It's only an hour's airtime from Sri Lanka's capital city, Colombo, to the Jaffna peninsula at the northern tip of the island, but getting there is a miserable ordeal that can kill nearly half a ...

At the beginning of the 20 th Century the rest houses in the peninsula were those in Jaffna, Elephant Pass, Kayts, Point Pedro, Pallai, Pass Beshuter, and Kankesanturai. The civil war which engulfed ...

The Jaffna Fort still looms, weather-beaten and stubborn. Built by the Portuguese, expanded by the Dutch, it has seen more ...

For 60-year-old Senna Pakiavathy, life in Jaffna now seems too good to be true. She was born in central Sri Lanka but moved to the north in the 1980s, when ethnic tension grew between the Tamils ...

The old name for Jaffna The second little known facet refers to the nomenclature of the Jaffna Peninsula and its implications for the origins of a famous king of Lanka, Nissamka Malla (AC 1187-1196).

The discovery of the mass grave has reopened old wounds for Sri Lanka’s Tamil community, which suffered the worst violence of ...

Jaffna Hockey Association which gives a big hand for the game of hockey organized the Maheswaran Challenge trophy tournament in a great way in Jaffna for men and women. The tournament ended ...