Urban development initiatives under Sri Lanka’s national “10 City Programme” have recently brought renewed planning attention to the Northern Province, with a particular focus on the cities of Jaffna ...

Piratheepa Sivakumar and A. Joslin Janu ✍️ Mandaitheevu, a small island in the Jaffna Peninsula of Sri Lanka, is home to one of the region’s most valuable yet often overlooked natural ecosystems—its ...

Before Chemmani is turned into an international symbol, one question must be answered: Why is the history of Jaffna under LTTE control missing from the conversation? Chemmani is located in the Jaffna ...

Women in sarees, Tamil film music playing, heaps of mangoes, rambutan, bananas, pineapples, massive jackfruit, brinjals, and other vegetables — the whole scene washes over me with a familiar déjà vu.

The diocese stretches over nearly 4,400 square kilometers. As per 2024, the population of this particular region is 1,637,000 of which 267,650 are Catholics. Most of the people are Hindus. Tamils are ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake — who was on Monday (September 1, 2025) in the northern Jaffna district to launch development projects — made a quick, unannounced visit to Katchatheevu, ...

Both major Tamil communities in Sri Lanka — the Jaffna Tamils (settled via medieval South Indian invasions) and Plantation ...

A quaint village in northern Jaffna is currently throwing up evidence of Sri Lanka’s gross human rights abuses and poor criminal justice system, buried in the sands of time, holding within its tombs ...

Jaffa is still not on most traveller’s itineraries, perhaps because the region is still relatively underdeveloped. The surrounding islands offer an entirely different world, each with its own rhythm, ...

University of Jaffna (UoJ) in collaboration with Kelani Cables celebrated a gratifying decade of partnership with their brainchild ‘Kelani-Shakthi’, a CSR programme, on June 12. An ambitious CSR ...