Sri Lanka celebrated seventy-seven years of ... the Government published huge advertisements in Sinhala, Tamil and English newspapers announcing that “Namo Namo Matha” was the national anthem.

Colombo: The Sri Lankan government on Tuesday revoked a gazette on land settlement in the Tamil-majority Northern Province. The gazette notification, issued on March 28 by the Land Title Settlement ...

A 75-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil was arrested by the country’s immigration authorities when he returned to Jaffna from a ...

And unlike many other quality news outlets ... a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of ...

On Saturday, 316 persons and six diaspora groups were de-listed from the list, according to news portal ... reconstruction efforts of the Tamil regions in Sri Lanka's northern provinces, which ...

Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, one of Sri Lanka's most prominent politicians and a veteran campaigner for the country's Tamil minority, has died at the age of 91. Sampanthan, a lawyer and one of the ...

Ranjini reminisces with a mix of nostalgia and regret about her years fighting in Sri Lanka's civil war as a former company commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), popularly ...

But defeat — bloody, protracted and decisive — has brought Sri Lanka's minority Tamil community to a point ... The government, he says, doesn't want today's Tamils to be politically evolved.

Sri Lankans celebrate the dawn of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year tomorrow (April 14) with great pomp amongst all festivals in Sri Lanka. “Aluth avurudda” in Sinhala and “Puthandu” in Tamil is ...

The continuing strife is a remnant of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka, which erupted in 1983 between the Sinhalese-dominated government and the Tamil minority, who demanded a separate ...