An Indian tribunal at the high court in Delhi, looking into the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, heard that the organisation continued to be active in a manner detrimental to India, reported PTI . The tribunal, headed by Justice G P Mittal, reserved its order to uphold the ban, after hearing the concluding statement by the central government and Tamil Nadu, which said that concluding from documents and oral evidence on record, the "LTTE continues to practice violent, disruptive and unlawful activities, which are prejudicial to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of India". "...

Sri Lanka’s Minister of External Affairs GL Peiris expressed his “deepest displeasure” at recent comments by a spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, who said that submissions of evidence to the OHCHR Investigation in Sri Lanka, which are received after the deadline, will not necessarily be refused. During a meeting with the heads of missions and representatives of the main countries involved in the OISL, including the High Commissioner of Australia and the deputy country director of the UNDP, Peiris “expressed strong displeasure at the selective and biased approach followed where the investigation determines the nature of the information they wish to receive”, an MEA statement said.

Sinhala families have been colonising a Tamil village in the North which has now been renamed after the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa's son, said JVP MP Vijitha Herath in parliament this week. The families, from Rajapaksa's home town of Hambantota, have been gifted an acre of land each, said Herath. Furthermore, the village that they have settled into has now been renamed 'Namalgama' said the MP, after Namal Rajapaksa son the president and current MP for the ruling alliance. See more from Colombo Telegraph here .

The Indian government has offered its “unstinted support” to the five Tamil Nadu fishermen who have been sentenced to death by a Sri Lankan court last week. India's External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Yash Sinha visited the fishermen, who are currently being held in Welikada prison in Colombo, on Monday. "He (Sinha) assured them of unstinted support and cooperation of government of India in ensuring that their case receives the utmost attention. He also assured them that the government will make all efforts to secure their early release and repatriation to India," said Akbaruddin. The comments come as the families of the five fishermen met with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. "We will study the matter in detail and hold discussions with officials and later discuss it in the cabinet,” said Gadkari, adding that he would convey the families' messages to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.