India is set to increase services along a historic maritime route with the launch of a second passenger ferry service between Rameswaram and Talaimannar this July. 

The Tamil Nadu Maritime Board has received an expression of interest from an operator to run an all-weather ferry service, capable of carrying 250 passengers and covering the distance in just one hour.

Sri Lanka’s ongoing campaign to Sinhalise Tamil sites continued last week as a large number of Buddhist monks, escorted by military and police personnel, marched towards the Vedukkunaari temple in Nedunkerni, Vavuniya. 

The controversial march began on Shivaratri, a sacred day for Saiva Tamils.

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in Tamil Nadu is set to rewrite global history, with new evidence suggesting that iron smelting in the region dates back to as early as 3,345 BCE—over a thousand years earlier than previously believed. 

The findings challenge long-held assumptions that the Iron Age began in the Hittite Empire in present-day Turkey around 1300 BCE and instead position Tamil Nadu as one of the earliest known centres of iron production.

A Tamil schoolteacher was subjected to eight hours of interrogation by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) in Paranthan, as the security forces continued to crackdown on Tamil activists.

Innasimuttu Sathiyaseelan’s alleged "offence" was the creation of a prop for a school sports meet, which included an entrance arch resembling a Thuyilam Illam, or LTTE cemetery, the shape of Tamil Eelam. 

Hundreds of Tamil activists, youth, and diaspora members gathered outside the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Monday, demanding international justice for the Tamil genocide and the liberation of occupied Tamil Eelam.

The protest coincided with Sri Lanka's discussion at the UNHRC’s 58th session, where the island’s human rights record and lack of accountability were under review.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced that his government will repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and replace it with a new legal framework, raising concerns that the infamously draconian law may simply be rebranded rather than abolished.