The TNA has appointed a special committee to formulate a report with the party's proposals to be handed over to the Presidential Task Force on Reconciliation.

The ICC has said that it will withhold its next financial distribution due to Sri Lanka Cricket pending an investigation into possible government interference in Sri Lanka cricket. SLC's board had been dissolved by the government last month and, on March 31, Sri Lanka's sports minister Navin Dissanayake appointed a nine-member interim committee, headed by Sidath Wettimuny, to run Sri Lanka cricket.

Former JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe this afternoon announced in Battaramulla that he has relinquished all his positions in the party.

The United Nations has called on the Government to investigate allegations of conflict-related sexual violence, Ban Ki-moonincluding incidents said to have taken place during the post war period.