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.

Singaram Soosaimuthu, a 45-year-old former rebel fighter, chats with friends as he returns from the sea after fishing overnight, in Mullaitivu, Sri Lanka, May 6, 2023. The former Tamil fighter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.