COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The "Queen of Jaffna," a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs back ...
Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (November 10, 2024) assured Tamils that their land —currently held by state agencies — will be returned by his government. Mr. Dissanayake, who ...
The decision to remove the Mullivaikkal War Memorial at the Jaffna University campus in Sri Lanka was taken by the Vice-Chancellor of Jaffna University Professor Satkunarajah, said University Grants ...
Last week this column saw paying tribute to the memory of Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) MP Dr. Neelan Tiruchelvam on account of his 70th birth anniversary. This column focuses this week on ...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops and Tigers are locked in fierce fighting over Jaffna, but analysts say the arid peninsula is of little real value to either party except as a symbol. Yet, more blood has ...
Lawrence Valin‘s feature directorial debut “Little Jaffna” is set to make its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The first clip has been unveiled from the film. The film, which Valin also ...
It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna, activists and former residents say. Groups of former ...
(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 21 August CPJ press release: SRI LANKA: Tamil newspaper editor killed in Jaffna New York, August 21, 2006 – A Tamil newspaper editor and former member of parliament was ...
Colombo: Tamil professionals from across the world will converge in Jaffna next month to discuss ways to facilitate and expedite the development process in the war-ravaged northern Sri Lanka. A ...
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