A roadside Hindu shrine next to an army camp in Mannar was destroyed by unknown attackers on Monday night.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday said it would be postponing the planned review of its $1.5 billion three year loan, until after Sri Lanka had instituted further reforms. 

The IMF urged Sri Lanka to tighten its monetary political and continue fiscal consolidation. The review is now to scheduled to take place after the government submits its 2018 budget. 

In the latest round of arrests, eight Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by Sri Lankan navy personel on Tueday. 

The fishermen were allegedly fishing off the coast of Thalaimannar. 

The arrest comes just days after representatives from the Indian and Sri Lankan government held talks in an attempt to resolve the issue. 

Students at the University of Jaffna held a hunger strike demonstration today to show their solidarity with the detained political prisoners who have been hunger striking in protest at their ongoing detention by the Sri Lankan authorities. 

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is to put foward an adjournment motion calling for the immediate release of Tamils detained under Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).

Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Department has reissued a summons to a Mannar civil society leader.

V. S. Sivakaran, who heads the Federation of Community Organisations in Mannar was served a summons at the end of last month to appear for questioning in Colombo in relation to a letter he had sent to the Sri Lankan president criticising the president’s plans to attend the opening of an illegally constructed vihara in the environs of Thiruketheeswaram Kovil.

A Swiss Tamil was arrested at Colombo airport on Sunday night.

34-year-old Devan Kamaleesan fled Sri Lanka with his parents as a 7-year-old child and sought asylum in Switzerland.

He was arrested by CID at Banadaranaike International Airport on his arrival which is the first time he has returned since fleeing the country, 27 years ago.

The Sri Lankan President is to meet the families of the three hunger-striking political prisoners in Anuradhapura prison, alongside students from Jaffna University who have been campaigning on their behalf.

The Student Union of the University of Jaffna wrote to President Sirisena, warning that failure to address the demands of the political prisoners would lead to further protests and unrest among the Tamil people.

The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) rejected Tamil calls for the release of political prisoners stating that there were no 'political prisoners' in Sri Lanka, describing them instead as 'LTTE members. 

Sri Lanka's former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa urged the government not to bring in what he described as the "destructive" proposal for a new constitution. 

"The vast majority of Tamil and Muslim people lived outside the Northern and Eastern Provinces and therefore the carving out of federal units based on ethnicity or religion and the conferring of sweeping powers on such units should never take place in this country," he was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying. 

A Tamil woman that has been searching for her disappeared family members died from a heart-attack on Saturday.

55-year-old Jesintha Peiris is the seventh protester to die since families of the disappeared began protesting, eight months ago.

Families of Tamil political prisoners hunger striking in Anuradhapura prison met with the Northern Province governor on Sunday.

Accompanied by the Northern Provincial Councillor, M. K. Sivajilingam, family members of the three detainees hunger striking in Anuradhapuram met with the governor to discuss their concerns about the detainees' health.

The three prisoners are hunger-striking in protest against the transferral of their cases from Vavuniya to Anuradhapura.

Sri Lanka's president Maithripala Sirisena this weekend said he would introduced a special programme to relieve farmers in the North of debt, Adaderana reported. 

He made no mention of the military's ongoing occupation of Tamil lands and its business activities across the North-East, which Tamil farmers say is destroying their livelihoods. 

Sri Lankas' state minister of defence Ruwan Wijewardene rejected Tamils calls for the release of political prisoners stating that those detained were 'LTTE suspects'.

“A group of TNA MPs are attempting to collapse the peaceful live hood of Northerners by holding Harthal," Mr Wijewardene was quoted by Adaderana as saying.