Vavuniya

Four days after he pulled out of a trip to handover houses to displaced Sri Lankan Tamils, superstar Rajinikanth has reached out to Tamils across the Palk Strait to make up for his absence. The superstar was to fly to Vavuniya town in Sri Lanka's Northern Province where a trust run by a production house that is making his upcoming sci-fi movies, 2....

Superstar Rajinikanth's visit to northern Sri Lanka next month to hand over keys of 150 houses built for displaced Tamil is turning into a controversy. On Friday, a prominent Dalit leader in Tamil Nadu asked him to cancel his visit over concerns that the cine star's presence at a high-profile event could lead the world to believe things were back t...

DMK president M Karunanidhi today alleged efforts were being made to takeover lands belonging to ethnic Tamils by Sri Lankan army and sought the intervention of India and the United Nations in this matter.

A total of 234 Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, most of them former Tamil Tiger rebels, are on a hunger strike the past five days here, said officials on Monday. Inmates of three prisons, located in Colombo city, Kalutara town and in Vavuniya town, are demanding that they be charged for their crimes or be released, Xinhua reported.

Air force jets attacked a rebel intelligence base deep in northern Sri Lanka early on Wednesday, stepping up a punishing wave of airstrikes a day after Tamil Tiger fighters launched a surprise attack on a military base, the military said. The Tamil Tigers said the bombs hit a civilian settlement in the rebel's administrative capital of Kilinochchi...

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday staged another air strike in the north, carrying out a long-range artillery barrage, local residents and officials said. Residents in Vavuniya, 256 kilometres north of the capital Colombo, said they saw anti-aircraft fire illuminating the night sky while huge blasts were also heard in the de facto frontier...

A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up on Monday near a police building in a northern Sri Lankan town, killing 12 police officers and wounding 23 other people. The bomber struck police officers and civilian bystanders on a street in the northern town of Vavuniya, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. He sa...

Government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels fought battles on the northern fronts, leaving 11 rebels and seven soldiers dead, the military said on Saturday. The new fighting took place in the Mannar, Welioya and Vavuniya regions bordering the rebels' de-facto state in the north on Friday, a defense ministry statement said. In the Welioya area, separ...

Government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers fought a series of gun battles in Sri Lanka's volatile north, leaving 14 rebels dead, the military said on Sunday. Separate clashes on Saturday in Vavuniya district killed eight rebels and wounded five soldiers, the defense ministry said in a statement. Other battles on Saturday in Jaffna and Welioya ...

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...

At least 39 Tamil Tigers and a soldier were killed in fierce clashes in Sri Lanka's restive northern region. Nine rebels were gunned down by security forces in three separate encounters at Kiribbanwewa in Welioya on Saturday while two others died in a confrontation at Parayanakulam in Vavuniya, the Defence Ministry said. In another clash at Muham...

Four days after he pulled out of a trip to handover houses to displaced Sri Lankan Tamils, superstar Rajinikanth has reached out to Tamils across the Palk Strait to make up for his absence. The superstar was to fly to Vavuniya town in Sri Lanka's Northern Province where a trust run by a production house that is making his upcoming sci-fi movies, 2....

Superstar Rajinikanth's visit to northern Sri Lanka next month to hand over keys of 150 houses built for displaced Tamil is turning into a controversy. On Friday, a prominent Dalit leader in Tamil Nadu asked him to cancel his visit over concerns that the cine star's presence at a high-profile event could lead the world to believe things were back t...

DMK president M Karunanidhi today alleged efforts were being made to takeover lands belonging to ethnic Tamils by Sri Lankan army and sought the intervention of India and the United Nations in this matter.

A total of 234 Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka, most of them former Tamil Tiger rebels, are on a hunger strike the past five days here, said officials on Monday. Inmates of three prisons, located in Colombo city, Kalutara town and in Vavuniya town, are demanding that they be charged for their crimes or be released, Xinhua reported.

Air force jets attacked a rebel intelligence base deep in northern Sri Lanka early on Wednesday, stepping up a punishing wave of airstrikes a day after Tamil Tiger fighters launched a surprise attack on a military base, the military said. The Tamil Tigers said the bombs hit a civilian settlement in the rebel's administrative capital of Kilinochchi...

Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday staged another air strike in the north, carrying out a long-range artillery barrage, local residents and officials said. Residents in Vavuniya, 256 kilometres north of the capital Colombo, said they saw anti-aircraft fire illuminating the night sky while huge blasts were also heard in the de facto frontier...

A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up on Monday near a police building in a northern Sri Lankan town, killing 12 police officers and wounding 23 other people. The bomber struck police officers and civilian bystanders on a street in the northern town of Vavuniya, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. He sa...

Government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels fought battles on the northern fronts, leaving 11 rebels and seven soldiers dead, the military said on Saturday. The new fighting took place in the Mannar, Welioya and Vavuniya regions bordering the rebels' de-facto state in the north on Friday, a defense ministry statement said. In the Welioya area, separ...

Government forces and separatist Tamil Tigers fought a series of gun battles in Sri Lanka's volatile north, leaving 14 rebels dead, the military said on Sunday. Separate clashes on Saturday in Vavuniya district killed eight rebels and wounded five soldiers, the defense ministry said in a statement. Other battles on Saturday in Jaffna and Welioya ...

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...

At least 39 Tamil Tigers and a soldier were killed in fierce clashes in Sri Lanka's restive northern region. Nine rebels were gunned down by security forces in three separate encounters at Kiribbanwewa in Welioya on Saturday while two others died in a confrontation at Parayanakulam in Vavuniya, the Defence Ministry said. In another clash at Muham...