AR Murugadoss returns to Kollywood with his boldly titled new film ‘Madharaasi.’

Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel's war in Gaza meets the UN definition of genocide. The world’s top genocide scholars have formally declared that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide, marking a landmark intervention from leading experts in the field of international law.

Tamil landowners protesting the military occupation of their lands in Myliddy were brutally dispersed by Sri Lankan police on Monday, as Anura Kumara Dissanayake arrived in Jaffna to inaugurate the third phase of the Myliddy Harbour Development Project.

At least eight more skeletal remains were fully exhumed from the Chemmani mass grave on Tuesday, while an additional four skeletons were identified, bringing the total number of bodies uncovered to 222.

Sri Lanka’s Counter Terrorism and Investigation Division (CTID) has summoned Tamil activist K. Sinthujan of Trincomalee for questioning for the second time in two months, in a move that has fuelled fresh concerns over ongoing surveillance and harassment of Tamils in the North-East.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) MP Namal Rajapaksa has called on “war heroes,” trade unions, public servants and “national forces” to unite against what he described as the government’s “hunting” of soldiers accused of atrocities, as the party escalates its campaign to shield the military from accountability.

Sri Lanka’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake made a sudden, unannounced trip to Katchatheevu on Monday, just days after Indian actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay reignited the row over the island by calling for its return to Tamil Nadu.

Sri Lanka risks losing the right to fly its flag at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as other major international sporting events, after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) declared the island’s anti-doping authority non-compliant.

Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, the Sri Lankan Army Commander during the 2009 Mullivaikkal genocide, has launched a blistering attack on former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, alleging corruption, electoral deals with the LTTE, and deliberate attempts to delay the military offensive in 2009.