JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — A boat not designed for passenger transport, but carrying devotees to a Catholic church festival, capsized off the coast of northern Sri Lanka on Thursday morning, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen others and renewing concerns about maritime safety in the waters around the Jaffna peninsula. The vessel had departed from the fishing harbor at Kurunagar in Jaffna, carrying pilgrims to the annual feast of St. Anthony’s Church in Palaitivu, a small island

COLOMBO — A sitting judge of Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has taken an unusual step beyond the country’s borders, turning to the Indian judiciary in an effort to force Google to remove online articles he says have shadowed his reputation for nearly a decade. Justice A.H.M.D. Nawaz, who sits on Sri Lanka’s highest court and previously served as President of the Court of Appeal, has petitioned the High Court of Karnataka in Bengaluru, asking it to direct Google India to remove links to articles publ

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka —A coalition of doctors, engineers, journalists and educators in Jaffna is urging the governor and relevant government agencies to support an ambitious plan aimed at making the Jaffna Peninsula more resilient to climate stress, seeking to move the proposal from concept to implementation. The initiative, titled “Green Jaffna,” was presented Tuesday at the Governor’s Secretariat, where Governor N. Vethanayagan reviewed a pilot proposal submitted by IMPACT — Interdisciplinary Mul