President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday participated in a Thai Pongal festival at the Manipay Maruthadi Vinayagar Kovil.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Thursday assured the minority Tamil community that he would build a country free of racism and rich in national unity.I know that many of you here ...

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 ...

LONDON — – The war-ravaged city of Jaffna is the ultimate symbol of the separate state for which Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have been fighting since 1983. Fierce battles between the Liberation ...

The Sri Lankan president took part in Pongal, a traditional festival, assuring the implementation of the 13th Amendment devolving powers to the provinces. Activists organised an event in response to ...

The National People’s Power (NPP) known in Sinhala as Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) and Theseeya Makkal Sakthi (TMS) in Tamil has recorded a historic victory in the Parliamentary elections held on 14 ...

Six years after the end of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war, Jaffna in the northern Tamil heartlands is returning to normal. But do the city's residents feel free to remember their war dead? The BBC's ...

(RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has condemned the 29 April 2007 murder of a young reporter employed by the daily “Uthayan”, one of the Tamil newspapers that has been most targeted by violence.

Tamil families in Thaiyiddy were displaced in 1990 by the military. An area of six acres is now home to the Tissa Vihara Buddhist temple. Despite the end of the civil war in 2009, locals have not seen ...

India has agreed to provide USD 60 million to renovate the port at Kankesanthurai in Jaffna district in northern Sri Lanka, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Friday.      Dissanayake was ...