Dharmapuri, (TN), Feb 16 : Sri Lankan refugees on Monday appealed to the Indian Government to save Tamils in the island nation.

"We demand from India to save our people in Sri Lanka. We also demand an immediate ceasefire so that people here can return there and peace can prevail," said Kumaran, a Sri Lankan refugee.

Calling for the return of peace to the region, they said: "Tamils are sacrificed like anything. But that''s our land, we are not living there, at least our children have to live there. This is what we want to appeal to the Indian Government to help us fight for our rights."

Chennai, Feb 16 : Siritunga Jayasuriya, a leader of Sri Lanka''s United Socialist Party, now on a visit to India, said that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), will retaliate if the Sri Lankan army continues the military war against them.

He asserted this in the course of an exclusive interview with ANI here on Sunday by contending the military action against the LTTE is not the permanent solution unlike a dialogue between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE.

Siritunga Jayasuriya said that winning the war by military means would not be an end to the Tamil problem. It will only strengthen Prabhakaran or the LTTE.

Chennai, Feb 12, : Over 50 lawyers staged a protest here on Thursday to demand the Central Government's intervention in stopping the war in Sri Lanka.

The lawyers started their protest from the Chennai High Court and went towards the regional military office in the city to stage a demonstration.

Chennai Advocate Association President Kanakaraj said that they wanted the Central Government to intervene to stop the war in Sri Lanka and said, "We will continue our protest for our Tamil brothers in Sri Lanka.

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Hosur (Tamil Nadu), Feb 11: Defying recession trends, the rose export business is booming ahead of Valentine''s Day in Tamil Nadu.

With Valentine''s Day approaching, Hosur, a resourceful small town in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri District, is bracing itself up for exports to western countries to the tune of five million roses.

"Already 30 lakhs flowers have been exported during Christmas and New Year. The export of flowers is proposed to five million that is

Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Feb. 8 : Activists of the Puthia Tamilgam, a regional party in Tamil Nadu, took to the streets of Coimbatore on Saturday to protest against the Sri Lankan Army''s offensive on ethnic Tamils in that island-nation.

The protestors raised slogans and called for the conflict in Sri Lanka to end.