Sri Lanka’s Central Bank announced that it had secured a USD $1,000 million loan from the China Development Bank (CDB) on Wednesday, just days after the prime minister warned that the island’s economic crisis will worsen.

The Sri Lankan President’s Media Division issued a statement this morning, dismissing reports that Maithripala Sirisena had told a cabinet meeting that Indian intelligence agencies were involved in an alleged plot to assassinate him.

The Sri Lankan military held a series of events across the heavily militarised North-East this month, as it marked the 69^th anniversary of the army.

Thousands of troops took part in all the events that the military organised, in particular lavish Buddhist ceremonies and massive military marches through the streets of the North-East.

Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena told his cabinet of India’s involvement in an alleged assassination plot to murder him and former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, reports EconomyNext.

The Sri Lankan military collaborated with a Jaffna-based company to hold job interviews for unemployed Tamils in Kilinochchi this week, as the armed forces continue to interfere with civilian life in the Tamil North-East.

The military announced that the “conduct of interviews [were] launched under the supervision of Major General Vijitha Ravipriya, General Officer Commanding, 57 Division with the able support of the 573 Brigade Commander”.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to meet with his counterpart Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in New Delhi later this week.

Wickremesinghe’s office confirmed the visit to the Hindu, adding that he is set to take part in high-level meetings on October 19 and 20.

Batticaloa residents continued clearing the destroyed Mavadi Munmari thuyilum illam (LTTE cemetery) in preparation for Maaveerar Naal.

The deportation of a Tamil man deemed so ill that he will require medics to accompany him on his flight, has been temporarily halted after his family refused to board a plane taking him to Australia yesterday.

Sri Lankan police have threatened traders in a Vavuniya village against carrying out work for an ancient Tamil temple, after enforcing a ban by the archaeology department on work being done to the temple.

Administration of the ancient Athi Aiyyanar temple on Vedukkunari malai (mountain) in Olumadu-Nedunkeni have said the ladder leading to the temple, the only safe way to access the rocky hollow where the shrine is located, has disintegrated and needs repair or replacement.

The Sri Lankan army is cutting off a vital water supply to Tamil-owned cultivation land in Poonakary, Kilinochchi, locals have said.

Residents of Arasapuram in Poonakary said the tank which they use to provide water for their crops is being closed up by the army as it fortifies the boundary fences of a camp adjacent to the tank.

The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said it would seek legal assistance at the Court of Appeal against the Tamil UNP MP Vijayakala Maheswaran, saying that the police have mishandled her case in allowing her bail.

Maheswaran was arrested last week over a speech she gave earlier this year in which she said rising crime rates in the North-East made Tamils long for the return of the LTTE. The MP was released on bail the same day.

The Sri Lankan navy evicted Mullikulam residents from their temporary huts on Sunday causing tensions between the villagers and the forces.

A Tamil man from Kilinochchi has been arrested for drug trafficking according to Vavuniya police.

The police said they arrested the man on a Jaffna-Kandy bus which they had stopped and searched in Nochimoddai in Vavuniya around 5.30am on Sunday.

He was in possession of 9.314kg cannabis (Kerala ganja) the police said.

At least 41 were people have been arrested by the Sri Lankan police in Jaffna on Sunday, after a series of search operations conducted in the region.

Searches were carried out in Jaffna town, Mannipay, Chunnakam and Koppay.