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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, Jan 19 (IANS) Highlighting the deep cultural, linguistic, historical and civilisational bonds between the people of India and Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ...

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka will hold a public meeting in Jaffna on March 20 to expose the pro-imperialist ...

(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 ...

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 ...

(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 Tiger rebels have threatened to launch massive public protests if the Sri Lankan army relocates its brigade headquarters to Jaffna. Under the cease-fire the army is committed to vacating public ...

Last Thursday, Sri Lankan police murdered Jaffna University arts faculty students Pawnraj Sulakshan and Nadarasa Gajan as they rode a motorcycle in Jaffna. The police killing came amid rapidly ...