The Northern Province's health minister P Sathiyalingam resigned from his ministerial post on Monday. 

He will continue to serve as a councillor in the province. 

The reasons behind his resignation are not yet clear. 
 

Interpol is to hold a workshop in Colombo in collaboration with the Sri Lankan police on counter-terrorism and transnational crimes. 

The three day workshop will be attended by police teams from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia and Bangladesh. 

The Iranian president on Monday offered Sri Lanka its technical and engineering services, IRNA reported. 

Ten Tamil youths have been arrested after Vadamaradchi villages were subjected to a third search and round-up operation by Special Task Force troops in 24 hours.

Ten Tamils were arrested in Jaffna on Saturday evening when Sri Lankan Special Task Force troops and police engaged in sudden checking activities in the Thirunelveli and Kondavil areas.

Koppay police said that some of youths were arrested on various suspicions, others because they failed to sufficiently identify themselves.

Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena has assured  parliamentarians from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) that Minister of Foreign Affairs  Ravi Karunanayake will be out of government in the near future, reports Colombo Gazette.

The Ministry Of Power and Renewable energy stated that they have signed private energy contracts to deal with the shortage of electricity that the island is currently facing.

The Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena has implemented a development programme in his home town of Polonnaruwa, to 'avoid the injustice caused to the people of the Polonnaruwa district". 

The project, which is aimed at 'uplifting the rural economy', will is to be completed over three years, Colombo Page reported. 

A 22 year old woman from Switzerland was reportedly raped in Anuradhapura by a three-wheel driver on July 27. 

According to the Sunday Times when the victim presented at Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital for medical assistance, there was only a male Judicial Medical Officer working at the time and therefore she declined an examination. 

"In disgust" the paper reported, the woman left Sri Lanka along with three of her friends the following day. 

Sri Lanka's Minister of Port and Shipping, Mahinda Samarasinghe on Saturday presented the Hambantota Port agreement to senior Buddhist clergy, assuring them the government was not handing over parts of the island to China. 

The port is being leased for 99 years, the minister told the prelates. 

The TNA leader, R Sampanthan celebrated 40 years of Ranil Wickremesinghe's parliamentary career this week during a ceremony in parliament to mark the occasion. 

The Chief of Sri Lanka’s army has pledged he would protect those who “fought bravely” in the military and that “murderers” would be punished, in a speech in Kandy this week.

"Those who fought the war will not be punished,” said army chief Mahesh Senanayake.

“Not a single soldier who fought bravely has been punished, nor will they be allowed to be penalised because we have not committed any offences".

Hundreds of Sri Lankan soldiers and Civil Security Department members were involved in cleaning up shrubs and wild plants from around Mallavi hospital last month.

Five Sri Lankan soldiers remanded in connection with the 1997 abduction and murder of two Tamil youths in Siruppiddy have been granted bail on the order of the Court of Appeal.

The five suspects had their remand extended after eleven other suspects in the case were acquitted at the Attorney-general’s advice in March.