Government appointed officials in the Northern Provincial Council do not serve the people said a Tamil National Alliance MP on Sunday.

Speaking to the Sunday Times on the government appointed NPC governor’s secretariat and chief secretary's failure to attend an event aimed at resolving problems related to land, birth and death certificates and other issues Selvam Adaikalanathan, said,

A Northern Provincial Council member was interrogated by Sri Lankan military personnel at his family residence on Saturday.

“Three soldiers in military uniform came to my house in Walalai and questioned me about the personal details of my family. They said they had received orders from the top to question me. One of them said that he was officer in charge of the Vasavilan army camp,” Balachandran Kajatheepan told the Colombo Mirror.

Kajatheepan added that it was obvious the soldiers were warning him that he was under surveillance.

Sri Lanka's economy requires a substantial amount of foreign direct investment in order to sustain the current economic growth, said Minister for Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, according to Ceylon Today.

Speaking at the World Investor Forum in Geneva, Abeywardena said Sri Lanka needed $5bn in FDI, in order to achieve anticipated economic gains by 2016, but that current projections show, only $4bn will be raised.

"Sri Lanka requires a substantial amount of investment to sustain the current growth momentum and embark upon its sustainable development goals successfully."

"The private sector plays a major role in financing investment projects, so long as they generate profits. The challenge before Sri Lanka is to motivate them to finance the investment that could fill the resource gap, as the private sector is mainly driven by profits; the national priorities of a particular country may not necessarily be the priorities for the private sector," he said.

In separate incidents, two dead bodies have been found in Kokkaddicholai and Oorani, in the Eastern Province this week, reports Batti News.

In Kokkaddicholai, 32 year old Arunasalam Kirubakaran was found hanging on Thursday, said the Eastern Province based website.

The Sri Lanka Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa is to meet with India's National Security Advisor (NSA), Ajit Doval, in New Delhi next week for "high-level" talks, reports The Hindu.

Sources in New Delhi, confirmed the meeting however did not "get into the details", the paper added.

The meeting follows talks between the two countries at the Second Annual Defence Dialogue held in Colombo earlier this month. See here for more.

The opposition party UNP denied that a deal had been reached between the TNA and the UNP, stressing that the party would not agree "to any conditions of any political party", the Colombo Gazette reports.

"There is an attempt to give the impression the UNP has reached a deal with the TNA which could be seen as unpatriotic," the paper quoted UNP MP Kabir Hashim as saying.

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