A Sri Lankan police sergeant has been arrested for robbing a Chinese woman in Wellawatta last month, along side two others. 

Rs 15 million are believed to have been stolen from the woman. 

The sergeant, who is understood to be with Gampaha police station, is to be produced before court today, the Daily Mirror reported. 

Tamil Nadu's fisheries minister, D Jayakumar condemned the fishing law passed in Sri Lanka last week and said the state would reject it. 

“We will not accept the legislation," The Hindu quoted him as saying. 

The minister also asserted that the only solution to the fishing crisis between the two countries was to "retrieve Katchatheevu" from Sri Lanka. 

“Retrieving Katchatheevu is the only solution to the problem. We will definitely retrieve Katchatheevu,” he said. 

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Responding to reports that the TNA wanted to meet with the Buddhist clergy to discuss the clergy's rejection of constitutional change, the registrar of the Asgiriya Chapter, Medagna Dhammananda said they would welcome such a meeting. 

“We are happy to have met the TNA parliamentarians including the Opposition leader and clear up misunderstandings if any,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Mirror. 

Sri Lanka's Criminal Investigation Division has named a former Sri Lankan navy media spokesperson, Commodore D K P Dassanayake as a suspect in the enforced disappearance and abduction of eleven Tamil youths in 2008. 

The magistrate, Lanka Jayaratne has also issued an arrest warrant for another suspect, Lieutenant Commander Prasad Hettiarachchi, Adaderana reported. 

Five intelligence officers are current remanded by the court until July 19th. 

Sri Lanka’s newly-appointed Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake, stressed the need to change the military’s “mentality” to suit a “post-conflict era,” before “somebody else” directed change, in a high level address today.

Speaking during his maiden address to senior commanders of Sri Lanka’s military Lieutenant Senanayake said,

The funeral of the Tamil man shot dead by Sri Lankan police took place in his Vadamaradchi hometown this morning.

Sri Lanka's foreign minister, Ravi Karunanayake reiterated this week that the government would never "betray" the country's forces and police. 

"We are not ready at any time to betray tri forces and police," Mr Karunanayake was quoted by the Colombo Page as saying. 

Mr Karunanayake stressed that the government "are responsible to protect the war heroes those who saved the country."

Sri Lanka's justice minister, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has accused NGOs of attempting to influence the country's judiciary. 

"The government will not allow Non Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) to influence the judiciary to achieve their personal oraganisation goals," he was quoted by Adaderana as saying. 

"No domestic or foreign body can question the independence of the judiciary," he added, when speaking at a ceremony in to build new court premises in Gampola. 

On Sunday afternoon, Sri Lankan police shot dead a Tamil man in Jaffna. Though the facts around the killing are still not clear, with reports he may have been involved in illegal sand mining, what is known for certain is that Yogarasa Thines was completely unarmed. The police decision to gun him down, not only seems wholly disproportionate, but follows a sadly well-established pattern of Sri Lankan state violence against Tamil civilians, amidst a culture of impunity.

Tamil parties are not pushing for a re-merger of the Northern and Easter Province said Sri Lanka’s Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella .

Speaking during a press conference, Mr Kiriella said, Tamil political parties have asserted they will not push for the merger of the North and East.

The minister added,

“for the first time all the parties in parliament are trying to draft a new Constitution. We need a new Constitution which gives justice and equality to everybody.”

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