Sri Lanka’s top forensic archaeologist, Professor Raj Somadeva, rejected the initial findings on the skeletal remains exhumed from the Sathosa mass grave in Mannar.

Commemorations were held at the University of Jaffna and Nuwara Eliya last week, to honour the sacrifices of Malayaga Tamils who fought for the right of plantation workers on the island.

Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has summoned Jesumaney Yartan Figurado, the joint co-ordinator of the North-East Coordinating Committee (NECC) over his participation in a recent protest opposing the deportation of Rohingya asylum seekers. 

 

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Sri Lanka to conduct a "swift and impartial" investigation into the assault and attempted abduction of Tamil journalist Murugaiyah Thamilselvan. 

The 51st anniversary of the 1974 World Tamil Research Conference massacre was commemorated in Jaffna.

Today marks 35 years since the passing of Major Sothiya, the commander of the LTTE's first female unit. 

Despite repeated warnings limestone mining continues unabated in the peninsula.

Governor Maura T. Healey of Massachusetts proclaimed January 14th as Tamil Heritage Day to honor the contributions of the Tamil community.

Narendra Modi emphasised the pride of Tamil as the world’s oldest language and its growing global influence on his monthly radio show

Several NPP members have filed complaints with Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in recent weeks.

The 19th anniversary of the massacre of five Tamil students in Trincomalee in 2006 was commemorated at the site of the killings last week. 

A petition demanding the release of Tamil political prisoners has drawn widespread reach across the North-East.

Media statements, conferences and all meetings must now go through the foreign ministry, in a circular issued by the government

Former Presidents Chandrika Kumaratunga and Maithripala Sirisena were seen presiding over a ceremony to mark the 126th birth anniversary of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in Colombo this week, a former Sri Lankan prime minister and architect of legislation that spurred decades of anti-Tamil violence.