Anujan Srikantha, a British Tamil athlete representing England, has made history by clinching gold at the 2024 Commonwealth Powerlifting Championship held in Sun City, South Africa earlier this year. Competing in the Men’s Classic Benchpress Championships, Srikantha not only emerged victorious in the 83kg division but also earned the prestigious title of Best Male Lifter, a recognition for benching the highest weight relative to body weight across all classes. Srikantha’s stellar performance saw him bench an impressive 192.5kg while weighing just 82kg.

Tamils in Germany commemorated Maaveerar Naal with thousands gathering in Dortmund on November 27th to pay tribute to fallen fighters.

US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu has landed in Sri Lanka earlier today, with discussions slated around how Washington can “deepen ties with the current government”. 

Marking Maaveerar Naal in Italy, the Palermo City Council governor and the Tamil Coordination Committee signed an declaration formally recognizing the genocide of Eelam Tamils as they paid tribute to those who laid down their lives for liberation. 

Maaveerar Naal - Great Heroes' Day - was commemorated in Denmark last week, as Tamils around the globe paid tribute to martyred fighters in the independence struggle.

Eelam Tamils in Belgium marked Maaveerar Naal last week, as thousands gathered in Antwerp to pay respect to those who sacrificed their lives for Tamil independence. 

Maaveerar Naal was commemorated in New Zealand last week, as Tamils across the country joined those around the world in paying tribute to Tamil freedom fighters.

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Central Government of India to consider the application submitted by an Eelam Tamil refugee who has been in the country since 1983.

After more than three years stranded in dire conditions on Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, dozens of Eelam Tamil refugees fleeing persecution in Sri Lanka have arrived in the UK.

Sri Lanka’s security forces have reportedly launched an investigation after the Tamil Eelam flag was raised in Jaffna on November 27th, as Tamils across the North-east paid tribute to fallen Tamil fighters on Maaveerar Naal.

Today marks the 76th birthday of Puthuvai Ratnathurai, an Eelam Tamil Revoluntary Poet, who was in charge of the Tamil Eelam Arts and Cultural Guild. 

Rathnathuai was last seen in the custody of the Sri Lankan military on 18 May 2009 in Mullivaikkal and to date his fate is not known. 

At least six people have been interrogated by the Sri Lankan police over the celebration of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's birthday outside his childhood home last month, which took place under heavy police surveillance.

The Tamil Traditional Network-France, in collaboration with the French postal service La Poste, launched a commemorative stamp in tribute to Nadarajah Mathinthiran, also known as Colonel Parithi, the former leader of the CCTF, who was tragically assassinated in Paris on November 8, 2012. 

The 40th anniversary of the tragic Othiyamalai Massacre was commemorated at the memorial in Othiyamalai village, in the Mullaitivu district on Monday, as plainclothes Sri Lankan intelligence officers monitored the event.