5+ hour, 11+ min ago  (375+ words) Tamil Guardian Banner garlanding Jaffna MP with shoes torn down by the MP himself A ten-foot banner depicting the Jaffna District MP Ramanathan Archchuna garlanded with footwear was erected along a main road on the outskirts of Jaffna on Friday,…...

11+ hour, 7+ min ago  (341+ words) Environmentalists and civil society activists protested at Galle Face in Colombo on 17 June against proposed heavy mineral sand mining along the eastern coastline from Oluvil to Pothuvil, warning that the project threatens the land, fisheries and livelihoods of Tamil and…...

10+ hour, 6+ min ago  (601+ words) Tamil Guardian Twenty years on, Action Against Hunger calls for new Muttur massacre inquiry Action Against Hunger has called on the Sri Lankan government to open a new investigation into the 2006 Muttur massacre, in which seventeen of its aid workers,…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago  (489+ words) Tamil Guardian NPP opposes Nagapooshani Amman statue weeks after 88-foot Buddha erected at Nainativu The Velanai Pradeshiya Sabha has voted to install a statue of Nainativu Sri Nagapooshani Amman at the roundabout near the renovated Kurikattuvan Jetty in Jaffna, over…...

10+ hour, 57+ min ago  (325+ words) The Colombo Chief Magistrate's Court has granted bail to Yoshitha Rajapaksa, the second son of former Sri Lankan president and accused war criminal Mahinda Rajapaksa, following his arrest by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption. Yoshitha Rajapaksa…...

18+ hour, 12+ min ago  (263+ words) The weighing of some 10, 000 gold items seized by the Sri Lankan army from the Tamil homeland during the armed conflict, the bulk of them the pawned jewellery and possessions of Tamil civilians, has been completed, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (441+ words) Sri Lanka's Committee on Public Finance sharply questioned senior Central Bank officials, including Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe, over regulatory and supervisory failures that allegedly allowed a Rs. 13. 2 billion internal fraud at National Development Bank PLC to remain undetected for years. The…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (56+ words) Among Eelam Tamils, he concluded, "such a quest was inevitable among the second and third generations". Behind the project lay a sharper concern about who gets to narrate the Tamil past. Stripped of that context, he warned, the diaspora risked…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (547+ words) Tamil Guardian Seventeen UK Tamil student bodies demand PTA repeal A coalition of seventeen Tamil youth and university student organisations across the United Kingdom has demanded the full repeal of Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and an end…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (736+ words) Tamil Guardian Sri Lanka threatens legal action over Hindu worship at Kurunthur Malai Sri Lanka's acting head of archaeology has claimed that no evidence exists of a Hindu temple ever having stood at Kurunthur Malai in Mullaitivu, and refused permission…...