Elections will be held for the North Central, Sabaragamuwa, Eastern Provinces.
Tamil National Alliance , United People Freedom Alliance, United National Party and the former parliamentarian Thangeswari field the nomination papers for Eastern provincial council election.
Secretary of the United People’s Freedom Alliance Minister Susil Premajaynatha , former eastern provincial council chief minister Sevanesathurai Chandrakanthan and the former minister Ameer Ali filed the nomination paper on behalf of UPFA at the eastern provincial council today.
Former provincial council member Masilamani, Sasidharan and several other party members filed nomination papers on behalf of United National party at eastern provincial council today.
Tamil National Alliance member K.Thuraisingham field the nomination papers for the eastern provincial council this morning.
The accepting of nominations for the upcoming Provincial Council Elections ended at 12 noon today. | 
Assistant Commissioner of Elections, R.M.A.L Ratnayake says that the elections to the Third Provincial Councils will be held on September 8.
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Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
Peoples Front has pasted posters in Jaffna Peninsula on urging area residents to celebrate the war victory ceremony. [
The Ministry of Health re-appoints Mrs.Bawani Pasubathi raja has director of the Jaffna Teaching hospital. [
“Mann expressed concern that government forces had given excessive freedom to the LTTE-breakaway “Karuna group,” which was using this freedom destructively. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [