The United Kingdom and European Union this week reiterated their opposition to Sri Lanka's proposed implementation of the death penalty. 

The Sri Lankan navy announced that it had arrested an Indian national in Mannar on Thursday.

A delegation from the Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) met with the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and a Sri Lankan government minister, ahead of the upcoming UN Human Rights Council session later this month.

Residents of a Mullaitivu village have accused the Sri Lankan army of exploiting the area’s clean water sources and contaminating the water that civilians use.

Speakers from all three major parties in the UK called for the full implementation of a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability in Sri Lanka, during a debate in the House of Lords last week.

The Tamil Homeland Parents of Disappeared Forum has called for Sri Lanka to be referred to the International Criminal Court and for a United Nations peacekeeping force to be deployed to the North-East, as families continue to search for their missing children.

Sri Lanka's ministry of finance this week raised the price of fuel from midnight on February 11. 

The Vice President of the World Bank, Hartwig Schafer, arrived in Sri Lanka today on a three-day visit.

A Jaffna home faced its second petrol bomb attack on Monday, as a gang of six men targetted the house and vehicle parked in front. 

Two Tamil civilians have been injured by an army vehicle which crashed into a motorbike in Mullaitivu. 

Tamil journalist P Sathiyamoorthy, who was killed inside the ‘No Fire Zone’ by a Sri Lankan army artillery barrage in February 2009, was remembered on Tuesday. 

A Mullaitivu mother died yesterday still in search of her daughter, who was disappeared during the final stages of the armed conflict in 2009. 

Students from a Batticaloa school, who were made to form an armed guard of honour for the governor of the Eastern province, had received weapons training from the Sri Lankan army.

The Tamil Heritage Forum has slammed the Sri Lankan government for its aggressive Sinhalisation of Vavuniya North, as well as the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) for failing to speak up against the issues.