Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry met with Dr. Peter Ramsauer, who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Parliament, to discuss the expansion of bilateral relations between the two countries.

Dr. Ramsauer visited the island from 15 to 18 February during which he met with Sabry. 

Local elections which were set to take place next month are to be delayed due to the lack of funding the Election Commission announced. 

The Election Commission told the Supreme Court that the Sri Lankan Treasury has refused to fund the printing of ballot papers, fuel or police protection for polling booths.

The US-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reported to be considering a bailout for Sri Lanka despite the island’s failure to secure support from China for its debt restructuring plan.

Holger Seubert, German Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Sri Lanka is reportedly at risk of losing its favourable trading preferences granted by the Generalised Scheme of Preference Plus (GSP+) agreement, for failing to repeal the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). 

Tamil families of the disappeared marked six years of continuous protest in Kilinochchi today as their campaign to know the fate of their forcibly disappeared loved ones continues. 

Finnish MP Hussein al-Taee called on the government of Finland to impose targeted sanctions on Sri Lankan officials who have been credibly accused of war crimes.  

^{File photograph: Healthcare workers in Mankulam protesting last year}

Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis has hit the health sector hard, forcing the country to delay non-urgent surgeries.

Tamil journalists in Batticaloa held a rally yesterday to demand justice for journalists who have been killed by the Sri Lankan state. 

Despite a decent core concept, ‘Vaathi’ fails to land due to its contradictory internal thought process. If writer/director Venky Atluri had thought through the lesson he wished to teach, he would have understood that the standard formulaic ‘masala’ treatment would not work.

Sri Lankan officials will attend a virtual meeting of a new sovereign debt roundtable led by the IMF, World Bank and India. 

Ahead of a planned speaking engagement hosted by the London School of Economics (LSE) and featuring Sri Lanka’s former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, LSE’s student Tamil society spoke with Tamil Guardian to express their disappointment over the event.

Following landmark protests across the North-East, Canada’s ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Eric Walsh made a historic visit to Jaffna where he visited Jaffna university and met Jaffna’s Mayor, Emmanuel Arnold.

Mannar's Women Development Federation organised a march in support of 'One Billion Rising', the biggest mass action to end violence against women. 

Journalists in Batticaloa held a remembrance event for Tamil journalist Punniyamoorthy Sathiyamoorthy, who was killed by a Sri Lankan artillery barrage inside the ‘No Fire Zone’ in February 2009.