With the announcement of local elections across the island, the Tamil National Alliance, the largest alliance representing Tamils in the North-East, is in flux over divisions between and within the constituent parties.

US-based advocacy organisation People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) welcomed Canada's targeted sanctions against the Rajapaksa brothers and other Sri Lankan military officials but urged the international community to go further to ensure justice and accountability for Tamils. 

Canada’s foreign minister Mélanie Joly has announced targeted sanctions against Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa as well as Sunil Ratnayake and Chandana Prasad Hettiarachchi for “gross and systematic violations of human rights during the armed conflict in Sri Lanka”.

V Mannivannan with TMTK leader C V Wigneswaran

Viswalingham Mannivannan has joined the Tamil Makkal Thesiya Kootani (TMTK) party ahead of the island's local elections. 

A remembrance event was held in Jaffna today to mark the 49th anniversary since the killing of eleven Tamils by Sri Lankan police officers at the 1974 World Tamil Research Conference. 
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Captain Pandithar, a senior member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was commemorated on the 38th anniversary of his passing at his residence in Valvettithurai, Jaffna yesterday. 

Koppay police excavated private land in Kokuvil, Jaffna after they allegedly received a "tip-off" that weapons belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were buried there. 

According to 182 economists and development experts, powerful hedge funds and investment companies are preventing vital help from reaching crisis-hit Sri Lanka.

The group stated that private sector creditors were preventing a debt relief deal for the island.

Slain journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge was remembered on the 14th anniversary of his death in Batticaloa yesterday. 

Assassinated human rights lawyer and former leader of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress (ACTC), Kumar Ponnambalam was remembered by the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) on Friday to mark 23 years since his death. 

For the third day, Tamils across the homeland called upon Tamil politicians to push for the reunification of the North and East as a separate provincial unit.

Popular Sri Lankan YouTuber and social activist, Sepal Amarasinghe, has been arrested in Boralesgamuwa by the Sri Lankan Criminal Investigation Department (CID) following allegedly defamatory remarks he made towards the Buddhist Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic (‘Dalada Maligawa’) in Kandy.

Leader of the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Dharmalingam Siddarthan, has claimed that Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has ordered for the immediate halting of land grabs in the North and East.

Sri Lanka has announced that local government polls will be held before the end of February.