The Sri Lankan military has agreed to reopen the permanent road to the Rajarajeshwari Amman Temple in Palaly, blocked for years by an army vehicle-repair depot, and to allow daily worship until 10pm, a concession within one of Jaffna's most militarised zones that nonetheless leaves thousands of displaced families still barred from their land.

Vanni District MP Thurairasa Ravikaran has called for justice over the Negombo Prison violence, an investigation into former president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga over alleged Chemmani cover-up claims, and the release of military-occupied land in Keppapulavu.

Farmers and residents in Vavuniya have protested against the alleged encroachment of the catchment of the Kovilkulam tank, warning that development on the land threatens the reservoir's water supply and the farming livelihoods of a community reliant on the dry zone's centuries-old network of village tanks.

Sri Lankan authorities have transferred more than 100 inmates from Negombo Prison to facilities in Jaffna and Batticaloa after deadly clashes killed at least 26 people

Andy Burnham is set to be Britain's next Prime Minister. In a speech this week, delivered not from Westminster but from Manchester, he pledged to "rewire" the country, promising the biggest transfer of power out of Whitehall in modern times. His optimism and sense of purpose are clearly welcome after years of drift. But if the rewiring is to mean anything, it cannot stop at Britain's shores.

Former Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe appeared before court on Wednesday as proceedings over an alleged Rs. 16.6 million misuse of state funds linked to a 2023 UK visit were postponed until September.

Addressing a press conference at the Jaffna Press Club, the representatives urged the government to halt any new land allocation programmes in the Jaffna peninsula until what they described as the land rights of displaced Sinhalese had been addressed.

Shasheendra Rajapaksa, a former state minister of the dynasty that ruled Sri Lanka through the war years, has been indicted for corruption over the alleged manipulation of the Office for Reparations, the body meant to compensate the conflict's victims, the latest in a string of cases against a family that has never answered for the genocide of Tamils.

Residents of Mullikulam in Mannar have protested the closure of the traditional route to the Pallakandal St Anthony's Shrine ahead of its annual feast, a restriction that would force pilgrims to travel some 250 kilometres rather than 30, reviving a years-long dispute between the conservation of Wilpattu National Park and the religious access of the North-East's Catholics.

Amnesty International raises concerns over Sri Lanka’s Haiti deployment amid past abuse allegations

As Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday investigation gathers renewed political attention, SLMC vice president M. L. A. M. Hizbullah has called for those behind the attacks to be brought before the law and for the Muslim community to be officially cleared of collective blame.

Sri Lanka’s prison system has been thrown back into crisis after two days of violence at Negombo Prison killed 26 people and injured more than 100, just weeks after rights groups warned the United Nations of overcrowding, custodial deaths and torture in detention facilities.

Sri Lanka’s Survey Department has issued notice of a land survey in Maruthankerni, marking 11.2657 hectares of land in Devathuravu for acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act for an unspecified “public purpose”.

The Vavuniya High Court has issued an interim order suspending the gazette through which the Northern Province governor removed the Vavuniya mayor, S. Kandeepan, from office, freezing the decision that had triggered protests across the town.