Sri Lanka’s Survey Department has issued notice of a land survey in Maruthankerni, marking 11.2657 hectares of land in Devathuravu for acquisition under the Land Acquisition Act for an unspecified “public purpose”.

The Vavuniya High Court has issued an interim order suspending the gazette through which the Northern Province governor removed the Vavuniya mayor, S. Kandeepan, from office, freezing the decision that had triggered protests across the town.

Residents of Keppapulavu in Mullaitivu protested for the twelfth consecutive day on Sunday, demanding the release of their ancestral lands, which have remained under military occupation since 2009.

21 Black Tiger elite commandos who took part in the raid on a Sri Lankan airbase in Anuradhapura, 2007

Tamil families in Kepapilavu have continued their protest for a ninth consecutive day, demanding the immediate release of 59.5 acres of ancestral residential land still occupied by the Sri Lankan military more than 17 years after the end of the armed conflict.

The Sri Lankan government will be represented at the state funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran this weekend, in another sign of the island’s long-standing ties with Iran, a state that provided military, financial and diplomatic support to Colombo during its war on Tamils.

Displaced Tamil landowners from Valikamam North staged their 11th consecutive weekly protest on Friday, demanding the release of hundreds of acres of privately owned land that remain under Sri Lankan military occupation more than three decades after they were forced from their homes.

TNC's memorandum calls for a federal constitution recognising the Tamil nation, rejects Sri Lanka's unitary framework, criticises the 13th Amendment, and urges an all-party initiative in Tamil Nadu

Former Navy commander Wasantha Karannagoda, a UK- and US-sanctioned figure accused of serious human rights violations, has been arrested over allegations that he helped alter naval recruitment procedures to benefit Yoshitha Rajapaksa.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court has ordered former State Intelligence Service Director Major General (Retired) Suresh Sallay to provide the Criminal Investigation Department with the passwords to his mobile phone and computer as part of the ongoing investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings.

The annual Mahotsavam of the historic Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple concluded this week, its closing days drawing thousands of devotees to an island whose ancient Hindu and Naga heritage is increasingly being overshadowed by a state-driven project of Sinhala Buddhist majoritarianism.

More than a year after Dilshi Amshika, a 15-year-old Tamil student at Colombo's Ramanathan Hindu Ladies' College, died by suicide following alleged sexual abuse by a teacher, the investigation into her death remains incomplete, prompting renewed criticism of the delays in Sri Lanka's justice system.

The International Monetary Fund has urged Sri Lanka to "stay the course" on its austerity programme, after the Middle East war and a surge in fuel prices knocked the island's recovery, at the close of a fund mission to Colombo.