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"We have given a commitment to the Ministry to give the DPR before November 30, and we are on target," he told Business Line. L&T-Ramboll is an independent engineering consultancy firm, formed by Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Ramboll (Denmark) and IFU (the Danish Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries). There will also be a new study on ship manoeuvring behaviour in the ship canal using mathematical modelling. A limited tender would be called for to do the study. "With such a huge project (the ship canal project), we do not want to take any chance, and need to revalidate the earlier studies," he said. The new studies would cost about Rs 70 lakh, Mr Raghupathy said.
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Question : Don’t you think the genuine concerns of Sri Lanka and our own fisher folk and others should be addressed?
In this background, the statement made by the President in the course of her address to the United Nations, that "the LTTE is refusing to return to then negotiating table" is singularly unfortunate, as it does not reflect the true factual position. The lack of clarity, the contradictions within her own Government, and her inability apart from making pronouncements to take definite action to commence talks are the main stumbling block to the recommencement of the peace process. It is pertinent to point out, that in the context of the LTTE's request for dates to be fixed to commence talks, when it submitted its ISGA proposals on 31 October 2003, the LTTE would have been at "the negotiating table" in November 2003 itself but for the actions taken by the President on 4 November 2003.
Sirai Muthukkal 3450, or Pearls from Prisoner 3450 - his prisoner ID number - is written in Tamil and includes more philosophical musings on his fate. "How can this life be sweet when I am counting my days?" he writes. "Does the rope waiting for my neck know the past, the present and the future?" Radhakrishnan has exhausted the appeal process; a petition for clemency from the Governor of Tamil Nadu was turned down three years ago. Now a pardon from the Indian President, APJ Abdul Kalam, is his last hope.
In the heels of anti LTTE wave in Canada, the militant organisation is faced with an unexpected onslaught in Denmark. Four political parties in Denmark including one party in the ruling coalition urged the government to ban the LTTE.The state owned radio DR-1 went a step further urging the authorities to propose to the European Union to proscribe the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eealam (LTTE), whose members are at present in a position to enter Denmark and freely move around in the country.Four political parties including Danish People's Party (DPP) and Christian Democratic Party (CPD) has appealed to the Danish Foreign Minister to ban entry of LTTE cadres into Denmark as they are known to involve in violent acts of terror in the name of liberation struggle. They lodged a protest when LT!
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member Velupillai Balakumar declared at a press conference in Copenhegen that LTTE suicide cadres are ready to activate suicide bombs in the event fighting between the government forces and LTTE start once again.
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The LTTE organisation has reached a level of power, if one likes to call it moral high ground, yes we have reached that level, where military wise, political wise, public opinion wise we are very strong. We have been able to achieve very many targets set by the Tamil people in evicting an occupational army from the Tamil homeland. Under those circumstances there is no need for the Liberation Tigers to eliminate anybody for that matter. 
The Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, today urged the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, to get Katchatheevu from Sri Lanka on a `lease in perpetuity' solely for fishing, drying of nets and pilgrimage by Indian fishermen. In a memorandum submitted to him in New Delhi, she said Sri Lanka's sovereignty over Katchatheevu could be upheld and at the same time, the lease would enable fishermen from Tamil Nadu to carry on their vocation "as they have been doing for centuries." This was the best possible, permanent solution to the problem posed by the Sri Lankan Navy to Indian fishermen in the Palk Bay.
Speaking to reporters, Mr. Raghupathy charged that some NGO's from outside were instigating fishermen against the implementation of the project. He said when we were ready to clarify their doubts with a proper presentation, they tried to stall the proceedings. The apprehensions of fishermen were genuine, but the consequences of the project were insignificant. The ecology and livelihood of fishermen would be protected, Mr. Raghupathy said. 
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A public hearing on the multicrore Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project here today was marked by heated exchanges between representatives of political parties and fishermen. A section of the fishermen staged a walkout. Cadres of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Congress and the Communist Party of India opposed the presence of "outsiders" at the meeting presided over by the District Collector, Jatindranath Swain. 
I am not talking about reservation here… No, no… in education and other facilities, the benefits were not lopsided. As pointed out by Dr Ambedkar, this is a society with graded inequality—this inequality is of a very special nature. There are subcastes and region-specific differences, but because of the non-Brahmin movement, everybody is conscious of their rights. And they are staking their claim. Fifty years ago people were content with their birth-ordained caste occupations. A cobbler simply thought: It is my fate to be a cobbler. I am satisfied with that. A washerman thought: I am ordained to be a washerman and am happy to be that. It is written on my head, it’s my fate, and if at all I can change, it will be in my next birth. Now, this movement was able to bring!
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attitudinal change—social and political.
Mr. Tamilselvan on a request from the UN official, presented an over-view of the current political situation and said that UN, among all other international actors, has a major role to set in place the right approach in handling humanitarian delivery to a nation of people who have been victims of a cruel war and denied the basic peace dividend, normalcy, even after two and a half years of a Cease Fire Agreement which among other things promised normalcy to them. Mr. Tamilselvan continued to reiterate that the international community has a moral responsibility to respect the democratic mandate given by the Tamil people and initiate pro-active measures to bring home to the government the necessity to recommence negotiations on the basis of the ISGA proposal!
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responding to the request of the UN official, Mr. Tamilselvan said that the recommencement of talks is entirely in the hands of the government. 
The demonstration, demanding an end to the Sri Lankan Navy's attacks and threats on the fishermen, was held on 07-09-2004 by the Consortium of Fishermen unions of the Mullaitivu District. The following statement was handed over to the H. E. President, Government Agent Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, and Member of Parliament of Vanni District, at the end of the meeting by the Consortium.
Both leaders discussed current political situation in the context of the delay in resuming the peace talks. Mr. Tamilselvan explained at length the frustration of the people in NorthEast in the absence of an appropriate administrative set up to address urgent humanitarian needs. It is the plight of the internally displaced people and the poor peasantry that have lost all what they had due to war, Mr. Tamilselvan stressed, that necessitates a mechanism like ISGA. He continued to say that it is unfortunate that some extremist elements in the south are making use of as a convenient weapon to achieve their parochial political goal. 
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The Chennai that we know was born in 1639 as a strip of beach three miles long and one mile wide — acquired from the governors of Poonamallee by two East India Company employees, Francis Day and Andrew Cogan. That makes the city 365 years old. During this period it contributed to the history of modern India in different capacities — as the seat of the British power in the South, as the capital of the entire South India, as the venue of some defining political movements and, of course, as the capital of Tamil Nadu. 
Inquiries with higher officials here revealed that the Tamil Nadu Elementary Education Director had renewed the licence for running the school, only on July 11.In his order (No 24503/F1/2004) the Chennai-based Director of Elementary Education, R Kannan, issued the certificate for renewal of licence for the Saraswathi Nursery and Primary School, which was one of the three schools that functioned from the same building where the fire broke out. But the irony was that even before the certificate reached the Education Department office here, a devastating fire destroyed the school, killing 94 children, aged eight and 12.
The religious dignitaries expressed their whole-hearted support for the peace process and were anxious to find out from the Political Head the reasons for the delay in the recommencement of peace talks. Mr. Tamilselvan, in briefing the Bishops on the current situation said that the Tamil people and the LTTE are eagerly waiting for the response from the government for the recommencement of political negotiations. However, Mr. Tamilselvan said, the basis of negotiations as expressed clearly by the LTTE, should be the ISGA proposals.
Head of the Political Wing briefed the envoy on the current state of mind of the Tamil people, having been frustrated and disappointed to the extreme over the non-delivery of the vital peace dividend, normalcy and restoration of livelihood. Tamil people, Mr. Tamilselvan said expect their just aspirations be met and the public mandate they gave in the last general election be respected. In this context, Mr. Tamilselvan said, that institutionalising the ISGA must be viewed on a humanitarian perspective rather than making it a political bargain to satisfy extremist elements in the southern polity. 
The delegation comprised of Buddhist clergy, catholic priests, trade union representatives and media. The visitors briefed Mr. Tamilselvan on their commitment to strengthen the civil society and support the peace process. They explained at length the various steps taken by them in their respective fields to bring about amity and understanding among the different races and religions in this island. 
