The police have cited eleven reasons for denying permission including lack of adequate space at the venue, including disturbance to the Royapettah Government Hospital nearby, traffic congestion and a possible law and order situation. In its party organ Murasoli the DMK had expected over a lakh people to attend the meet.
Earlier on Friday, the Centre had asked organisers to remove the word Eelam from the conference title, which refers to the creation of separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka. Although the DMK chief had earlier harped on that only Eelam would solve the Lankan Tamils crisis, he backtracked later by saying the conference would focus only on livelihood issues of the displaced Lankan Tamils. This dilution of stand came after the then Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram reportedly briefed him on the implications.
UPA’s senior leaders and Union Cabinet Ministers Sharad Pawar and Farooq Abdullah are scheduled to participate in a conclave in Chennai on Sunday as part of the TESO programme. Now there’s uncertainty over their participation.
Political analysts say this could not have come at a worse time for the DMK. After a huge defeat in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls the DMK chief they say was consolidating his vote bank by using the Tamil card to improve his party’s tally in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls | 
In a major setback to DMK chief Karunanidhi’s attempts to revive the defunct Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) the Chennai Police has denied it permission for a public meeting in the city on Sunday.
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
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The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [