Apart from a suicide bombing inside the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) headquarters in Colombo and the subsequent government air strikes against Tamil villages in the east, the shadow war claimed at least 90 lives over the past two weeks whilst many others were wounded.
Traditional bharathanatyam dancers were amongst performers who entertained the audience of six hundred people at the ‘Ilanthir 2006’ event hosted by the Tamil Youth Organisation (TYO) in London on Sunday April 9
Leaflets warning women to quit working for Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been circulated across the eastern coast, after pornographic DVDs involving some female NGO workers surfaced last week.
"One major development last week was the resignation from the DMKof Mr. Sarathkumar, popular cinema actor and sitting MP, who belongs to the sizeable Nadar community."