Japan has formally launched military grant aid to Sri Lanka, marking a significant expansion of its security cooperation with Colombo by providing surveillance drones to the Sri Lankan navy.

The U.S Department of State's Investment Climate Statement on Sri Lanka has noted that foreign investment on the island is limited and 'difficult' due to minimal progress on 'structural reforms' and 'stronger governance mechanisms' across the state.

On 24 September 2025, a United Nations delegation led by Resident Coordinator Marc-André Franche met with Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha at the Ministry of Defence in Colombo.

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said that one or two former army officials will soon be arrested in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

At least 40 people, including nine children, were killed and more than 120 injured after a crowd crush at a rally led by Tamil film star and politician Vijay in Karur, Tamil Nadu on Saturday night.

The Mannar district came to a standstill on Monday as thousands of people took part in a general strike against the controversial wind farm project and to condemn the brutal Sri Lankan police assault on Tamils last week.

The Valikamam East Divisional Council has passed a resolution to erect a statue in honour of LTTE political leader Thileepan and to restore the name of a local road to “Thileepan Road”.

An unprecedented number of events took place across the North-East last week. Hunger strikes were staged. Flames were lit and garlands laid. The elderly and children gathered together. A kavadi even procession took place, with hooks piercing the flesh of a devotee in a symbolic act of devotion. All to remember the LTTE’s Lt. Col. Thileepan – a young man who undertook a hunger strike until death thirty-eight years ago, demanding justice for his people.

Sri Lankan police launched a violent assault on peaceful protesters in Mannar on Friday night, leaving priests, women and men hospitalised, in a fresh escalation of tensions over the controversial wind power project.

Events took place across the North-East today to mark 38 years since the death of LTTE political leader Thileepan, who undertook a hunger strike until death 38 years ago.

National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian Rajeewan Jayachandramurthy paid tribute at the newly opened Thiyaga Theepam Thileepan archive in Nallur, Jaffna, on Saturday evening.

Today marks 38 years since the death of Lt Col Thileepan, a political wing leader of the LTTE who fasted to death, in a protest appealing to the Indian government to honour pledges made to the Tamil people.

Thileepan began his fast on the September 15, 1987, with 100,000 people gathered around the historic Nallur Kandwaswamy Temple in Jaffna.

Lt. Col. Thileepan, who fasted unto death 38 years ago, has been remembered in Nallur, Jaffna over the last 11 days.

Sri Lankan police say they have made the largest drug seizure in the island’s history, after 705 kilograms of heroin and crystal methamphetamine were uncovered during a raid in Tangalle this week.