Photograph by Priya Tharmaseelan

When Sunthar V stepped onto the stage at Massey Hall, it marked a defining moment.

“Massey is a historic venue which meant a lot to me, to join so many legends in not only playing it but selling it out. Most of it on the first weekend of the announcement. Producing and financing it independently is also pretty much unheard of.”

Russia's Deputy Minister of Energy, Roman Marshavin, met Sri Lanka’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo on Thursday, as Sri Lanka sought its way through the deepening fuel crisis this week.

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Millions of Sri Lankans stayed at home on Wednesday as the government's newly imposed four-day working week for state institutions came into effect, marking the latest emergency measure in a rapidly deepening energy crisis triggered by the war in the Middle East. 

A new concept paper published in February by the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice sets out a detailed proposal for an independent DNA bank to identify the remains of Sri Lanka's forcibly disappeared, offering what its authors describe as a credible scientific pathway to truth after decades of failure by successive governments.