Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva has insisted that his party was “never against India” as he sought to recast its historic opposition to the Indo-Lanka Accord, following his first official visit to India.

A signature campaign was held in Mannar today by fishermen and members of the public protesting the proposed Protection of the State from Terrorism Act and other anti-terror legislation

Construction on the Jaffna International Cricket Stadium has been temporarily halted due to the absence of an approved Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report.

The arrest follows revelations made in a controversial Channel 4 documentary which implicated high-ranking Sri Lankan government officials, including Sallay, in the tragic bombings. The documentary, which aired as part of the British television channel’s Dispatches program, was based on the testimony of whistleblowers, one of whom, Hanzeer Azad Maulana, named Sallay as one of the key figures involved in orchestrating the deadly attacks.

The Parliament of Norway is set to hold a formal debate this week on Sri Lanka’s political trajectory and human rights record, one year after the country’s most recent elections.

The University of Jaffna has joined a widening campaign across the Tamil homeland opposing both Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and a newly proposed counter-terrorism law, as resistance intensifies against what campaigners describe as the continuation of repressive state powers.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) politician Namal Rajapaksa has held a series of smaller meetings across the United Kingdom with sections of the Sinhala diaspora, after both the Oxford Union and Cambridge Union cancelled planned speaking engagements with him this week.

The 32nd anniversary of the killing of Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy was commemorated on Wednesday at St Mary’s Grounds in Kaddaikadu, where relatives and locals gathered in remembrance.

Two civil society organisations operating in the North-East have been summoned by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID), in what activists warn is the latest move in an escalating pattern of surveillance and intimidation targeting Tamil civic space.

An Up-Country People’s Front parliamentarian has drawn attention to the period of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) control in the North-East as he backed tougher legal measures to tackle the island’s illicit drug crisis.