A summit that pulls together Tamils from across the globe has kicked off in London this morning, with professionals and academics from over 70 countries set to attend the three-day conference.

The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has called for Sri Lankan police to open an investigation after a statute of SWRD Bandaranaike was temporarily blindfolded by protestors last week, claiming a Tamil Guardian article had inspired the move.

Tamil families of the disappeared are not protesting because of Sri Lanka’s economic collapse, but to find the whereabouts of their missing loved ones said the head of the association for enforced disappeared persons in Vavuniya in remarks to reporters last week.

In 2008, Thangarasa Selvarani’s son Thangarasa Thayaparan, then aged 28, was taken by the Sri Lankan army in front of her eyes.

It was 7 days after the birth of his child. He was sleeping outside their home in Cheddikulam, Vavuniya, after a day of wage labour, loading sand into trucks.

Selvarani told him to sleep inside, it was dark and the barking of the street dogs was out of character.

He said it was too hot, and he wanted to sleep outside.

Sri Lanka's Finance minister has announced his intent to increase the country's sales tax, after conceding the government made a mistake when It almost halved the rate of value-added tax to 8% in 2019.

Batticaloa journalists marked World Press Freedom Day with a vigil to pay tribute to the media workers that have been killed in Sri Lanka.

The journalists lit candles and laid flowers in tribute to their murdered colleagues. 

Protestors at Colombo’s Galle Face Green called for justice for famed Tamil newsreader Isaipriya, who was executed by the Sri Lankan army in 2009.

Yesterday marked her 40^th birthday.

The Sri Lankan army claimed the US ambassador praised the military “for their contribution to the sustenance of peace in the peninsula” whilst on a visit to the occupied city of Jaffna last week.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly showed unanimous support to pass a resolution that would urge the Union government to send aid to Sri Lanka in order to combat the ongoing economic crisis last week.

A Right to Information (RTI) request has revealed that the Sri Lankan government spent around Rs 95 million for Independence Day celebrations amidst the worst economic crisis the island has faced in decades.

On May 2nd, 2006, 16 years ago, five armed paramilitary cadres stormed the Uthayan, a Tamil daily newspaper published in Jaffna and opened fire, murdering and injuring Tamil employees. 

Sri Lankan state minister and paramilitary leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan was confronted by angry Tamil villagers in Vakarai as his supporters were chased away by women wielding slippers on Friday.

The leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party in Tamil Nadu visited Jaffna earlier today, where he met with politicians from the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and visited the historic Nallur temple.

In a fiery press conference, T Rajendar has slammed the ruling Rajapaksa regime and called for an end to their reign as he announced the release of a new song and expressed solidarity with the island’s Eelam Tamils.