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Number of tigers in India's reserves and jungles, which reflects a 40% drop in the past five years. The Indian government says it plans to recruit soldiers to patrol tiger sanctuaries...
...Lankan Air Force says it killed senior Tamil Tiger leader S. P. Tamilselvan and five others in an aerial attack Friday morning. A statement put out by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have spent more than two decades fighting the government of Sri Lanka in an attempt to create a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the Indian Ocean island, confirmed Tamilselvan's death...
...government said the successful strike proved the superiority of its air power and intelligence. The director general of the Media Center for National Security, Lakshman Hulugalle, said the aerial attack also showed that a recent Tiger air attack on a key government air base had not seriously compromised Colombo's air force. "As far as we are concerned, it is a morale boost for the government and we have got another LTTE leader," says Hulugalle. "It also showed that the Air Force has not lost its capacity to strike." Defence Minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's brother, told Reuters...
...timing of the attack is also not without significance since it comes just three weeks before Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran makes his annual "Heroes Day" speech on November 27. The elusive Prabhakaran uses the speech to set out his organization's direction and he likes to do so having scored some victory against the Government. The LTTE's attack on the air base gave him that, but today's attack evens the scales. The next few weeks could get very bloody...
...developing economies still denote the world's factories - its cheap call centers and efficient manufacturers of every gizmo imaginable. Yet that narrative coexists with another more compelling tale: that of a rising continent intent on recapturing its former glory. The Chinese dragon wakes, mother India rises. Even little tiger Vietnam is finding its roar. Outsiders looking to ride this remarkable wave have invested heavily in prosaic sectors like real estate or manufacturing, but now the region's rich contemporary-art scene is also beckoning. "Wherever the economy booms, art booms," says Ganieve Grewal, the Mumbai-based representative for Christie...