In an unusual turn of events, Jaffna District MP Ramanathan Archchuna found himself rescued by Sri Lankan military personnel — just hours after attending Maaveerar Naal commemorations honouring fallen LTTE cadres the previous night. Adding to the irony, he appeared to be wearing the same shirt he had worn at the Maaveerar event, indicating he was likely returning from the previous night’s ceremony when the army stepped in to rescue him around midday. Speaking in Parliament, Archchuna described

A 35-year-old activist who had repeatedly reported illegal sand mining was killed after being struck by a tipper lorry carrying illicitly mined sand — in what his family alleges was a deliberate attack. Selvaratnam Sopanath, a resident of Thiruvaiyāru, died on the spot near Mottai Bridge on Wilson Road in Kilinochchi. According to relatives, Sopanath was travelling on a motorcycle with his wife from Kilinochchi town towards Iranamadu when the incident occurred. As he attempted to pull over to

Twenty-three schools in Vavuniya North have been shut down due to lack of Tamil students, a phenomenon that Member of Parliament Ravikaran attributes to what he calls the systematic displacement of Tamil residents through expanding Sinhalese settlements and land acquisitions in the area. Ravikaran raised the issue during the Vavuniya District Development Coordinating Committee recently, urging Deputy Minister Upali Samarasinghe and Northern Province Governor Nagalingam Vethanayagan to take imme