Residents of Pesalai North in Mannar turned away officials from the Sri Lankan Water Resources Board on 15 July, preventing them from conducting water testing linked to a proposed mineral sand excavation project in the area.

The skeletal remains of a young girl, discovered with a blue school bag and toy, have been formally identified as part of ongoing excavations at the Chemmani mass grave in Jaffna, the Jaffna Magistrate’s Court heard on 15 July.

The skeleton, labelled S-25, was examined by Forensic Medical Officer Pranavan Selliah, who reported to the court that the remains belonged to a girl estimated to be between four and five years old. The child’s body was found alongside a blue book bag and toy.

A commemorative event was held in Bondy, a suburb of Paris, on 12 July 2025 to mark the foundation stone-laying ceremony for a statue of Dr Anton Balasingham, the former political advisor of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and a central figure in the Tamil Eelam liberation struggle.

Trincomalee residents protest land lease to outsiders near kanniya temple

Tamil activist Sinthujan summoned by TID over 2023 Thileepan commemoration attack while perpetrators remain unpunished

A Sri Lankan court has extended an enjoining order until 30 July, temporarily preventing the winding-up of SriLankan Airlines over its failure to repay a defaulted bond worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Umaachandra Prakash, the Northern Provincial Organiser of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and a member of the Colombo Municipal Council, has called for an international investigation into the Chemmani mass grave, where dozens of human skeletal remains have recently been unearthed in Jaffna.

The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK) has issued a formal letter to Sri Lankan president Anura Kumara Dissanayake, calling for immediate international oversight, accountability, and justice in the ongoing Chemmani mass grave investigation in Jaffna.

The Sri Lankan Navy has allegedly been conducting land surveys in the J/435 Grama Niladhari Division of Chundikkulam, located in Vadamarachchi East, Jaffna, raising fears of further land appropriation and military expansion in the Tamil homeland.

The imposition of a 30% tariff on Sri Lankan exports by US President Donald Trump should be a stark wake-up call for Colombo. It’s ailing economy has just been dealt another severe blow. But instead of confronting the systemic issues at the heart of the island’s financial frailty, officials have chosen to spin the decision as an isolated diplomatic setback and temporary negotiating hurdle. The truth is far more damning. This tariff has exposed the deep and long-standing fragility of Sri Lanka’s economic model, weighed down not just by corruption, but by impunity, militarisation and occupation.