JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue ...

No, Sri Lanka’s Tamil question has not been resolved The nationwide electoral success of the anti-establishment NPP does not mean Tamil nationalism is on the decline.

Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its DiasporasEdited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett.Penguin Random House.Pages 424. Rs 599 The first ...

The 26-year bloody war contains important strategic lessons for the working class in Sri Lanka and internationally.

The resignation letter of Sri Lankan Judge T. Saravanaraja emerged online Thursday, with media reports saying the judge fled the country. In the letter, addressed to the Secretary of Sri Lanka’s ...

Three months after Sri Lanka was rocked by deadly anti-Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol, Facebook is training its staff to identify inflammatory content in the country’s local languages.

The March 2018 Sinhala-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka underline growing communal schisms in the island state. This article examines the rise of Sinhala ultra-nationalism and the violent groups primarily ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology on Saturday issued a warning of heavy floods for 12 out of a total of 25 districts in the South Asian country, where heavy rains were reported over ...

Sri Lanka's media divide along language and ethnic lines. Separate media outlets cater for Sinhala, Tamil and English speaking audiences. Those in Sinhala have the largest audiences.

Colombo (AsiaNews) – For the first time since the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war, which pitted the country’s military against the Tamil Tigers, ordinary people were able to pay homage ...

JAFFNA/MULLAITIVU: In the Tamil-majority northern province of Sri Lanka, as a road turns uphill towards Old Chemmalai, near the scenic Nayaru Lagoon in Mullaitivu district, there stands a statue ...