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

Shortly after, under a mild December sun, I make my way to the Jaffna Fort. The second largest Dutch fort in Sri Lanka, built as a small garrison by the Portuguese in 1618,sections of it were ...

The Portuguese transferred the Jaffna capital from Nallur to Jaffna in 1621. It was easier to defend Jaffna than Nallur. Work on the Jaffna fort started in 1625 and was still continuing in 1637. Kayts ...

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

An intercity express train traveling from Jaffna to Colombo Fort has derailed near the Omanthai railway station ...

The Railways Department is set to commence the Jaffna night mail train service between Colombo Fort Railway Station and ...

Veteran Tamil political leader Somasundaram Senathirajah popularly known as “Maavai” Senathirajah breathed his last on 29 January 2025. The octogenarian six-footer suffered a brain concussion after a ...

Men all around him had guns. All over Kandeepan's country, swarms of men patrolled public spaces, wielding fully loaded, ten-rounds-a-second automatic guns. Kandeepan is from Jaffna, Sri Lanka's ...

Then is it a tussle to live or die?” At this point I ask Kittu about what some Jaffna residents told me he is always there in the thick of danger. One has seen him firing at a helicopter from a ...