Shaun Chen, Member of Parliament for Scarborough North, Ontario, addressed Canada's House of Commons to present a petition calling for Ottawa to take Sri Lanka to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and support an independence referendum.
Yet another display of why it's intergral to separate church & State!
Min. Saroja Paulraj offers flowers & bows before a statue of Lord Buddha on her 1st day. What is the necessity/relevance of this ritual in relation to her work? And why esp must a non Buddhist adhere to this? pic.twitter.com/J0WyKkb15b
Newly elected Jaffna lawmaker Dr. Archchuna Ramanathan paid tribute to fallen LTTE cadres as he took up his seat in Sri Lanka’s parliament today – causing a stir on his first day.
The former Director of the Chavakachcheri Hospital posted on his popular social media account a tribute to the ‘leader, heroes and Tamils’ ahead of parliament’s inauguration this morning
Following a landmark electoral win, which has secured the National People’s Power (NPP), a two-thirds parliamentary majority, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to prioritise press freedom.
The death of a 27-year-old pregnant woman and her unborn child during childbirth at the Mannar District General Hospital has triggered widespread outrage, leading to protests and multiple investigations by health and law enforcement authorities.
The mother, an Eelam Tamil resident from Mannar was admitted to the hospital for childbirth on Monday night (19 November). She went into labour on Tuesday, during which both the mother and the baby were pronounced dead.
M.A. Sumanthiran, a prominent member of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) praised his party's performance in the recent Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, noting how they managed to win a seat in every district in the North-East.
The Sri Lankan Army headquarters has announced that a military camp in Karkovalam in Jaffna is to be removed, after almost three decades of occupation.
China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, made a significant visit to the Northern Province, including Jaffna, where he evaded directly answering questions on China’s role in Tamil genocide and welcomed Sri Lanka’s outreach to India.
On the same day that Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake finalized his cabinet of ministers, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, led by Senior Mission Chief Peter Breuer, was in Sri Lanka to assess the country’s progress under the IMF program. The timing of the visit underscores the IMF’s keen interest in monitoring Sri Lanka’s economic direction and the government's adherence to program requirements.
Sri Lankan police in Murunkan, Mannar District, have had an attempt to prevent the commemoration of Tamil freedom fighters on Maaveerar Naal, rejected by a local court earlier today.
Neethan Shan was recently acclaimed as the first South Asian and the first Eelam Tamil to serve as Chair of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Canada’s largest school board.
Former Sri Lankan Minister and paramilitary leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, widely known as Pillayan, gave a five-hour-long statement before Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today over allegations presented in a controversial Channel 4 documentary about the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks.