A Sri Lankan army captain has been arrested over the alleged sexual harassment of a young woman on a bus in Jaffna, the latest such case to draw attention to the conduct of the security forces in the heavily militarised North-East.

A peaceful public mobilisation titled Urimaippantham, or Right of Bond, was held at Chemmani on Sunday, as Tamils gathered to remember the hundreds of victims whose remains have been recovered from the mass grave site.

British Tamil engineer Arun Rajkumar became an unexpected face of Mercedes’ Austrian Grand Prix celebrations after stepping onto the Formula 1 podium and lifting the race-winning constructors’ trophy for the team.

Rajkumar, who was born into an Eelam Tamil family, is a trackside power unit engineer for Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, the Brixworth-based division that designs, manufactures and tests Formula 1 power units for Mercedes and its customer teams.

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.

Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Dissanayake said the draconian law, first introduced as a temporary measure in 1979, had remained in force for 46 years despite sustained calls for its repeal.

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.