A Buddhist ceremony was held by the Sri Lankan military in the East earlier this month to mark the appointment of a new Brigadier General Staff.

The United States will hold its first ever joint naval exercise with Sri Lanka in October, announced US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells at the Indian Ocean Conference this week.

The assassinated ITAK politician V. Dharmalingam was remembered in Jaffna today on the 32nd anniversary of his murder.

Protestors in Jaffna called for an end to the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar on Saturday.

Muslims across the North-East celebrated Eid-al-Adha on Friday and Saturday.

A senior police official was heckled off stage by angry crowds in Vadamaradchi after lashing out against the LTTE leader, reports the Uthayan.

Meeting with India's external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj who was visiting Colombo, the Tamil National Alliance discussed the ongoing delays in the constitutional process.

Sri Lanka's former military general, Jagath Jayasuriya on Friday rejected allegations of war crimes as "baseless" and denied that he had fled Brazil after law suits were filed against him.

Earlier this week human rights groups filed lawsuits in Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Chile over his role in the military in 2009 where he oversaw Sri Lankan units that bombed hospitals, as well as the execution and torture of surrendees and disappeared civilians. 

India's external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj raised the issue of a "perceived delay" in Indian backed projects with Sri Lanka's president on Friday, as she met him for discussions at the sidelines of the Indian Ocean Conference taking place in Colombo. 

Former army commander Sarath Fonseka, with then commander Jagath Jayasuriya

Sri Lanka's former army commander, Sarath Fonseka on Friday said he was ready to test

The next round of talks on India’s Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) with Sri Lanka is due to be held in October reports the Dailymirror.lk.

A source close to the ETCA negotiation team said,

An eyewitness in the case of the 2011 murder of a Tamil youth by Sri Lankan police received death threats prior to testifying at the Kayts Magistrates Court, the court heard.

The witness, a detainee at Welikada prison, received death threats by unidentified individuals while being held at Anuradhapura prison on Wednesday night, en route to the Kayts court.

Five police officers charged with the murder were also being detained at Anuradhapura prison.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena claimed his government had “defused” the issue of accountability for war crimes since coming in to power and avoided an international criminal tribunal.

Sri Lanka's former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa called on the government to support Jagath Jayasuriya, the former military general who has been accused of war crimes.