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UN welcomes Sri Lanka's efforts to bring back refugees from IndiaSri Lanka simplified immigration procedures for refugees returning from India. The United Nations welcomed this significant decision for th...- Sri Lanka forms committee for repatriation of Tamil refugees from IndiaThe committee appointed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe's Office is headed by Chandima Wickramasinghe, Additional Secretary to the Presid...
- India says it supports Lankan aspirations realised through democracy & constitutionIndia has also ruled out any refugee crisis currently as it handed more than 44,000 metric tonnes of urea under a credit line extended to c...
- Indian government supportive of Sri Lanka, trying to help it: External Affairs Minister JaishankarUnion External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said, the Indian government have been supportive of Sri Lanka, are trying to help and have alw...
- Sri Lankans flee to India to escape country's worst economic meltdownWith Sri Lanka staring at an unprecedented economic crisis, the refugee flow to Tamil Nadu has commenced after 16 Sri Lankan nationals reac...
- Centre slashes relief-rehabilitation fund for refugees and migrantsSince India doesn’t have a refugee policy, Tibetans, Sri Lankan Tamils and West/East Pakistani refugees in Kashmir are granted financial ai...
- Dual citizenship for Tamil refugees is possible: Tamil Nadu govtRaising the issue, Leader of Opposition, M K Stalin said the government has been harping on giving dual citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamil ref...
- 'Very fair to say SL army committed genocide': former UN stafferBut Benjamin Dix also noted that "the Tamil leadership also failed the people in the last decade of the civil war".
- India committed to building 50,000 houses in Sri Lanka: govtIndia is committed to building 50,000 houses for internally displaced people in Sri Lanka, Lok Sabha was informed today.
- India to build 50,000 houses for displaced people in Sri Lanka: GovernmentKiren Rijiju said the project envisages construction of new houses and is being implemented through two models, agency driven and owner-ben...
- Young refugees in Tamil Nadu keen on trying luck in Sri LankaAs World Refugee Day falls, several young Lankan Tamils born and raised in camps in TN are eager to go back to the land of their ancestors ...
- UN refugee agency wants resumption of ferry service between India and Sri LankaThe UN refugee agency today appealed for the resumption of ferry services saying it would help in the return of Tamil refugees from India.
- Kiran Rijiju visits Sri Lankan refugee camp in Tamil NaduRijiju said Central and state governments were extending 'a lot of help and support' to refugees and he had come to ensure that all humanit...
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 3-nation tour will have 2-point agendaJaishankar also said that India is working with Sri Lanka's new government to repatriate nearly one lakh Tamil refugees who fled to Tamil N...
- Sri Lankan Tamils keen to shed refugee tag, return to homelandTamil Nadu government differs, says political atmosphere in Sri Lanka not ripe for the return of Tamil refugees.
- For Sri Lankan refugees, time may have come to returnThe Indian government is mulling the idea of sending Lankan Tamil refugees like Sujivani -over one lakh still live in India -back home to S...
- Withdraw proposal to send refugees back to Sri Lanka: MDMKErstwhile NDA ally MDMK today urged the Centre not to go ahead with the proposal for sending back Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to their countr...
- Tamil Nadu CM asks Centre to defer meeting on repatriation of refugeesO Panneerselvam today termed Centre's decision to hold an inter-ministerial meeting to discuss repatriation of Lankan Tamil refugees as "pr...
- More than 1.70 lakh Sri Lankan refugees,asylum-seekers,IDPs: UNHCREven five years after end of the civil war between Sri Lankan government and LTTE, over 1.70 lakh people remain either as refugees or asylu...
- Hope springs quietly for Lankan refugees stranded in India"For over 20 years they have lived outside their country and now they are hopeful that conditions will improve to facilitate their return."
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