The Sri Lankan Army headquarters has announced that a military camp in Karkovalam in Jaffna is to be removed, after almost three decades of occupation.

China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, made a significant visit to the Northern Province, including Jaffna, where he evaded directly answering questions on China’s role in Tamil genocide and welcomed Sri Lanka’s outreach to India.

On the same day that Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Dissanayake finalized his cabinet of ministers, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation, led by Senior Mission Chief Peter Breuer, was in Sri Lanka to assess the country’s progress under the IMF program. The timing of the visit underscores the IMF’s keen interest in monitoring Sri Lanka’s economic direction and the government's adherence to program requirements.

Sri Lankan police in Murunkan, Mannar District, have had an attempt to prevent the commemoration of Tamil freedom fighters on Maaveerar Naal, rejected by a local court earlier today.

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Neethan Shan was recently acclaimed as the first South Asian and the first Eelam Tamil to serve as Chair of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Canada’s largest school board.

Former Sri Lankan Minister and paramilitary leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, widely known as Pillayan, gave a five-hour-long statement before Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today over allegations presented in a controversial Channel 4 documentary about the 2019 Easter Sunday terrorist attacks.

The Theatermates drama group, an upcountry Tamil theater ensemble, is under growing pressure as its members face harassment and intimidation, allegedly by individuals falsely associating them with the Sri Lankan Army and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Over 200 refugees and supporters marked a significant milestone by marching 10 kilometers from Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s office to the Immigration Minister’s office this week, commemorating 100 days of continuous protest.

Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, who secured the highest number of preferential votes in Batticaloa at Sri Lanka’s parliamentary polls last week, paid tribute to his supporters and said the Tamil people’s national struggle will continue. “This is not just my victory,” said Rasamanickam.

Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, leader of the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) reiterated the call to send Sri Lankan war criminals to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as he demanded justice for the Tamil genocide earlier today.

As Sri Lanka’s president Anura Kumara Dissanayake visited Jaffna ahead of parliamentary polls last week, his party’s candidate in the district spoke of an era before the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and how the National People’s Power (NPP) would “bring that era back to life”.

More than 500 Sri Lankan soldiers have been isolated, following a suspected outbreak of encephalitis at an occupying military camp in Mannar this week.