Director of last year’s breakaway hit ‘Tourist Family’ Abishan Jeevinth turns from starring in an extended cameo in his own debut to leading role in ‘With Love,’ a romantic comedy directed by Madhan (one of the co-writers of 2024’s romantic drama ‘Lover’). Also starring Anaswara Rajan, RJ Ananthi and Saravanan, ‘With Love’ is an attempt at a quirky take on the genre. 

Accused war criminal Sarath Fonseka has reignited controversy over the final days of the armed conflict, alleging that senior figures within the Rajapaksa administration explored the possibility of allowing senior LTTE leaders to surrender through international mediation in May 2009.

Sri Lankan military construction work to establish a permanent access road to the Palaly Raja Rajeshwari Amman Temple in Jaffna has been suspended following objections from local landowners, in the latest dispute over civilian land use within the High Security Zone in Valikamam North.

UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy met with Tamil political leaders in Colombo this week, as representatives of the Tamil nation urged renewed international action on accountability, justice and political rights.

The Cambridge Union has cancelled a scheduled speaking event featuring Namal Rajapaksa, following mounting outrage from British Tamil students this week.

British Tamil students and youth organisations have expressed widespread outrage after Namal Rajapaksa was invited to address the Oxford Union and the Cambridge Union next week, with plans for protests already underway across the United Kingdom.

Below is the full text of an address by Jesse Jackson in London, in 2009. He was addressing an event organised by British Tamils.

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The veteran American civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84, his family confirmed, bringing to a close more than five decades of advocacy for justice, equality and human rights across the world.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake met with UK Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy in Colombo today, as a British parliamentarian renewed calls for accountability for atrocities committed against Tamils.