Jaffna Peninsula

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  Sri Lanka To Resume Jaffna-Chennai Flights From Today

  Sri Lanka is set to resume flights from the northern Jaffna peninsula to Chennai from Monday, three years after the island nation discontinued the services due to Covid, a spokesman from the Sri Lankan Airport Authority said on Friday.

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  Indian Family Arrested For Illegal Stay In Sri Lanka: Police

  Four members of an Indian family, including two children, have been arrested for allegedly entering Sri Lanka''s Jaffna peninsula illegally and violating the local immigration and the quarantine laws, police said on Thursday.

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  Sri Lanka's Icon of Colonial Rule Rises From The Rubble

  As an army of labourers churns out limestone bricks, archeologist Prashantha Mandawala reflects on the ambitious task of restoring Sri Lanka's centuries-old Jaffna fort, destroyed by ethnic war.

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  Sri Lanka Hands Over 37 Indian Fishermen

  Sri Lanka today handed over 37 Indian fishermen - arrested for allegedly poaching in the island's waters on April 3, to the Indian coast guards in northern Jaffna peninsula, a day after a local court had ordered their release.

• Sri Lankan Navy Arrests 14 Tamil Nadu Fishermen on Charges of Poaching

  The Sri Lankan navy today arrested 14 Tamil Nadu fishermen near Jaffna Peninsula, on charges of poaching in Sri Lankan waters.

• Boycott-hit Commonwealth summit begins in Sri Lanka

  A Commonwealth summit meant to showcase post-war Sri Lanka was to begin in Colombo Friday but faced being upstaged by an historic visit to its northern killing fields by Britain's David Cameron.

• Sri Lanka Tamils protest land grab ahead of Commonwealth meet

  British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will attend CHOGM but pledged to push for an international investigation.

• Sri Lanka to reduce troops in northern war zone ahead of polls

  Sri Lanka's military says it has decided to remove a dozen army camps in the former northern war zone where key elections are scheduled in less than two months.

• Nearly 150 killed in deadliest Lanka clash this year

  At least 143 Tamil Tigers and army personnel were killed and scores injured in Sri Lanka's embattled northern Jaffna peninsula in the fiercest clash between the two sides this year.

• Clashes in Lanka claim 43 lives

  At least 35 Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels and eight soldiers were killed in fierce ground clashes and powerful explosions in Sri Lanka's embattled northern region, officials said here on Wednesday. Seventeen LTTE cadres were killed on Tuesday in separate confrontations with security forces in Koilmoddai, Umavarthuvarankulam, Alaka...