Sri Lanka's party leaders are to meet tomorrow to discuss the postponement of the local government elections after the Court of Appeal order halted the implementation of the gazette notification on delimitation until next month.  

The meeting comes as politicians from all main parties, including the UNP, SLFP and JVP condemn the postponement of the polls as unnecessary. 

The Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi on Thursday during his visit to New Delhi to attend the Fifth Global Conference on Cyber Space. 

"Neighbourhood first. PM @narendramodi received Sri Lankan PM @RW_UNP at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, both countries share strong and close relations based on mutual trust and respect," India's Ministry of External Affairs tweeted. 

A 'white van style' abduction of a Tamil youth which sparked fears in Jaffna was an arrest made by plain-clothes officers, Sri Lankan police have said.

A Tamil youth waiting at Jaffna bus stand was bundled into a white van on Tuesday evening. The incident which took place at rush-hour following the end of the working day had sparked fears in Jaffna, exacerbated by reports of spates of arrests in the run-up to Maaveerar Naal.

The Manonmaniam Sundaranar University in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Eastern University in view of encouraging the exchange of students and scholars. 

The professor of Tamil at MSU, G Stephen will be appointed 'subject expert' for two new courses at Eastern University on visual anthropology and Sri Lankan Tamil dances, The Hindu reported. 

Further resting homes of fallen LTTE cadres (Thuyilum Illam) were cleared this week ahead of Tamil National Remembrance Day (Maaveerar Naal) on November 27. 

Former LTTE members, families of the Maaveerar and local residents fathered to clear the Sampur Aalankulam Thuyilum in Trincomalee as well as the Maavadimunmaari Thuyilum Illam in Batticaloa. 

Sri Lankan police officers on Sunday commenced spot checks of vehicles travelling on the A9 in Maankulam, one week ahead of Tamil National Remembrance Day (Maaveerar Naal). 

Vehicles were searched and occupants questioned. 

The member of the Northern Provincial Council, M K Shivajilingam on Monday called on Tamils to remember the sacrifice of Tamils who fought in the struggle and commemorate Tamil National Remembrance Day (Maaveerar Naal) by providing assistance to their families. 

Kilinochchi residents have continued to clear up the LTTE cemetery at Kanagapuram, recovering more headstones and monuments.

Parents of fallen LTTE cadres were honoured in Kilinochchi on Tuesday.

The first day of Maaveerar week, the week leading up to the Tamil national remembrance day of Maaveerar Naal, was marked at Mullaitivu's Vannivilankulam LTTE cemetery on Tuesday.

Students at the University of Jaffna marked the beginning of Tamil National Remembrance Week today, ahead of Maaveerar Naal on November 27. 

A lamp by the memorial for Lt. Col. Thileepan was lit at 18:05 local time. 
 

The chief minister of the Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran said it was "understandable" the NPC's education minister refused to hoist the Sri Lankan flag due to the Sinhala Buddhist supremacist ideology of successive governments. 

Stating that he would not have refused to hoist the flag himself, Mr Wigneswaran said however that he expressed his resistance against Sinhala hegemony in other ways. 

A Catholic shrine in Jaffna was attacked on November 14, with the statue of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus being removed from the shrine and destroyed. 

The attack on the shrine is among a series of attacks on Hindu and Christian places of worship across the North-East in recent months.

Two Hindu shrines were attacked in Mannar last week by unknown persons, with the statues of Pillaiyar ripped from the shrine and thrown into shrubbery.