A signature campaign was held in Mannar today by fishermen and members of the public protesting the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Act and other anti-terror legislation

Construction on the Jaffna International Cricket Stadium has been temporarily halted due to the absence of an approved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.

The arrest follows revelations made in a controversial Channel 4 documentary which implicated high-ranking Sri Lankan government officials, including Sallay, in the tragic bombings. The documentary, which aired as part of the British television channel’s Dispatches program, was based on the testimony of whistleblowers, one of whom, Hanzeer Azad Maulana, named Sallay as one of the key figures involved in orchestrating the deadly attacks.

The Parliament of Norway is set to hold a formal debate this week on Sri Lanka’s political trajectory and human rights record, one year after the country’s most recent elections.

The University of Jaffna has joined a widening campaign across the Tamil homeland opposing both Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and a newly proposed counter-terrorism law, as resistance intensifies against what campaigners describe as the continuation of repressive state powers.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) politician Namal Rajapaksa has held a series of smaller meetings across the United Kingdom with sections of the Sinhala diaspora, after both the Oxford Union and Cambridge Union cancelled planned speaking engagements with him this week.

Scottish independence is “within reach”, First Minister John Swinney has said, as a new poll projects the Scottish National Party just one seat short of a majority ahead of this year’s Holyrood election.

A United Nations fact-finding mission has determined that atrocities carried out during the siege and takeover of the Sudanese city of El Fasher bear the “hallmarks of genocide”, condemning the conduct of paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters in Darfur during the ongoing conflict.

The 32nd anniversary of the killing of Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy was commemorated on Wednesday at St Mary’s Grounds in Kaddaikadu, where relatives and locals gathered in remembrance.