Srilanka: In a bid to woo Lankan Tamils, President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday toured the former LTTE strongholds in the country's north ahead of the planned election in the region.
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The proposed visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to Sanchi next week for laying foundation of a Buddhist University is mired in controversy with MDMK strongly opposing it even as the Ma

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) on Sunday defeated the country's main ethnic Tamil party in the elections held for three of the island's nine pr

Hitting back at critics, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said the snap elections called for three provincial councils in September would silence them.

Addressing the voters of the North,

Over 600 Sri Lankan Tamils have perished in the Indian Ocean sailing from the south Indian coast in sea-unworthy boats for greener pastures in Australia and Canada, says S.C. Chandrahasan, who heads t

Human trafficking in Sri Lankan Tamils came to notice in India first with the arrival of Arumainayagam Soundarajan aka Rajan aka Italy Rajan, in Tamil Nadu in June 2009.

He had been sending asylum s

As many as 123 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees from various camps in Tamil Nadu who were caught while trying to escape to Australia through the Sakthikulangara coast near Kollam in Kerala, were handed over

India should support a US-backed resolution holding Sri Lanka accountable for war crimes and strongly condemn Colombo, chief minister J. Jayalalithaa wrote to the Prime Minister Wednesday.

Her letter

War chased her from one place to another, but when 69-year-old Thamizh Selvi finally wanted to settle down in her hometown in northern Sri Lanka, fate had different plans for her.

“We lost everything

Aimed at making the student community in Tamil Nadu sensitive to the agony of the Tamil minority in the island nation, the production team of Uchithanai Muharnthaal — a film that poignantly portrays t