Elections to the Legislature of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has been announced by the Election Commission of India. Tanil Nadu will go to the polls on 23 April 2026 to elect 234 members to it ...

On March 13 2026 , lyricist and poet-novelist Vairamuthu was named for the Jnanpith Award, becoming only the third Tamil literary figure to receive it and the first in 24 years. The previous Tamil ...

Tamil writer Vannanilavan has an anecdote about Vairamuthu. Twenty years ago, Vairamuthu visited him with a platter of fruit and gifts. “I came to know that you are on the Sahitya Akademi committee. I ...

Sri Lanka is ready to receive and support all those forced to flee the country during the civil war and now living as refugees in Tamil Nadu, Cabinet Minister and Leader of the House Bimal Rathnayake ...

Sri Lanka on Sunday (March 15, 2026) switched to a digital QR code-based system to ration fuel sales, a move authorities described as a “precautionary measure” amid persisting uncertainty in West Asia ...

Nobody among the 74 nations, who participated in the largest edition of the Indian Navy’s multilateral naval Exercise MILAN from February 15 to 25 in Vishakapatnam in India, would have imagined it ...

As the war in West Asia widened into its second week, the shocks came thick and fast for many countries, with Sri Lanka no exception. The first blow for the public came at midnight on Monday (9), with ...

That, increasingly, is what the Middle East resembles today: not merely a red-stained battlefield, but a black and white board where the pieces are moving faster and more unpredictably than even the ...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Sunday (March 15, 2026) announced the complete schedule for the 234 Assembly seats in Tamil Nadu. The polling is scheduled to be held on April 23, 2026, and ...

The arrest and detention of the former State Intelligence Service (SIS) chief, Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay, over his alleged links to the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks have continued to ...

(The author is an energy sector regulatory consultant based in Calgary, Canada. He has been involved in economic development initiatives in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and has a long-standing ...

Internet Media Action (IMA) has expressed its profound concern regarding the arrest of veteran journalist and Lanka e News website Editor Sandaruwan Senadheera on Wednesday at Bandaranaike ...