JSC urged to ensure accused MPs can travel overseas

Secretary of MP accused of demanding sexual bribe

A Secretary of a Member of Parliament (MP) in the North has been accused of demanding sexual bribes from women in order to get their work done. Social media was abuzz with the purported Facebook conversation between the secretary of the Tamil National Alliance MP and a woman. The woman in the conversation asks for a letter from the secretary to give her husband. The secretary says he is prepared to obtain the letter from the MP provided she meets him in a hotel room for a night. The woman the

13 Apr, 2017

Lankan woman, kids rescued from sand dune off India

The marine police at Mandapam in Tamil Nadu rescued a woman and her three children stranded on a sand dune off the Dhanushkodi coast in Ramanathapuram district of Tamil Nadu on Wednesday morning, the Times of India reported today. The woman, who was born in India, was married to a Sri Lankan. She has been living in Sri Lanka since 2013 with family. Local fishermen spotted the woman and her children on a sand dune beyond Arichalmunai and alerted the marine police. The police rescued the woman

13 Apr, 2017

TNA warns Government over failure to address issues

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has warned the Government to immediately address some of the key issues faced by the Tamils in the North, failing which they will back a change of Government. TNA and opposition leader R. Sampanthan said that while the Government has done a lot, more remains to be done. “Hundreds of Tamils are still suffering. The Government must understand this,” he said. Sampanthan said that the TNA will have high level talks with the Government and push for solutions for t

13 Apr, 2017