Sri Lanka’s former foreign minister Ravi Karunayake, who stepped down from the role amidst allegations of corruption, said he had done so to safeguard the president and prime minister, as he met with Buddhist monks in Kandy today.

The Sri Lankan navy has arrested four Tamil Nadu fishermen on Monday for allegedly entering the island's waters. 

The fishermen are from Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu, the Pune Mirror reported. 

This is the latest in a series of arrests of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy which continues to raise tensions in the southern Indian state. 

The fishermen's boat has been taken to Kangesanthurai. 

A no-confidence motion is being drafted against Sri Lanka's Minister of Local Governments and Provincial Councils, Faizer Mustapha regarding the postponement of the local elections. 

The motion is being led by the UNP MP for Badulla district, Chaminda Wijesiri who informed parliament of the motion on August 9 and commenced the drafting process on Sunday. 

The Sri Lankan government is to present the modified draft Inland Revenue bill this week. 

The bill which was re-drafted after the country's Supreme court deemed certain provisions violated the constitution. 

The government had "re-drafted the Bill knocking off the clauses that were deemed to be inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution", the State Minister of Finance Eran Wickamaratne was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying. 

The victims of the Sencholai Massacre, 53 Tamil schoolgirls and 3 teachers killed by Sri Lankan air force bombs 11 years ago, were remembered today at the University of Jaffna.

The provincial council representative for Mullaitivu, T. Ravikaran, held a vigil at his constituency office this morning, for the victims of the Sencholai Massacre.

Vijayakala Maheswaran, the UNP parliamentarian and State Minister for Women’s and Children’s Affairs, has remarked that identifying and slaughtering LTTE cadres would not be questioned.

Speaking at a presidential scheme event at the Karaichchi Divisional Secretariat in Kilinochchi on Sunday, the minister spoke at length on the importance of keeping the current ‘good-governance’ government in power and said the previous regime had killed children and the elderly, and should not be allowed to return to power by the international community.

Sri Lankan artists are to begin a Sathyagraha campaign this week urging the government to fulfill the promises it made to the public. 

"The certain significant marks of the previous regime is visible in the present government and it is the public's duty to force the present government to get back into the right track," film director Dharmasiri Bandaranayake was quoted by Colombo Page as saying. 

"the Sathyagraha campaign is being conducted to get the government into the proper track," an actor, Nishshanka Diddeniya added. 

The decomposed body of a man was found on Saturday within at Mani Arasan lake in Kinniya, Trincomalee, Batti News reports. 

The identity of the man remains unknown. However, local police have said a missing persons complaint was filed three days earlier after a cowherd did not return home. 

Police are reportedly investigating the death. 

The Sri Lankan police have established a special police unit focussed on gathering information for organised crimes, Colombo Page reported. 

The unit will be located within the premises of the Special Task Force. 

Members of the public who provide 'accurate information' related to organised crimes and drug trafficking will be provided a financial reward, the paper added.