A 75-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, who returned from India after decades of displacement during the civil war, was on Thursday (May 29, 2025) detained by Sri Lankan authorities at the Palaly ...

Island wide Local Government elections held on May 6th was perceived as a twin test to gauge whether the NPP/JVP Govt still retained it’s popularity and whether the Anura wave had lost its vigour or ...

In her last appearance a couple of weeks ago, Malini Fonseka, arguably the queen of Sinhala cinema echoed the words of one of her most famous films ‘awa soya adare’. “I have come looking for love,” ...

The one eyed man known as Sivarasan who masterminded the Rajiv Gandhi assassination hailed from Udupiddy, a town about 32 km from Jaffna city. His real name however was Chandrasekharampillai ...

Politicians never retire from politics,” Mahinda Rajapaksa said in 2024 ( He had done more than most to set that trend in motion. Up until 2005, presidents retired after completing their two terms.

This article is the third and final of a trilogy about the coordinated attacks by suicide bombers on the Easter Sunday of 21 April 2019. Young men with explosives targeted three Churches and three ...

The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi(ITAK) known in English as the Federal Party(FP) has expressed strong opposition to recent moves by the National People’s Power (NPP) Govt of President Anura Kumara ...

April 26th is the 48th death anniversary of res[pected Tamil political leader Samuel James Veluppillai (SJV)Chelvanayagam. Chelvanayagam known as SJV and Chelva was the co founder and long time leader ...

(M.A. Sumanthiran is a President’s Counsel practising at Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court, a former Member of Parliament of Jaffna, and the General Secretary of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi) In the many ...

On Easter Sunday 2025, Pope Francis did not deliver his speech in person, though he briefly greeted the faithful with a brief “Brothers and Sisters, Happy Easter”. The pope’s traditio, “urbi et orbi,” ...

The advent of the Local Authority elections in 2025 saw the emergence of a new electoral alliance in Eastern Sri Lanka. The Tamil Makkal Viduthalaip Puligal (TMVP) led by Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan ...

The United Lingdom (UK) has imposed sanctions on four Sri Lankans allegedly responsible for serious human rights abuses and violations committed during the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and ...