Commodore Dammika Wijewardana assumes duties as Acting Commander Northwestern Naval Area 

A traditional Naval ceremony was held to celebrate acting Commander Dammika Wijewardana assumed office at the Northwestern Naval command located in Mullikulam, Sri Lanka, 27th July 2024. During the event, his predecessor Rear Admiral Nalindra Jayasinghe took part in proceedings, ceremonially handing over duties.

Australia's Attorney General department was pressed during a public hearting this week on its failure to impose sanctions on Sri Lankan war criminal Jagath Jayasuriya, who entered the country in 2019 after the Australian Federal Police (AFP) failed to investigate his war crimes. 

The US military will join hands with the Sri Lankan Air Force and conduct a military exercise next week, despite ongoing human rights abuses and a history of atrocities.

India's biggest budget airline IndiGo has announced that it would begin daily direct flights between Chennai and Jaffna next month, as it praised the Northern city’s “vibrant Tamil heritage”.

There has been mounting pressure Britain’s Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, to airlift more than 60 Tamil asylum seekers on Diego Garcia, to the UK after reports of a mass suicide attempt on the island.

The group, first stranded on the island in October 2021, are facing extreme challenges and are “extremely vulnerable”, according to their lawyers.

Sahadevan Nilakshan, a promising young Eelam Tamil journalist who was shot and killed by suspected Sri Lankan military intelligence personnel was remembered today by fellow media workers, 17 years after his murder.

The Jaffna Press Club held a special remembrance for the budding journalist, where they lit candles, laid floral wreaths and offered their condolences. 

An officer attached to Sri Lanka's intelligence unit threatened the families of the disappeared who were protesting at the Mullativu Bus stand yesterday, by harassing them and taking photographs of each person. He went on to chase the protestors demanding they go home. 

Tamil families of the disappeared gathered in Mullaitivu and rejected the Sri Lankan government’s offer of death certificates, as they demanded justice for the forcible abductions of their loved ones.

The protestors demanded to know why the Sri Lankan government-run Office of Missing Persons (OMP), was in haste to provide the protesting women with death certificates.