Sri Lankan police have launched an investigation after the Sri Lankan flag was allegedly pulled down from a flag pole at the Vavuniya District Secretariat yesterday.

Daily Mirror reports that an unidentified individual arrived at the premises and pulled down the flag, before escaping as police officials attempted to arrest him.

Following a complaint by District Secretary M.B.R. Pushpakumara a police investigation has now been launched into the incidident.

The Sri Lankan flag has reported been raised again.

The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday decided to postpone Provincial Council polls until there was a new electoral system that would allow for all councils to have their election on the same day, the Daily Mirror reported. 

The announcement came just days after the government said council elections for the Eastern province, as well as North-Central and Sabaragamuwa would be held in October 2017. 

Elections in the provinces are already two years overdue, prompting calls from the Joint Opposition that the government is stalling on calling elections as it fears defeat. 

A former LTTE cadre received a life sentence on Tuesday under Sri Lanka's notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act, for allegedly recruiting 'child soldiers'. 

Mr Kannadasan lawyer questioned how he could be prosecuted as he had undergone the government's 'rehabilitation programme' following the end of the armed conflict.

Many LTTE cadres were enticed to surrender themselves and undergo the government programme on the promise they would not be later prosecuted under Sri Lanka's laws for their involvement with the LTTE. 

The Vavuniya High Court judge who passed the sentence expressed his regret at having to do so. 

Sri Lanka’s Presidential Commission of Inquiry has summoned for hearing in relation to alleged treasury bond scams that saw billions of rupees swindled from public funds.

The commission ordered the former Finance Minister and current Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake to attend a hearing on Monday.

Mr Karunanayake informed the commission he was unable to attend the summons on short notice due to official duties.

The summons comes after President Maithripala Sirisena extended the time period of the commission and extended the deadline for a final investigative report to be submitted in October.

The 55 Tamil detainees, including prominent political prisoners, killed by Sinhalese inmates at the Welikada prison in 1983 were remembered in Jaffna on Tuesday.

On the 25th July 1983 Sellarasa “Kuttimani” Yogachandiran, leader of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organisation (TELO) and Ganeshanathan Jeganathan, a political writer, had their eyes gouged out in mockery before being killed by Sinhalese inmates at the high security Welikada prison in Colombo. A total of 37 Tamil prisoners were murdered the same day, and 18 more were killed two days later.

Sri Lankan soldiers at the Combat Training School (CTS) in Amparai, announced the opening of a new herbal garden inside the military headquarters on Saturday.

The former Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa condemned the Office of the Missing Persons Act, as a step to prosecute the country's armed forces, Ceylon Today reported. 

In a letter to the senior Buddhist clergy, Mr Rajapaksa urged them to take action on what he described as "acts of betrayal being committed under the guise of promoting reconciliation". 

Rejecting assurances given by the current government that the Act would not be enforced in a retrograde fashion, Mr Rajapaksa said, "That was an outright lie."

Sri Lanka received its largest warship to date from India, SLNS Sayurala. 

The ship was handed over during a special ceremony on July 22nd, with the India's High Commissioner to the island, Chitranganee Wagiswara present. 

The ship includes a landing and hangar facility for an Advanced Light Helicopter, the Sunday Times reported. 

Sri Lanka's Cabinet on Tuesday approved leasing Hambantota port to China Merchant Port Holdings, following months of delays. 

The approval was announced by the ports and shipping minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe, the Daily Mirror reported. However, it now needs to be approved by parliament. 

"The cabinet approved the deal and now it needs parliament approval. We will send it for approval this week," the cabinet spokesman Dayasiri Jayasekera told Reuters. 

The main suspect in the suspected assassination of the Jaffna High Court judge Ilancheliyan was arrested by Sri Lankan police on Tuesday morning. 

The suspect, identified as 39 year old Selvarasa Jayandan reportedly surrendered to Jaffna police station. 

Whilst the judge escaped unharmed, his police escort was injured during the incident and later died from his wounds.