This week, Tamils took to streets to send the Sri Lankan state a message – just as they did in the 1950s.

Sri Lanka’s former Public Security Minister, called for Tamil university students in Jaffna who pulled down a Sri Lankan lion flag and replaced it with a black flag earlier this month to be arrested.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has terminated a climate adaptation project in Sri Lanka, as part of a sweeping effort to eliminate what it deems to be “wasteful spending.” 

The project was among 199 contracts cancelled by DOGE, which has been tasked with restructuring US government expenditures under Donald Trump’s administration.

The Indian conglomerate Adani Green Energy has withdrawn from its US$442 million wind power projects in Sri Lanka,

Tamil landowners in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna, have renewed their demands for the removal of the illegally constructed Tissa Vihara and the return of their ancestral lands, as calls for a united resistance intensify.

The Tissa Raja Maha Vihara in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna, has become a focal point of controversy and resistance for Tamils in the region, symbolising the Sri Lankan state’s ongoing Sinhalisation efforts.

Tamils in Jaffna defied Sri Lankan police intimidation as they launched a two-day protest against a Sinhala Buddhist temple that has been constructed with the help of the military and in defiance of court orders. 

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic.

Concerns over environmental destruction, loss of livelihoods, and further displacement have fuelled protests as companies attempt to exploit rare earth minerals in the Tamil homeland.