MULLAITIVU, Sri Lanka — Relatives of 24 Tamil civilians killed in an airstrike 27 years ago gathered at a road junction in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday to light lamps and scatter flowers, holding the annual commemoration themselves after the groups that had arranged it in previous years withdrew, citing pressure from government intelligence officers. Community organizations and other local groups had helped organize the ceremony at Manthuvil, in the Puthukkudiyiruppu area of Mullaitivu Distric

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

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Three university research teams in Sri Lanka have received grants totaling 110,000 euros to trace how single-use plastics move through food and beverage supply chains in the Colombo and Galle districts, part of a European Union-funded effort to cut plastic waste in the country's food sector. The teams are drawn from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ruhuna and the faculties of Medicine and Computing at the University of Kelaniya. The grants were awarded under