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The other missions are Consulate General of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Mumbai and High Commission of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, New Delhi. The Chennai Mission is responsible for the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala and the union territory of Puducherry. The current ...
Over the next three decades the Sri Lankan civil war became increasingly violent. The civil war came to an end on 18 May 2009 when the Sri Lankan military defeated the LTTE. [12] After the end of the war the UN urged the Sri Lankan government to address "the legitimate concerns and aspirations of the Tamil people". [13]
This changed in 1987 during an attempt to end the Sri Lankan Civil War when the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord was signed on 29 July 1987, following several decades of increasing demand for a decentralization. One of the requirements of the accord was that the Sri Lankan government to devolve powers to the provinces. [1]
The Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) is a government body of the state of Tamil Nadu, India, responsible for the recruitment of candidates for various state government jobs through competitive examinations. It is the successor of the Madras Service Commission, which came into being under an Act of the Madras Legislature in 1929 and ...
The region of Tamil Nadu indicates historical records of human habitation at least for 3,800 years.The current state of Tamil Nadu was formed by renaming Madras State on 14 January 1969.After the independence of India, the Telugu and Malayalam parts of Madras state were separated from Tamilagam state in 1956, it was renamed Tamil Nadu on January 14, 1969, by the state government.
Tamil National Alliances manifesto were based on what is known as the Thimpu principles amongst Sri Lankan Tamil nationalists. [64] But the TNA later rejected separatism preferring power devolution to the provinces and stated that they accept that Sri Lanka is a united state and the TNA does not intent to form a separate state. [65] [66]
Sri Lankan Tamil academic Ratnajeevan Hoole recounted the following in a letter to The Washington Times: [8] "I took the common Advanced Level exam in 1969 and was admitted to the engineering faculty. The government then redid the admissions after adding some 28 marks to the four-subject aggregate of Sinhalese students. I lost my seat.
[3] [4] Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, Akaram Subbaroyalu Reddy, acted in 1921 with a Government Order setting up reservation. The Government Order was met with immediate opposition and had to be put on hold. The social reformer Periyar E. V. Ramasamy who was a member of the Congress at the time, pushed his party to endorse reservation. [2]