A Sri Lankan opposition politician was shot dead inside his office in Weligama on Wednesday morning, marking the first assassination of a high-profile politician since Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government came to power last year.

The 25th anniversary of the murder of Tamil journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam was marked in Jaffna and Batticaloa this week, as his colleagues gathered to remember his life and demand justice for his killing. At both the Jaffna and Batticaloa Press clubs, Tamil journalists, activists and civil society colleagues fathered to light candles and garland a portrait of Nimalarajan, who was killed at his home in Jaffna 25 years ago.

The Sri Lankan police formally inaugurated the Proceeds of Crime Investigation Division (PCID) on Sunday, a new unit established under the Proceeds of Crime Act No. 05 of 2025 to investigate assets, property, and funds obtained through illegal means.

Former Sri Lankan presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena have written to the Ministry of Public Security requesting the return of their bulletproof vehicles, citing “security concerns”.

Former Sri Lankan army commander and accused war criminal Sarath Fonseka expressed “respect” Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, claiming that he refused to flee the battlefield during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009.

Displaced families in Sammanturai protest and appeal to the Sri Lankan president for the return of their ancestral farmlands

The Chairman of the Karai Thuraipattu Pradeshiya Sabha, Chinnarasa Logeswaran, has condemned the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology’s ongoing seizure of Tamil farmlands in Mullaitivu, declaring that the “encroachment of farmlands long cultivated by the Tamil people can never be accepted under any circumstance.”

The Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha has unanimously rejected a request by the Sri Lankan Navy to acquire a two-acre plot of land in Keerimalai, Jaffna, for the installation of a radar system.

Farmers from Muthunagar and Kinniya in Trincomalee staged a demonstration this weekend, coinciding with Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to the district for an event at the occupying air force base.

For the first time in Sri Lanka’s history, a detailed reparations and compensation claim has been submitted by victims of a historic mass atrocity, the 1989 Valvettithurai massacre, in which at least 66 Tamil civilians were killed and 34 injured by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF).

Vanni District parliamentarian Thurairasa Ravikaran has condemned what he described as a “deliberate act of Tamil erasure” by the Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology, after new display boards falsely linking the Tamil heritage site of Kurunthurmalai to Buddhist history were installed earlier this month.

The Sri Lankan military has come under renewed criticism after organising a blood donation drive in Mullaitivu, a Tamil district that remains one of the most heavily militarised regions on the island.

ITAK Leader Sivagnanam urges Governor to address jurisdictional issues over Nallur Sangilian Park

Today marks 25 years since Tamil journalist Nimalarajan Mylvaganam was murdered in his Jaffna home.

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