DMK chief wants Centre to take up fishermen issue with Sri Lanka
Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 7, 2013
A day after a Sri Lankan court extended the remand of 30 Indian fishermen till May 20, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today asked the Centre and Tamil Nadu government to immediately bring the issue to the notice of the Island government and resolve the matt...
Two persons held with 71 fake Indian passports
Press Trust of India | Thursday May 2, 2013
Two persons who were planning to send several Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to Germany using fake Indian passports were on Tuesday arrested and 71 fake passports seized from them at Naripaiyur in Ramanathapuram district, police said.
Karunanidhi slams Centre on fishermen issue
Press Trust of India | Sunday April 28, 2013
Slamming the Centre on the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen allegedly by Sri Lankan navy, former UPA ally DMK said the government's response was limited to making a statement in the Parliament.
Sri Lankan army illegally encroaching lands of Tamils, says DMK chief Karunanidhi
Press Trust of India | Friday April 26, 2013
DMK president M Karunanidhi today alleged efforts were being made to takeover lands belonging to ethnic Tamils by Sri Lankan army and sought the intervention of India and the United Nations in this matter.
Demand for cancellation of Katchatheevu agreement with Sri Lanka
Indo-Asian News Service | Monday April 15, 2013
Holding that there was no legislation for ceding Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka in 1974, DMK-backed Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) today said it would move the Supreme Court against the agreement.
Sri Lanka Navy denies arresting Indian fishermen
Press Trust of India | Sunday April 14, 2013
Sri Lankan Navy today denied the arrest of nine Indian fishermen hailing from Pudukottai district in Tamil Nadu, as reported in the Indian media.
Sri Lankan navy arrests nine Tamil Nadu fishermen
Press Trust of India | Sunday April 14, 2013
Nine fishermen from Pudukottai district were taken into custody by the Sri Lankan navy when they were fishing in mid-sea today, officials said.
Sri Lankan Tamil newspaper office burnt down
Associated Press | Saturday April 13, 2013
A publisher says armed men have stormed his newspaper press in Sri Lanka's former war zone and set fire to the machines and newspapers ready for distribution in a second attack on the paper in two weeks.
Four Indian fishermen attacked by Sri Lankan navy
Press Trust of India | Thursday April 11, 2013
Four fishermen from Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu were allegedly attacked by Sri Lankan Navy personnel with wooden logs while they were fishing off Kodiakarai coast in a mechanised boat, official sources said today.
120 Lankan Tamil refugees rescued from sea, arrested
Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Sunday April 7, 2013
One hundred twenty Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka were on Saturday rescued by the Coast Guard from a stranded vessel in the sea and arrested.
No move to block trade with south India: Sri Lanka
Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday April 4, 2013
Sri Lanka has rejected moves to block trade with Tamil Nadu and has insisted that economic relations should not be disrupted despite political tensions, an official said on Thursday.
Sri Lankan trade unions threaten to block goods from Tamil Nadu
Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday April 3, 2013
Trade unions manning Sri Lanka's main port have threatened to block about $2 billion worth of imports and exports to the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, media reports said in Colombo on Wednesday.
Actor Sarath Kumar's blog for NDTV.com: 'Strike is to make our stand very clear'
Sarath Kumar | Tuesday April 2, 2013
The assembly was once again to make our stand very clear - The Sri Lankan authorities should be tried by an independent international court. Economic sanctions to be imposed against the sri Lankan government and the central government should take not...
Rajinikanth, other actors join strike for Sri Lankan Tamils
Reported by Sam Daniel, Edited by Sabyasachi Dasgupta | Tuesday April 2, 2013
Almost 3000 members of the Tamil Nadu film fraternity were present at the venue to show solidarity with Lankan Tamils.
Rajinikanth, other actors hold day-long hunger strike for Sri Lankan Tamils
Reported by J Sam Daniel Stalin, Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Tuesday April 2, 2013
Around 3000 members of the Tamil Nadu film fraternity, including superstars Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan, today held a hunger strike in Chennai to show solidarity with Lankan Tamils. There was no film activity today.
