Updated 04 Sep 2015, 11:35 BST

Tamil campaigner for the disappeared, Balendran Jeyakumary will remain in prison, after her planned release today did not go ahead.

Lawyers who this morning produced two sureties, as required by the court, were told that the documents were not accepted. This means the campaigner will remain in detention until at least Monday. As of yet, no reasons have been given to Ms Jeyakumary's detention.

Ms Jeyakumari was detained on Wednesday after being summoned to Kebithgollawa courts.

She was issued with an arrest warrant on Tuesday and asked by police to report to the magistrate court the next morning. The court remanded her as she did not have two sureties and the police objected to her bail application, a statement by campaigners said.

As discussions on how to deal with the findings of the UN investigation into Sri Lanka’s mass atrocities (OISL) reach fever pitch, the newly elected chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tamils, James Berry, spoke to the Tamil Guardian last week.

Speaking ahead of the release of the UN report into mass atrocities and after meeting the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, the APPG-T chair reiterated calls for normalcy in the North-East and stressed the need for any process to deal with the findings of the OISL to have the full confidence of the victims.

The Tamil National Alliance has announced it will hand over the post of opposition whip to the JVP.

In a press release, the TNA said it proposed to the speaker that JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake be appointed to the post.

The party also announced that in the absence of R Sampanthan, ITAK president Maavai Senathirajah would act as the leader of the opposition.

Sri Lanka's national government has commenced taking oaths from its new cabinet.

A total of 42 ministers were sworn in today, with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also taking his oath as Minister of National Policy and Economic Affairs before President Maithripala Sirisena.

Some ministers took their oaths last week, with Mangala Samaraweera as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wijedasa Rajapaksa as Minister of Justice and DM Swaminathan as Minister of Rehabilitation.

Mr Rajapaksa was today also sworn in as Minister for Buddhist Affairs, in addition to the justice portfolio.

A signature campaign was launched in Jaffna today calling for an international accountability mechanism to examine mass atrocities committed during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, where tens of thousands of Tamil civilians were killed.

Representatives from the Tamil National Alliance, Tamil National People’s Front, Religious leaders, civil society representatives, Jaffna University lecturers and students all took part in the campaign.

Signatures were collected by Jaffna  Central bus station earlier today.

Hundreds of protestors gathered in Mattala to protest after the town’s international airport was put in to use to store paddy earlier this week.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his country attaches the “highest importance” to its relationship with Sri Lanka and that he looks forward to taking diplomatic ties to new heights, PTI reported.

The leader of the Tamil National Alliance has officially been appointed as Leader of the Opposition in Sri Lanka’s parliament.

TNA leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan is the first Tamil to hold the post since 1983, when Tamil leaders resigned en masse after the passing of the 6th amendment, which made it illegal to “support, espouse, promote, finance, encourage or advocate the establishment of a separate State within the territory of Sri Lanka”.

Taking up the post Mr Sampanthan said, "Our primary duty is to ensure that there is an acceptable resolution to the Tamil question".

A Tamil woman has been admitted to Jaffna hospital, after she collapsed following interrogation by Sri Lankan military intelligence officers in the North-East, reports Colombo Mirror.

Sri Lankan military officials reportedly visited at least six houses at Vithanaiyar Lane near Kokkuvil Hindu College in Jaffna, said the website citing sources in Jaffna.

Paramilitary leader Karuna claimed that Indian troops were present and assisting government forces in Sri Lanka during the final stages of the armed conflict, which saw tens of thousands of Tamil civilians killed.

In an interview with Tamil Nadu based Puthiya Thalaimurai last week, Vinayagamoorthy Muralidharan alias Karuna, leader of the TMVP, said:

“When the war was taking place Indian forces were present here. They were in Vavuniya. They were functioning with the satellite and artillery units from there.”

He went on to state Indian forces were "aiding and abetting Sri Lanka" during the armed conflict. 

The leader of the government-affiliated paramilitary group was Vice President of the SLFP during Mahinda Rajapaksa’s tenure as Sri Lankan president and stands accused of assisting in the government war effort.