A new constitution for Sri Lanka will be formulated and put to public referendum after being passed through parliament, said Sri Lanka’s co-cabinet spokesperson Dr Rajitha Senaratne.

Dr Senaratne said that the unity government was given a mandate by 6.2 million people and would respect this.

Tamils in the North-East marked Karumpuli Naal in a series of events today, commemorating the men and women of the LTTE’s Black Tigers.

Former Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa held a rally in Trincomalee on Monday.

A business delegation from Japan expressed concern on Monday to Sri Lanka's finance minister, Mangala Samaraweera over the country's frequent changes to its tax policy. 

The delegation requested that at least six months notice was given ahead of any enforcement of new tax changes, warning that such amendments had an impact on exports and would discourage investors. 

Sri Lankan state departments are refusing to comply with requests of information, said the Right to Information (RTI) Commission this week.

Despite the RTI Act of Sri Lanka having been passed earlier this year, the Commission said it had received several complaints that various state departments have refused to disclose information after requests have been made.

Colombo's High Court on Tuesday sentenced a 62 year old Tamil woman for allegedly harbouring a LTTE cadre, who targeted the current president when he was minister of acricultural development and agrarian services in 2008. 

The judge, Piyasena Ranasinghe sentenced her to two years imprisonment suspended for ten years and a fine of Rs 25,000, Colombo Page reports. 

The Sri Lankan navy on Wednesday arrested 18 local fishermen off the coast of Trincomalee. 

Accusing them of using illegal fishing nets, the navy also confiscated their fishing euipment and three dingy boats

The Assistant Director of Fisheries is reportedly looking into the matter, Adaderana reported. 

The Sri Lankan army handed out stationary to Tamil schoolchildren and basic supplies to pregnant Tamil women, at a military ceremony in Kilinochchi last month.

Over 5400 acres of private land in Jaffna is still under military occupation, the government agent N. Vethanayagam has said.

Of the 5400 acres of land still occupied by the army, 4700 acres fall within Valikamam North.

The Chief Minister of the Western Province called on Sinhala mothers across to island to produce more children in order to protect Buddhism and the Sinhala race.

Isura Devapriya said this week that Sinhala mothers must bear more children, telling an audience at Nugegoda that,

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said “relations between the United States and Sri Lanka have reached a high point” and called for further co-operation between the two governments, in a message to mark US Independence Day.

In a letter to US President Donald Trump, Mr Sirisena said that it was “especially after the election of the national unity government in Sri Lanka, that I lead” that relations between the two governments had grown.

Sri Lanka's Mahanayaka Buddhist monks of three divisions on Tuesday unanimously rejected the need for a new constitution or any amendment to the constitution, during a special meeting for the clergy in Kandy today. 

The constitutional change for a key promise of the new unity government which pledged amendments to the constitution in view of democratic reforms and reconciliation. 

Sri Lanka's former foreign affairs minister, Rohitha Bogollagama has been appointed as the new governor of the Eastern Province today, after Austin Fernando was appointed as the permanent secretary to the president. 

Mr Bogollagama, who trained as a lawyer, was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2007 till 2010 and spent much of his term denying increasingly substantiated reports that war crimes were committed by the Sri Lankan military in a systematic manner. 

In January 2010, Mr Bogollagama flatly rejected the UN human rights investigator, Philip Alston's calls for an international inquiry into war crimes, after a video emerged of Sri Lankan troops killing blindfolded Tamils. 

The Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena appointed the commander of the security forces in Jaffna, Major General Mahesh Senanayake as the new Army Commander.