KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka — A magistrate in northern Sri Lanka on Monday gave the police one more month to finish investigating an allegation that a lawmaker from the governing party assaulted a village official who was carrying out relief work during Cyclone Ditwah last year. The complaint concerns K. Ilankumaran, a member of Parliament for Jaffna District from the National People's Power, the coalition led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. He is accused of assaulting a Grama Niladhari, or v

COLOMBO: The United States has trained officials from the Sri Lanka Navy and several civilian agencies to detect and respond to the smuggling of nuclear and radioactive materials, the U.S. Embassy in Colombo said on Monday. The five-day workshop, held from Sept. 21 to 25, was conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence in partnership with the navy. According to the embassy, American experts worked with Sri Lankan participants to draft standa

NEW DELHI — A delegation from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the Marxist-rooted party at the center of Sri Lanka's government, is in New Delhi this week for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, the latest sign of a turnaround for a movement that once treated India as a threat to Sri Lankan sovereignty. The five-member delegation, led by the JVP’s general secretary, Tilvin Silva, who is often regarded as the most powerful man in Sri Lanka, arrived on Sept. 27 at the

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — The mayor of Jaffna on Sunday denied that the city council or her party had any part in the police removal of a bust of Thileepan, a Tamil Tiger political leader, and said the council had refused repeated police demands for a written promise that the memorial would be taken down. "We strongly condemn the removal," Mayor Mathivathani Vivekanandarajah told reporters at the Jaffna Municipal Council. "Neither the Municipal Council nor the leadership of our party was responsible