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The United States has deepened its military relationship with Sri Lanka through a series of new defence initiatives, transferring ten TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopters to the Sri Lanka Air Force, delivering an advanced satellite communications system to the navy and conducting a disaster preparedness exercise with Sri Lankan security agencies.

The announcements, made during high-level visits by US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs S. Paul Kapur and US Pacific Air Forces Commander General Kevin Schneider, mark the latest

Sadia Moalim Ali, a 27-year-old nursing graduate and rickshaw driver from Somalia, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after being convicted of insulting government institutions over comments she made on social media.

Ali, who had posted on Facebook and TikTok, was sentenced on 25 June in a case that has sparked outrage in Somalia and renewed concern over the shrinking space for public criticism. Prosecutors had initially charged Ali with both insulting state institutions and incitement to commit a crime, but she was convicted only on the former cha

Less than two years after a passenger ferry revived a sea crossing between Tamil Nadu and Tamil Eelam that the war had severed for four decades, the authorities in Tamil Nadu have moved to commercialise the terminal serving it, inviting bids for duty-free retail and foreign-exchange concessions at the Nagapattinam International Passenger Terminal.

The Tamil Nadu Maritime Board (TNMB), which developed and manages the terminal, has issued two separate tenders, one for a duty-free shopping facility and another for a currency-e

A town-wide hartal shut Chavakachcheri on Friday as traders and business owners downed shutters in protest at the removal of the Urban Councils deputy chairperson, G. Kishore, by the Nor

Veteran Tamil filmmaker, actor and screenwriter K Bhagyaraj, who passed away in Chennai aged 73, leaves behind a towering legacy in Tamil cinema, where he was celebrated as one of the industry’s finest storytellers.

Known widely as the “screenplay king”, Bhagyaraj built a career around sharp writing, middle-class family dramas and socially rooted characters. He began his journey as an assistant to Bharathiraja before becoming one of Tamil cinema’s most recognisable writer-directors, with films such as Mundhanai M