Sri Lanka's Speaker informed parliament on Tuesday the proposed 20th Amendment to the constitution would need a two third majority in parliament before being put before the public via a referendum in order to be implemented following a Supreme Court ruling. 

Mr Karu Jayasuriya told parliament that the Court had made the ruling as certain clauses within the draft proposal were reportedly deemed "unconstitutional". 

The secretary for Sri Lanka's internal affairs ministry assured that there were no Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar in Sri Lanka, after a petition was launched to bar them from entering the island.

2422 Tamils are registered at the Kilinochchi District Secretariat as still waiting to resettle in their own homes after the end of the war.

Of the four divisional secretariats in the district, Poonakary has the highest official number of families waiting to return to their homes, with 357 households having registered their details.

Tamil National Alliance MP M A Sumanthiran warned that the Sri Lankan government’s decision to postpone the Enforced Disappearances bill demonstrate that Tamils are “fourth class citizens” on the island.

“We condemn the reported move to postpone the debate on the Disappearances Bill and the Prime Minister’s interpretation of the Bill’s applicability,” said Mr Sumanithran in the Daily Mirror today.

Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka’s former army chief, has said he was denied a visa to attend the UN general assembly because of unresolved war crimes allegations against the military.

The war-time commander and now minister of regional development claimed he was due to travel to New York with President Sirisena this week, but was the only member of the Sri Lankan delegation to be denied a visa.

The Sri Lankan government has again decided to postpone a parliamentary debate on the Enforced Disappearances bill, which was set to take place on September 21st.

The decision not to take up the debate on the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances was made during the UNP parliamentary group meeting on Monday evening, chaired by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Three Tamil youths were arrested by police in Thunnalai on Monday.

The arrests came just days after three were arrested in a sudden early-morning round up in Thunnalai last week.

Around 45 are now estimated to have been arrested from Thunnalai and surrounding villages as a result of several police operations and deployment of Special Task Force troops.

Tamil National Alliance MPs have assured Muslims attempting to resettle in Jaffna that their grievances would be addressed.

Sri Lanka’s army hosted a three-member delegation from Sudan’s army for bilateral talks on training and future collaboration.

The delegation discussions focused on training modules that are underway in both organisations, with the potential for future joint training exercises to Sundanese delegations visiting Sri Lanka.

LTTE cemeteries in the Jaffna district and the Nallur monument to Thileepan will be restored and maintained by local authorities, the Jaffna coordinating committee has decided.

The Sri Lankan military constructed a Reverse Osmosis (RO) plant within its base in Vanni last week, reportedly after troops suffered illnesses from the local water supply.

There would be no significant change in trade policy with Sri Lanka, the Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asian Affairs, Mark Linscott said on Monday whilst visiting the island. 

Meeting wtih Sri Lankan officials including the Secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Chinthaka Lokuhetti, Mr Linscott said, “it is tough to predict the future.”

The Sri Lankan navy arrested 8 people for alleged illegal fishing activities in Mannar, Colombo Page reported. 

The Sri Lankan government rejected reports that it was planning to halt the issuing of visas to those travelling from Myanmar in a bid to stop Rohingya Muslims from entering the island. 

Nihal Ranasinghe from the Department of Immigration and Emigration told BBC Sinhala that there was "no truth" in such reports.