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.

Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated sharply following a deadly attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on 22 April, which left at least 26 people dead.

The Colombo magistrate’s court has announced the release of a man and a woman who were arrested after walking near a church in a suspicious manner during the Easter Sunday service at the St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade.

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.

China’s ambassador to India, Xu Feihong, signalled a renewal of China-India ties, in the aftermath of US-imposed tariffs on countries around the world.

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

Speaking to the Anadolu Agency on Monday, Former South African foreign minister Naledi Pandor renewed urgent calls to reform the United Nations. 

Pandor was the foreign minister when South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December 2023.

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.