Major General Sumith Manawadu succumbed to his injuries

UK detains Tamil man, will deport him

UK immigration officials have detained Janahan Sivanathan, a 22-year-old Tamil asylum seeker and political activist from Sri Lanka. Janahan is being held at the Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire while the government tries to deport him, opendemocracy.net reported. Supporters say that Janahan was ?horrendously tortured??as a school student?during the war in Sri Lanka, after he was rounded up and held captive for ten days. His lawyer filed a fresh claim and submitted new medical evid

04 Jun, 2015

Fishermen to protest arrest by Sri Lankan navy

Urging the Indian Central and Tamil Nadu State governments to take immediate steps to secure the release of 14 fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on Monday, Rameswaram fishermen have threatened to launch an indefinite strike if the governments failed to secure the release by June 12. Condemning the arrest in the very beginning of the new fishing season, leaders of 11 mechanised boat fishermen associations met yesterday?and adopted a resolution urging the Central and State governments to

04 Jun, 2015

New alliance to focus on estate community

A new alliance, the Tamil Progressive Alliance, which will focus on the estate community, was launched today with the participation of the political party leaders of the alliance. The new alliance consists of the Democratic People’s Front led by Mano Ganeshan,?National Union of Workers led by Palani Digambaran and Up-country People?s Front led by V. Radhakrishnan. Ganeshan said that while the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) looks at issues faced by Tamils in the North, there is no one who gives

03 Jun, 2015