-fire.

Doctor Venkataswamy established the first Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, in Tamil Nadu state, with only eleven beds.

In Punjab, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Bihar Congress's fortunes have revived.

It has delivered over 16 million TVs since then to Tamil Nadu households.

Singapore's national language are Malay, Mandarin and Tamil.

He says some states in the country, like Tamil Nadu in the south and Himachal Pradesh in the north, are showing the way.

Tamil mores prohibit sex between people who are not married and sex across castes (though they are less bothered about marital rape).

The defeated Sri Lankan guerrilla group, the Tamil Tigers has accused the government of illegally seizing their new leader abroad.

The rich promise, all future profits will be donated to PMP Chinese and Tamil schools.

Both his son-in-law and son are now detained by the government, suspected of links with the defeated Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lankan military officials say Tamil rebels carried out an aerial bombing raid in the capital of Colombo late Friday.

There are four official languages in Singapore: Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil.

Can a Tamil become President of Sri Lanka the way a Sikh can become Prime Minister of India?

The government says he has been arrested in connection with the last week's air attack by Tamil Tigers in Colombo.

But it is also critical of many Tamil strategies.

He was assassinated in 1989 by a female Tamil terrorist.

The attack, blamed on the Tamil Tigers, also injured more than 90 people.

The project works in 12 villages in India's rural Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states.

He said as per the 2001 census, Tamil Nadu had 1. 6 million people with disabilities and over 70 per cent of them lived in rural areas.

The national average is worsening thanks to states which once were more neutral with regard to sex, such as Tamil Nadu and Orissa.

Actually, we all wanted to be home before 14 January, a big Tamil festival.

Last year, as Western nations harried Sri Lanka over the conduct of its brutal last-ditch battle with Tamil Tiger rebels, China moved in.

Scripts such as Tamil, Burmese, and Thai all require such re-ordering procedures before any rendering can occur.

The other official language is Tamil (18%).

There has been no comment yet from Tamil Tigers.

But it might offer the chance to win Tamil loyalties.

The Sri Lankan army has been leading what it called a "final push" against Tamil Tiger rebels.

you mean Tamil are ally of us?

Yet for weeks the Tigers have held hostage perhaps 150, 000-200, 000 Tamil civilians, subject to daily shelling and gunfire.

There is also a handicrafts exhibition cum fair organized by the Government of Tamil Nadu.

These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay, spoken in south and southeast Asia.

And here lies the dillema. The fans are 99% of all Tamil makkals.

General Fonseka claims the Tigers have lost 9, 000 fighters since 2006. They were driven from one big Tamil town, Jaffna, in 1995.

More than 200, 000 Tamils were interned in camps for months, while the government processed the inhabitants to identify Tamil Tiger members.

In India, prevalence fell in Tamil Nadu antenatal clinics from 1% in 1998 to 0. 65% in 2006.

In India, prevalence fell in Tamil Nadu antenatal clinics from 1% in 1998 to 0. 65% in 2006.

As one independent Tamil analyst put it, the ruling regime's main achievement has been to win the war.

A recent development has been to use Tamil characters with numeric subscripts indicating voicing and aspiration.

Tamil, for example, has more than 200 characters, each of which represents a syllable.

I went to Tamil Nadu, Bangalore and Chandigarh for shooting competitions, but here in Johri, I'm just another housewife in the village.

The army claimed that at least 50 Tamil fighters had been killed in the latest battle. It refrained from disclosing its own loss

Many Singaporeans, though not all, are bilingual. Most speak English and another language, most commonly Mandarin Chinese, Malay or Tamil.

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In the nearby city of Colombo, Sri Lankans celebrated the downfall of the Tamil Tiger rebels with flags and firecrackers

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