The Valvettithurai Urban Council has resolved that, instead of constructing a new building on the land where Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran once lived, it would be more appropriate to reconstruct a structure that reflects the original house in which he resided.

The Chairman of the Valvettithurai Urban Council, M. K. Sivajilingam, has formally thanked members of the United States Congress for their recent intervention on behalf of the Eelam Tamil people and appealed for the United States to assume a leadership role in restoring the Tamil nation’s legitimate sovereignty.

Female activists in Mannar have condemned defamatory campaigns carried out through fake social media accounts targeting women engaged in political and social activism in the Mannar District, with a call for immediate legal action against those responsible.

A Sri Lankan military soldier has been admitted to hospital in critical condition after attempting to take his own life by shooting himself in Jaffna last week. The injured soldier has been identified as H. M. W. P. Bandara, a resident of Kurunegala, who was attached to the 523rd Army Camp located in Chavakachcheri. He is currently receiving treatment at Jaffna Teaching Hospital, where medical staff have described his condition as critical.

Shiranthi Rajapaksa, the wife of former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, appeared before the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) to provide a statement in connection with investigations into alleged financial irregularities linked to the ‘Siriliya’ organisation, a firm she founded and ran during the time her husband was president.

Journalists in Mullaitivu commemorated Black January last week, with a remembrance ceremony and the distribution of leaflets, honouring media workers who were killed or forcibly disappeared by the Sri Lankan state.

S. Bavanandarajah, a National People’s Power (NPP) Member of Parliament from Jaffna, has stated that he has formally requested the Sri Lankan military to vacate an army camp located on privately owned land in the Sanganai area and to return the land to its rightful owners.

British Tamils staged a demonstration outside the Sri Lankan High Commission in London this month, condemning ongoing repression in Sri Lanka and demanding the immediate repeal of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

Sri Lankan military personnel who had been stationed on land in Pandatharippu belonging to the Manipay Pradeshiya Sabha have fully vacated the premises, with the land formally handed back to civilian authorities last week.

The Sri Lankan government has continued to deny access to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to more than 100 Rohingya refugees, including women and children, who have been held under military custody for over a year at an occupying air force base in Mullaitivu.

A memorial tribute for the late Thambithurai Muthukumarasamy, also known as T Kumar, a pioneering figure of the Eelam liberation struggle and a long-standing international human rights activist, was held in Batticaloa last week.

India and the European Union have announced a sweeping free trade agreement that both sides have hailed as the “mother of all deals”, concluding nearly two decades of intermittent negotiations.

The 39th anniversary of the Kokkadichcholai massacre, one of the most brutal mass killings to scar the Eastern Province, was commemorated yesterday, 28 January 2026, in Batticaloa, as families and representatives once again demanded justice for the victims.

National People’s Power (NPP) Member of Parliament K. Ilankumaran claimed that Provincial Council elections will be held “without delay” but refused to give a timeline or potential date for the polls.