Sri Lanka's proposed Inland Revenue bill woudl be presented to Parliament on August 25th, the finance minister, Mangala Samaraweera was quoted by the Daily Mirror as saying on Monday.  

The announcement follows a similar announcement last week, however the bill was not presented. 

The European Union on Monday reiterated its support for credible justice and full implementation of the UN Human Rights Council resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka. 

"There is no change in the EU support for the full implementation of the UN HCR resolution #EU4HumanRights #lka," the EU's delegation to Sri Lanka tweeted this morning. 

Sri Lankan Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa stated that lesbianism “equals sadism” and advocated the rape of lesbians by convicted sexual offenders to “cure” them, reports Economy Next.

Referring to a landmark May 2000 ruling, when Mr Rajapaksa was head of the Press Council of Sri Lanka, the current justice minister stated that homophobic hate mail that had been published in The Island had been done so in “good faith”.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena called on all people on the island to come together and “build a society in this Buddhist country,” during a religious ceremony in Matara last week.

Sri Lanka’s Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa called on Buddhist monks to lead a campaign against the current Sirisena unit government for political change, reports island.lk.

Speaking at a public meeting in Anuradhapura, the Justice Minister criticised Prime Minister Ranil WIckremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena, stating,

The Sri Lankan government has pledged to build 50,000 brick houses in the North-East, following months of protest against the initial proprosal of building 65,000 pre-fabricated houses. 

The Bhutanese government has issued a circular to medical students in Sri Lanka to return home should the ongoing strikes continue beyond October this year.

Sri Lanka's National Police Commission said it did not have the legal power to investigate the Inspector General of the Police over a video showing him assaulting two junior members of staff. 

Over 36,000 Sri Lanka Army deserters are still at large said Military Spokesperson Brigadier Roshan Seneviratne.

Speaking to the media, following an island wide raid that saw 777 deserters arrested on Friday, the army spokesperson added 4377 army deserters had been taken into custody to date.

Sri Lanka’s army has heightened effort to locate and detain members of the tri-forces who are considered Absent Without Leave.

Eight foreign companies, including from India and Singapore have expressed interest in oil and gas exploration in the Mannar basin, the former Director General of the Petroleum Resource Development Secretariat, Saliya Wickramasuriya said. 

If the bids were successful "Sri Lanka stands to benefit", Mr Wickramasuriya was quoted by the Sunday Leader as saying. 

Three former LTTE cadres currently being held in remand at Anuradhapura prison launched a hunger strike on Sunday in protest at the length of time it has taken for their cases to be hear at court. 

Four Indian Army officers including the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Southern Command visited Jaffna on Saturday to remember IPKF soldiers killed by the LTTE.

Sri Lanka topped the global torture referrals list for a sixth year running in a summary report by Freedom From Torture.

The organisation listed the top ten countries from where it received referrals to victims of torture in 2016. Sri Lanka topped the list of countries which included Iran, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, and Sudan.

Sri Lanka's president, Maithripala Sirisena said he set up the National Economic Council in order to strengthen the country's economy. 

The NEC would be aimed at increasing export income and developing local industry, Colombo Page reported.