US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu met with Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe this week, as he told him “You’re the right man” to lead the island.

“With economic stability I think will come political stability,” said Lu, as he met with Wickremesinghe in Colombo.

“You’re the right man to do this. This is a historic test… And I hope you can feel that you have [our] full support.”

A 21-year-old Tamil woman was found shot dead outside her home in Vavuniya on Wednesday.

The woman has since been identified as Thurairajah Pramila.

The families of Tamil political prisoners who have been held in Sri Lankan prisons for over a decade called on the governor of the Northern Province to secure their release this week.

The relatives voiced their demands to Jeevan Thiagarajah at the Governor's Secretariat in Jaffna on Monday.

A commemorative ceremony was held at Jaffna Teaching Hospital this morning to mark 35 years since the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) massacred dozens of staff and patients at the hospital.

At least 68 civilians, including 21 medical personnel, were killed by Indian troops as they stormed the hospital building on the 21 and 22 October 1987, throwing grenades and firing indiscriminately at staff and patients. The building had been shelled by artillery before the raid. 

A long and hard twenty-two years have passed since Mylvaganam Nimalarajan was murdered in his Jaffna home. His killers operated in plain sight. 

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has called upon disgraced former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to provide evidence relating to a case concerning the disappearance of two activists who disappeared en route to a protest in Jaffna.

Today marks 22 years since Tamil journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam was murdered in his Jaffna home.

The slain journalist Mylvaganam Nimalarajan was remembered in a series of memorial events across the North-East today to mark the 22nd anniversary of his death. 

In Vavuniya, Tamil families of the disappeared lit lamps and laid flowers before a portrait of the murdered journalist.

The slain journalist Mylvaganam Nimalarajan was remembered last week to mark the 22nd anniversary of his death across the North-East.

In Vavuniya, the Association of searching the missing persons in Tamil Homeland paid their respects to the murdered journalist.

Nimalarajan contributed to the BBC for over six years, as well as the Tamil daily Virakesari and Sinhala weekly Ravaya.

Relatives of a Tamil family are seeking answers, after a sister and brother were killed and their mother critically injured in Toronto car crash last week.

Pateeran Puvanendran, 21, and Neluxsana Puvanendran, 23, were both killed after their car was hit by a dump truck at the junction of Markham Road and Elson Street on Wednesday October 12.

The siblings were pronounced dead at the scene. Their mother, 52-year-old Srirathy Shanmuganathan, was also in the vehicle, and remains in critical condition.