After Sivarajah resigned as chairwoman Tuesday, Commissioner Scott Schulte also stepped down as vice chairman. A bit of musical chairs followed, with the board opting to elect Schulte as Sivarajah ...

Visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron, who was the first Head of Government to visit the Jaffna peninsula since the country gained Independence in 1948, on Friday assured journalists and ...

Uthayan recognised. Jaffna’s leading newspaper Uthayan was nominated for a prestigious award that is given annually by the international media watch dog organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres for ...

Anoka County Board Chairwoman Rhonda Sivarajah has emerged as the front-runner for the county's top job, following an internal search to replace Jerry Soma ahead of his June 1 retirement.

Investigation. The Reporters without Borders (RSF) says that this is another attempt to stop distribution of Uthayan and comes less than a month after the arrest of N. Vithyatharan, the editor of ...

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders is outraged by a grenade attack on the headquarters of the Tamil daily newspaper “Uthayan” in the northern city of Jaffna at about 11 p.m. (local time) on 24 ...

Masked men in northern Sri Lanka have attacked the offices of a Tamil newspaper and beaten its staff. The owner of the pro-opposition Uthayan paper said six masked men entered the building in ...

The office of Uthayan, the Jaffna-based Tamil newspaper, was attacked in the early hours of Saturday. This is the second attack suffered by the publication in the last fortnight. On April 3, the ...

Masked men in northern Sri Lanka have attacked the offices of a Tamil newspaper and beaten its staff. The owner of the pro-opposition Uthayan paper said six masked men entered the building in ...