“The strategic and economic importance of Jaffna was first realised by the Portuguese,” KD Paranavitana, professor of humanities at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka in Mihintale, wrote in ...

Staff at the Rio Ice Cream parlour A group of around 40 journalists from Colombo-based media including the Sunday Times visited Jaffna for a Sri Lanka Telecom project and were provided an opportunity ...

Jaffna, which is predominantly inhabited by Tamil communities, has been central to Sri Lanka’s ethnic tensions and political movements. It was a focal point of the protracted civil war as the ...

"Here, organising demonstrations has always been met with state violence," says Anushani Alagarajah, a Tamil civil rights activist based in Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. "There are always two ...

The UK-Sri Lanka Trade Mission concluded its Jaffna programme on December 4, offering a significant boost to women entrepreneurs in the Northern region by connecting them with UK buyers and ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence. Asia Society Korea caught up with H.E. Manisha Gunasekera to share some thoughts on her life in Korea as well as Sri Lankan-Korean ...

University of Jaffna, from December 16 to 29 and will be open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m, according to a press release issued by Embassy of Switzerland to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.