Sri Lanka's Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) arrested yet another Tamil man who was returning from the Middle East on Tuesday, reports Ceylon News.

Muthulingam Jeyakanthan was returning from Doha last week, after travelling there to seek work in 2013. The father of two from Mullaitivu was arrested on his return to the island shortly after he landed at the Katunayake International Airport on April 12.

His lawyer Dominic Premanand told Ceylon News this was the second such arrest to have taken place in April alone.

Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena is hoping to secure a meeting with US President Barack Obama at the side lines of the G7 summit in Japan, reports the Sunday Times.

Sri Lanka has been formally invited to the summit, which is set to take place next month, and will see talks between Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the United States, and the European Union.

The homes for Tamil IDPs which are due to be built by Indian giant Arcelor Mittal, after a controversial deal with the Sri Lankan government, have come under fire by experts from Moratuwa University.

Engineers Prof. Priyan Dias and Dr Rangika Halwatura and architect Varuna de Silva published a preliminary report of their study, which found that the homes for the Tamil war affected people have inadequate foundations, insufficient roof support, are at risk of corrosion, are poorly ventilated and have no hearth and chimney, The Sunday Times reported.

Meanwhile the TNA has attacked the government over the housing scheme.

Spokesperson M.A. Sumanthiran accused the Ministry of Resettlement of adopting a disorganised approach in selecting the beneficiaries to provide the homes, The Nation reported.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Fisheries Aquatic Resources Development retracted an announcement that the EU fishing ban will be lifted, in a statement made on Tuesday.

In a statement issued after the in response to an announcement made by the ministry spokesman WMD Wanninayake, the Ministry said that a high level discussion between government officials and the European Union is scheduled for April 21 to discuss the lifting of the ban.

Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena on Monday announced that he opposed the planned increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), LBO reported.

At a public address in his hometown of Polonnaruwa, Mr Sirisena said the "new government is people friendly" and the increase on VAT would burden the people.

The prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe had earlier announced that VAT would increase to 15% on May 2nd.

Sri Lanka’s military occupies over 67,427 acres of Tamil land found the British Tamils Fourm in a desk study conducted using field data from sources in the North-East and official government statistics.

In a statement released on Monday, the BTF said,