1) Memories of the 1983 riots, when thousands of Tamils were butchered in Colombo, are lively.

2) Despite the Hinduism of most Tamils and the Buddhism of most Sinhalese, they coexisted for those two millennia without much hostility.

3) The three major groups were the Sinhalese, Tamils and Moors.

4) Any proposals to grant rights to the Tamils have to get the prior approval of Buddhist monks.

5) The Tamil Tigers have had a political wing since 1976,(http:///tamil.html) but never registered it as a legal party.

6) Without influence in Delhi or among the Tamils she was powerless to sway events.

7) Tamils and Sinhalese have lived together on the island for 2,000-odd years.

8) Tamils felt deprived of access to government and of their traditional route to advancement, jobs in the civil service.

9) The failure to treat Tamils properly has carried a fearsome price.

10) Over 100 more Tamils were reportedly killed in further reprisals against refugee camps and villages on Aug. 12-14.

11) A Tamil film without songs is a rare exception.

12) Borrowing from Chinese, Indian, Malaysian, Tamil and Peranakan cuisines, the food in Singapore is as multi-cultural and unique as the island (and microstate) itself.

13) It alleges that Tamil paramilitary groups affiliated to the government have unfettered access.

14) English, Mandarin and Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi and Thai are widely used in the country.

15) Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said that the government military intelligence wing had breached a three - year - old ceasefire.

16) Nationalist Sinhalese leaders passed a number of chauvinistic laws that discriminated against Tamils in the fields of language, education and employment.

17) Mr Premadasa tried to close the gap between Sinhalese and Tamils.

18) The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.

19) Sri Lanka's army did the same after defeating the Tamil Tigers in 2009.

20) The Sri Lankan army said it had designated a "safe zone" for civilians as it presses ahead with its offensive against the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the north of the country.

21) Conferences are hosted in various cities in India, asas world cities with a significant Tamil population.

22) The wedding actually took place at a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu state, with the dog bride wearing an orange sari and flowers.

23) An already highly militarised country is to become even more so, with soldiers deployed everywhere to nip any reborn Tamil nationalist insurgency in the bud.

24) In Sri Lanka, in January, President Mahinda Rajapakse formally scrapped a cease-fire agreement that had been signed in 2002 with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

25) A Sinhalese - chauvinist government suits Mr Prabhakaran, helping bolster Tamil support for the Tigers.

26) The project works in 12 villages in India's rural Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states.

27) Sri Lanka, for example, strongly pressured the UN to try to quash a UN advisory panel on accountability for war crimes committed during its armed conflict with the Tamil Tigers.

28) Reuters reported that the storm was expected to impact the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, and that fishing communities in coastal lowlands would be especially hard hit.

29) The Unicode Text Segmentation Algorithms, covering sentences, words, and characters, were greatly enhanced to improve the processing of Tamil and other Indic languages.

30) After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria sold the guns to rebels in Congo, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers and the Hutu militia, which was responsible for the Rwandan genocide.

31) Sri Lanka is embroiled in an unending civil war, with the Tamil Tigers carrying out endless suicide bombings.

32) Inaddition, low - caste businessmen in Tamil Nadu have had opportunities that havenothing to do with government policy.

33) The Tamil Tigers enjoyed considerable support among them till it was banned by Canada in 2006.

34) Nanayakkara said the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) made the explosion to distract the attention of the security forces, who are engaging the LTTE in the north.

35) But now(http://), military officials say the area held by the Tamil Tigers has been reduced to just a few square kilometers of beachfront.

36) The government in Colombo has sought to dismiss them, to claim that they are pawns of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or even to claim that some do not exist.

37) Add to this the racist policies of the British, which deepened the conflict between the Tamil and Sinhala ethnic groups, with the result that to the present, there has been no way to resolve it.

38) It has been regarded as a front for the Tamil Tigers.

39) A celebrant gets into the spirit at the Chithirai festival in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. The days-long festival celebrates the wedding of Lord Shiva and the goddess Meenakshi (Lord Vishnu's sister).

40) Malaysians were told once again that these individuals were involved in efforts to overthrow the government and had links with the militant Liberation Tiger of Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka.

41) The civil actions are by relatives of Tamil victims of alleged extrajudicial killings during the Sri Lankan civil war.

42) Three of the greetings were in languages from her native India: Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam.

43) I need a professional male voiceover artist who speaks fluent Kannada and Tamil languages to record 16 seconds of audio clips.

44) WHEN Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, declared victory over the ruthless Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a speech to parliament on May 19th(), he should have addressed a full house.

45) If theDravidian hypothesis is correct, it might be possible to match wordsfrom the old form of Tamil, a Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu, with the Indus signs.

46) Until last year the area was controlled by the Tamil Tigers.

47) Fonseka led the Army to its victory over the Tamil Tigers ending three-decade old armed rebellion.

48) He was confident that Tamil Tigers will be completely defeated in a matter of days.

49) Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, the executive director for the Center for Policy Alternatives, says the attacks were a bold move by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE.

50) But Tamil thethe civilians are staying in the enclave enclave because they fear the army.

51) Thereis little opposition to this policy in Tamil Nadu, for two reasons.

52) You have a very large population of people stuck inside a combat area serving as a buffer between an impending government assault and Tamil Tiger resistance.

53) Then he, too, was killed on the election trail in Tamil Nadu by a suicide bomber.

54) The Tamil Tigers, blamed in more than 200 suicide attacks since 1983, are listed as a terror group by the U.S. and the European Union.

55) Urbanicity is associated with the prevalence of several NCD risk factors in Tamil Nadu, India.

56) The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam launched their first-ever air strike, on an air-force base next to Colombo's international airport.

57) Language: Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil are the official languages. Malay is the national language.

58) Sri Lanka is preparing for a major celebration following the battlefield defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ending a quarter-century civil war.

59) Mills in Tamil Nadu are facing a power cut of 45 %.

60) Heavy fighting was reported in parts of the northeast, as government troops close in on the last-remaining holdouts of ethnic Tamil rebels, known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

61) Malay is its notional language, but Chinese, English and Tamil are also offical languages.

62) He blamed the Tamil Tigers for the blast, which also wounded 24 troops and 40 civilians.

63) For example, research in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu states of India found that after the cost, the lack of services in the area was the second most significant barrier to using health facilities.

64) The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam once controlled a large area of the north and east.

65) They were asking people to come in and take their names down if they had any sort of contact [with the Tamil Tigers].

66) In Tamil culture brothers take care of their sisters count on them.

67) In Sri Lanka, heavy fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and government forces led to deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians.

68) There has been no comment yet from Tamil Tiger rebels.

69) Both Sinhala and Tamil languages have enjoyed official status since the Indo-Lanka accord in 1987, which resulted in the 13th amendment to the constitution.

70) Sri Lanka's military and police won one of the Asia's longest modern wars and declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on May 18.

71) There are about 30,000 transgendered people in Tamil Nadu state and there are thought to be about 500,000 across India.

72) Urdu, Persian, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Tagalog, Chinese, Malayalam, and other languages are spoken in Dubai by its many foreign residents.

73) Sri Lankan politicians have severely curtailed English education, insisting that Sinhalese should be taught only in Sinhala and Tamils in Tamil.

74) Apparently, earlier today Facebook users in India were greeted with a new message upon logging in: Facebook is now available in Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

75) FOR Sri Lanka's government and many of its citizens, reactions in the West to the final phase of its 26-year war with the Tamil Tigers have reeked of sanctimonious hypocrisy.

76) These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay, spoken in south and southeast Asia.

77) Sri Lanka this year tightly controlled media coverage of fighting that led to the defeat of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

78) Kalki says there are about 20, 000 in her adopted state of Tamil Nadu, the most socially progressive area in the country with a total population of about 60 million.

79) Is fluent in the languages English, Hindi, Kannada , Tamil, and Urdu.

80) Sri Lankan troops were today mopping up the remnants of the defeated Tamil Tigers, amid reports that some rebel fighters have been blowing themselves up rather than surrender.

81) THE defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam by the Sri Lankan army should be cause for almost universal celebration—whatever its manner.

82) Several Sinhala kings are noted for driving back the Tamil invasions.

83) The festival is celebrated widely in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

84) Disease surveillance system had also been deployed in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil India.

85) Both his son-in-law and son are now detained by the government, suspected of links with the defeated Tamil Tigers.

86) Around 50 - 60 % of the total textile industry is based in Coimbatore - Tamil Nadu.

87) The national average is worsening thanks to states which once were more neutral with regard to sex, such as Tamil Nadu and Orissa.

88) In the evening in Paranattahal, Sinhalese soldiers and former Tamil refugees play a good-humoured game of cricket. Here they seem to get on well.

89) Watch out for the Hindu Diwali, the Tamil Teemeedee ( fire - walking ) and the Chinese New Year.