He said so after opening an asphalt premix plant at Periyakulam, Medawachchiya recently. Minister Rajapaksa said: "Colonial rulers earlier destroyed Sri Lanka's self-sufficient economy by destroying the irrigation system throughout the country, ...

Vivek had escaped from the arms training camp at Periyakulam in 2007 when the police raided it. Since then police have been on the lookout for him. “We came to know that Vivek and Moorthy had been co-coordinating arms training for cadres from Tamil ...

Police said Vivek, who stayed in Chennai under various aliases, including Balan, Anandan, Raja, Kumar and Rajamani, had provided arms training to youngsters at Periyakulam, Theni district, in 2007. He had initially appeared for trial in court and later ...

Vivek was supposed to be produced in the judicial magistrate court in Periyakulam in connection with a case accusing him of providing arms training to recruits from the region in 2007 in the forests of Theni and Dindigul districts.

Vivek was allegedly involved in arms training organised by the Maoists at Periyakulam in Theni district in 2007. After a warrant was issued by a local court, the Q Branch were on the lookout for him. Based on specific information that he was seen in ...

The ultra, picked up based on a tip-off, was allegedly involved in arms training of maoists organised in Periyakulam in Theni district of the state in 2007, the sources said adding a hunt was on to nab an accomplice of him.

Police officials said Vivek (29) of the Maoist party (regarded as a terrorist outfit by the Centre) was arrested in 2007 for providing arms training to members of his group at Periyakulam, Theni district. Later, when the case was taken up in the court ...

Vivek, who was arrested by a special team headed by 'Q' branch superintendent Sampath Kumar from an apartment in Shenoy Nagar, is being taken to Periyakulam in Theni, where a warrant has been put out against him, police said.