The tech giant Microsoft announced last week that it had cut off a set of cloud and AI services to a division of Israel's Ministry of Defence, after discovering their tools had been used to spy on the Palestinians. The decision was made official by Brad Smith, the company’s president and vice chair, after weeks of scrutiny following reports that the Israeli military was heavily reliant on Microsoft's Azure technology to monitor and store millions of Palestinian communications. 

National People’s Power (NPP) parliamentarian Rajeewan Jayachandramurthy paid tribute at the newly opened Thiyaga Theepam Thileepan archive in Nallur, Jaffna, on Saturday evening.

Lt. Col. Thileepan, who fasted unto death 38 years ago, has been remembered in Nallur, Jaffna over the last 11 days.

Sri Lankan police say they have made the largest drug seizure in the island’s history, after 705 kilograms of heroin and crystal methamphetamine were uncovered during a raid in Tangalle this week.

The United States has expanded its military partnership with Sri Lanka by funding a new English Language Lab at the Sri Lanka Navy’s academy in Trincomalee, a Tamil district that remains heavily militarised more than sixteen years after the end of the armed conflict.

HSBC has announced it will sell its entire Sri Lankan retail banking business to Nations Trust Bank, as part of a global strategy to scale back less-profitable operations.

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama today that 6,000 gold items recovered from the North-East during and after the armed conflict have now been handed over to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.

Symbolic hunger strike in Vavuniya marks 38th death anniversary of Thiyaga Theepam Thileepan

The Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy, Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi, began a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka this week, meeting with top military leaders in Colombo as both states pledged to deepen cooperation in the Indian Ocean.

Seven Rameshwaram fishermen arrested in Neduntheevu waters sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, suspended for six years

Former Karachchi Divisional Council member S. Jeevan has called on the Sri Lankan government to withdraw its troops from LTTE cemeteries – Maaveerar Thuyilum Illam - across the North-East, warning that only then would Tamils be able to pay homage freely at these sites of remembrance.

Sri Lankan police have arrested three men in connection with the killing of Sinhala nationalist activist Dan Priyasad, including a former soldier suspected of carrying out the shooting.

Bullets buried in the grounds of Mandaitivu, where construction of the proposed Jaffna International Cricket Stadium is underway, were exhumed this week with the permission of the Kayts court.