Sri Lankan Issue

Act on UN Resolution on Sri Lanka: Jayalalithaa Urges PM Narendra Modi

Tamil Nadu News | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 16, 2015

Hours after getting a resolution passed in the Assembly today on the Sri Lankan issue, seeking an international probe into allegations of war crimes in that country, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa urged PM Modi to take immediate action over it.

Tamil Film Fraternity Slams Sri Lankan Article Against Narendra Modi, Jayalalithaa

Entertainment | Deepu M Kurup | Monday August 4, 2014

Vijay and Suriya were among the protesters outside Sri Lankan consulate in Chennai

DMK legislators evicted en masse from Tamil Nadu Assembly

South | Press Trust of India | Monday April 1, 2013

Opposition DMK members were evicted enmasse from Tamil Nadu Assembly today with a couple of them being handed a two-day suspension for disrupting the proceedings.

No Lankan players in Chennai IPL matches, Jayalalithaa writes to PM

India News | Edited by Ashish Mukherjee | Tuesday March 26, 2013

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has written to the Prime Minister stating categorically that the 13 Sri Lankan cricketers in the Indian Premier League will not be allowed to play matches held in Chennai. She has said she will permit IPL matches to be held in her state only if the organisers give her an undertaking that no Sri Lankan will b...

Political poster war in Tamil Nadu over Sri Lankan issue

South | Written by Uma Sudhir | Sunday March 24, 2013

A political poster war is playing out in Tamil Nadu over the Sri Lankan issue. Ironically, rival parties are groups are using the same face, of a 12-year-old boy, to score political points. Balachandran, son of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, has emerged as the face of the student protest movement for the Sri Lankan Tamil cause.

Pranab Mukherjee likely to visit Lanka

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday April 9, 2009

As Tamil parties continue to build pressure on the government over the Sri Lankan issue, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to travel to the island nation to assess the situation and discuss the matter with the country's leadership. Official sources in New Delhi on Sunday said the visit is being considered in view of the prevaili...