Former Presidents Chandrika Kumaratunga and Maithripala Sirisena were seen presiding over a ceremony to mark the 126th birth anniversary of S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in Colombo this week, a former Sri Lankan prime minister and architect of legislation that spurred decades of anti-Tamil violence.
Students from the Jaffna and Eastern Universities, secured second place in the International Public Speaking Debate competition organized by the Tirananu University of Malaysia.
Eelam Tamils have demanded that a group of Rohingya asylum seekers who were fleeing persecution in Myanmar are not deported back to persecution, as they demonstrated in Mullaitivu today.