Prabhakaran emerged as one of the faces of Tamil New Tigers-- the predecessor of the LTTE-- after the group claimed ...

Retiring Supreme Court Judge Gamini Amarasekara made several important observations while addressing court recently. ..

The long twilight of the post-LTTE era cast its gentle, deceptive shadows over Sri Lanka’s Northern Province. For years, the ...

Rupert Parker explores Sri Lanka’s Jaffna Peninsula by bicycle Jaffa is still not on most traveller’s itineraries, perhaps because the region is still relatively underdeveloped. The surrounding ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk visited a recently discovered mass grave site on Jaffna's outskirts ...

Chemmani, Sri Lanka — Less than 100 metres (328 ft) from a busy road, policemen stand on watch behind a pair of rust coloured gates that lead to a cemetery in the outskirts of Jaffna, the ...

A 75-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil refugee, who returned from India after decades of displacement during the civil war, was on Thursday (May 29, 2025) detained by Sri Lankan authorities at the Palaly ...

Sigiriya, Dambulla Caves and Kandalama In the heart of the country lies Sri Lanka’s most beautiful and ancient monument, the 1,500-year-old ancient rock palace Sigiriya. We climbed all the way up, ...

I’ve travelled on lots of trains in Sri Lanka, a country of quite extraordinary beauty and generous-hearted people, but this was something very special: the Yal Devi Express from Colombo to Jaffna.

Left: Ceylon cinnamon, native to Sri Lanka, can be found throughout Colombo, including at Urban Island, a high-end homewares and clothing shop. Right: most of the items sold at Urban Island are ...

To say Sri Lanka has one cuisine ignores its deep culinary influences and strengths. From the second century BCE to the 15th century, the island was a strategic stop in the Maritime Silk Route for ...