(By Camelia Nathaniel) - The LTTE’s US network crippled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 2006 is being reorganized by both remnant and emerging leaders. The most prominent among them is V. Rudrakumaran, the son of a former Mayor of Jaffna. Today, Rudrakumaran runs the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), one of the four factions of the LTTE. Until recently the TGTE had limited success in the US but now with external resources, Rudrakumaran is reorganizing its activities both within and outside the US. The TGTE has also started to openly display the photograph of Prabhakaran and the Tiger flag.

As bilateral trade crossed the critical $100 Mn mark for the first time, a confident Bangladesh called  for a formal investment protection mechanism to drive trade volumes to next levels. “As a result of an investment protection agreement, fundamentals of investments would be right for B’Deshi investors looking at Sri Lanka and this would drive our bilateral trade forward as well” said a keen  Mohammad Sufiur Rahman, High Commissioner of Bangladesh to Sri Lanka on Friday (11).

Veteran Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar’s ancestral house in Peshawar has been declared a national heritage, said a report published in The Times of India (TOI).

"Respect Yourself Respect Others (RYRO) is a massive social impact project to be initiated by the National School of Business Management Ltd. (NSBM) functioning under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development. It uses a scientifically designed innovative mechanism to change both aggressive and passive types of rnindsets, especially of the youth, which are harmful to social development, to personalities who respect themselves and respect others.