At the turn of the century, it wasn’t uncommon for Hamas and Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the Tamil Tigers, to find mention in the same debates as ...

On 18 May 2009, the Sri Lankan Army declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which for three decades had run a parallel administration in the northern and eastern part of the ...

Today (18) marks 16 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s three-decade-long civil war, which concluded with the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the armed separatist group – the Liberation ...

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Tamil Eelam or Thamizh Eezham, Sinhala, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan etc., are presented today in the media and the connotations implied by them. Culture Columnist Akazhaan discusses the etymology, ...

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This Sunday, May 18, marks 16 years since the Sri Lankan government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending an armed conflict that had raged for 26 years. But while the ...

Tourist Family, the Tamil family drama starring M. Sasikumar and Simran, was released in cinemas on May 1. The film is now set to mark its OTT debut. Tourist Family has shown a strong performance ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has reshuffled Cabinet portfolios, moving the Law Department to Durai Murugan and assigning Natural Resources to S Regupathy. The move came amid recent political ...

All belonged to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lankan Tamil outfit, which was banned in India in 1991, following the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.