Canadian Tamil MP visits Jaffna
Rathika Sitsabaiesan Canadian Member of Parliament arrived in Sri Lanka on Dec 28 and is currently visiting Jaffna. SriLanka born Rathika Sitsabaiesan is New Democratic Parliamentarian...
South African ambassador to meet TNA
South African ambassador to Sri Lanka is to meet Tamil National Alliance members in Jaffna today. Geoffrey Doidge visited Jaffna last Friday. The...
Excavation at mass grave suspended
A Sri Lankan court today suspended the excavation at a suspected mass grave found in a former conflict zone where the army battled...
India urges Sri Lanka to enhance security for Diplomatic Missions
In the wake of Bangladesh executing Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Qadir Mullah, for war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan,...
Second blast hits Russian city of Volgograd
A blast struck the southern Russian city of Volgograd, killing at least 14 people highlighting Russia's security challenges as it readies to host the...
Sri Lanka faces new year pressure on rights
When the American Centre in Colombo held a memorial event honouring the late South African President Nelson Mandela, the first few questions at the...
Indian Police bust International drug racket
Four alleged members of an international drug syndicate spread across five Asian countries have been arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell. The police...
Sri Lanka deports Indian journalist
Police in Sri Lanka say an Indian journalist arrested on a charge of working in the island's former war zone without media credentials has...
Scars of Sri Lanka
The civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009 with the victory of President Rajapaksa's forces over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
Karuna flays TN govt for delay in SL talks
DMK president M Karunanidhi flayed the Tamil Nadu government for alleged procrastination in organising talks between representatives of the state fishermen and Sri...
Centre urged to intervene to free journalist
Political parties in Tamil Nadu and journalist associations on Friday demanded the Centre’s intervention for release of an Indian journalist held in Sri Lanka...
Maruti looking at plant in Sri Lanka
Maruti Suzuki India is undertaking a feasibility study for setting up an assembly facility in Sri Lanka. At present, some of its exports...
Chidambaram’s bid to clear Congress of anti-Tamil image
Seeking to deconstruct a much-laboured criticism against the Congress in Tamil Nadu and at the national level for being 'anti-Tamil' in its approach to...
Tamil council to count Sri Lanka war casualties
The provincial government in Sri Lanka's main Tamil region said Thursday it would compile its own death toll from the country's ethnic war,...
Trincomalee remembers Tsunami victims
An event to commemorativet the 9th anniversary of the Tusnamitsunami which affected Sri Lanka on 26 December 2004 was held at the Trincomalee Kinniya Tsunami Monument with the participation...