Vijay Sethupathi films tend to be a 50:50 deal for me. He is either a part of some of the best Tamil films in recent history or run-of-the-mill, unoriginal template masala films. Unfortunately, DSP falls in the latter category.

Meeting with Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MPs, U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Julie Chung, emphasised that "advancing human rights, rule of law & reconciliation among all communities" is key "to a stable and democratic Sri Lanka".

Responding to continued military land grabs, Jaffna Tamils chased out official land surveyors, which had planned to hand over 11 acres from Karainagar, belonging to 44 families, to Sri Lanka's army.

Tamil families of the disappeared in Vavuniya rallied earlier this week to reiterate longstanding calls for international justice. 

On Sunday, Sri Lankan police stormed the house of Tamil Guardian journalist and Batticaloa Press Club secretary, Selvakumar Nilanthan, and interrogated his family over his whereabouts after he had fled the country.

British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, Sarah Hulton has made a wide-ranging tour of Jaffna and Kilinochchi where she met with civil society groups, women’s organisations and Jaffna’s Mayor and Municipal Commissioner.

Tamils in Canada held a commemoration event in Toronto to mark Maaveerar Naal on Sunday. 

Flowers were laid by rows of photographs of fallen Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres and candles lit by makeshift gravestones.

Presidential Adviser Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara slams the commemoration of war dead by #Tamils throughout the north and east, as one for 'Tiger Terrorists'

"If your son was a terrorist, if he was a rapist, a killer, there's no prohibition to lighting a lamp inside a house" pic.twitter.com/YikDIMZ0Wl

Senior members of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK), the largest constituent party of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), marked Maaveerar Naal at the party's Jaffna headquarters on Sunday.

A Secretary of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Oman was arrested last week for his suspected involvement in a human trafficking racket. 

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin wrote to the Minister of external affairs, S. Jaishankar, to intervene in the arrest of 24 Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy. 

In his letter, Minister Stalin urged Mr Jaishankar to request that the Sri Lankan navy refrain from arresting the fishermen. 

Sri Lanka's police and military brutally assaulted a Tamil youth in Manipay, Jaffna.

He was not taken to the hospital and was detained at Manipai police station.

Last Sunday, Tamils in Mullaitivu gathered to remember the 12 civilians slaughtered in an Sri Lankan government air strike.