A merger of the North-East will not be immediately possible said TNA spokesperson and MP, MA Sumanthiran on Friday. 

Speaking to journalists from his home in Jaffna, Mr Sumanthiran said the option of a merger found in the 13th amendment will continue in the new constitution. 

Thousands of Tamils in Toronto, Canada commemorated Maaveerar Naal at a number of events across the city, including a large one at Markham Fairgrounds.

Sri Lanka's finance minister, Ravi Karunanayake said hotels and holiday homes run by the military and state agencies will be consolidated under one corporate entity.

Suggesting this would better guide such investments, Mr Karunanayake added the current administration plans to sell-off non-strategic investments, including hotels.

Cabinet Ministers have approved a proposal for a National Defence College to be established in Sri Lanka. 

Residents in Othiyamalai on Friday remembered the massacre of 32 Tamils by the Sri Lankan military in 1984. Lighting lamps, families who had lost their loved ones came together to remember. 

Indian government officials will meet with their Sri Lankan counterparts this month in the hope of expanding trade deals between the two, reports PTI.

In a brief released today, the Jaffna-based Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research (ACPR) took note of the Centre-Periphery Relations Constitutional Sub-Committee report with cautious optimism, noting that its recommendations "had the potential to positively contribute to a genuine restructuring of the State that accommodates the concerns of the numerically smaller populations vis a vis the current state of the provincial council system and more broadly, the desire of the Tamil people for a gen

Tamils in Doha, Qatar, marked Maaveerar Naal (Tamil national remembrance day) this weekend, creating a shrine of remembrance with photographs of fallen Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre. 

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The US State Department held a series of seminars on trade policy from Novemebr 29 till December 1st. 

Over 70 key decision makers and technical experts from various Sri Lankan ministries, agencies, research institutes, trade policy think tanks, and Chambers of Commerce were present, the US embassy said. 

Tamils in Indonesia on Sunday marked Maaveerar Naal (Tamil national remembrance day) with the lighting of lamps and laying of flowers by the photographs of fallen Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre. 

The Tamil community in Paris gathered to mark Maaveerar Naal on Sunday, with thousands attending a commemoration ceremony.

Maaveerar Naal was marked in several locations in Batticaloa, including Kathiraveli, Vakarai with TNA MP S. Viyalenthiran in attendance.

Thousands in Norway marked Maaveerar Naal on Sunday,as Tamils across the world remembered their fallen heroes.

Tamil Guardian sat down with Spokesperson for the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and MP, M. A. Sumanthiran at his home in Colombo last week to discuss matters of the constitution, transitional justice and the budget.