Responding to calls from Tamil Nadu to expel Sri Lankan army personnel from India, the Indian Minister of State for Defence, MM Pallam Raju, said that India would continue to train them.

Reports of a further prison attack last week in Galle against Tamil political detainees have emerged.

The Jaffna newspaper, Uthayan, reported this morning, that Tamil political prisoners were attacked in Galle prison last week, leaving several injured and one detainee, 34-year-old Sundaram Satheeskumar, in a coma.

Satheeskumar was arrested by in 2008, from his home in Kodikaamam, and imprisoned in New Magazine prison in Colombo. According to Uthayan, when his wife, Kavitha, and his young daughter, Sahitya, went to visit him on the 24th August, they were informed by prison guards that he had been transferred to Galle prison three days ago. When they then went to Galle, they found Satheeskumar admitted to Karapitiya Hospital in a coma.

Japanese envoy Yasushi Akashi has offered to liaise between the international community and Sri Lanka in order to help ‘develop’ the relationship, which has been strained over war crimes and Sri Lanka's failure to conduct independent investigations into the allegations.

According to secret correspondence with the State Intelligence Service (SIS), ‘two strong Western nations’ and several INGOs are the background instigators of unrelenting anti-government protests on the island, reports Uthayan.

The Sri Lankan Ministry of External Affairs is reported to be paying extra attention to the matter as internal investigations take place.

There has recently been a spate of protests by fishermen and farmers, students and lecturers, the opposition and not least the Tamils.

Western nations and INGOs have been accused of aiding demonstrators with funding and other assistance to carry out protests.

The government is treating this ‘conspiracy to overthrow the regime’ with extreme caution.

The recently resigned chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tilak Karunaratne, has said he is willing to provide evidence of malpractices in the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror on practices between June 2010 and December 2010, Karunaratne said:

“Yes of course, this was most certainly day light robbery. During the conflict the market was dull and there was quite rightly euphoria after the war ended. Then the market gradually rose up."

"Then suddenly we find that between June and December 2010 it shot up suddenly. And this was due to manipulation. What they did was they found certain stocks which are not liquid. These stocks have no intrinsic value and they started manipulating and arbitrarily increasing the price by having trades among themselves and their crony brokers."

The Sri Lankan army is currently constructing an army camp for the 592 regiment, over the razed Mulliavallai LTTE cemetery, reported Tamilwin.

The LTTE's Mulliavallai cemetery was demolished soon after the government claimed victory in 2009, along with other LTTE memorials and cemeteries in the North-East.

Whilst the insufficiency of development in the North continues to be documented by the UN, President Mahinda Rajapaksa was taken on a tour of the southeast to inspect development in the region. The tour included two main reservoirs and ended with a visit to one of the holiest Buddhist temples, the Deegawapi temple, located in the Ampara District of the Eastern province.

The Deegawapi temple and surrounding area has been renovated at a cost of 250 million rupees, with a further 400 million rupees allocated for renovation. Rajapaksa instructed officials that the premises of Deegawapi was sacred and that the legal rights of the land belong to the temple.

The president took the time to walk through the town of Embilipitiya to meet residents and get an idea of their problems and asses the effectiveness of redevelopment in the town.

In an act of proclaimed magnanimity the Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the police not to proceed with prosecutions against parliamentarians and local politicians who have made defamatory remarks about him.

A Buddhist shrine has been opened by the Sri Lankan Army in Vavuniya north’s Kanagarayankulam, reports Uthayan.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha has accused the Indian government of concealing training it provided to members of Sri Lanka’s security forces in the state since May.

In a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Jayalalitha said Delhi was showing “excessive enthusiasm” for training Sri Lankan forces and that it “mischievously concealed” training officers in Tamil Nadu.

“I have expressed in no unclear terms the strong views of my government on imparting training to defence personnel belonging to Sri Lanka,

“It is very clear that this fact of ongoing training since May 2012 has been mischievously concealed from my government, showing scant regard for the views of my government as well as for the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu,” she said.

She criticised the decision to move Sri Lankan personnel to Bengaluru after she opposed their training in Tamil Nadu earlier this year.

"I reiterated (to Rajapaksa) the importance to take effective measures and demonstrate visible outcomes to the international community".