September 2026

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Several opposition leaders who attended Thursday’s meeting against Sri Lanka’s proposed 22nd Amendment have disputed published accounts of why M.A. Sumanthiran declined to sign a joint declaration, saying the explanation he gave inside the meeting was that he needed time to consult his party before committing it to the document. Jaffna Monitor reported after the meeting that Mr. Sumanthiran, the general secretary of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi, or ITAK, had declined to s

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The general secretary of Sri Lanka’s main Tamil political party refused on Thursday to sign a joint opposition statement against a proposed constitutional amendment, saying he would not campaign for judicial independence alongside politicians he accused of having undermined it, according to reports in the Tamil-language media. M.A. Sumanthiran, a President's Counsel and the general secretary of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) attended a meeting of opposition politicia

MANNAR, Sri Lanka — President Anura Kumara Dissanayake laid the foundation stones on Wednesday for four new hospital facilities in Sri Lanka's Northern, North Central and Eastern provinces, a roughly 7.15 billion rupee ($21.8 million) construction program financed through Indian grants and Japanese loans that is intended to narrow long-running gaps in emergency and specialist medical care outside Colombo. The projects include a two-storey accident and emergency unit at the District General Hosp