COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — M.A. Sumanthiran, one of Sri Lanka's most prominent constitutional lawyers, has republished a speech he delivered in Parliament during the 2013 impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, answering critics who have questioned his opposition to a government plan to extend the retirement ages of senior judges. Mr. Sumanthiran, a President's Counsel and general secretary of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, the main Tamil party in the island's north and east, posted the

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — M.S. Abdul Wahid, a National List lawmaker from the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, resigned from Parliament on Monday, creating a vacancy in the party’s sole National List seat and setting up another change in a position that has already changed hands since the 2024 general election. Hansa Abeyratne, the acting secretary-general of Parliament, wrote to the chairman of the Election Commission confirming that Abdul Wahid had submitted his resignation as a member of Parliament. Th