JAFFNA — Ratnam Senthilmaran, the principal of Jaffna Hindu College, is attending an 18-day training course in Tokyo, run by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), on how Japanese schools teach character, health, and social skills along with academic subjects. The course, “Holistic Education: The Japanese Hands-On Approach,” runs from Nov. 11 to Nov. 28. Ten participants from nine countries are taking part. In a post about the programme, Mr. Senthilmaran said the group was looking a

By Jaffna Monitor Staff A 15-year-old girl who disappeared from her home in the hills of Kandy District in July has been found living in a forest cave with a baby girl about two months old, police said. She had given birth there without a doctor or midwife. Officers from the Ududumbara Police found the two after noticing that a young man from the area was buying far more rice each day than one person could eat. They followed him into uninhabited forest on the western slopes of the Knuckles ran

COLOMBO: Rauff Hakeem, the leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, accused Bimal Rathnayake in Parliament on Saturday of holding up the Indian-funded reconstruction of Kankesanthurai harbour for two years. He also said the minister seemed upset that the project was now going ahead. “Two years have been wasted,” Mr. Hakeem said, addressing Mr. Rathnayake. “The delay in building the Kankesanthurai harbour is because of you.” Mr. Rathnayake, the Leader of the House and Minister of Transport, Hig

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