Britain's Minister for the UN and Commonwealth Baroness Anelay will visit Jaffna this weekend, where she will discuss reconciliation and strategies for tackling sexual and gender-based violence.

Sri Lanka and India today reviewed the defence cooperation between the two nations in their annual Indo-Sri Lanka Defence Dialogue, reports Colombo Page.

An Indian defence delegation, led by India’s Defence Secretary Mohan G Kumar participated in the talks which took place in Colombo.

Tamil Guardian interviewed the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council C V Wigneswaran in London last week.

The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday pledged compensation for the families of two Tamil students at the University of Jaffna who were shot dead by the police last month. 

The decision came following a meeting with the president, prime minister and minister of resettlement, the Colombo Page reported. 

Locals in Batticaloa found human skeletal remains within an area of land that was previously used by the Sri Lankan military as a base. 

The Northern Provincial Council on Tuesday launched a tree planting initiative to span across the month of November in memory of all those who died in for the Tamil homeland. 

The opening event was attended by the chief minister C V Wigneswaran, the NPC ministers, P Ayngaranesan and Kurukularaja, and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP S Sritharan. 

A photograph of the Sri Lankan president and members of the military were hung on walls of newly built houses that were formally handed over to displaced Tamils on Monday. 

The smiling face of Maithripala Sirisena, who was in the North-East to officially hand over the houses at a ceremony, is placed above a photograph of military commanders with the words, "men in green are friends indeed." 

The leader of the European Parliament delegation to Sri Lanka urged Sri Lanka to improve its human rights conditions, including the replacement of its anti-terror laws to regain the EU Generalised System of Preferences Plus trade concessions.

Speaking in Colombo after meeting government officials and representatives of civil society, Ms Jean Lambert said discussions had taken place on whether or not Sri Lanka’s anti-terrorism laws met international standards.

Villagers in Batticaloa have found human skeletal remains in lands that were formerly occupied by a Sri Lankan army base.

Sources in the village said that skeletal remains were found on the land whilst they were digging to build a toilet on Saturday. 

Villagers fear that the site could be a mass grave site, which was then built on by the Army as part fo the resettlement programme for displaced people.

The office of the Tamil newspaper, Virakesari in Jaffna was attacked this morning, with bottles were thrown at the premises by unidentified persons. 

No one was injured during the attack. 

Sri Lanka's Telecommunication Regulatory Commission on Saturday prohibited a Tamil website for alleged 'incitement', the Sunday Times reports. 

The decision was made based on a complaint by the media and justice ministry, the TRC director reportedly told the paper. 

Civil society activists and organisations across the island on Friday condemned the killing of two Tamil students at the University of Jaffna by Sri Lankan police officers. 

In a statement signed by 113 individuals and 12 organisations, the civil society activists called for a "for an independent investigation and so as to ensure justice". 

Students at the University of Jaffna protested on Monday demanding justice for the killing of two students on October 20th by Sri Lankan police officers. 

The protest takes places as the Sri Lankan president, Maithripala Sirisena is due to visit Jaffna. 

The administrative activities of the university have been brought to a stand still as protesters blockade the main entrance. 

Muslims in Jaffna hoisted black flags on Sunday to remember the exodus from the region on October 30th, 1990, when the Muslim community was forced out of the area by the LTTE.