COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The "Queen of Jaffna," a once-popular train linking the ethnic Tamil's northern heartland to the rest of Sri Lanka before a bloody civil war cut the link 24 years ago, chugs back ...

The British prime minister has travelled to Jaffna, the area of Sri Lanka that saw the worst of the war between the country's soldiers and ethnic Tamil rebels fighting for independence. Hundreds of ...

Jaffna District MP Archchuna Ramanathan triggered controversy in Parliament yesterday after stating that Jaffna should be handed over to Tamil Nadu along with Kachchatheevu Island, arguing that people ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It's the smells I remember most from Dave's place: the powerful aromas of curry leaves and mustard seeds, of turmeric and chilli powder, ...

Some families in Jaffna have seen rentals surge after the end of the civil war Selvarajah Ragunathan greets me warmly at his Jaffna home. His face is kindly but furrowed with sadness. He lost his ...

A strong backlash from politicians and intellectuals in Jaffna, over the renaming the India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre as Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre, has prompted Indian authorities to put up yet ...

20-odd kilometres north of Jaffna, the coastal village of Ilaivalai, quiet against the gentle waves of the Palk Straits with tiny, traditional fishing boats and their empty nets drying on a beach ...

It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna, activists and former residents say. Groups of former ...

Life is changing in Sri Lanka as the trappings of modern life intrude after years of war. "Jaffna connected!," screams a mobile phone company billboard on a main road in this war-weary town in ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops and Tigers are locked in fierce fighting over Jaffna, but analysts say the arid peninsula is of little real value to either party except as a symbol. Yet, more blood has ...

Selvarajah Ragunathan greets me warmly at his Jaffna home. His face is kindly but furrowed with sadness. He lost his brother and sister in the early years of the civil war, more than 20 years ago.