The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has called for Sri Lankan police to open an investigation after a statute of SWRD Bandaranaike was temporarily blindfolded by protestors last week, claiming a Tamil Guardian article had inspired the move.

UK and Canadian parliamentarians called on Instagram to reinstate Tamil Guardian's page after it was disabled yesterday without prior warning.  

Elliot Colburn, MP for Carshalton and Wallington and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Tamils (APPGT) called the ban "completely unacceptable" and that the APPGT will be making representations to the social media platform. 

<p>India’s ICICI Bank Limited has withdrawn from Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, according to the island’s banking regulator, Economy Next reports.&nbsp;</p> <p>The bank's licence will be cancelled with effect from October 23, 2020. In 2019, both the ICICI bank and Axis bank applied to exit Sri Lanka.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The US State Department this month issued a statement maintaining the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK’s) designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).</p>