Businesses in Trincomalee held a hartal today to demonstrate against the state appointed governor of the Eastern Province, M. L. A. M. Hizbullah.

Sri Lanka's ministry of finance said the price of fuel would be increased again following the earlier price hike in February. 

Two Jaffna university student union leaders and a campus hospitality worker remain detained following their arrest under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), despite requests to the Attorney General to secure their release and widespread condemnation of their arrests. Their lawyers have said that an appeal will be lodged at the Jaffna High Court.

Puthukkudiyiruppu Divisional Secretariat remembered the victims of the Easter Sunday bombings today. 

Sri Lankan police on Tuesday filed a case against the former Northern Provincial Council member, M K Shivajilingam for celebrating the birthday of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, V Prabhakaran last year. 

Sri Lankan police this week instructed landlords in Vavuniya to register information on tenants with themselves as well as the local government agent, the Grama Sevaka. 

UNP parliamentarians wrote to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe calling for former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka to be appointed as Law and Order Minister to deal with Sri Lanka’s terror threats.

 A letter from 89 United National Party (UNP) Members of Parliament, called for Fonseka, who was responsible for military oversight of the final phases of Sri Lanka’s brutal war with the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to head the Law and Order Ministry in to secure the island.

Displaced families from Keppapulavu spent their third May Day on the streets, marking the 791st day of protests at the military occupation of their land. 

Jaffna District Secretariat paid tribute today to those killed during the Easter Sunday bombings by Islamist extremists. 

Eastern university, Batticaloa is to be brought under the Ministry of Higher Education, the Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena said.