The Valikamam North Pradeshiya Sabha has the legal power to demolish a Sri Lankan military hospital being built in Vasavilan without local authority approval, and will proceed to do so if the military ignores its notices, President's Counsel M. A. Sumanthiran has said.

Residents of Keppapilavu in Mullaitivu marked the 25th consecutive day of their renewed protest on Saturday, demanding the full return of ancestral lands that remain under Sri Lankan military occupation.

Marking the Singapore Tamil Teachers' Union's 75th anniversary, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong paid tribute to the city-state's Tamil educators and pledged continued state support to keep Tamil thriving, in one of the few countries where the language holds official status.

Tamil landowners from Valikamam North have held their 13th consecutive Friday protest outside the military commander's bungalow in Myliddy, demanding the return of land seized under a 2013 defence ministry gazette and still held within a High Security Zone more than three decades after they were displaced.

The toll at the Chemmani mass grave has risen to 420 skeletal remains, with investigators again uncovering the remains of infants and children after excavations resumed in Jaffna this week.

Jaffna residents protest against Kakkaitheevu waste centre over alleged health and environmental hazards

Six Tamil and Muslim parties have agreed to establish a common platform to press Colombo on a new constitution, the long-delayed provincial council elections and unresolved land disputes, in what its architects call the first collective political network of the North-East, Malaiyaha and Muslim peoples in decades.

Nearly a decade after Sri Lanka established the Office on Missing Persons, a new ITJP report says the body has failed to investigate enforced disappearances, failed to use existing state records and left families trapped in another cycle of bureaucracy and denial.

The National People's Power's most senior Tamil figures have dismissed the newly formed six-party platform of Tamil and Muslim parties as doomed, corrupt and Colombo-bound, with a Jaffna MP branding its members "brokers", in a response that left untouched the platform's three demands, every one of them a pledge from the NPP's own manifesto.

When Argentina's players unfurled a banner reading "Las Malvinas son Argentinas" after their World Cup semifinal victory over England this week, the British state required no time for reflection. Within a day, Downing Street had urged FIFA to investigate, ministers had denounced the gesture, and the Prime Minister's spokesperson had delivered the line that "the World Cup might not be ours, but the Falkland Islands definitely are". Beneath the quip sat the position London has held for four decades: that the future of the islands rests on the right of the islanders to self-determination, a right on which Britain's commitment “will never waver”. It went to war on that principle in 1982, at the cost of more than nine hundred lives, and it invokes the principle still, whenever the question is raised.