New Year as observed by the Hindus
Mother Nature heralds the coming of events well
before the calendar months. The blossoms of the Flame of the Forests
- the flamboyant Erabadu flowers usher in the New Year which falls
in the auspicious month of Chittirai. Another messenger that Mother
Nature sends is the cuckoo bird which sings sweetly to let us know
that the spring season is nigh.
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Getting to Aussie mainland, a new ruse by asylum seekers
What we’ve seen over the last few months is a
dramatic drop in the number of boats from Sri Lanka to Australia and
that’s been driven by a decision by the Government to fly people
back to Sri Lanka where they don’t meet the refugee requirements.
The risk of death hasn’t stopped people from getting onto a boat,
but the prospect of being flown home within a couple of days back to
Sri Lanka has. And if these people don’t meet the refugee
requirements then they’ll be flown back to Sri Lanka.
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Border control agency faulted:
Boat people enter Australian port
The hot topic of the Sri Lankan boat people or
‘illegal economic immigrants’ as the Australian authorities now call
them, has once again hit the news with 66 illegal immigrants found
in a wooden fishing trawler moving towards Australia as close as
200m to the shoreline. This time, the trawler which is suspected to
have taken off from a Sri Lankan port have surprised the Border
Patrol Agency by entering one of their busiest ports,
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