Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed an all Sinhalese board to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL).

The HRCSL, which will have no Tamil or Muslim representation, will be headed Jagath Balasuriya. The four other members are Vijitha Nanyakkara, Chandana Udawatta , Harsha Nawaratne and Kumari Balalla.

Tamils from Tamil Nadu marked LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's 66th birthday with celebrations and birthday messages via social media. 

Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) chief coordinator, Seeman, cut a cake to mark the LTTE leader's birthday.

NTK also organised some of the largest events across Tamil Nadu, marking the leader's birthday. 

A Karthigaipoo, the national flower of Tamil Eelam, was projected on to Britain's Houses of Parliament in Westminster, Central London tonight, as British Tamils paid tribute to those who gave their lives in the Tamil liberation struggle amidst restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The projection lit up the Houses of Parliament with an image of the flower and the words “We Remember” and "We remember the heroes who fought for freedom from Sri Lankan state genocide".

A cake was cut in the Parisian neighbourhood of La Chapelle earlier today as French Tamils celebrated the 66^th birthday of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Dozens of French Tamils gathered in the city, waving Tamil Eelam flags and holding photographs of the LTTE leader.

Sri Lankan army and Nallur police interrogated an elderly Tamil mother who sought to pay homage to her son at the Thiyagi Thileepan Memorial.

The Tamil mother from Kokkuvil, Jaffna had visited the Thiyagi Thileepan Memorial in Nallur yesterday afternoon to pay homage to her son who perished in the armed conflict.

She was blocked from paying her respects, interrogated for an extended period of time before being released.

The Court of Appeal quashed the summons issued to Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa by the Jaffna Magistrate's Court to testify in a habeas corpus case of two disappeared Tamil youths. 

Rangana Weerawardhana and Pavithra Gunaratne, two of the first women pilots in the Sri Lankan Airforce (SLAF) thanked the Indian Air Force (IAF) for facilitating their training, as New Delhi's military assisstance to Sri Lankan continued regardless of the countless alleged human rights abuses.

The North-East and Tamil Nadu have been put on red alert following the approach of Cyclone Nivar, which is approaching with a speed of 145kph.

The department of Meteorology said that 100-150mm of rain can be expected at several places in the North on Tuesday and Wednesday, with some isolated areas receiving 150mm or rain.

The Sri Lankan Meteorology Department said that naval and fishermen communities across the North-East were warned not to venture into the sea from areas extending from Puttalam to Pottuvil, Kankasanthurai, Trincomalee and Batticaloa.

Dialog Enterprise, a subsidiary of Dialog Axiata one of Sri Lanka’s largest mobile network provider, has launched a new video surveillance service capable of facial recognition.

Sri Lankan police officers have been caught on camera demanding that a Tamil shopkeeper remove red and yellow flags that he raised outside his store in Vavuniya to commemorate Maaveerar Naal this week, as the state's repression attempts ramps up.

The police officers, who spoke only in Sinhalese, demanded the red and yellow flags be removed outside former combatant S. Aranvinthan’s store in Thonikkal, Vavuniya.