மே17 இற்குப் பிந்திய புதிய புலப்பெயர்வு -2

76 ஈழ அகதிகளுடன் கனடாவுக்குள் நுழைந்த '' ஓசன் லேடி '' என்ற கப்பல்

76 ஈழத் தமிழர்களுடன் '' ஓசன் லேடி'' கப்பல் ஒன்று கனடாவைச் சென்றடைந்துள்ளது. கடந்த சனிக்கிழமை கனடிய பொலிஸார் பிரிட்டிஷ் கொலம்பியா கடலின் கனடா கடற்பரப்பிற்குள் வைத்து குறித்த சந்தேகத்துக்கு இடமான கப்பலை கனேடிய கடற்படையினர் கைப்பற்றியுள்ளார்கள்.கப்பலானது இலங்கையிலிருந்து அகதிகளுடன் வந்தாகக் கருத்தப்பட்ட போதும், எங்கிருந்து கப்பல் புறப்பட்டது என விசாரணைகளில் இருந்து தெரியவரவில்லை. கப்பலில் வந்தர்வர்கள் கனடாவில் குடியேற அனுமதிக்குமாறு அவர்கள் கோரிக்கை விடுத்துள்ளனர். இவர்கள் அனைவரும் பிரிட்டிஷ் கொல்பியாவில் உள்ள ஒரு சிறையில் வைத்து கனடா காவல்துறையினர் விசாரணை நடத்தி வருகின்றனர்.

தகவல்: பதிவு இணையம்

'US fund manager cleared of funding terrorism'

'US fund manager cleared of funding terrorism'

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lankan-born hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam was investigated for allegedly funding Tamil Tiger rebels, but there was no evidence against him, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka said Monday.
US authorities on Friday charged Rajaratnam, 52, with fraud after saying they had uncovered the biggest ever case of insider-trading by a hedge fund.
He was among several wealthy overseas Sri Lankans whose donations to a Maryland-based charity, the Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO), are suspected of making their way to the separatist Tamil Tigers.
"At the time Mr. Rajaratnam made the donations, the TRO was not banned by the Sri Lankan government, nor the US. It was a donation made in good faith," the central bank's investigations unit chief, D.K. Wijesuriya, told AFP.
The central bank is the leading investigating authority in Sri Lanka for all financial transactions that are suspected of breaching money-laundering laws.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are considered a terrorist organisation by Sri Lanka, the United States and the European Union. After decades of civil war, the government declared victory over the LTTE in May.
Wijesuriya said their investigations did not uncover any wrongdoing by Rajaratnam, who he said had given the money to the TRO for reconstruction work following the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The TRO was outlawed in Sri Lanka in November 2007 and its assets were frozen a year later.
Sri Lanka's securities regulator said there were no probes on Rajaratnam's dealings in the island's tiny 10-billion-dollar bourse.
"None of his trades ever aroused our suspicion. This (the US charges) came as a surprise," the Securities and Exchange Commission director general, Channa de Silva, told AFP.
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Management hedge fund, with securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
Sri Lankan shares tumbled 3.1 percent in morning trade Monday on fears of economic fallout from the US case against Rajaratnam, who has substantial business interests on the island.
Rajaratnam, who had his primary education in Sri Lanka, is the world's 559th richest person according to Forbes magazine with a net worth of 1.3 billion dollars.
Sri Lanka's justice ministry thanked Rajaratnam last month for donating millions of dollars to rehabilitate child soldiers conscripted by the Tamil Tigers.(MORE)

We will decide fearlessly- President

Armed forces' sacrificed not in vain :

(By : Rasika Somarathna in Matale)

Even though terrorism had been defeated certain forces which preached separatism and who tried to divide the country were still at large. "We are closely monitoring the situation and to defeat this and in the struggles ahead to build a new country we shall not fear to take necessary decisions in the face of any dangers that we may face," said President Mahinda Rajapaksa. (MORE)