Sri Lanka's Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Media Ministry's plans to ensure all wesbites covering news and information on Sri Lanka register with the ministry, on Friday. 

The ruling came during a case filed by the website, www.srilankamirror.com, who had been blocked by the government since 5th November.

The Sri Lankan Government has banned all forms of commemorations of the Tamil National Remembrance Day.

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said today, Sri Lanka will urge other countries to follow suit.

The ban comes as the Tamil people in the North-East defiantly commemorated the National Remembrance Day in the face of increased militarisation and threats by Sri Lankan security forces.

Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister, John Baird, asserted that Sri Lanka must take accountability for alleged war crimes seriously, and highlighted the "growing authoritarian trend".

Addressing the Commons foreign affairs committee on Thursday, Baird said,

"Two years after the civil war we've seen no meaningful attempt at reconciliation with the Tamil minority."

"We've also seen a growing authoritarian trend by the government in Colombo."

Sri Lanka's armed forces announced the release of a new report, by the country's security forces, as a response to the report by the UN panel of experts.

Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said.

Mahinda Rajapaksa granted presidential "permission" for displaced Tamils from Talaimannar to return to their lands, following a dispute over the lands.

Displaced Tamils from the Talaimannar area had been evicted from their homes by Sri Lankan security authorities who accused the 550 displaced families of "squatting on State land".

In an article, entitled "MR intervenes to resettle evicted IDPs", the pro-government newspaper, The Island, stated that the matter was only settled after the Industry and Commerce Minister, Rishard Bathiudeen, raised the issue with Rajapaksa.

According to The Island, "those evicted had been given permission to return to their land as President Rajapaksa had intervened."

Rajapakse hailed the construction a "revolution" and declared,

"Separatist tendencies will fade away when we have better road connectivity."

Photographs www.pathivu.com

Tamil defiance continues with the news outlet Pathivu publishing photographs of further Remembrance Day commorations amidst militarisation in the Eelam homeland.

The World Bank announced on Tuesday its approval of a credit worth $100 million to fund the transformation of Sri Lanka’s education system.