(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 August CPJ press release: SRI LANKA: Tamil newspaper editor killed in Jaffna New York, August 21, 2006 – A Tamil newspaper editor and former member of parliament was ...

CHENNAI: V Bhagyanathan, editor of Tamil Osai, a Tamil daily, passed away in Chennai on Thursday. He was 65 and had been undergoing treatment for cardiac and kidney problems at a corporate hospital.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has pardoned a Tamil journalist who received a 20-year prison term on charges of "supporting" terrorism. Jeyaprakash Tissainayagam had written about the effects ...

N. Vithyatharan, chief editor of the Tamil newspaper Sudar Oli, was released from detention on April 28, four days after police admitted in court that there were no grounds to charge him. His ...

Text content from the BBC Tamil website, bbctamil.com, is now directly available to users of the web version of The Hindu-Tamil – the Tamil daily from The Hindu group, one of India’s oldest and most ...