As international calls for negotiations and political solutions to Sri Lanka's conflict grow . This weeks editorial asks, what are these talks expected to solve ?

Sri Lanka Army chief Lt. Gen Sarath Fonseka this week revised his timetable for defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam back from June 2008 to mid-2009.

In the third of a series on genocide, a detailed examination of pre-1994 Rwanda and today’s Sri Lanka finds striking parallels.

Tamil Diaspora quarters lament the inability or unwillingness of the International Community to read the Diaspora public opinion.

Tamil youth activists addressed an annual conference of Australia's largest socialist youth organisation, held at the University of Technology in Sydney.

The Ontario based World Tamil Movement will challenge its proscription as a terrorist organisation as opinion across Canada queries the Canadian Governments decision.

Diaspora Eelam Tamils around the world, continue Pongu Tamil rallies in support of the Tamils' right to Self-Determination.

France comes to the aid of the French charity Action Contra la Faim (ACF) in pursuing an international inquiry into the killing of 17 local staffer in Muttur back in August 2006.

Sri Lanka offers to hold talks with the LTTE but ruled out an immediate revival of the ceasefire scrapped in January.

Asian Human Rights Commission report states torture has become endemic in Sri Lankan police stations and politicians seemingly have no will to stop it.

A high-level ministerial delegation visit from India to Sri Lanka stirred speculation within political and media circles in both countries.

Vaiko, General Secretary of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kalagam (MDMK), in a letter to India's Prime Minsters accused India of assisting India in committing genocide against Tamils.

TNA Parliamentary leader R. Sampanathan expressed Tamil sadness at an apparent lack of Indian concern about Tamil grievances and mounting human rights violations and genocide committed against the Tamil people.

The Sunday Leader questions the Sri Lankan Government's war record of 5,000 dead LTTE cadres in six months, as it asks Sri Lankan's to brace themselves for an even more, stringent war footing.