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Video footage has emerged from Sri Lanka, showing police officers abandoning barriers as protestors stormed barricades near Carlton House in Tangalle, close to the residence of prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Latest reports indicate that tear gas and water cannons have once again been deployed by the Sri Lankan security forces.

Just hours after Sri Lanka’s entire cabinet resigned, apart from prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, a new cabinet of four ministers has been sworn in this morning, with some familiar faces making a return.

Several sources are reporting Ali Sabry has been appointed finance minister, Dinesh Gunawardena the education minister, Johnston Fernando as minister of highways and G L Peiris remaining the foreign affairs minister.

All four are from the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). It remains unclear whether these are temporary appointments or not, with the situation still developing.

Read more on each of the four new ministers below.

Students at the University of Jaffna rallied through the town today, as they demanded the resignation of Sri Lanka’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, amidst a political crisis in Colombo.

There was relative quiet across the streets of the North-East on Sunday, as few ventured out amidst a military-enforced curfew even as protests flared in the South against the ruling Rajapaksa regime.

A 36-hour curfew had been declared by Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa amidst increasing unrest as the island’s economic crisis deepened.

The Tamil National People’s Front has reported that Sri Lankan police prevented Tamil from entering our office in Kokkuvil and harassed them.

This afternoon Jaffna police prevented Tamil journalists from entering our office in Kokkuvil for a media conference, harrased them, and turned them away after registering their names. pic.twitter.com/KIMxl7ftI4

Sri Lanka has been thrown into turmoil as all of the government’s cabinet ministers tender their resignation apart from Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, in the wake of protests as the island plunges into deepening political and economic crises. 

The Ministry of Technology has reportedly announced that the social media ban imposed following Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declaration of a state of emergency, was lifted at 3:30pm today as requested by The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL).

Due to the ban the PUCSL were unable to communicate with consumers about on-going power cuts in Sri Lanka. The PUCSL requested that all Mobile Service Providers and the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka activate/restore all social media platforms immediately.

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The Sri Lankan diaspora has staged protests in London, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Toronto among numerous countries all over the world as well as in Sri Lanka to express solidarity against the Sri Lankan government's failure to address the current crisis.  Auckland, New Zealand

The Indian High Commission Sri Lanka issued a statement that “strongly denies” rumours that Indian troops have been deployed to the island, as anti-government protests continue.

“High Commission strongly denies blatantly false and completely baseless reports in a section of media that India is dispatching its soldiers to Sri Lanka,” said a tweet from the Indian High Commission on Saturday.

“The High Commission also condemns such irresponsible reporting and expects the concerned to desist from spreading rumours.”

Sri Lankan police have fired tear gas and water cannons against protestors at Peradeniya University, as anti-government protests continue to flare.

The protest was organised by the Peradeniya University Students’ Union and is currently taking place in Kandy.