The Swiss Tamil Youth Organization (TYO) hosted the “Manavar Eluchi Naal" (Tamil Students Uprising Day) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pon Sivakumaran's sacrifice in Kollinken, Switzerland on Sunday.

Pon Sivakumaran, who gave his life 50 years ago in 1974 at the age of 24, is remembered as the first martyr in the Tamil resistance. On June 5, 1974, surrounded by the Sri Lankan police and fearing torture, he swallowed cyanide and took his own life.

A Sinhala nationalist politician has called for Sinhala language schools to be set up in the Tamil homeland across the North-East, as he addressed parliament.

A group of 23 Sri Lankan police officers have left for New Delhi to attend a two-week course on subjects such as “terror financing, internal security dynamics, and Islamic fundamentalism” as part of a fully funded Indian training program for the Sri Lankan security forces.

Sri Lanka’s Junior Foreign Minister Tharaka Balasuriya confirmed that at least 455 Sri Lankans are fighting for the Russian army in the war against Ukraine, but admitted that “the number could be much higher,” as he travelled to Moscow this week.

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The Sri Lankan government recently provided police protection and increased military presence for a group of Sinhala Buddhist monks who are undertaking a pilgrimage on foot to Kurunthurmalai, where an illegally built Buddhist temple is situated.

Tamil families of the disappeared protested in Kilinochchi today as part of their ongoing campaign to know the fate of their forcibly disappeared relatives. 

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) has refused approval to award procurement of the 484 MW wind power plant in Mannar and Pooneryn to Adani Green Energy.

Tamil National People’s Front MP Selvarajah Kajendren renewed calls for the immediate release of Tamil political prisoners, noting how some continue to have new charges laid out against them under the much-criticised Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

The Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) have urged India to reject the 13th Amendment and instead support a federal solution that will allow the Tamil nation their right to self-determination as well as referring Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court for the Tamil genocide. 

Weeks after the US Navy and Marine Corps conducted joint maritime exercises, the United States has transferred equipment to the Sri Lankan military, as defence ties between the two governments continues to grow.

Hundreds of landless Tamil farmers who have been engaged in paddy cultivation in the Illupaikadavai area in Manthai West in Mannar have written to Sri Lanka’s president demanding he issue them land deeds, so that their rightful ownership of the land can be recognised.

The Sri Lanka Navy confirmed that a sailor had “succumbed to his injuries,” after the security forces launched an operation that ended with the arrest of 10 Indian fishermen and the seizure of a trawler in Jaffna earlier today.

Tamil families of the disappeared held a rally today in Gandhi Park, Batticaloa, as they continue to search for answers and justice for their forcibly disappeared loved ones.