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Dec 2, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alice Cuddy |Swaminathan Natarajan
Migrants stranded for more than three years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia have been brought to the UK. The Sri Lankan Tamils are permitted to remain in the country for six months, with financial support from the Foreign Office, according to documents seen by the BBC. Their journey to the UK marks the end of years of complex legal battles waged over thousands of miles over their fate, but their long-term future remains uncertain.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Anbarasan Ethirajan |Swaminathan Natarajan |Ishara Danasekara
The alliance of Sri Lanka's new leader is headed for victory in the country's snap parliamentary elections, according to partial official results. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power (NPP) coalition has so far won 97 seats and more than 60% of the vote. It needs 113 seats in the 225-member house to secure a majority.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Swaminathan Natarajan
Sri Lanka’s 17.1 million voters head to the polls again on Thursday to vote in snap parliamentary elections, barely seven weeks after choosing a new president. More than 8,800 candidates are in the fray in an election marked by a low-key campaign. Voting begins at 07:00 local time (01:30 GMT) and ends until 16:00 (10.30 GMT). Counting will start in the evening and results are expected on Friday. Out of 225 seats in the parliament, 196 MPs will be directly elected.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Swaminathan Natarajan
The tiny wood-panelled, solar-powered satellite will orbit Earth for six months [Getty]The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable building material in future exploration of destinations like the Moon and Mars. Made by researchers in Japan, the tiny satellite weighing just 900g is heading for the International Space Station on a SpaceX mission. It will then be released into orbit above the Earth.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Swaminathan Natarajan
The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable building material in future exploration of destinations like the Moon and Mars. Made by researchers in Japan, the tiny satellite weighing just 900g is heading for the International Space Station on a SpaceX mission. It will then be released into orbit above the Earth.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alice Cuddy |Swaminathan Natarajan
Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than three years in a makeshift camp on the island, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base, after becoming the first people ever to file asylum claims there. The government has previously opposed bringing the group to the UK and complex legal battles have been fought for years over their fate.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Archana Shukla |Swaminathan Natarajan
Bangladesh is ramping up payments to Adani Power after the Indian conglomerate reportedly cut electricity supplies by half because of an unpaid $800m bill. Two senior government officials told the BBC they are already processing partial payments to Adani, which supplies 10% of the electricity used by Bangladesh. “We have addressed payment glitches and already issued a $170 million [£143m] letter of credit to Adani group,” a senior Bangladesh Power Development Board official told the BBC.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Alice Cuddy |Swaminathan Natarajan
The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian Ocean, a temporary move to Romania. After six months, they could be moved to the UK. Others in the group are being offered financial incentives to go to Sri Lanka where they say they face persecution, the BBC has learned. In 2021, dozens of Tamils became the first people ever to claim asylum on Diego Garcia after their boat ran into trouble.
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Sep 29, 2024 | 
g1.globo.com | Swaminathan Natarajan
Aviso: este artigo contém descrições que podem ser consideradas chocantes A doutora Shirley Vasu, 68 anos, já ganhou vários prêmios por seu trabalho pioneiro, mas sua família até hoje não gosta de ouvir muitos detalhes sobre sua carreira. Por três décadas, Vasu examinou corpos de pessoas que morreram repentinamente, violentamente ou de forma suspeita. Ela foi a primeira patologista forense do Estado de Kerala, no sul da Índia, que abriga mais de 33 milhões de pessoas.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
terra.com.br | Swaminathan Natarajan
Shirley Vasu passou mais de três décadas trabalhando com autópsias. Ela falou com a BBC sobre os crimes e tragédias que ajudou a elucidar. Aviso: este artigo contém descrições que podem ser consideradas chocantesA doutora Shirley Vasu, 68 anos, já ganhou vários prêmios por seu trabalho pioneiro, mas sua família até hoje não gosta de ouvir muitos detalhes sobre sua carreira.
