In June 2026, Keir Starmer announced that he would resign as UK prime minister, promising to “Do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.” Less than two years earlier, he had led the ...

The government has indicated its intention to amend the retirement age of judges including judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. This has been causing to a significant debate among ...

There are thousands of bodies lying in mass graves across Sri Lanka, a legacy of its brutal and bloody past, which could reveal the fate of some of the thousands of missing people from the 26 year ...

The list is long and varied across ethnicities, religions, ages and genders – writers and journalists harassed, intimidated and threatened by the state for doing their job. And those are the lucky ...

The arrest of singer 24 year-old rap artist Sangeethsan Ganeshkumar under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), followed by the withdrawal of PTA-related allegations and the decision to proceed under ...

A landmark development in international environmental governance entered into force earlier this year: the agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable ...

A new report by Amnesty International, Abandoned by the State, Trapped in Private Estates: Rights Abuses Against Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamil Tea Workers, charges that Malaiyaha Tamils working on ...

They moved with grace initially with hands placed in positions that perfectly captured the essence of classical South Indian Bharatanatyam dance. Their movements told stories that couldn’t be ...

“If a monk, after taking on a monk’s training and way of life, without first renouncing the training and revealing his weakness, has sexual intercourse, even with a female animal, he is expelled and ...

Towards the end of 2025, Sri Lanka received $50 million from the World Bank to accelerate its digital transformation. Close to 60% of the population currently uses the internet with around nine ...

For decades, the Tamil people have endured war, displacement, political betrayal, economic neglect and repeated cycles of disappointment. Yet despite these hardships, the aspirations of the Tamil ...

In September and November 2024, the NPP government led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake swept to power on a historic wave of popular discontent. Voters exhausted by decades of entrenched ...