Who is funding Karunanidhi’s separatist dream?

The elimination of the LTTE’s top tier including its erstwhile leader thus was naturally a blow, forcing reinforcements from the LTTE diaspora that has to now shoulder the international campaign to keep the momentum going. Momentums do not come free which brings us to the all important question of how these momentums are being funded.

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Counting process to be expedited:

All measures in place for peaceful PC polls - Elections Commissioner

There is no chance to stuff or switch ballot boxes. Once polling is concluded, the representatives of political parties (polling agents) are given a certified paper that notifies them of the number of votes cast into a particular ballot box. Then it is sealed in the presence of the representatives. They mark their signatures on the special carbon paper. One document containing their signatures will be pasted on the box and the other will be stuffed inside. Then the box is put in a thick polythene bag and sealed with a self-locking safety tape that carries a secret code.

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A significant milestone in Indo-Lanka ties:

Sacred Kapilavastu Relics exposition after 34 years

The first exposition of the sacred Relics of Kapilavastu outside India was in Sri Lanka in 1978. Subsequent expositions of the Relics took place in Mongolia in August 1993, in Singapore in July 1994, in South Korea in 1995 and in Thailand in 1996.

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