These fishermen were arrested on Sunday off the coast of Karainagar in the northern Jaffna peninsula, the Navy said in a release on Monday. So far this year, some 240 Indian fishermen, along with 35 ...

Health authorities in northern Sri Lanka have appealed for more doctors to work in the Jaffna peninsula. There is an acute shortage of medics in the area, which was at the heart of fighting leading to ...

I eat rice multiple days a week — and used to exclusively make it in a pot on the stove. It’s a deceptively easy task: Measure, rinse, add water, simmer, steam, and less than half an hour ...

From Jambukola it took seven days to get to Tamralipti, a port at the mouth of the Ganges. Jambukola therefore had to be in the Jaffna peninsula. Up to the end of the 17th century, Jaffna was an ...

The greater part of Jaffna peninsula was under LTTE control then. This state of affairs came in for a rude shock when an unknown person lobbed a bomb into the vehicle driven by Kittu. The incident ...

There is an abundance of historical data available on the extent of land cultivation and the amount of paddy harvested based on well-established yields per unit area. Separate sets of statistics cover ...

Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Annual Report, 1953–54. Ganguly, P. M., and Choudhuri, S. D., Assam Agric. Dept., Paddy Series, Bull. No. 4 (1948).

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 ... Today, looking back, we are happy that ...

Officials warn yields could drop due to climate change. Read on to know more about it. Senior officials have warned that climate change could cause India's rice and wheat production to decline by 6-10 ...

“We are prepared to die,they are not”-interview with LTTE’s Kittu of Jaffna. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commander for the Jaffna peninsula area is a man slightly below average height ...

The focus is to increase production, which is making progress with more people going into rice and mushroom farming and husbandry throughout the province. The harvesting of 1.5 tonnes of rice from 0.3 ...