Uthayan

“We would like to ask the media to please be responsible in the way you report news. Please don’t humiliate us unnecessarily or carry un-validated information designed to whip up suspicion and hatred against us. I am the chief administrator of a Jaffna mosque. The Special Task Forces surrounded our area (where Muslims are concentrated) […]

Image: Minster Sagala Rathnaya taking to Uthayan editor Premananth at the UNESCO confernece. ( Credit: @NalakaG) Speaking to Uthayan editor T. Premananth during the UNESCO press freedom event held in  Colombo, Sri Lanka minister for law and order Sagala Rathnayake has requested to provide him with a report of all attacks taken place against the […]

(Samantha Power at Uthayan offcie- Photograph: Uthayan.) US Ambassador Samantha Power praised the resilience of Tamil journalists for playing a “critically important role as a check and balance of state power” and urged them to continue their work, during her trip to Jaffna today. As part of her visit to the North, Ms Power toured […]

M. V. Kaanamylnathan M. V. Kaanamylnathan had 50 years’ tough experience in journalism and had worked for every Tamil-language newspaper in Sri Lanka when he took the helm of the main Tamil daily Uthayan in 1985, two years after the civil war flared up. Dozens of members of the paper’s staff were among the conflict’s […]

 Friday, 19 April 2013 During the National New Year when the Sinhala and Tamil communities came together for festivities of deep unity in diversity it was sad to hear of yet another attack on the Jaffna-based Tamil newspaper ‘Uthayan’. This attack, the 16th since 2006, on the leading Tamil newspaper in the North was a […]

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP and Proprietor of Uthayan newspaper, E. Saravanapavan, yesterday called on the Government’s Media Spokesman, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella, to refrain from giving false news to the media. He was referring to Rambukwella’s comment that the damage to the Uthaytan office was insignificant, and that the media office is continuing to print […]

Ranga Jayasuriya Last year, there had been 19 killings in Jaffna, but, police were keen about only one murder (of a suspected military informant),” recalls V. Premanath, Editor of Uthayan.When it came to that particular case, police really meant business; they arrested four men and obtained a court order for their prolonged detention under the Prevention […]

“Udayan” newspaper delivery employee attacked, by unidentified persons. Papers burnt. “Udayan” newspaper delivery employee was attacked by unidentified persons today morning at 5.30 a.m at Maalu junction locality and his motorbike along with the newspapers was scorched.   The incident occurred while he took the newspapers from the “Udayan” print media office today morning was […]