Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has withdrawn her party MP from an all-party delegation to Sri Lanka next week, refusing to let up the pressure against the Sinhalese racist regime

India’s nuclear romance has pitted the powerful pro-nuclear establishment against the poor, marginalized people, backed by small groups of human rights defenders, says B R P Bhaskar

Forests rights activist Sanjay Basu Mullik discusses the emerging challenges of forest rights movement with Aparna Pallavi as consumerism threatens to entrap the indigenous people too

Kolkata seethes in anger as govt shunts out ‘Tigress’ Damayanti Sen, the joint commissioner of police (crime), who cracked the sensational Park Street rape case, to an insignificant post

Delighted with the changing world opinion on Sri Lanka, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran hopes that the UN would organize a referendum on Eelam and the Diaspora Tamils would be part of it

The Weekend Leader is organizing a workshop on Trends in Green Buildings in Chennai with The New Indian Express as Print Partner, Exnora as Green Partner, and Big FM as Radio Partner

Tamil leader Deluxon Morris of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam vows to get an international inquiry into Sri Lanka’s genocide against Tamils and work towards achieving Eelam

Into the 8th day of his hunger strike against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, S P Udayakumar writes about the ground conditions in Idinthakarai that has come under a police siege

The National Council of Churches in India, an umbrella organization of Indian Protestant and Orthodox Churches, has urged Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to be ‘pro-people’ on Kudankulam issue

Ron Ridenour evaluates the fallout of the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka for Tamil Eelam as world powers finally show signs of gravitating away from the Sinhalese racist regime

Over 100 journalists, writers, and artists have appealed to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to shut down nuclear power plants in the state and withdraw the police from Kudankulam

Diaspora Tamil groups lobbying with various diplomatic missions in Geneva on the eve of the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC are smelling victory, reports Paul Newman

S P Udayakumar, leading the people’s movement against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant, writes about the tense situation in Kudankulam following the police crackdown against protestors

Tension has gripped Kudankulam and surrounding areas following the arrest of activists opposing the Kudankulam nuclear plant and the Tamil Nadu govt’s green signal to the project

Discussing the absence of TNA MPs at the UNRC meeting, Brian Senewiratne, wonders if there is truth in stories that Prez Rajapksa warned of a Tamil bloodbath in Colombo if they went to Geneva