Sri Lankan police officers have been accused of intimidation and discrimination after intercepting a group of Tamil youths travelling from Jaffna to Vavuniya late last night.

Sri Lanka faces a major tourism setback as Russian charter flights are suspended for the summer due to low demand and poor promotional efforts

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Public Security website was reportedly hacked this week, after a Google search for the website displayed explicit and pornographic terms, in an embarrassing incident for the government body.  

Sri Lanka's Cabinet Spokesman and Minister of Media and Health, Nalinda Jayatissa, has said that the government cannot unilaterally disclose the contents of a recently signed Defence Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India without mutual consent from New Delhi.

Despite the formal end of the armed conflict over fifteen years ago, Sri Lankan military involvement in civilian life across the Tamil homeland remains widespread and persistent.

Sri Lankan police have confirmed that Dan Priyasad, head of the Nawa Sinhale National Movement and member of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), has died on the morning of 23rd April after he was shot in Colombo by two unidentified assailants.

A rare trilingual stone inscription featuring texts in Tamil, Chinese, and Persian has been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

Fisherfolk and civil society activists in Mullaitivu staged a protest on 21 April outside the Divisional Secretariat, denouncing escalating threats and violence against those campaigning against illegal fishing practices in the region.

National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian M. Jegatheeswaran has claimed that land demarcation activities carried out by Sri Lanka’s Department of Forest Conservation and the Department of Wildlife Conservation in the Northern Province have been halted following recent discussions in Colombo.

Court bans public procession for Annai poopathy’s memorial as daughter calls for a peaceful, apolitical tribute amid allegations and state suppression

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced that discussions between Colombo and Washington over reducing a 44 percent reciprocal tariff on Sri Lankan exports to the United States have been “fruitful”, and claimed  both countries are expected to issue a joint statement soon.

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested another suspect in connection with the 2006 abduction and disappearance of Professor S. Raveendranath, the former Vice Chancellor of Eastern University, as investigations into the high-profile case continue to unfold.

Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) spokesperson Suresh Premachandran has criticised Sri Lanka’s ruling National People’s Power (NPP), accusing the party of continuing repressive practices, including the use of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), to suppress protests in the Tamil homeland.