Sri Lanka risks losing access to the European Union’s GSP+ trade concession because of slow progress on reforming the Prevention of Terrorism Act, Joint Opposition Convener Prof. G. L. Peiris has warned.

A controversial cricket stadium and "sports city" promised for Jaffna, launched with presidential fanfare less than a year ago, is being scaled back to a modest cricket ground after Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) admitted it lacks the funds to deliver it.

On 11 June, the Sri Lanka Air Force conducted the first test flight of an upgraded Kfir C12 fighter at its Katunayake base, presenting the flight as a military milestone. The aircraft is one of five being rebuilt — four C2 and C7 jets plus a TC2 trainer — to C12 standard under a US$50 million contract signed with Israel Aerospace Industries in 2021. The expenditure makes little sense as procurement. It makes a great deal of sense as the maintenance of a relationship.

Harish Durairaj initiates his filmography with the crime-comedy ‘Con City’ starring Arjun Das, Anna Ben, Yogi Babu and Vadivukkarasi.

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake has once again pledged to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act, claiming the law will be abolished before the end of the year, even as his government prepares new legislation on organised crime.

Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake used his Poson Full Moon Poya Day message to call for the revival of Buddhist values, as he moved to further position himself alongside the island's powerful Buddhist clergy.

Less than two years after a passenger ferry revived a sea crossing between Tamil Nadu and Tamil Eelam that the war had severed for four decades, the authorities in Tamil Nadu have moved to commercialise the terminal serving it, inviting bids for duty-free retail and foreign-exchange concessions at the Nagapattinam International Passenger Terminal.

Tamil Fight Night, a new combat sports event created to bring together fighters from across the diaspora, held its inaugural show before a sold-out London crowd this month, drawing more than 1,000 spectators.

Hundreds took to the streets of Vavuniya on Monday, and around half the town's businesses pulled down their shutters, to condemn the removal of the city's elected mayor, S. Kandeepan, from office by the Northern Province's centrally appointed governor, in a decision protesters denounced as the work of an "assassin of democracy".

Seventeen years after Mullivaikkal, Sri Lanka continues to stand as one of the starkest examples of how states accused of genocide and mass atrocity survive not through exoneration, but through denial, delay, and international exhaustion.

The United States has deepened its military relationship with Sri Lanka through a series of new defence initiatives, transferring ten TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopters to the Sri Lanka Air Force, delivering an advanced satellite communications system to the navy and conducting a disaster prepared

Veteran Tamil filmmaker, actor and screenwriter K Bhagyaraj, who passed away in Chennai aged 73, leaves behind a towering legacy in Tamil cinema, where he was celebrated as one of the industry’s finest storytellers.

A town-wide hartal shut Chavakachcheri on Friday as traders and business owners downed shutters in protest at the removal of the Urban Council's deputy chairperson, G. Kishore, by the Northern Province's centrally appointed governor, in a move condemned as an assault on Tamil democratic representation.

The Governor of the Northern Province, Nagalingam Vethanayahan, has removed two democratically elected local government representatives from office through Extraordinary Gazette notifications issued this week, invoking powers under Sri Lanka's local government legislation.