Indian High Commission renames Jaffna Cultural Centre to Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre, sparking controversy in Sri Lanka's ...

Jaffna known as “Yaarlpaanam” in Tamil and “Yaapanaya” in Sinhala is the capital city of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The country is in urgent need of a strong political grouping headed by the Father of Modern Sri Lanka, former President Mr Mahinda Rajapakse. The general public is realizing that ...

The iconic Jaffna International Trade Fair (JITF) that has been held consistently in the Northern peninsula for the past 14 years hosting over 300 stalls and thereby strengthening a range of small and ...

Colombo, January 24 (Daily Mirror) - The Jaffna Cultural Centre which had been named as Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre has been renamed again as Jaffna Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre on the request ...

Former Minister Douglas Devananda expressed his shock and dismay over the recent name change of the Cultural Hall located in Jaffna. He stated that the Cultural Hall, funded and provided by the ...

Tasks were assigned to us accordingly. He played a pivotal role in establishing KDA's very first library. A few of us were selected to help organize and categorize the books. Capt. Fernando carefully ...

Jaffna was a part of the Sinhala kingdom up to the 12th century . Around 1247 or so, a Malay (Javaka) ruler, called Chandrabanu from the Buddhist kingdom of Ligor (now Nakon Sri Thammarat in Thailand) ...

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved revamping of “Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY)” and “Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) ...

The scope of BUR is to provide an update to India’s first BUR to UNFCCC. The BUR contains five major components — National Circumstances; National Greenhouse Gas Inventory; Mitigation Actions; Finance ...