Jaffna District Commander Sathasivamillai Krishnakumar alias ‘Col’ Kittu was regarded as the uncrowned king of Jaffna in the ...

The IPKF was gradually drawn into a guerrilla war against the LTTE and ultimately launched a mission to capture their Jaffna stronghold in October 1987. The assault was to begin at the Jaffna ...

Tens of thousands of minority Tamils died in Mullivaikkal in 2009 during the final stages of the war, which claimed an estimated 100,000 lives. Jaffna University Students One of the protesters ...

With the end of the war it is now the right time to research into different sources of new knowledge ... We have already set high standards for Management and IT education in the other parts of the ...

The war waged against the Sri Lankan state by the Veluppilai Prabhakaran-led LTTE is an important and integral part of Sri Lanka’s post-independence history. Kittu, The LTTE Jaffna commander was ...

a deserted island off Sri Lanka's Jaffna Peninsula. The island, littered with land mines from the country's civil war, is her team's daily battleground. Chandradevi leads a demining crew working ...

Stella Selvamanie Selvadurai, who taught English at Jaffna College for fifty years, was one such impactful teacher. She ...

Israeli Indologist David Shulman warns of escalating settler violence in the West Bank, comparing Israel to apartheid-era ...

After decades of destruction, Jaffna recovering fast from its wounds of war has much to offer to its visitors both local and foreign. Visiting the peninsula which is hot and sunny most of the year, ...