September 2026

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — M.A. Sumanthiran, one of Sri Lanka's most prominent constitutional lawyers, has republished a speech he delivered in Parliament during the 2013 impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake, answering critics who have questioned his opposition to a government plan to extend the retirement ages of senior judges. Mr. Sumanthiran, a President's Counsel and general secretary of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi, the main Tamil party in the island's north and east, posted the

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — M.S. Abdul Wahid, a National List lawmaker from the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, resigned from Parliament on Monday, creating a vacancy in the party’s sole National List seat and setting up another change in a position that has already changed hands since the 2024 general election. Hansa Abeyratne, the acting secretary-general of Parliament, wrote to the chairman of the Election Commission confirming that Abdul Wahid had submitted his resignation as a member of Parliament. Th

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Three university research teams in Sri Lanka have received grants totaling 110,000 euros to trace how single-use plastics move through food and beverage supply chains in the Colombo and Galle districts, part of a European Union-funded effort to cut plastic waste in the country's food sector. The teams are drawn from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ruhuna and the faculties of Medicine and Computing at the University of Kelaniya. The grants were awarded under

BUDAPEST — Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage of Sri Lanka won the men's javelin at the inaugural World Athletics Ultimate Championship on Sunday, throwing 91.09 metres in the fourth round to beat a field that included the reigning world, Olympic and European champions. Pathirage, 23, opened poorly with 75.89 metres, then found his range with 85.69 in the second round. His third throw of 87.11 metres put him in front. The fourth ended the contest. Anderson Peters of Grenada, a two-time world champion,