Printing machines and newspapers at a Tamil language newspaper office in northern Sri Lanka was set ablaze by armed men forcing the press to halt printing, in a second such attack on the paper in two ...

An outspoken Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka whose premises have been repeatedly targeted, and its employees killed, was attacked by armed men who stormed into the building and set the printing ...

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 ...

Inspector General of Police N.K. Ilangakoon has handed over his first report on the attack on the Uthayan News Editor to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Director General of the President’s Media Bandula ...

There was excitement in the air as Sathkunanathan Vijayachandran, 39, chief machine operator at the Uthayan newspaper in Jaffna, was busy preparing the final bundles of the newly printed paper for ...

An unknown group calling itself the Tamil United Force to Safeguard the Country tells the Northern Province’s main newspaper to close down. The newspaper has been critical of the main Tamil parties ...

(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 ...

The Editor of the Jaffna based Uthayan newspaper was questioned by the CID yesterday following a news story referring to Army Commander Jagath Jayasuirya The CID had asked the Chief Editor of the ...