Tamils News

Intelligence agencies on high alert ahead of Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day. The Remembrance Day is marked annually by the Sri Lankan Tamils on May 18. It was on this day that the 25-year-old Civil War in the island nation ended in 2009.

Rajapaksa said India's "abiding friendship" was amply demonstrated by its rapid response to Sri Lanka's needs at the time, both material and moral.

War crime investigations backed by some Western countries and the United Nations will exacerbate the differences between Sri Lanka's two main ethnic groups instead of uniting them, former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said on Monday. 

Addressing the 71st UN General Assembly session, Sirisena appealed to the global community for support to make Sri Lanka a modern nation devoid of differences.

Barring the ruling AIADMK, which is silent on extending support to the strike, all major political parties have extended support to the strike.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Monday expressed serious concern at the mob violence targeting Tamils in Karnataka and urged the neighbouring state's government to provide them with necessary security.

Here's a video showing how some pro-Kannada activists set a vehicle on fire in Bengaluru on Monday during protests over Cauvery water issue.

Security was tightened across Bengaluru on Monday to prevent attacks on people over the Cauvery river water controversy and for the Bakrid festival on Tuesday, said Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwar.

Twenty-nine people belonging to six families from Kerala and three from Tamil Nadu will reach Kerala on May 12 after evacuation from Libya, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Every year since 1949, the first anniversary of independence from Britain, the anthem had been sung at the main national celebration only in Sinhala.

Sri Lanka's main Tamil party on Tuesday demanded devolution of powers in the new Constitution to resolve ethnic issues. 

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday said his government was ready to devolve power to minority Tamils under a new Constitution.

Moved by the plight of Tamils displaced during the three-decade-long civil war, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has promised to set up a special task force to resettle them within six months.

The government did not immediately comment on the move, but it had promised eight months ago to carry out a review as part of reconciliation efforts.

Tamil Nadu on Wednesday opposed any move to allow Sri Lanka hold an internal probe into alleged human rights violations and war crimes during hostilities in 2009 and urged the Modi government to take the lead at the UN and press for an international investigation on it.

A US-based Hindu organisation has called for an international independent probe into the alleged war crimes during Sri Lanka's final assault on the LTTE as America is set to bring a resolution in the UN rights body supporting a domestic probe.