The Attorney General has informed the Court of Appeal that a program will be formulated to reduce air pollution in Jaffna ...

Despite being highly vulnerable to climate risk, Sri Lanka is slow to tap into climate funding due to a range of issues ...

The Sri Lankan military says it has carried out air attacks against Tamil Tiger rebel positions on the Jaffna peninsula. A defence ministry spokesman said helicopter gunships and jets had targeted ...

“Look.. that is a Black Kite.. It is a bird unique to this Northern Peninsula, so you have to visit the North to see it,” said Prof. Sarath Kotagama pointing out the bird soaring in the sky to 14-year ...

The High Security Zones (HSZ) in the Jaffna Peninsula has demarcated 190 sq kms or some 15% of land within the Peninsula. In a land area where in better times some 30,386 families were settled now has ...

Sinnathamby Sellathurai was born on February 26, 1925 at Naavalkaadu, Atchuvely in the Jaffna peninsula. He was the eldest among the seven children. Sellathurai had his primary education at the ...

As the waves creep closer to his home in Kankesanthurai, in Sri Lanka’s northernmost Jaffna Peninsula, 41- year-old Seelan Kandeepan recalls how the sea continuously consumes what was once a thriving ...

Buddhist groups backed by the Sri Lankan military are provocatively attempting to expand a Buddhist temple at Thayitti village, situated near Kankesanthurai in the northern Jaffna Peninsula.