On Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 11.55 a.m., Dr. Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, California, USA, surrounded by his family. He was 89 years old. ‘Ethir’ ...

I didn't just visit Jaffna in Sri Lanka. I returned to it, like a forgotten verse in a prayer whispered by generations. The palmyra trees still stood like old soldiers, their fronds rattling like ...

It is now a year since President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government claimed to have “liberated” the Tamil population from the “terrorism” of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, there has ...

A strong backlash from politicians and intellectuals in Jaffna, over the renaming the India-built Jaffna Cultural Centre as Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre, has prompted Indian authorities to put up yet ...

The Jaffna Peninsula at the northern tip of Sri Lanka, off-limits for decades because of the country’s civil war, is home to one of the richest collections of corals on the island, a study shows. Led ...