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From Mullivaikkal to the Foreign Office – Ed Miliband’s record on Tamils and Sri Lanka
Miliband speaking at British Tamil event at the Houses of Parliament in 2013. Ed Miliband, appointed Foreign Secretary on Monday in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first cabinet reshuffle, arrives at the Foreign Office with a longer record on Tamil affairs than almost any of his predecessors. During his time as Labour leader between 2010 and 2015, Miliband issued statements marking Mullivaikkal…

Possible conjoined twins and seated burial among latest Chemmani discoveries as toll reaches 446

Jul 20, 2026
The remains of two infants found joined together, provisionally recorded as possible conjoined twins, and a skeleton buried in a seated position are among the discoveries of the past three days, as the number of skeletal remains identified at the Jaffna site rose to 446.

The road to 2028: How Sri Lanka's recovery could unravel again

Jul 14, 2026
With the printing presses turning again, its two great foreign-currency lifelines fraying and a fuel bill set to soar as the United States blockades the Strait of Hormuz, Sri Lanka's fragile recovery is being tested from every side, and a debt reckoning in 2028 threatens to tip the island back towards the abyss of 2022.

Sri Lanka’s deadliest prison riot in years kills 26

Jul 7, 2026
Sri Lanka’s prison system has been thrown back into crisis after two days of violence at Negombo Prison killed 26 people and injured more than 100, just weeks after rights groups warned the United Nations of overcrowding, custodial deaths and torture in detention facilities.
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The Isle of the Goddess: Nagapooshani Amman's Mahotsavam and the battle over Nainativu's identity

Jul 2, 2026
The annual Mahotsavam of the historic Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple concluded this week, its closing days drawing thousands of devotees to an island whose ancient Hindu and Naga heritage is increasingly being overshadowed by a state-driven project of Sinhala Buddhist majoritarianism.
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Chemmani lights up with 427 torches to remember the victims of mass graves

Jul 1, 2026

A peaceful public mobilisation titled Urimaippantham, or Right of Bond, was held at Chemmani on Sunday, as Tamils gathered to remember the hundreds of victims whose remains have been recovered from the mass grave site.

K Bhagyaraj: Tamil cinema’s ‘screenplay king’ who lent his voice to Eelam Tamil causes

Jun 29, 2026
Veteran Tamil filmmaker, actor and screenwriter K Bhagyaraj, who passed away in Chennai aged 73, leaves behind a towering legacy in Tamil cinema, where he was celebrated as one of the industry’s finest storytellers.

As Burnham eyes Number 10, British Tamils face a largely untested record

Jun 22, 2026
As Andy Burnham emerges as the frontrunner to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader and British prime minister, British Tamils are weighing a record on Tamil justice that is far thinner than the outgoing premier's, yet not quite the blank slate it might first appear.

Keir Starmer, British Tamils and the promises still unmet

Jun 22, 2026

Keir Starmer at Downing Street Thai Pongal reception with British Tamils

Keir Starmer's announcement that he will resign as Labour leader, and remain in Downing Street only until his successor is chosen, brings to an end a premiership that began on the back of some of the strongest pledges a British party leader had ever made to Tamils.

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Sri Lanka revives infamous Israeli-made Kfir warplanes

Jun 15, 2026

The Sri Lanka Air Force has carried out the first test flight of its upgraded Israeli-made Kfir C12 fighter aircraft at SLAF Base Katunayake, renewing scrutiny of a warplane closely associated with Sri Lanka’s bombing campaigns across the Tamil homeland.

Remembering 1956 – Sri Lanka’s first Anti-Tamil pogrom

Jun 15, 2026
This week marks 70 years since Sri Lanka’s first anti-Tamil pogroms, when government backed Sinhala mobs murdered more than 150 Tamils across the island – the first of many massacres that were to take place in the decades to come.
Possible conjoined twins and seated burial among latest Chemmani discoveries as toll reaches 446
The road to 2028: How Sri Lanka's recovery could unravel again
Sri Lanka’s deadliest prison riot in years kills 26
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The Isle of the Goddess: Nagapooshani Amman's Mahotsavam and the battle over Nainativu's identity
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Chemmani lights up with 427 torches to remember the victims of mass graves
K Bhagyaraj: Tamil cinema’s ‘screenplay king’ who lent his voice to Eelam Tamil causes
As Burnham eyes Number 10, British Tamils face a largely untested record
Keir Starmer, British Tamils and the promises still unmet
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Sri Lanka revives infamous Israeli-made Kfir warplanes
Remembering 1956 – Sri Lanka’s first Anti-Tamil pogrom
Possible conjoined twins and seated burial among latest Chemmani discoveries as toll reaches 446
The road to 2028: How Sri Lanka's recovery could unravel again
Sri Lanka’s deadliest prison riot in years kills 26
"" The Isle of the Goddess: Nagapooshani Amman's Mahotsavam and the battle over Nainativu's identity
"" Chemmani lights up with 427 torches to remember the victims of mass graves
K Bhagyaraj: Tamil cinema’s ‘screenplay king’ who lent his voice to Eelam Tamil causes
As Burnham eyes Number 10, British Tamils face a largely untested record
Keir Starmer, British Tamils and the promises still unmet
News Sri Lanka revives infamous Israeli-made Kfir warplanes
Remembering 1956 – Sri Lanka’s first Anti-Tamil pogrom