LUCKNOW, India— Indian border security personnel have detained three Sri Lankan nationals from Jaffna and an Indian woman from Tamil Nadu near the Nepal border after they allegedly attempted to enter Nepal through a forested stretch of northern Uttar Pradesh, Indian media reported. Personnel from the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), the Indian paramilitary force responsible for guarding the country’s borders with Nepal and Bhutan, intercepted the four late Wednesday near the Rajjanwa border checkpost

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Oct. 23, 2026 — Lawyers representing families of the disappeared have asked the Jaffna Magistrate’s Court to examine whether the archaeologist leading the Chemmani excavation deliberately removed the term “mass grave” from his latest report on the site. The motion, filed on Thursday, concerns the third interim report by Professor Raj Somadeva of the University of Kelaniya and his colleague Anusha Wanninayake. The report, titled “Forensic Archaeological Excavation in Chemmani,

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka— Kavindran Kodeeswaran told Parliament on Thursday that the archaeologist’s new report on the Chemmani excavation dates the dead to about 50 years ago, rather than to 1995 and 1996. The report gives no date for any burial. He also said the shoes and sandals recovered from the grave, and the photographs taken of them, had been left out of the report. A photograph of a shoe from the grave is printed on page 13. Mr. Kodeeswaran, the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi member for Ampara