The Sri Lankan defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, met with the Indian Defence minister AK Anthony, after being invited to India by the country's National Security Advisor, Shivshankar Menon.
According to the Indian Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma, the pair discusses military relations, and agreed that joint military training would continue away from the southern states.
Thousands of British Tamils are currently marching through London in remembrance of the tens of thousands that perished at the end of the armed conflict in 2009,
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S. Kajendran and V. Manivannan of the Tamil National People's Front (TNPF), were arrested this morning along with other party members, according to reports by party president Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam.
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Four years have passed since the Tamil nation suffered the zenith of genocide inflicted upon it by the Sri Lankan state, where tens of thousands of Tamils were herded into a tiny of slither of land,
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India's Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid telephoned his Sri Lankan counterpart GL Peiris on Friday and urged him not to dilute the 13th amendment, according to reports.
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The British government has been urged to bar Sri Lanka from attending a Commonwealth event due to be held in Glasgow, after the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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Former Australian diplomat Bruce Haigh has called for Australia to boycott the upcoming CHOGM, due to be held in Sri Lanka, comparing the island to Apartheid South Africas.
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