By Jaffna Monitor Staff Colombo, 14 November 2026 Shanakiyan Rasamanickam, the parliamentary group leader of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, told Parliament on Friday that the government was celebrating higher reserves while ordinary families struggled with rising prices. He said the 2027 budget did not address the Tamil national question at all. Mr. Rasamanickam, a member of Parliament for Batticaloa, spoke on the first day of the budget debate. He said a budget speech should do more than s

By Jaffna Monitor News Desk A tribunal in the Australian state of Victoria has suspended a Sri Lankan doctor from practice for three months after finding that he sexually harassed a medical student who was on placement at his general practice clinic in regional Victoria in 2021. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal imposed the penalty on Tuesday on Dr. Widana Pushkara Epa, a general practitioner in his late 50s who studied medicine in Belarus and moved to Australia in 2009, The Noti

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka: Officers of Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division went to the home of M.K. Sivajilingam, a veteran Tamil politician now in intensive care, questioned his wife at length and left a summons ordering him to appear before a court in Mullaitivu next month. The officers visited the family’s house in Valvettithurai, on the northern coast of the Jaffna Peninsula, on Tuesday. They recorded a statement from Mr. Sivajilingam’s wife. Then they served the summons, which requires hi