UN chief expresses concerns over “Buddhist extremism
“In both Myanmar and Sri Lanka, I am concerned that Buddhist communities are being swept up by a rising tide of extremist sentiment against other...
Police block protestors in Vavuniya
Relatives of disappeared from across the Northeast attended an event at Vavuniya Urban Council, before a protest march towards the Government Agent offices at Vavuniya...
Is LTTE trying to regroup in Australia?
Is the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which ran out of steam in 2009 following the killing of its founder Velupillai Prabhakaran by Sri...
US gives $517,000 to fund Poonakari hospital
As part of a United States government program to support the Northern Provincial Council's work to expand medical services in the former conflict-affected areas of...
Tamil Nadu demands for release of fishing boats
The Tamil Nadu government has reiterated its demand for immediate release of 62 fishing boats seized by Sri Lanka. The State has articulated this stand...
Dam-hit Sri Lankans to get their own ‘Bridge on River Kwai’
Now, 57 years after it was blown to smithereens, authorities in Sri Lanka plan to rebuild the Bridge on the River Kwai to assuage the...
Unearthed ammunition carry LTTE symbol
Hand-grenades and land mines, unearthed from Pacha Talamalai reserve forest near Puliyur in Mettur taluk on Tuesday night, belong to the LTTE, said Salem police,...
UK issues Country Information and Guidance Report On Tamil Separatism
The UK Home Office issued a new asylum country guidance report on ‘Tamil Separatism’ on Thursday, 28 August 2014, drawing on several reports detailing human...
BJP’s Tamil Nadu strategy
As the NDA government at the Centre settles in to its third month at the helm, the BJP in Tamil Nadu is gearing up to...
Satellite survey of Jaffna carried out
Images released by the Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights Project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) at the request of the...
Navi Pillay ‘not disturbed’ by criticism
UN Human Rights Commissioner, Navi Pillay, has said that she remains unfazed by derogatory remarks and accusations made against her by Sri Lankan officials. Speaking...
Jaffna Gets India-funded Indl Estate
An industrial estate at Achchuveli in Jaffna district, set up at a cost of LKR 220 million (US$ 1.7 million) by India, was inaugurated on...
Kachatheevu Island cannot be retrieved from Lanka: AG tells SC
A week before hearing on petitions by Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa and her arch rival M Karunanidhi seeking retrieval of Kachatheevu Island from...
Our government cannot even appoint a chief secretary
Senior Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader and parliamentarian R. Sampanthan has sought the immediate intervention of the Indian government to end the Sri Lankan government’s...
Find a political and diplomatic solution to fishermen’s arrests
Only a political and diplomatic solution can end the frequent arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, the Supreme Court observed on...