Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Division has arrested 38 people over alleged links to 'Ava group' in Jaffna, the minister of law and order, Sagala Ratnayake was quoted by Adaderana as saying. 

Mr Ratnayake said a further 8 individuals are currently under investigation and the officers are seeking their arrest. 

The Office of Missing Persons Act will be operational from January 1 said Sri Lanka's foreign affairs minister Mangala Samaraweera this week. 

Sri Lanka needs to raise US$ 8 billion  to bolster its economy said Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil WIckremesinghe in parliament after the country’s budget release.

Noting that Sri Lanka only gained USD600-700 million this year, Mr WIckremesinghe said the government would look to achieve the US $8 Billion by securing trade deals with several countries including China, India and Singapore.

Tamils in Swansea, Wales this month launched a campaign to plant trees in remembrance of the genocide of the Tamil people by the Sri Lankan state, and as part of the 'Tree for Justice' campaign in Wales. 

Muslims in the Eastern Province protested last week over the Sri Lankan government's proposed changes to Muslim Personal Law in order comply with EU conditions for GSP+. 

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) on Monday called on the UN Committee Against Torture "to visit Sri Lanka to conduct an independent investigation into the continued 'white van' abductions, torture and sexual violence committed by the Sri Lankan security forces."

The Tamil National Alliance rejected the government's offer to build 65,000 prefabricated houses in the North-East. 

“We don’t want those steel cages,” TNA MP, MA Sumanthiran told parliament on Friday. “We don’t want prefabricated houses. We want brick-and-mortar houses that we can give to our children and grandchildren, those that can stand the test of time and that will be permanent houses.”

Human Rights Watch this week urged the Sri Lankan government to take a lead on ensuring accountability for the killing of two Jaffna University students by the Sri Lankan police last month, describing it as "more of the same". 

"Human Rights Watch research shows that arbitrary arrests, torture, and extrajudicial killings by the police are all too familiar, and the government almost never holds officers responsible," the organisation said in a statement. 

A Sinhala Buddhist monk threatened to kill a Tamil government official in Batticaloa, call him a "Tamil dog." 

The saffron clad monk's racist verbal abuse was captured in a video which shows a Sri Lankan police officer standing by watching events unfold. 

On Tuesday students at the University of Jaffna paid tribute to the two students who were last month shot dead by Sri Lankan police officers. 

Hundreds of students attended the memorial event, laying flowers and lighting candles. 

Tamil fishermen protested in Mannar this week, demonstrating against Sri Lankan state sponsored colonisation of Sinhala fishermen into the region. 

Holding banners and posters, fishermen marched and shouted slogans of protest. 

Concluding her visit to the island the UK's state minister for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the prime minister's special representative on preventing sexual violence in conflict, Baroness Joyce Anelay reiterated there was "still much more to do, both to end sexual violence and to secure long term peace and stability."

Today marks ten years since the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP and human rights lawyer, Nadaraja Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo. 

No one has been sentence for the crime despite a decade passing. 

A witness in an inquiry into the assassination of Mr Raviraj earlier this year alleged Sri Lankan navy intelligence officials were involved. 

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil WIckremesinghe said that a consensus has been reached on devolution of power under the new constitution within new constitution, reports Colombo Page.

Mr Wickremesinghe added that a consensus had been reached within parties like the United National Party (UNP) and United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).