Former Northern Provincial Council member A Puvaneswaran was issued a summons for questioning by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) on Tuesday.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) politician was handed the summons at his home in Suthanthirapuram, Mullaitivu, telling him to appear in Colombo to provide a statement for an ongoing ‘terrorism’ investigation, and meet the official in charge of first division of the TID.

Australia’s Home Affairs Department stated that they have spent close to $27 million of taxpayers money on Christmas Island detention centre, on Monday.

The facility was initially opened on 16 February and till 31 August, administrative costs were estimated to be around $26.8 million.

This includes the paying for a staff of over 100 people for a detention centre which house the Biloela Tamil family.

Sri Lankan authorities blocked a meeting on land grabs in Amparai earlier this month, leading to commotion outside the venue as hundreds of people attempted to enter amidst police presence.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s former president and brother of current presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa, stated that his party would not concede to any demands made by the Tamil National Alliance, at a rally in Beliatta yesterday,

"There is no need to agree to any of the conditions,” Rajapaksa told the crowd. The country should come first. No one should be allowed to divide the country.”

Rajapaksa was eluding to a set of 13 demands put forward by five Tamil political parties to both leading candidates last week. Though Rajapaksa claimed his party did not receive any demands made by the Tamil parties, they would reject them regardless.

The Tamil Eelam football team managed to secure victory over Yorkshire last month, in a pulsating encounter at Ingfield Stadium in Ossett. 

The tight contest saw Tamil Eelam go ahead thanks to Thomas A, with a cross by Nirun from the left flank met by his surging run and finished off with a sliding right-footed shot. Tamil Eelam doubled their lead with a second half finish into the bottom left corner by Prashanth R, who was making his tenth appearance and scored his seventh goal for Tamil Eelam. Yorkshire scored a well worked goal in the latter stages of the game and pressed on as they searched for an equaliser. However, the Tamil Eelam defence held on and went on to take another win, as the team continues to grow.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) came out and declared it would not back the merging of the Northern and Eastern provinces, as demanded by Tamil parties, stating that it was the “ambition of separatists”.

JVP Propaganda Secretary Vijitha Herath said the National People's Power (NPP) coalition which is led by the party, would not back the proposal.

Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa said he was willing to “suffer any punishment on behalf of” the Sri Lankan military in order to protect troops from allegations of rights abuses.

The Daily Mirror reports Premadasa as telling a rally this week that he would “take full responsibility” over what he claimed were “allegations made against the Sri Lankan Security Forces”.

In an article for the Jacobin, former Australian senator Lee Rhiannon, draws upon Ben Hiller's new book "Losing Santhia: Life and Loss in the Struggle for Tamil Eelam", and argues the need to stand in solidarity Tamils who have faced genocide by the "exclusivist, chauvinist Sinhala-Buddhist state".

Extremist Buddhist monk, Gnanasara Thero, of the Sinhala nationalist Bodu Bala Sena organisation has been ordered to appear in court on November 8, for violating a court order.