The former army commander, Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka on Tuesday said there was no grouses between the Sinhalese and Tamils over the 13th Amendment. 

“We have given that message to the majority community in the south also. There are no grouses with the majority community with the people in the north now. We didn’t want to make the same mistakes,” Fonseka told ANI in an interview. 

Drought in the North has resulted in drinking water shortages for over 12,000 families in Kilinochchi.

Research presented at a political meeting on tackling the ongoing drought, found that around 12,200 families will suffer from a lack of clean, drinking water.

Families in several districts across Kilinochchi lack access to wells and tanks, and also lack the resources to import clean water from other areas.

The ‘North-East Development Conference: Quest for Knowledge’ which took place in Scarborough, Ontario, brought together representatives from the North-East of Sri Lanka, as well as diaspora members involved in development and education.

The conference provided a space for representatives from the North-East to present information on the state of education in their respective provinces, as well as overlapping concerns.

On January 10, a Canadian Federal Court judge upheld the deportation order of Mr. Suresh Manickavasagam, an alleged LTTE fundraiser who has been resident in Canada for 26 years. 

The European Commission's decision to restore GSP+ to Sri Lanka sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the EU compliance regime, the British Tamils Forum has said.

In a statement on Monday the BTF said it was disappointed in the decision, highlighting that "Sri Lanka has a long history of consecutive governments failing to deliver on its international commitments."

Full statement reproduced below.

Chief Minister Wigneswaran and City of Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti signed a memorandum of understanding to officiate the friendship agreement between Markham and Mullaitivu.

A Tamil National Alliance MP has promised to build statues to honour the sacrificies of Maaveerar, fallen LTTE cadres, in his Mullaitivu constituency.

TNA MP Dr Sivamohan spoke on Monday at the unveiling ceremony of a new statue of Thiruvalluvar - the Sangam era Tamil poet and philosopher - built under his budget in his constituency of Puthukudiyiruppu.

A racial-hate group from the South has been found by Sri Lankan intelligence to be responsible for the vandalism of Buddha statues in the North-East, reports the Uthayan.

Kilinochchi locals have criticised the recent appointment of two Sinhalese workers to a local government office.

The new appointees at Karaichchi Divisional Secretariat reportedly do not speak any Tamil, drawing criticism from locals who have questioned the new recruits’ suitability to serve an entirely Tamil-speaking division.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) will be compelled to leave the Sri Lanka's constitutional reform process unless the government commits to finding a solution to the national question through further devolution, said the Dharmalingam Siddharthan. 

A Navy officer, Lieutenant Commander Mapa Mudiyanselage Dhammikka Anila Mapa, was remanded on Monday over the disappearance and abduction of two Tamils in 2009, Vaduveli Pakkilasamy Loganathan and Ratnasamy Paramanandan. 

The officer was working with the navy intelligence wing at the time, the Daily Mirror reported. He has been remanded until January 26. 

A former LTTE cadre was arrested on Saturday evening by the Terrorism Investigation Department.

Murugaiyah Thavendran from Thiruvaiyaaru, Kilinochchi, a former cadre that had been through Sri Lanka's 'rehabilitation' process, was arrested by persons identifying as TID police.

Mr Thavendran's whereabouts are currently unknown to his family, who have filed reports with Kilinochchi police and the Kilinochchi citizen's committee.

Sirisena’s government will never agree to a federal solution, the Sri Lankan president stated at a gathering.

Addressing a political gathering in Galle on Saturday, the president said “my government will never agree to grant federalism in this country”.

The president accused some parts of the media of abusing press freedom and spreading misinformation, including rumours that GSP+ was being restored to Sri Lanka to pave the way for federalism.

The Sri Lankan government on Friday rejected changes called for by the European Union as part of a programme of commitment enabling the preferential trade tarrif GSP+ to be granted. 

Despite calls for homosexuality to be decriminalised and for a two-thirds parliamentary majority needed to approve the introduction of a state of emergency, the government has dropped these two changes in its five year, National Human Rights Action Plan (NHAP), the SundayTimes.lk reported.