Primary market dealers have reportedly sought an urgent meeting with the Central Bank to discuss the controversial Treasury bond auction. However, the bank is yet to respond to the request.

The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) at its executive meeting last evening has decided that both constitutional and electoral reforms should be presented together in Parliament.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured leaders representing Indian-origin Tamils in Sri Lanka that New Delhi would further engage with them to appreciate their concerns, The Hindu learns.

The JVP charges that the appointment of Kshenuka Seneviratne, Sri Lanka’s Former Permanent Representative in Geneva and Former Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs as the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand is immoral.

Cadres of Tamil nationalist parties staged a demonstration in front of the Railway Station here on Friday condemning the United Nations for postponing the war crimes investigations against Sri Lanka. Many speakers at the protest demanded that the former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa should be tried for his role in the killings of Tamils in the island nation.