Two Jaffna university student union leaders and a campus hospitality worker remain detained following their arrest under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), despite requests to the Attorney General to secure their release and widespread condemnation of their arrests. Their lawyers have said that an appeal will be lodged at the Jaffna High Court.

Puthukkudiyiruppu Divisional Secretariat remembered the victims of the Easter Sunday bombings today. 

Sri Lankan police on Tuesday filed a case against the former Northern Provincial Council member, M K Shivajilingam for celebrating the birthday of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, V Prabhakaran last year. 

Sri Lankan police this week instructed landlords in Vavuniya to register information on tenants with themselves as well as the local government agent, the Grama Sevaka. 

UNP parliamentarians wrote to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe calling for former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka to be appointed as Law and Order Minister to deal with Sri Lanka’s terror threats.

 A letter from 89 United National Party (UNP) Members of Parliament, called for Fonseka, who was responsible for military oversight of the final phases of Sri Lanka’s brutal war with the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to head the Law and Order Ministry in to secure the island.

Displaced families from Keppapulavu spent their third May Day on the streets, marking the 791st day of protests at the military occupation of their land. 

Jaffna District Secretariat paid tribute today to those killed during the Easter Sunday bombings by Islamist extremists. 

Eastern university, Batticaloa is to be brought under the Ministry of Higher Education, the Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena said. 

<p>A US official who was wounded by the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka has died from her injuries, raising the the death toll to 258.&nbsp;</p> <p>The official, Chelsea Decaminada was seriously wounded at the Shangri-La hotel during the bombings and was flown to Singapore for further hospital treatment.&nbsp;</p> <p>"We pay tribute to Chelsea - and all those lost and injured - by partnering with Sri Lanka and nations worldwide to bring unity in the face of terrorism," the US ambassador, Alaina Teplitz said today.&nbsp;</p>

The Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena this week suspended the vice chancellor of the University of Jaffna.