A journalist and a Tamil People’s Alliance candidate were assaulted in separate incidents during the local government elections in Jaffna, prompting police investigations

Voting came to a close in the North-East earlier today, as Tamils across the region cast votes for local government polls.

A SriLankan Airlines flight from Chennai to Colombo was searched on 3 May, after authorities at Chennai Airport received an email claiming that five suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives were on board.

A high-level European Union (EU) monitoring mission is currently in Sri Lanka to assess the country’s compliance with the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) - a vital trade concession worth over $500 million annually that grants Sri Lankan exports, particularly garments, duty-free access to European markets.

On International Press Freedom Day, journalists in Jaffna protested demanding justice for slain media workers and condemned recent threats against a photojournalist

Families of the forcibly disappeared in the North and East have urged Tamil voters to support Tamil nationalist parties and reject southern-backed candidates in the upcoming local elections

Two Tamil men accused of aiding a 2008 a bombing attempt on former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena—then the country’s Agriculture Minister—have spent nearly 16 years in remand custody, with their case finally heard last week.

On this day 49 years ago, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was founded.

Then 21-year-old Velupillai Prabhakaran rebranded his militant organisation the Tamil New Tigers, into the LTTE. 

Sri Lanka has been ranked 139th out of 180 countries in the 2025 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), placing it among nations where journalism is considered “very serious” in terms of press freedom conditions.

Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), the largest Tamil party in Sri Lanka and once a pioneer of Tamil nationalism in the first decades after the independence of Ceylon, has strayed far from its historic mission.

A Tamil youth activist has been arrested and remanded following a false complaint by a Sinhala Buddhist monk involved in the construction of a controversial vihara in Periyakulam, Trincomalee District.

The National People’s Power (NPP) has released a series of Tamil-language campaign songs for the upcoming local government elections, embracing rhetoric and imagery closely associated with Tamil nationalism and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

From the fishing villages of Mannar to the streets of Jaffna, May Day 2025 was marked by a series of powerful demonstrations, where thousands rallied to honour workers’ struggles and to demand justice, equality, and an end to systemic repression.