Scotland Yard's War Crimes Team, which is part of its Counter-Terrorism Command, has launched an investigation into the role of British mercenaries in fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels in Sri Lanka during the 1980s.
The army attributed the killings to factional fighting within the LTTE.
Nearly 30 students from the West African country study at the state-run university.
Pacer Mohammed Siraj had reported a 'corrupt approach" to BCCI's Anti Corruption Unit (ACU) from an unknown person, who wanted 'inside news' about his team before Australia arrived in India.
The arrested man is Charles Gnanakone.
Around 100 Indian fishermen who have been detained by Sri Lankan police are likely to be granted bail on Wednesday. Sri Lanka's Deputy minister of External Affairs, Neomal Perera told PTI that the fishermen will be produced before a magisterial court. "This is a bailable offence," he said.
The Sri Lankan cartoon faux pas has revived the slackening pan-Tamil mood in Tamil Nadu, says N Sathiya Moorthy
Indian football club Bengaluru FC on Wednesday said three COVID-19 cases have been detected among its players and staff after the side assembled for training in Panaji ahead of its AFC Qualifiers match on April 14.
In recent months people have been blocking roads across the country in a desperate bid to force the government to address the issue of acute gas shortages.
The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka on Sunday continued to occupy the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, a day after they stormed into the premises and set on fire one of the buildings protesting over the nation's severe economic crisis even as the island nation is still in the dark about the embattled President's whereabouts.
Sri Lankan authorities are verifying with police in Thailand reports about the arrest of top Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam leader Kumaran Padmanathan, who allegedly financed the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Muthayya Fernandes, a fisherman from Rameswaram, was imprisoned in Sri Lanka for crossing the International Boundary in search of fish.
A major fire at one of Sri Lanka's largest ammunition depots triggered a series of explosions, killing one soldier.
Fourteen construction workers from the majority Sinhala community had been abducted and shot by the LTTE, said the Army.
Police said on a tip-off from Chennai wing of the 'Q' branch, dealing with extremist activities, A Tameem Ansari was intercepted and arrested along with 25 CDs and photographs of various important installations in the state.
Test cricket is set to Pakistan after a long wait of 10 years with Sri Lanka picking a full-strength squad for the two-match series next month.
10,000 Sri Lankan Tamils are waiting to come to Tamil Nadu.
The Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday arrested 17 fishermen along with their three boats when they were fishing near Katchatheevu, police said Rameshwaram.
Gill, who was interviewing Kohli, was quick to add: 'These three combined would have had 1200 to 1500 wickets. They prepare us for all kinds of conditions heading into the match.'
An investigation was started into the 2011 World Cup final by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Sports, following former Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage's allegations that the April 2, 2011 final was fixed even though no substantial proof has been furnished to corroborate the charge.
Coastal police stations and police chiefs have been alerted about suspicious vessels.
The Kolkata police on Friday met the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) officials to inquire into the Eden Gardens power failure that disrupted the India-Sri Lanka day-night fifth One-Day International for about 25 minutes on Thursday. The meeting was attended by officials from private power utility CESC, state PWD and Joint Commissioner of Police Debashish Roy who would submit his report in three days.
'Our politicians solely depend on bureaucrats who are unaccountable and follow their own agenda.' 'Our politicians would dare not dream of establishing a DOGE,' argues Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd).
During the 13-minute special session, Dhammika Dassanayake, ecretary general of Parliament, announced the vacancy for the post of president.
On July 9, protesters occupied President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's presidential palace and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's private house. The Prime Minister's Office was overrun on Wednesday.
The attackers fired at the MP at close range while he was at the St Michael's church at Batticaloa
Elsewhere, the guerrillas abducted 21 students and later freed them.
Security sources believe that the killings may be linked to the island's Tamil separatist conflict.
Crowd trouble tarnished Pakistan's victory over Sri Lanka as missiles were thrown onto the pitch in the third ODI in Colombo.
Arjuna Ranatunga was arrested on Monday for the first violent incident amidst the on going political crisis in the country.
Home Ministers from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations discussed ways to strengthen police cooperation and other means to combat terrorism that has afflicted the region. The SAARC Interior Ministers' conference, attended by Home Minister P Chidambaram, also discussed proposals like maritime security and anti-piracy operations under the SAARC charter.
Mahinda Rajapaksa has been accused by the Opposition of inciting the ruling party mobs to attack peaceful protesters by making a defiant speech while addressing several thousands of his supporters to deflect calls for his resignation.
A statement issued by the presidential media division on Friday said an extremist group was behind the unrest near President Rajapaksa's residence in Mirihana.
The residents near the dump had been protesting for months, demanding that the garbage dump be relocated. The authorities, however, claim that they had given enough warning to the slum dwellers to relocate themselves.
Even a whiff of an incident like the violent 1989 shirt-ripping attack on Krishnamachari Srikkanth by a Karachi spectator would be ruinous. It would set back the ties further, derail an ongoing tournament, and harden Indian attitudes on playing Pakistan anywhere at all, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Only 68 MPs voted in favour of the motion, it said, giving the 72-year-old President a comfortable victory.
Joe Root's England will have to step up their game against the turning ball to escape that fate in the test series beginning at Galle on Tuesday.
The results of the recent presidential elections in Sri Lanka are likely to have stunned groups in Tamil Nadu that have been giving moral and material support to Tamils in the north and east of the island for decades. Tamil Nadu-based groups had asked Sri Lanka Tamils to protest against the election and boycott voting.
The Government also defended the President's decision to enforce a state of emergency, that had given him sweeping authority to act in the interests of public security and preserving public order, including suspending any laws, authorising detentions and seizing property, saying it was declared after attempts were made to attack the President's Office and other public property.
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