Tamil News Papers: Dinamalar. It was founded in 1. Jaffna. Its sister newspapers is the Colombo based Sudar Oli. BBC Tamil Newspaper. BBC Tamil news, BBC Tamil news paper. BBC Tamil Indian newspaper, BBC Tamil india. Daily BBC Tamil, BBC Tamil online, newspaper BBC Tamil. No Copyrights reserved, Utilize as it is. Last Updated on 03 rd December 2007: tamil women magazine, tamil magazine, tamil islam magazine. ![]() Uthayan was the only newspaper published from Jaffna which did not cease publication due to the civil war. The newspaper has been attacked several times, a number of its staff have been murdered by paramilitary groups and other forces, and it regularly receives threats. Contents Uthayan was founded in 1. E. Saravanapavan with the first edition being published on 2. November 1. 98. 5. At that time there were two other newspapers published from Jaffna: the Tamil language Eelamurasu and Eeelanadu. Murasoli began publishing from Jaffna in 1. As the civil war escalated newspapers published from Jaffna came under pressure from both government forces and the rebel militant groups. Eelamurasu and Eeelanadu were taken over by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1. In October 1. 99. Sri Lankan military launched a military offensive to recapture the Jaffna peninsula from the LTTE, virtually the entire population of the Valikamam region fled to other parts of the peninsula and the Vanni. Uthayan staff fled from their Jaffna offices, taking printing machine, a generator and newsprint on a truck. They set- up a temporary office in Sarasalai, Thenmarachchi from where they published the paper until April 1. Then the paper returned to Jaffna after the military had recaptured most of the peninsula including Jaffna city. By 1. 99. 6 the Uthayan was the only newspaper published from Jaffna. Uthayan was shut down by the Sri Lankan government on 1. May 2. 00. 0 using the recently passed draconian law – the Emergency (Miscellaneous Provisions and Powers) Regulation No. The Sri Lanka Army cut off the phone lines, locked the offices and took away the keys. The newspaper re- opened 4. July 2. 00. 0 after the government lifted its ban. Sub- editor N. Vithyatharan was interrogated by the police for two hours at his offices 2. January 2. 00. 1 regarding an interview with Anton Balasingham, the LTTE's chief negotiator and political advisor. After the civil war resumed the Sri Lankan military closed the A9 road which was the main road link between the Jaffna peninsula and the rest of the country. This resulted in an acute shortage of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies, including newsprint and printing ink, on the peninsula. Uthayan was forced to drastically cut its number of pages and the copies printed – it went from 2. Editor N. Vithyatharan was arrested by the police without a warrant on 2. February 2. 00. 9 as he attended a funeral in Mount Lavinia without a warrant and allegedly beaten in custody. As international criticism of the arrest intensified the Sri Lankan government claimed Vithyatharan had been arrested in connections with the LTTE air raid on Colombo. Vithyatharan was released on 2. April 2. 00. 9 after the Colombo Crimes Division informed the court that there was no evidence connecting him to the air raid. Vithyatharan alleged that he had been detained in order to prevent him highlighting the plight of the civilians in the Vanni. Attacks. The Uthayan and its employees have been subject to numerous attacks during its existence. In 1. 98. 7, the Sri Lankan security forces attacked the Navalar Road in Jaffna, where the Uthayan offices were located, using artillery. Two Uthayan employees were injured and 4. In 1. 99. 0, the Uthayan's offices were hit by an air raid killing one employee and injuring five. A Journalist named Velupillai Thavachelvam was attacked on 2. August 1. 99. 8 at his home in Sembianpattu, Vadamarachchi. Thavachelvam had written a report critical of the local authority. The following year, two grenades were thrown into the newspaper's offices, exploding near the printing machines and injuring security guard S. Selvarajah. 2. 02. The Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), a government backed paramilitary group, was blamed for the attack. The Uthayan had recently criticised government- backed paramilitary groups. On 2. 0 August 2. Uthayan and Sudar Oli in Wellawatte, but failed to explode. Suresh Kumar (B. Sahayathasan) and Ranjith Kumar, two employees of the newspaper, were killed on 2 May 2. The attack followed the newspaper publishing a cartoon mocking Douglas Devananda, the leader of the EPDP. A delivery driver and an agent named Sathasivam Baskaran was shot dead at the wheel of his delivery truck on 1. August 2. 00. 6 at Puttur junction near Achchuveli. Baskaran was shot in an area controlled by the Sri Lankan military. Three days later, on 1. August 2. 00. 6, a warehouse in Kopay was burnt down by armed men as a curfew was in place. According to a diplomatic cable leaked to Wikileaks, Sri Lankan Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa had told the then American Ambassador Robert O. Blake that the EPDP and the Sri Lanka Navy had perpetrated the arson. Armed men entered the Uthayan offices on 7 September 2. Jaffna's students to call off their strike, threatening . But they were released within hours. Journalist Selvarajah Rajivarnam, an Uthayan reporter for 6 months prior to his death, was shot dead in Jaffna close to a military checkpoint on 2. April 2. 00. 7. 3. The EPDP was blamed for Rajivarnam's murder. A Proof reader, Vadivelu Nirmalaraj was abducted on 1. November 2. 00. 7 near Jaffna as he returned home after work. A grenade was thrown into the newspaper's office in Jaffna on 2. March 2. 00. 9 causing extensive damage and injuring a security guard. Same year, on June 2. Uthayan, Thinakkural and Valampuri were burnt in the street by armed men, after the papers had refused to print a statement against the LTTE. A Staff Correspondent of the newspaper, S. Kavitharan was attacked by a group of men on 2. May 2. 01. 1 as he cycled to work. Kavitharan had written articles critical of the security in Jaffna and the actions of government backed paramilitary groups whose members had previously threatened Kavitharan. On July 2. 9, the same year, Uthayan's chief news editor Gnanasundaram Kuganathan was brutally attacked as he walked home from the office in Jaffna. The EPDP was blamed for the attack. Between 2. 00. 6 and 2. Kuganathan lived in the Uthayan offices out of fear for his life but had recently moved back to his family home after assurances were given by the government. Click here to read Uthayan news paper. List of newspapers in India. 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