The Batticaloa District Tamil Journalists Association has written a letter to Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa demanding to ensure press freedom in the island. 

This comes following the Terrorism Investigation Department’s (TID) interrogation of Selvakumar Nilanthan, a journalist based in Batticaloa.

The subject line of the letter read, “Stop suppression of journalism! Ensure protection of journalists!!”

The letter started by explaining the circumstances of the investigation of Nilanthan. 

The Canadian government has announced that it will grant tens of millions of dollars in funding towards the construction of a ground breaking Tamil Community Centre (TCC) in Toronto, marking a milestone in decades of committed work from local community activists.

Surgeons at Mullaitivu District Hospital performed the hospital's first successful knee replacement surgery on Tuesday. 

Three different Catholic shrines were found attacked this morning by unidentified persons in Mannar. 

The suspects had allegedly hurled stones at the shrines, shattering the glass shield covering the idols, according to locals.

Heavy Sri Lankan police and security presence was deployed yesterday to surveil the annual Pongal festivities hosted at Neeraviyadi Pillaiyar temple in Semmalai, Mullaitivu. 

The Government of Switzerland donated $4 million to Sri Lanka last month to combat the spread of the coronavirus on the island.

The relief included half a million antigen tests, 50 ventilators, 150 oxygen concentrators and testing materials. 

Sri Lankan military security forces across the districts of Mannar, Mullaitivu, Jaffna and Vavuniya administered COVID-19 vaccines for locals over the last two weeks.

Military personnel facilitated and administered vaccines and oversaw the operations across the North-East.

_{SLFP meeting in Vavuniya.} 

Sri Lankan parliamentarian Suren Raghavan stated he is “preparing to release another batch of political prisoners by next January”, during a meeting with Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) members in Vavuniya on Saturday. 

MP Raghavan stated, "we have recently released 16 prisoners due to my efforts in relation to prisoners. There's more work to be done". 

Sri Lanka's Coordinating Secretary to the Prime Minister, Geethanath Kassilingham, has denied the accusation by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Sivagnanam Sritharan that land in Jaffna is being sold to China.

Sritharan maintained that 40 acres on the Delft Island and the Jaffna Kachcheri building, which falls under the purview of the Department of Archaeology was being sold to China and that was why  Namal Rajapaksa’s visited Jaffna. 

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the summoning of the Secretary of the Batticaloa District Tamil Journalist Association, Selvakumar Nilanthan, by Sri Lanka’s counter-terrorism investigation unit yesterday.