Northern Jaffna Peninsula

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

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...