Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake claimed that occupied land in the North will be returned to its "rightful owners" during his visit to Jaffna on Friday. 

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited Jaffna last week, where he urged Tamil-speaking youth to apply for vacancies in the Sri Lankan Police Force, despite the decades-long history of abuses and crimes against Tamils.

According to the Sri Lankan president's media division,

A successful blood donation campaign was held at the Vavuniya Headquarters Police Station on January 30th, organized by the Vavuniya Community Police Group in response to the hospital's blood shortage.

Unemployed graduates in Jaffna call on Dissanayake to address lack of job opportunities.

Former Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) leader Mavai Somasundaram Senathirajah has passed away at the age of 82 today. 

He died at Jaffna Teaching Hospital after he was admitted for suffering a fall at his home.

Tamils in Batticaloa commemorated the 87 people killed by Sri Lanka's security forces in the 1987 Kokkadichcholai massacre.

Catherine West, the UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific, is in Jaffna as part of the new UK government's first official visit to the island. 

Pierre Poilievre pledges to seek international justice and accountability for the Tamil genocide.

No justice for slain Tamil journalist 19 years on.

The Sri Lankan Navy seized three Indian fishing boats and arrested 34 fishermen for reportedly illegally fishing.

Rwanda has been urged to withdraw its advancing troops from the outskirts of Goma, a mineral-rich city in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

A Myanmar junta airstrike has killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group has said.

Eravur Circuit Magistrate Court has issued an arrest warrant for Tamil journalist Sasikaran Punniyamoorthy for not attending court after he was forced into exile due to intimidation by Sri Lanka's security forces. 

Sri Lanka's Fisheries Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekaran was 'shocked; over Tamil being placed third on the nameplate of the Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre in Jaffna.